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Olav Albuquerque

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Legal Eagle: High Courts Must Not Lightly Convict When Trial Courts Acquit

Victims of crime and high court judges can do little about well-reasoned though erroneous acquittals when the Supreme Court declares the law of the...

05.04.2024 9

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Legal Eagle: Electoral Bonds Verdict Upholds The Voters’ Right To Know

This is one scandal that puts the other scandals in the shade because these corporations that have donated thousands of crores to the political...

22.03.2024 10

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Legal Eagle: Calcutta Judge’s Joining BJP Fuels Charge Of Biased Verdicts

Justice Gangopadhyay follows a long line of judges-turned-politicians after a Bombay High Court judge, Justice Vijay Bahuguna resigned his judgeship...

08.03.2024 6

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Legal Eagle: SC Verdict May Expose Corporates’ Quid Pro Quos

Balance sheets of companies camouflage their donations to political parties under innocuous headings such as entertainment expenses, so there is no...

23.02.2024 10

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Legal Eagle: Maverick Judges Are Vital For Justice Delivery

All judges must deliver justice which itself is a chimerical concept but their private opinions and religious beliefs affect their judgments

09.02.2024 7

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Legal Eagle: Unseemly spat brings out hidden secrets

The law can be moulded to suit the changing needs of those who attack each other

26.01.2024 20

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Legal Eagle: Right To Know Is Integral Part Of Right To Life

The right to free speech is a segment of the right to life because you cannot enjoy one without the other. This is why governments control free speech...

15.01.2024 8

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Legal Eagle: New laws are just old wine in glitzy bottles

Every government, whether it is a monarchy, republic, or communist, claims to pass laws for the people’s benefit when in reality, a few clauses...

29.12.2023 10

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Legal Eagle: CJI Chandrachud Has Less Than A Year To Demit Office

One visible example of CJI Chandrachud’s refusal to be cowed was the elevation of securities law expert, Somasekhar Sundaresan, as a judge of the...

01.12.2023 10

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Do Electoral Bonds Promote Transparency Or Opacity? We Need To Know

The Supreme Court will have to decide whether the electoral bonds scheme was wrongly certified as a Finance Act and if tax exemption can be granted...

17.11.2023 10

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Parliamentary privileges must be codified

The rationale of Parliamentary privileges is the business of Parliament must be carried on without impediment from any quarter because law-making is...

05.11.2023 4

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Legal Eagle: Same-Sex Marriage, Apex Court Stops Short

Although the right to education was given by expanding the scope of Article 21, the Constitution does not recognise the right to marry

20.10.2023 9

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The Tale Of A Judge Who Refused To Be Cowed

For there can be no peace without justice, no justice without truth and no truth unless a judge like Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay writes a book about...

06.10.2023 10

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LEGAL EAGLE: These Top Constitutional Dignitaries Have Got It Wrong! 

News analysts, lawyers and debaters who have flayed the Opposition alliance for boycotting these 14 news anchors do not realise the Opposition is...

22.09.2023 10

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Legal Eagle: Article 1 Will Be Amended For The First Time In Name Change

Majority governments decide policies for all, which is why an autocracy is called a democracy even though the Opposition alleges it is a mobocracy

08.09.2023 10

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