Parliamentary Privileges- The Story of its Origin
Parliamentary Privileges in India have been adopted from UK. The law on parliamentary privileges in UK was developed after a struggle by the House of Commons with the Tudor and…
Parliamentary Privileges in India have been adopted from UK. The law on parliamentary privileges in UK was developed after a struggle by the House of Commons with the Tudor and…
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…
Article 105 which is located in Part V Chapter II of the Constitution stipulates the powers, privileges, and immunities of Parliament, its members and committees. An analogous provision concerning State…
In a deliberative democracy, the aspirations of the people are met by discourse in democratic institutions. The foremost among these institutions are Parliament and the State Legislatures. The object of…
At the core of governance is the conflict between different constitutional values or different conceptions of the same constitutional value. Countries with a written Constitution attempt to resolve these conflicts…
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…
Tenth Schedule The Constitution of India did not make a reference to political parties when it was adopted. A reference was made when the Tenth Schedule was included in the…
ADR Judgment In Union of India v. Association for Democratic Reforms (“ADR”), Supreme Court traced the right of voters to have information about the antecedents, including the criminal past, of…
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…