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  • Book excerpt: Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times by Abhinav Chandrachud | Tamas and the case for free speech

    Book excerpt: Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times by Abhinav Chandrachud | Tamas and the case for free speech

    Abhinav Chandrachud met Soli Sorabjee at the latter's south Delhi home in May 2018. The book, an authorised biography, grew from interviews that Chandrachud recorded then.

  • In tribute, Pallavi Shroff remembers Soli Sorabjee and his love for jazz

    In tribute, Pallavi Shroff remembers Soli Sorabjee and his love for jazz

    Perhaps the influence of Jazz explained Soli Sorabjee’s direct and uninhibited demeanour, writes Pallavi Shroff who knew him from the 1960s.

  • Obituary: Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee was a champion of free speech and human rights

    Obituary: Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee was a champion of free speech and human rights

    Sorabjee died on April 30, 2021. He was being treated for Covid-19 in a Delhi hospital.

  • Former attorney general Soli Sorabjee, 91, passes away due to COVID-19

    Former attorney general Soli Sorabjee, 91, passes away due to COVID-19

    Sorabjee's death was announced by family sources. He was 91.

  • India should sign the Hague Convention: Soli Sorabjee

    India should sign the Hague Convention: Soli Sorabjee

    The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, signed on October 25 in 1980, provides for a mechanism to return a child internationally abducted by a parent from one member country to another.

  • Demonetising Rs 1,000 & Rs 500 notes bold step: Soli Sorabjee

    Demonetising Rs 1,000 & Rs 500 notes bold step: Soli Sorabjee

    "It's a bold innovative move and honest tax payers have nothing to worry about. Though their may be initial discomfort and inconvenience which should be borne in the larger interest of the society and the nation," Sorabjee, former Attorney General of India, told PTI.

  • Quality of Legal Education Not Quantity of Law Schools Need of the Hour

    Quality of Legal Education Not Quantity of Law Schools Need of the Hour

  • Justice T S Thakur sworn in as CJI

    Justice T S Thakur sworn in as CJI

    Justice Thakur was today sworn in as 43rd Chief Justice of India in a brief ceremony held in the imposing Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan by President Pranab Mukherjee.

  • NJAC: Turf war between government and judiciary

    NJAC: Turf war between government and judiciary

    Will it, or won't it? The biggest legal battle in recent memory has come down to this question. After 4 long months of debate and argument between legal titans on the constitutionality of the National Judicial Appointments Commission, the Supreme Court has reserved its judgment on the matter.

  • SC black money order a step in right direction: Sorabjee

    SC black money order a step in right direction: Sorabjee

    Commenting on Supreme Court's directive to the Centre to disclose names of all the account holders in the black money case, Soli Sorabjee, former Attorney General says the SC order may not be the ideal step but it is a step in right direction.

  • Govt may not tweak FDI during code of conduct: Ajay Dua

    Govt may not tweak FDI during code of conduct: Ajay Dua

    In an interview with CNBC-TV18's Shereen Bhan, Navin Chawla Former CEC, Soli Sorabjee Former Attorney General. Ashok Jha Former Finance Secretary and Ajay Dua Former DIPP Secy discuss what can the government do and what it cannot.

  • Justice Ganguly quits as WBHRC chief: Sources

    Justice Ganguly quits as WBHRC chief: Sources

    The government had already cleared the Presidential reference after Justice Ganguly refused to quit the post. But if Justice Ganguly resigns before that, then the Presidential reference will become infructuous.

  • AK Ganguly bows down to pressure, may quit as WBHRC chief

    AK Ganguly bows down to pressure, may quit as WBHRC chief

    Ganguly is expected to step down after the residential reference is formalised. Though if he resigns ahead of that, the Presidential reference will become infructuous.

  • Allocation mode will be open to SC review: Soli Sorabjee

    Allocation mode will be open to SC review: Soli Sorabjee

    Former attorney-general Soli Sorabjee told CNBC-TV18 that the manner of allocation will certainly be open to judicial review.

  • Govt wants clarity before reframing telecom license policy

    Govt wants clarity before reframing telecom license policy

    Former additional Solicitor General and constitutional lawyer KTS Tulsi says the apex court’s decision is on expected lines.

  • Case against Chidambaram may not have been strong: Sorabjee

    Case against Chidambaram may not have been strong: Sorabjee

    Former attorney general Soli Sorabjee on Saturday supported the 2G trial court order rejecting Janata party President Subramanian Swamy's plea against Home Minister P Chidambaram.

  • Allegations against Chidambaram: Are they justified?

    Allegations against Chidambaram: Are they justified?

    How significant is the CBI Special Court’s decision to permit Subramanian Swamy to depose his part of his attempt to include P Chidambaram amongst the 2G accused. Has the press understood its significance or exaggerated? Experts discuss.

  • Can Chidambaram's alleged role in 2G scam be taken forward?

    Can Chidambaram's alleged role in 2G scam be taken forward?

    With questions being raised about P Chidambaram's alleged role in the 2G scam, how credible is the claim that he should be charged under the Prevention of Corruption Act and has the recent trial court ruling on charges weakened that argument or corroborated it?

  • Do we need  judicial activism?

    Do we need judicial activism?

    In recent times, the Indian public has often seen the judiciary taking the Executive to task, even taking over some of its functions. But are judges overstepping the limits of their power?

  • 2G: JPC summons ex-attorney general Sorabjee

    2G: JPC summons ex-attorney general Sorabjee

    The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) investigating the 2G spectrum scam has summoned former attorney general Soli Sorabjee. Sorabbjee during his tenure as the attorney general had favoured the National Telecom Policy 1999.

  • Karnataka crisis: Did governor embarrass Central govt?

    Karnataka crisis: Did governor embarrass Central govt?

    The belief that governor Bhardwaj has recommended the dismissal of the Karnataka government has created an enormous controversy isolating the governor himself.

  • 2G trail: Delhi HC adjourns bail hearing till May 2

    2G trail: Delhi HC adjourns bail hearing till May 2

    On 2G trail, the Delhi High Court adjourned the bail hearing of the five corporate honchos, Sanjay Chandra, Vinod Goenka and Reliance ADAG, who have been in Tihar Jail for over 1 week. CNBC-TV18’s Rituparno Bhuyan reports on the Delhi HC’s action on why the hearing was adjourned till May 2.

  • Binayak Sen's case: Should the sedition law be repealed?

    Binayak Sen's case: Should the sedition law be repealed?

    Yesterday Binayak Sen walked out of prison after the Supreme Court (SC) granted him bail. But his conviction last December and the SC’s comments granting him bail have raised serious questions about the law of sedition as well as about the handling of Binayak Sen’s case. Karan Thapar discusses these issues with an eminent set of panelists.

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