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Rishabh Bajoria 8th May 2018
On 20 March, a Two-Judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court diluted the provisions of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (Act) citing the ‘rampant misuse’ of the statute to ‘blackmail’ innocent citizens. The Act was passed to supplement the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (PCR Act). Both legislations […]
Swapnil Tripathi 8th May 2018
The Supreme Court of India recently rendered a historic judgment relating to the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (Act). The Court in the case of S.K. Mahajan v. State of Maharashtra, laid down certain guidelines which in its opinion will act as safeguards against the rampant misuse of the Act. […]
Douglas NeJaime and Reva Siegel 7th May 2018
Last week, the U.K. Supreme Court heard argument in Lee v. Ashers Baking Company. The case involves a baker whose Christian beliefs led him to refuse to bake a cake with the phrase “Support Gay Marriage” for a gay customer. Claiming a right to a religious exemption from the antidiscrimination law of Northern Ireland, the baker […]
Poornima Rajeshwar 2nd May 2018
When news broke out two weeks ago of the horrors committed in the brutal rape of two girls in the small towns of Kathua and Unnao, all legislative consideration of the best course of action to address child sexual abuse was set aside by a public demand for the death penalty. The outrage resulted in […]
Liz Curran 1st May 2018
In February 2017, I was invited to be an ‘expert adviser’ for the Law Council of Australia’s (LCA) ‘Justice Project’. I was initially reticent. Senate Inquiries (2004; 2009; 2015), reviews, a survey in Australia of the overloaded Legal Assistance Sector (Allen’s Review 2011; 2012 Australia-wide Law Survey; Productivity Commission 2016; Victorian Justice Department 2017) saw […]