Sonakshi Awasthi

Although the law commission report discussed whether the discretion of mode of execution should lie with the judge or the convict, the question of who would provide the injections to convicts remains unanswered.

Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon how court directed Kerala state government to reserve 25 per cent seats in schools for weaker and disadvantage sections.

#GenderAnd Business: Gender diversity, reducing the gender pay gap and making sure women have a seat and a voice at the table cannot be an exercise in mere compliance

Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon how SC issued direction to rehabilitate Mumbai slum-dwellers and Uttarakhand High Court recommendation to award death penalty for rape of children below 15.

Article 19 (freedom of expression), Article 20 (protection in respect of conviction of offences) and Article 21 (right to life and personal liberty) are the three provisions of the Constitution which come to rescue in case of an illegal arrest.

Not all laws mention the term “internet” explicitly, except provisions under IT Act, 2008, but nevertheless it can be interpreted in cases where a person is subjected to harassment on social media platforms or on email.

Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon what the court opined about martyrdom and how another court refused a "mentally retarded" person to donate organs.

Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon how court gave pointers for a case falling under cruelty and why court thinks that reformative ideas are ineffective.

As the year draws to a close, we look back at some of the crucial judgments passed by courts in India and the pending cases that reached their conclusion.

"Even the regulatory authorities were not so effective in enforcement of environmental laws. The obvious reason could be that the environment had not degraded to the present limits and threat to public health was not of the present magnitude.”

The definition of a transgender in the 2016 bill, set to be tabled in the winter session, found its inspiration from the Australian law. In other words, the proposed bill imbibed the part of the Australian transgender definition as a whole, focusing on the male and the female.

#GenderAnd Nation: After a stringent bill, there are questions whether this might lead to drop in reporting of the crime or, worse, murder of the victims

Legal Weekly is a compilation of the landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon how the apex court is aiming to improve conditions for disabled and women in Delhi.

"No usage which is found to be pernicious and considered to be in derogation of the law of the land or opposed to public policy or social decency can be accepted or upheld by Courts in the country."

“We shall remember him as a friend and a colleague and a comrade above all, and I who have sat here on this bench side by side with him for these several years will feel rather forlorn and a certain emptiness will steal upon me when I look at this empty bench.”

Rajasthan Prison Rules define open jail as, "Prisons without walls, bars and locks." The jail does not confine them completely but requires them to earn their living to support their families, living with them inside the jail.

Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon Meghalaya HC observation on humanity above religion and Gujarat HC's nod to a live-in of a inter-faith couple.

“Is it tyrannical? Nowhere in advanced Muslim countries the personal law of each minority has been recognised as so sacrosanct as to prevent the enactment of a Civil Code,” Munshi had said.

“If the Drafting Committee was drifting, it was never without mastery over the situation. It was not merely angling with the off chance of catching a fish. It was searching in known waters to find the fish it was after. To be in search of something better is not the same as drifting,” Ambedkar said.

Cases of assault on foreign women tourists have doubled from 2015: 30 foreign women tourists were assaulted in 2016 as compared to 15 in the previous year.

Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon the court's reaction to the woman claiming to be Jayalalithaa's daughter and commutation of a death sentence of a man convicted for rape and murder of niece.

In the upcoming parliamentary session 14 bills are scheduled to be tabled and three bills will be taken up to replace the ordinances.

Legal Weekly is a compilation of landmark rulings passed by the Supreme Court and the High Courts of the country during the week. Read upon the court presiding over the 'Barbie' song and its trademark issue.

Section 82 of the IPC (Indian Penal Code, 1860) provides an absolute exclusion to a minor below seven to be held under any criminal liability. Legal experts believe the case will be investigated and closed if the boy's involvement is proved.