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Victimization by Transgenders: Gender is a matter of personal choice, rules Kerala HC

Above: Transgenders at the Queer Cultural Fest in Thiruvananthapuram/Photo: UNI The Kerala HC, accused of judicial overreach for ordering a medical exam on a transgender, rejects a mother’s petitio...

Husband’s Salary: Paying for the Slip

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence In an interesting development, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has ruled that a wife has the right to know her husband’s salary, thereby upholding a CIC rulin...

Live-in Relationships: Born Free, Live Free!

Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence In far-reaching judgments, courts have approved live-in relationships among adults even if the boy is not of marriageable age ~By Venkatasubramanian Fo...

Release of Detenues: By the Grace of GoD

Above: Delhi High Court said the petitioners’ right to make  representation against their arrest was denied The Delhi High Court has set free two persons held under COFEPOSA on the ground that the ...

Lessons in Litigation

While adjudicating the Amity Law School case, where students were debarred from sitting for exams, the Delhi High Court brought up some critical issues over BCI’s powers on the issue ~By Rajesh Kum...

Papa Don’t Preach

In a progressive judgment, the Madras High Court has ruled that it’s not mandatory to fill the father’s name in a birth certificate. But experts say this would be difficult to implement for all record...

The Digital Divide

Illustration: Anthony Lawrence Indian courts are getting digitised but there are hiccups on the way—slow conversion of case records, red tape, incompetently executed renovations and clients who are...

Uttar Pradesh Judicial Service Exams: Testing Times?

Another Judiciary-Executive tussle has erupted, this time over the conduct of exams for subordinate judiciary in Uttar Pradesh ~By India Legal Bureau In another spat between the Judiciary and t...

SCAPEGOAT!

Above: Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan A hero who saved many lives, Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan was sought to be painted as a villain by the Uttar Pradesh government ~By Atul Chandra in Lucknow After eight mon...

Collegium strategy to resolve impasse

Above: (L-R) Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice Deepak Gupta and Attorney General KK Venugopal The standoff between the Judiciary and the Executive spilled out into the open on May 4. As a court full o...

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