Archive for September, 2010

Equitable Compensation – The Element of Causation
September 22, 2010, 5 Comments

The decision of the House of Lords in Transfield v. Mercator provoked great legal controversy in the law relating to rem ...

“Abu Salem can Face Death Penalty”. Really?
September 21, 2010, 2 Comments

In keeping with the previous post by Eesvan, the media's version of the decision of the Supreme Court in Abu Salem's cas ...

Dabangg – A Review (Guest Post)
September 21, 2010, 5 Comments

Nothing in the film is by chance, and it has been put together very consciously and very carefully. So carefully in fact ...

The Super Bug
September 21, 2010, 13 Comments

(This is a guest post by Indu Ravishankar. Indu is a MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.) The year was 1932. Th ...

The Classy Bulgarian
September 20, 2010, 2 Comments

Dimitar Berbatov lit up Old Trafford with a glorious hat-trick that gave Manchester United a 3-2 victory against Liverpo ...

The Dabangg Attitude
September 20, 2010, 1 Comment

A guest post by Sowmya Kumar. Sowmya is a corporate lawyer, but loves to let films distract her from the alleged importa ...

Don’t tart it up
September 19, 2010, 3 Comments

The Supreme Court’s recent decision on land acquisition for the Yamuna expressway was praised as a ‘landmark moment� ...

The Activist
September 18, 2010, 4 Comments

Non-miscellaneous days or “Regular Days” are a fairly tame affair in the Supreme Court of India. Judges and lawyers ...

How Ideology Impacts a Judge’s Decision Making – A Study of Justice Chinnappa Reddy’s judgments on DPSP v. FRs
September 17, 2010, 9 Comments

Professor Sathe observed that while judges should be non-political, every judge is apolitical, i.e. every judge is drive ...

Religion, Terrorism and Language
September 16, 2010, 4 Comments

The recent exchange between the Home Minister Chidambaram and Digvijay Singh over the use of the phrase ‘saffron terro ...