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Senior advocate Rakesh Dwivedi calls for review of Constitution’s basic structure doctrine, terms it “vague and ever-growing”Rakesh Dwivedi, a senior advocate, has criticized the basic structure doctrine of the Constitution. He describes it as vague and ever-growi...- Emergency horrible mistake, darkest period for liberty: Legal expertsLegal experts denounce the 1975 Emergency as a "horrible mistake" and a "darkest period" for Indian liberty, highlighting its profound impa...
- 'Kesavananda Bharati vs State of Kerala': The enduring debate over India's 'basic structure' doctrineThe 1973 ‘Kesavananda Bharati vs State of Kerala’ case limited Parliament's power to amend the Constitution, introducing the 'basic structu...
- SC to hear Subramanian Swamy's plea in April to delete 'secular' & 'socialist' from the preambleSwamy in his petition had said that the two words, inserted in the Preamble through the 42nd Constitution Amendment Act of 1976 during the ...
- Once we cease to be judges, whatever we say is just opinion: CJI on Ranjan Gogoi's statement in RS. On Monday, Justice (retd) Gogoi, now a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, while participating in a debate on the Government of National...
- Supreme Court refuses to entertain lawyers' body plea against Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar, Kiren RijijuThe Bombay Lawyers Association (BLA) had filed a plea in the Supreme Court against Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and Vice President Jagde...
- Same-sex marriage: Hybrid hearing on fourth day as two judges join proceedings virtuallyElaborately referring to its 2018 judgement that decriminalised consensual gay sex, the top court had said it led to a situation where two ...
- Govt wants to capture last citadel of freedom -- judiciary; 'deliberate design' to be critical of Collegium: Kapil SibalHe claimed the government has not adjusted to the fact that it does not have the final word on appointments in higher judiciary and resents...
- Congress questions Dhankhar's 'Parliament is supreme' comment"The Hon'ble Chairman of the Rajya Sabha is wrong when he says that Parliament is supreme. It is the Constitution that is supreme. The "bas...
- Legal experts denounce Vice President Dhankhar's remarks on judiciaryA number of legal experts on Thursday denounced Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar's remarks questioning the landmark 1973 Kesavananda Bharati...
- Extraordinary attack on judiciary: Congress on Dhankhar's Kesavananda Bharati case verdict remarksEarlier, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said Dhankhar is "wrong" in stating that Parliament is supreme and his views should warn ever...
- Dhankhar slams 'one-upmanship' from judicial platforms, says cannot have 'Ostrich-like' stanceVirtually censuring the judiciary, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said "one-upmanship and public posturing" from judicial pla...
- Soli Sorabjee, 'Champion of Free Speech', dies at 91Soli Jehangir Sorabjee, India’s former attorney general and a legal luminary passed away on Friday morning at a private hospital in Delhi w...
- Once you choose law as a profession, you don’t retire till you die: Soli SorabjeeIn the Maneka Gandhi case, the court had particularly mentioned that “Attorney General (and the Additional Solicitor General who appeared w...
- Kesavananda Bharati, petitioner in landmark SC judgement on Constitution, is no moreThe case in which Bharati had challenged Kerala Land Reform laws nearly four decades ago set the principle that the SC is the guardian of t...
- Landmark SC judgement on basic structure of Constitution came on Kerala seer Bharati's pleaIn 1970, Bharati, the hereditary head of Edneer Hindu 'Matha' in Kasaragod district of Kerala, had moved the top court challenging the stat...
- SC 'lost its way' while cancelling coal blocks, 2G licences: Mukul RohatgiReferring to the taking over of the power to appoint judges in higher judiciary by the CJI-led collegium, he also said the Supreme Court sh...
- Congress steps up campaign against CAA in KeralaIn some places including Kochi, Wayanad and Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram the workers tried to break the police barricades and tried to ...
- Jaitley criticises Congress for creating hue and cry over judicial appointment issueArun Jaitley also recalled how the judges were superseded in the past and attempts were made to influence judgements.
- If PM can be entrusted with nuclear button, why he can't appoint judges: Law ministerThe remarks of Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad was in response to members raising issues concerning the apex court verdict overturning a n...
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