CHIEF Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry has reminded the Bar of its responsibility towards promoting rule of law and dispensation of justice to the people. Legal luminaries at a meeting in Lahore also discussed the issue of dispensation of justice a ..
CAMBRIDGE, MassachusettsLast week, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, found himself in trouble for once suggesting that US President Barack Obama had a political edge over other African-American candidates because he was "light-skinned" ..
Juvenile Delinquency: An Overview By Achuth Kylas*Karl Marx, the great communist philosopher held a vision in his mind, that vision was projected throu ..
DEEMED TO BE DOOMEDNO POINT IN PENALISING ALL AND SUNDRYThere is understandable concern among students and their parents about the Union Human Resource Development Ministry's proposal, made to the Supreme Court, to strip 44 institutions of higher lea ..
In our daily routine we blindly follow other people's directions instead of relying on our own intelligence because it is easy to place responsibility on others. Once, a sergeant in his training session asked the recruits why walnut wood was used for ..
India's Minimum Wages Act, passed in 1948, is a study in how to convolute a simple idea. Instead of a baseline norm across sectors, the Centre and the state governments both have the power to mandate wages for specific types of jobs. The piecemeal na ..
Some people hate lawyers. Shakespeare's Henry VI wanted to "kill all the lawyers," and Vladimir Lenin advised clients to give their lawyers "hell" and denounce them as scoundrels. In the United States, even children recite anti-la ..
Procedure for filing the complaint 1. Complaints against the Press It is open to any person to lodge a complaint with the Press Council against a newspaper for a breach of the recognized ethical canons of journalistic propriety an ..
There are two views, towards different directions were expressed by Hon'ble Chief Justice of India, that (1) High courts are packed with favourites and then said during a hearing of Matter said that (2) Judges can't be put under public scrutiny, in ..
Sixtytwo years have passed since India became independent; still rural India is as backward and uneducated as ever. Some urban areas have developed by making farmers poorer and helpless. The methods of development are crude and rustic. Under the Land ..