High Court strikes down Leela Samson’s re-entry

A writ petition challenging re-entry of Leela Samson as the Director of the Kalakshetra Foundation at Tiruvanmiyur on Wednesday was allowed by the Madras High Court. Sai Sankar, Assistant Professor of Music in the Kalakshetra foundation, and 15 others, all working in the Rukmini Devi College of Fine Arts filed the writ petition which was  [ Read More ]

Uniform Civil Code: The Dormant Law

Prof. Annam Subrahmanyam and Mohan Rao, Bolla Introduction The High Court of Kerala in Agnes alias Kunjamol v. Regeena Thomas, has been confronted with a peculiar question of which the law has been dormant. It has, inter alia, reference to a long awaited issue of enactment of Uniform Civil Code. Despite the Constitutional mandate by  [ Read More ]

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DOCTRINE OF LEGAL PRECEDENTS

ADITI GHOSH  INTRODUCTION: Judicial methods are the techniques adopted by the judges in deciding cases. Judicial method plays an important role in the development of law, irrespective of the fact whether a community lives in rural simplicity or modern complexity, or whether it follows case laws to decide cases or codified laws. In this paper  [ Read More ]