Topic
Judicial Discretion
269 published works
North Carolina Appellate Practice Blog
Linger a Little Longer: Will Hickman Provide Additional Insight on Lingerfelt’s Affirm-for-Any-Reason Statement?
By Nathan Wilson, Beth Scherer
North Carolina has long recognized that under the “right for any reason” rule, a trial court’s ruling can be affirmed even on a ground that was rejected or ignored below.…
Verfassungsblog
Estrangement Machines
Every legal scholar has learned the difference between a court interpreting a statute and a court making new law – between applying the legislature’s policy choice and surreptitiously replacing it…
Free Movement Articles
Judicial discretion and burden of proof in civil penalty appeals – a light at the end of the tunnel?
Challenging civil penalty notices for breaches of section 15 of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 has long been complicated by a lack of binding or persuasive authorities. However,…
Legal Bites
Bail in Serious Offences Must Be Supported by Justifiable Reasons: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has reiterated that while granting bail in cases involving grave offences such as murder, courts must exercise their discretion judiciously and record justifiable reasons reflecting proper application…
The Indian Lawyer Blog
SUPREME COURT EXPLAINS PARAMETERS ON RECALL OF WITNESS UNDER ORDER 18 RULE 17 CPC
INTRODUCTION The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India recently tackled a critical procedural question regarding the scope and limits of recalling a witness and reopening evidence at the fag end of…
Law Web
Supreme Court: Under which circumstances, Magistrate is not required to record reasons for passing the order of issue process?
By Law Web
In Kanti Bhadra Shah and Anr. v. State of West Bengal MANU/SC/0004/2000 : (2000) 1 SCC 722, the following passage will be apposite in this context:12. If there is no…
Microjuris Blog
El Supremo a los jueces locales: «pueden discrepar de las resoluciones de este tribunal, pero nunca tienen libertad para desobedecerlas»
La controversia está relacionada con impedimento colateral por sentencia y el proceso de confiscación civil.
Microjuris Blog
El relevo de la representación: entre la discreción judicial y el imperativo ético
By Ed. Microjuris.com Puerto Rico
La Lcda. Daisy Calcaño López examina las tensiones entre la discreción judicial y el deber ético cuando la relación abogado-cliente se torna inviable.
Legal History Blog
Dripps on Sentencing Discretion
By Dan Ernst
Donald A. Dripps, University of San Diego School of Law, has published Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution: Due Process of Time (Oxford University Press). It includes a very substantial chapter…
SCC Blog
Bureaucratic Delay no Ground for Condonation; Supreme Court dismisses SLP as time-barred for State being ‘utterly lethargic, tardy and indolent’
By Ritu
Supreme Court: In Special Leave Petition (SLP), challenging the rejection of application for condonation of 11 years of delay, filed with further delay of 123 days in filing and 96…