Tag: Judicial System

Fee Fixation

By Ranjeev C DubeyLegal Profession
“Can’t you see,” Pink Floyd’s singer songwriter Roger Waters berated us in 1984, “it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents.” This must be why Supreme Court senior counsels aren’t celebrities till they make Rs 10 lakh a hearing! This is easy to understand: if you are that…

Legally Xenophobic

By Ranjeev C DubeyArbitration Law
Predictably, when the Justice BN Srikrishna committee submitted its report to the law ministry last week advising the government to allow foreign lawyers to represent clients in international arbitrations being held in India, the legal community was in an uproar again. Yet again, we lawyers made it clear that we…

Foreign Lawyers: The Global Desi

By Ranjeev C DubeyLegal Profession
When Chief Justice JS Khehar stated on July 8 that he supported the entry of foreign lawyers in India, he drew attention to an issue that has been boosting the testosterone levels in lawyers’ canteens since Prime Minister Narasimha Rao liberalised the economy a mere 26 years back. Clearly, it’s…

Invisible Elephant in the Court Room

By Ranjeev C DubeyConstitutional Law
If you live long enough, you come to realize that today’s outrageous is next week’s new normal. Like 18 hour power outages, people can get used to almost anything. Eleven years ago, Praveen Babi, the iconic Bollywood heroine of my generation died leaving much of what she owned to charity.…

Justice for All

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
ABOUT: Some of India’s landmark legislations such as MGNREGA, insurance for all, direct benefit transfer, education for all and health for all, have been instruments of bringing social equilibrium. But with crores of cases pending in Courts across the country, delayed justice continues to deny justice to the common man. How could…

Transforming the Judicial Club

By Ranjeev C DubeyLegal Profession
It is with a great sense of privilege, not exasperation, that I find myself witness to the great ideological battles being waged in India today. In an attempt to radically re-engineer a society that changes slowly, progressive forces are fighting to transform our patriarchal carpet bagging ‘sometimes democracy’ into a…

Means, Ends & Jurisdiction

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
When we seek to do the right thing without adhering to both the form and spirit of the rules we have created for ourselves, all of us undermine the very ideas we believe we are upholding. Even economically savvy voters who never bought into the Aam Aadmi Party’s 1960s style…