6 Indian Women Lawyers Who Are Superheroes Of Justice
These Indian women lawyers leading the causes of the oppressed and downtrodden have contributed greatly to leading the way to equality.
Indira Jaising
Dear Kangana, Mothers Don’t Give Birth To Rapists
it is high time we realised that raising children is as much the responsibility of society and other members of their family, like that of their mother.
Police Must Safeguard Women Going To Sabarimala: Rehana Fathima
“The issue is that there is a judgement, there is equally no doubt issue for a larger bench to look into it. The situation today has been there for thousands of years, but no order today,” said the Chief Justice.
Analysis: A Look At Both Sides of the CJI Harassment Case
Controversies don’t seem to end since the Supreme Court in-house inquiry panel gave a clean chit to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi in the sexual harassment case on Monday. The protests that started on Tuesday in Delhi and spread across the country by women activists have resulted in repeated detainments, at least in the […]
Hawaii SC Judge Says There Are Too Few Women In Indian Judiciary
Justice Sabrina McKenna of Hawaii Supreme Court has said that there are “too few women” in the higher levels of Indian judiciary. She also called presence of only three women judges in the apex court in New Delhi as just “token representation”. McKenna was in New Delhi on the invitation of OP Jindal Global University Vice Chancellor […]
Indira Jaising Pens Down An Open Letter To CJI On Women’s Day
Indira Jaising, one of India’s leading human rights advocates penned an open letter to Ranjan Gogoi, the Chief Justice of India, on 8th March. Through the letter, she demands the elimination of sexist language in Indian courts. For those who don’t know her, Jaising was the first woman in India to be appointed as an Additional Solicitor […]
In a First, an Indian Lawyer Among Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders
Senior advocate Indira Jaising has been named by Fortune magazine as one of the World’s 50 greatest leaders of 2018. The list was released on Thursday. This is for the first time ever that an Indian Lawyer has featured on this list. The former Solicitor General of India recently faced flak when the Supreme Court questioned their remarks […]
Indira Jaising Calls For Gown Waapsi, Says Legal Profession Needs Reform
The treatment of women in the legal profession and the way senior counsels are designated has irked Indira Jaising for years now. To reclaim freedom from the British way of judiciary, she has decided to give up her senior counsel gown from August 15. “There is a lot of favouritism and then there is also […]
Senior advocate Indira Jaising to lead UN probe of Rohingyas
The United Nations has appointed an Indian Human Rights lawyer and two other experts to deal with the case of Rohingya muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The fact finding mission will investigate into the killings, rape and torture by the security forces against Rohingya refugees. The team will be led by Supreme Court advocate Indira […]
Govt Permanently Cancels Licence Of Indira Jaising’s NGO
The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has permanently cancelled the licence of NGO, Lawyers’ Collective, that is run by eminent lawyer Indira Jaising following allegations of violating the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) norms.
