Articles tagged with: AP Shah
Justice AP Shah keeping busy since retiring from Law Com: Calls for CBI to probe Sahara, Birla IT documents
The Wire ( @thewire_in ) tweeted: “Justice A.P. Shah demands income tax governing body review Sahara case” Justice A.P. Shah Demands Income Tax Governing Body Review Sahara Case By Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta Even as the Union government has maintained a conspicuous silence about the alleged involve...
AP Shah on s377: Parliament or judges must take up the gauntlet to fix wrong SC decision
Former Delhi high court Chief Justice and chairperson of the Law Commission AP Shah criticised the Supreme Court for overturning Delhi high court judgment on decriminalising homosexuality and commented that the Supreme Court bench had “ignored the counter-majoritarian role of the judiciary” while sp...
Most institutional arbitration in India is not up to scratch: AP Shah
India, lacking the requisite culture for developing a strong arbitration system, has over 95 percent of arbitration turning out to be “ad hoc”, it was revealed in a conference here. This is despite a situation where 80 percent of Indians consider arbitration as the preferred system for dispute resol...
Gov't to ask SC to allow video camera recording in court rooms
The union government will urge the Supreme Court’s e-committee to allow audio-visual (AV) recording of Supreme Court proceedings to “usher transparency as it would discourage witnesses from retracting their statements” and to prevent “unwarranted delay in trials (through re-recording of witness test...
Law Commission may be made a permanent statutory body
The Law Commission of India - the law ministry’s three-year-term advisory wing on law making in India – may be made a permanent statutory body if recommendations of the current law secretary PK Malhotra are accepted by the parliamentary standing committee on law and personnel, reported Zee News . Th...
How Justice AP Shah has made the Law Commission of India cool and (a bit more) important again [via Mint]
Law Commission pushes out electoral reforms report: Against compulsory voting, rights to recall, reject
The Law Commission yesterday said that it was not in the favour of introducing compulsory voting, terming it undemocratic, undesirable and not helping to improve political awareness and participation. ( Read 255th Law Commission report here (PDF) ) Coupled with this, it has also not favoured the oft...
Law Comm's AP Shah weighs in on collegium debate: Fixed CJI tenure, JAC to have more judges & post-bench cooling off
The Law Commission chairman Justice AP Shah has recommended that the tenure of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) should be fixed to at least two years, and that the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) should consist of at least four judges, including the CJI as chairperson, reported The Hindu and ...
LCIA yet to bag 10th case as high-powered Hiranandani arbitration resolved with Cherie Blair, AP Shah, Karanjawala
Wired: Hot coals | Bangalore dress-up | AP Shah for collegium reform
Hot coals : Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Siddharth Luthra recused himself from acting for the Centreal Bureau of Investigations (CBI) in the Coalgate scam yesterday. CBI’s previous counsel was senior advocate Uday Lalit, who recused himself after he came under pressure for having represented m...