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Indira Jaising

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Calcutta H.C Grants Interim Bail To TMC Leaders Under Shadow Of Justice Sinha’s Scathing Letter

Calcutta H.C Grants Interim Bail To TMC Leaders Under Shadow Of Justice Sinha’s Scathing Letter Imploring HC “To Get Its Act Together”...

Indira Jaising

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Centre’s NCT Bill Undermines The Constitution And SC Ruling

Centre’s NCT Bill Undermines The Constitution And SC Ruling By Equating A Political Appointee As ‘Fovernment’ What appears to be an...

Indira Jaising

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Priya Ramani Judgement Vindicates The #Metoo Movement

From Rupan Deol Bajaj to Priya Ramani has been a long journey of the law. Two women, separated by 16 years, two different strategies, but...

Indira Jaising

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Dismissal Of Errant Court Masters Who Tampered With Supreme Court Orders, Without Inquiry Into At Wh

The recent news that services of two court masters, namely Manav Sharma and Tapan Kumar Chakraborty, in the Supreme Court have been...

Indira Jaising

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An Open Letter From Indira Jaising To The Chief Justice Of India On International Women’s Day

To the Chief Justice of India March 8, 2019 Dear Sir, The profession of advocacy relies heavily on the power of language, its...

Indira Jaising

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Amarendra Sharan Was Not A Cynic After All, Writes Indira Jaising

I lost yet another comrade at the Bar. Starting my practice in the chamber of RK Garg, I felt orphaned when he passed away. The passing...

Indira Jaising

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HC's Disregarding SC Prescriptions In The Indira Jaising Judgment For Designating Senior Advocates

The economic disparity and divide amongst advocates were aptly recognized by the Supreme Court in its judgment in the Indira Jaising vs....

Indira Jaising

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Whether The Judiciary Delivers On Its Promise Or Not Depends On Who Gets Appointed As Judges

It was during the period of Justice Venkatachaliah’s tenure as former CJI that the Supreme Court made a tectonic shift from judges being...

Indira Jaising

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Will India Ever Have A Ruth bader Ginsburg?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, RBG as she was known, has passed on. At 84, she said that she was amazed that people wanted to take pictures with...

Indira Jaising

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Chief Justice Sexual Harassment Allegation Controversy

Rule Of Law Thrown To The Wind With Parallel Hearings The judiciary is an ‘institution of integrity,’ and judges are expected to maintain...

Indira Jaising

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Prashant Bhushan And The Issue Of Contempt: Why Did The Supreme Court Target A Lawyer?

We have all known that the personal is political for a very long time. But when it comes to institutions, there is a sharp distinction...

Indira Jaising

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Closure, Not Revenge: The Goal Of Justice Should Be To Heal The Victim. Let’s Debate How To Do That

In India’s criminal jurisprudence system, the state prosecutes crime. It undertakes prosecution in the name of the people. The punishment...

Indira Jaising

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The Rafale Judgment Is Historic

While the two judgments authored by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi for himself and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, and the...

Indira Jaising

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Toolkit Case: Disha Ravi And The Rule Of Law

Ravi is a 21-year old climate activist, based in Bengaluru. A graduate of Mount Carmel College, she was instrumental in setting up the...