By Kumkum Chadha Had Justice Yashwant Varma not resigned recently, Senior Advocate Sidharth Luthra would have earned the distinction of being the only lawyer to have handled three impeachment cases.…
By Sanjay Raman Sinha It is not everyday that a defendant questions the impartiality of the judge hearing his case. Yet, that is precisely what unfolded recently in the Delhi…
By Vickram Kilpady It is less a whodunnit than a why-done-it. For the first time in nearly 12 years, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by Narendra Modi and…
By Inderjit Badhwar In politics, victories are rarely accidental. But neither, sometimes, are defeats. The failure of the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha marks a rare moment…
Pick up a newspaper on any given day and there will almost certainly be reports of road crashes: pedestrians knocked down while crossing the road, two-wheelers mowed down by speeding…
By Sujit Bhar A recent decision of the Calcutta High Court has once again brought into sharp focus the tension between statutory interpretation and equitable justice. The Court, while deciding…
By Kenneth Tiven The American president often behaves like the schoolyard bully he once was—picking fights not only with political rivals, but increasingly with global figures and institutions he believes…
By Dr Swati Jindal Garg In the labyrinth of India’s criminal justice system, the figure of the witness occupies a sacred space. Witnesses are the backbone of criminal trials—without credible…