Parliamentary privilege as a collective right of the House
According to Erskine May, parliamentary privilege is the sum of certain rights enjoyed by each House collectively as a constituent part of the “High Court of Parliament” and by members…
According to Erskine May, parliamentary privilege is the sum of certain rights enjoyed by each House collectively as a constituent part of the “High Court of Parliament” and by members…
In State of Karnataka v. Union of India (1977) a seven-Judge bench of Supreme Court speaking through MH Beg, CJ held that the powers under Article 194 (as well as…
In Justice KS Puttaswamy (9J) v. Union of India a nine-Judge Bench of Supreme Court held that the Constitution guarantees the right to privacy. Supreme Court traced the right to…
Article 19(1)(a) has been held to guarantee the right to information to citizens. The judgments of Supreme Court on the right to information can be divided into two phases. In…
In an essay titled ‘Justice, Equity and Good Conscience’, Duncan Derrett notes the difficulties that plague a discussion of a concept whose contours are vague: “It may be argued at…
Preponderance of Probabilities in Civil Law The court in a civil trial applies a standard of proof governed by a preponderance of probabilities. This standard is also described sometimes as…
The Suit of 1885 was instituted by Mahant Raghubar Das, describing himself as “Mahant Janamsthan situated at Ayodhya”. The suit was initially instituted only against the Secretary of State for…
In Rai Sahib Dr Gurdittamal Kapur v Mahant Amar Das Chela Mahant Ram Saran, Supreme Court dealt with a case where a suit was filed in 1957 by the first…
The law of limitation is embodied in a statute which is based on the principles of repose or peace, as held by Supreme Court in Pundlik Jalam Patil v Executive…
Whether a de facto shebait can claim a right to continue indefinitely in office. A de jure shebait and a de facto shebait exercise similar rights in the limited sense…