Euthanasia is illegal in India according to Sections 306 and 309 of the Indian penal code (IPC), and Article 21of the constitution of India. There are number of cases where the Indian High Courts and Indian Supreme Court issued many notices concerning the right to life and right to die. ...
Lack of Clear Demarcation of Powers: It is unclear how the constitutional mandate to act on the advice of the council of ministers should be distinguished from the statutory authority to act as chancellor. This results in many conflicts between the governor and the state government. Recently, the...
Constitutional custom also exists in the socialist countries, primarily with respect to procedure in representative bodies, for example, the election of the Council of Elders in the chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The...
As a final point, it is perhaps important to note that the Court’s task was made easier by historical and social consensus around the past: at one point, the Court noted that it wasrecognisedthat the period in question was a repressive period, where the State’s own (subsequently commissi...
For any legislative bodies seeking to implement similar policies that display the Ten Commandments in public schools, or legal practitioners advising such groups, this may not be such a clearcut case of “thou shall not.” Instead, given the changes of Establishment Clause analysis and the prevail...
Merely relying onMcDowellthen is not sufficient to reject the ‘arbitrariness’ challenge. What the Court ought to have done is examined why – having admitted the relevant rights to be on a higher pedestal than statutory rights – the restrictions were valid in the constitutional scheme. There ...
This is conventionally defined as the legally-recognised powers of the Monarch which require no statutory authority for their exercise. They are emphatically not extra-legal, but are recognised and defined (in the sense of that limits are imposed) by the courts. The legacy and residuum of the ...
The thrust of these protections is that the future of a nation lies in its children and childhood being a tender age needs to be guarded against any exploitation that would adversely impact the child's as well as the nation's future. However, despite these constitutional and statutory ...
TN liquor policy does not violate statutory or constitutional norms, says Madras HCSANJAY DIXITPrint this
Local governments in most western and industrialized societies are creatures of the national government and are essentially statutory bodies-created, modified and suspended or eliminated at will by the state statutes. In fact, in the Anglo Saxon tradition, these institutions are referred to as local ...