Judicial Review of Service Matters
harpreetkaurd By Apurva Rathee, Advocate INTRODUCTION: The Constitution (Forty-Second Amendment) Act, 1976 From the very outset it has been a see-saw game between the executive and the judiciary. By the 42nd…
Reasonableness and proportionality of a restriction
SUBRAMANIAN SWAMY v. UNION OF INDIA [Defamation vis-a-vis Right to Speech and Expression]
By Harpreet Kaur, Advocate The Supreme Court of India dismissed challenges to the constitutionality of the criminal offence of defamation, holding that it is a reasonable restriction on the right…