Articles tagged with: Law Commission
‘Interference in its functioning’: Law ministry claims report of Law Com draft for death penalty abolition ‘incorrect’
The Ministry of Law and Justice Press Information Bureau (PIB) has issued a press release that this morning’s Indian Express story had incorrectly reported that the Law Commission had recommended in its draft report that the death penalty should be abolished for anything other than terrorism offences.
Law Commission submits report on bribing foreigner law
On 27 August 27 2015, the Ministry of Law and Justice stated in a press release that it has received the Law Commission’s 258th report on laws regarding bribery of foreign officials. The report also recommends changes to the Bribery of Foreign Public Officials and Officials of Public International O...
Shocking majority of death sentenced are poor (and can’t afford a good lawyer to save them from the noose)
Death row convicts in India are mostly from the backward classes, religious minorities and economically weaker sections, reported the Times of India . 93.5 per cent of those sentenced to death for terror offences in the last 15 years were Dalits or religious minorities while 75 per cent of the total...
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]
Cabinet approves fast-track commercial courts bill to be introduced this session
The cabinet will introduce The Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts and Commercial Courts Bill 2015 in the current parliamentary session “taking into consideration the Law Commission’s recommendations”, according to a release from the Press Information Bureau (PIB). F...
Are the government’s amazing fast-track commercial courts a cure for our legal system’s ills? Legally Explained by Nick Robinson
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 ...
Law Commission: Hike 60-year-old SC fee cap 50-fold so corps pay more for litigation
The Law Commission of India led by Chairman P V Reddy has proposed a substantial hike of up to Rs 1 lakh as court fees on high-value Supreme Court litigation in order to increase the court fees paid by companies and corporates. The Law Commission proposal that is based on the recommendations of the ...