Page 6 - Basic Structure Doctrine News Today

The Bombay Lawyers Association claims that the duo launched a "frontal attack" on the Supreme Court in the most derogatory language.

Its need arose because the Constitution failed to specify a suitable institutional hierarchy, delineation of powers, and checks and balances.

The two terms used in the Supreme Court's Kesavananda Bharti judgment use two terms - “basic structure” and “essential features” - which are not interchangable, Prof Baxi writes.

One of the most important and perhaps the most forgotten dissents is that of Justice JR Mudholkar in Sajjan Singh v. State of Rajasthan.

The blog primarily accepts submissions related to constitutional law, but welcomes and actively encourages interdisciplinary topics.

He also defended the basic structure doctrine laid down by the Supreme Court. Datar said that it has never prevented any developmental efforts of the government.

The Senior Counsel delivered the Nineteenth Justice PD Desai Memorial Lecture on the subject Fifty Years of Basic Structure - Judicial Overreach or Constitutional Necessity.

The lecture will be on the subject “Fifty Years of Basic Structure- Judicial Overreach or Constitutional Necessity”.

The Kesavananda Bharati case is once again buzzing in legal and political circles

On January 11, Vice President had said that the Supreme Court's Kesavananda Bharati judgment of 1973 which restricted the power of the parliament to amend the Constitution is incorrect and started a wrong tradition.