Indian Supreme Court on Gender Sensitisation of Judges: Aparna Bhat & Ors v State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr
To achieve gender justice, it is critical that the judiciary avoid stereotypes and social biases to strengthen a ...
Standard of Review
The Struggle to Establish Human Rights Courts in India: An Unfulfilled Promise
A petition was filed by Bhavika Phore on July 8, 2019, in the Supreme Court of India seeking to solidify human ...
Protocol No. 15 to the ECHR: a new era of subsidiarity or a symbolic change?
Protocol No. 15 to the European Convention on Human Rights came into force in August 2021. It introduced several ...
Kurt v Austria: ECHR Positive Obligations Without a Coercive Sting?
A terrible family drama reopens the debate about the coercive sting of ECHR positive obligations
Measures to ...
Inevitability as the New Discrimination Defence: UK Supreme Court Mangles Indirect Discrimination Analysis While Finding the Two-Child Limit Lawful
The UK Supreme Court has delivered its long-awaited judgment in R (on the application of SC, CB and 8 children) ...
Mandatory Vaccination in the Czech Republic does not Violate Human Rights
Vavřička and Others v. the Czech Republic (8 April 2021) concerned the legal obligation of parents in the Czech ...
South African Constitutional Court confirms that the right to basic education encompasses access to final exams
Unlike many other socio-economic rights in the South African Constitution, such as the right to ‘further ...
South African Constitutional Court confirms that the right to basic education encompasses access to final exams
Unlike many other socio-economic rights in the South African Constitution, such as the right to ‘further ...
Covid-19 and the Indian Supreme Court’s refusal to lift internet restrictions in Kashmir
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir had passed an order to restrict the internet speed in the entire Union ...
Proportionality and Constitutional Review
There is a temptation to think that issues of normative choice and balancing are more complex in public than ...
Proportionality in India: A Bridge to Nowhere?
The Indian Supreme Court's invocation of the structured proportionality test is a bridge to nowhere.
The Surveillance State, Privacy and Criminal Investigation in India: Possible Futures in a Post-Puttaswamy World
With a strong conception of privacy focussed on individual liberty after Puttaswamy, there is now a starting point ...
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