Aman Hingorani

Lawless laws and the Rule of Law

October 30, 2021

The high profile Aryan Khan’s case has again ignited the public debate on the state of our criminal justice system; on the legal provisions that make bail difficult, if not impossible, under stringent penal laws; and on how similarly situated undertrial prisoners, who are awaiting a decision on their bail...

Could a judicial order violate your Fundamental Rights?

September 3, 2020

Anthony Fernando, a Y.M.C.A employee, filed a workers compensation claim with the Deputy Commissioner of Worker's Compensation in respect of injuries he had suffered as a result of a fall. On rejection of the claim, Fernando filed successive motions in the Supreme Court. On 27 November 2002, the Supreme Court...

Media trials, Mahatma Gandhi and law

August 19, 2020

The news these days is dominated by media trials invariably sensationalising some case or the other. Media trials, including newspaper trials, have become so systemic over a period of time that they have assumed the visage of being natural and normal. This is despite the fact that courts have traditionally...

Revisiting PIL Jurisprudence

June 20, 2020

The traditional judicial function is to decide disputes. We, in India, inherited the adversarial common law system complete with checks and balances to ensure that it is an aggrieved person who initiates the litigation in the prescribed manner and proves his case with legally admissible evidence. Crucially, this adversarial system...