Police Duty of Confidence AG Noorani Private information obtained by the police under compulsory powers cannot be used for purposes other than those for which the powers are conferred.
Civil Liberties
A recent report on India strecord in suppressing freedom of expression has been brought out by Article 19, an international centre on censorship.
Terrorism and Arbitrary Arrest A G Noorani A recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights on a case arising out of Britain's effort to curb terrorism in Northern Ireland is of particular...
Press Freedom and Legal Remedies A G Noorani Can anything be done now to make the constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech and expression embodied in the Constitution more effectively and...
BJP's Assault on 'Minorityism' Lesson from Britain A G Noorani Britain's Minorities Commission is more effective than our own 12-year old commission and its latest annual report is very relevant to...
Terrorism and Human Rights A G Noorani The infamous Rowlatt Act was no liberal document, but it seems so today compared to some of the laws we have enacted, ostensibly to deal with terrorism.
narrate a reverse kind of story: how the limit of minimum assets for MRTP companies had been raised from Rs 20 crore to Rs 100 crore, how certain industries were excepted from the provisions of this...
Telephone Tapping By the token of "quality of the law" the Indian Telegraph Act is void because it does not lay down a procedure defensible under Article 21. The law is of a very inferior quality...
Press Freedom and Right to Privacy A G Noorani What is needed is a better definition of the rights and duties of the Press. Every legitimate demand for the right to privacy, when warranted, is a...
Books has restated a similar position while denying a reviewer's claim that Miliband's position is that all change requires a Party. Miliband has taken a definitely more radical position on the...
A G Noorani In a series of judgments over the last two years, the courts have developed the law in regard to the limits of censorship of TV films.
Jinnah's Commitment to Liberalism IT is not possible to talk a person into slavery in the English language, a noted Indian liberal V S Srinivasa Sastry, was fond of saying. Long before him, Macaulay...
National Front Government and Prison Reform A G Noorani The National Front government is committed, by the Front's election manifesto, to prison reforms and it is now the responsibility of civil...
Institutional Checks against Police Excesses THE judgment delivered by a division bench of the Bombay High Court only illustrates the leval hurdles in the way of a citizen who seeks redress from the...
UN and India's Preventive Detention A G Noorani ON December 9, 1988, the UN General Assembly adopted without a vote
