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Legal Aid in India

Legal aid has a very important role in implementing access to justice for the poor and needy. It aims at rendering free legal services to individuals who are not in the position to pay lawyer’s fees. It recognizes that access to justice is a fundamental right, but still, obstacles remain

Maha Draconian

By Vikram Kilpady The Union government’s decision to henceforth observe the dreaded midnight knock of the Emergency with the June 25 Samvidhan Hatya Divas has met with sufficient scorn from the Op...

“Please Release Me, Let Me Go”

By Dr Swati Jindal Garg British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Stephen Hawking rightly said: “I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right t...

Raising the Bar

Following a judgment pronounced recently by the Madras High Court which underscored that the legal profession is a noble service to society and not a business driven by profit motive, the Bar Council...

Women Power

By Sanjay Raman Sinha In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court ruled that a Muslim woman can seek maintenance from her husband under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (Mohd. Abdul Sam...

American Tragedy

By Kenneth Tiven It could easily be the script for a Netflix series. Many twists and turns remain, but this is a real-life national drama. The ending is not available until November 5. What comes ...

Clerical Errors

A single-judge bench of Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri was hearing a petition filed by the wife of the clerk. It was filed under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution for issuance of a writ in the nat...

Polluted flows the Periyar

By Sujit Bhar Every now and then, news of yet another Indian river overflowing with putrid effluents hits the headlines. The National Green Tribunal (NGT) and/or the Supreme Court sit up, sometime...

PMLA Section 19 Defanged

Two Supreme Court benches have blunted the ED’s ultimate weapon: power to arrest under the PML Act. This marks a restoration of due process for the targets of the investigative agency

A Shot in The Arm For Docs

The apex court bench recently declared that a 1995 judgment that had brought medical professionals under the Consumer Protection Act requires reconsideration

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