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How can policy and regulation help fix Bengaluru’s environment?

Citizen Matters

Shashank Atreya

Sexual Harassment At Workplace: The Journey Of The Law

Live Law

Malavika Rajkumar

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Reports
Reforming the Tribunals Framework in India: An Interim Report
Securing our Future: Analysing the Regulatory Framework for Pensions in India
Status of Physical Infrastructure in Lower Judiciary
Submissions on the draft New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2018
Money and Elections: Necessary Reforms in Electoral Finance
Waste Picker Welfare Law in Karnataka
A study of Karnataka High Court’s Writ Jurisdiction
Financing Urban Local Bodies in Karnataka
Vidhi Bengaluru Briefing Book: 15 Legal Reforms for Karnataka
Government Litigation: An Introduction
The Law isn't Straight: A Queer Person's Guide to Accessing Rights
Tilting the Scale: Gender Imbalance in the Lower Judiciary
Comments on the draft Uttar Pradesh Self-Financed Independent Schools (Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2017
Vidhi Briefing Book - Towards the Rule of Law: 25 Legal Reforms For India
Report on Ranking Lower Judiciary Appointments
Report on Systematizing Fairplay - Key Issues in the Indian Competition Law Regime
Submissions to the Standing Committee on the No Detention Policy
Organ Transplant Law: Assessing compatibility with the right to health
Regulation Of Credit Rating Agencies In India
Strengthening Mediation in India: A Report on Court-Connected Mediations
Environmental Clearances and Monitoring in India: Report Card for the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
Regulation of Private Schools in India
Grievance Redressal Mechanisms in Public Healthcare Establishments
Cleaning Delhi's Air: Implementation Action Plan
Inefficiency and Judicial Delay: New Insights from the Delhi High Court
Manual on Plain Language Drafting
Parliamentary Productivity Index: Measuring Disruptions in the Indian Parliament
Analysis of the Medical Treatment of Terminally ill Patients Bill 2016
Law in Numbers: Evidence based Approaches to Legal Reform
Submissions to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on the Medical Devices Rules, 2016

Media Mentions

Vidhi in Media
Increase in Retirement Age of Judges Isn’t Solution to Pressing Problems of Judicial Backlogs and Vacancies

LiveLaw

Lawyers, litigants may decide appraisal of judges

New Indian Express

Punjab’s losing war on drugs as tough narcotics law is punishing, not reforming, addicts

The Print

NDPS Act fails to curb Punjab drug menace, says report

Hindustan Times

Appraisal Uprising

The Week

Overworked tribunals fail to clear backlog of pending cases

India Today

Vidhi Centre recommends reforms for India's ailing Tribunals

Bar and Bench

Chronic Lack of Infrastructure in Lower Judiciary, report by Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy

Bar and Bench

New Manual Charts Out Route for LGBTQ Community to Navigate the Legal Framework

Mid Day

The Law isn't Straight: This manual for LGBTQI individuals helps them navigate Indian legal system

Firstpost

Fewer Than ⅓ of Judges in Lower Judiciary Are Women

India Spend

Tapping at the glass ceiling: One woman among three judges in Chandigarh courts

Hindustan Times

The Curious Case of Missing Women in Indian Polity

News18

Rethinking the Way India Allocates Judges to Different High Courts

The Wire

Breaking the glass ceiling in judiciary

Financial Express

Legal forum: 'Courts should fine people who try to waste time'

Deccan Herald 

Less than 28 pc judges in lower judiciary are women: Why this is bad for India

News Minute

Only 28 per cent of judges in India’s lower courts are women, and there’s no sign of change

The Print

Gender disparity in lower judiciary, shows study

Matters India 

Glass ceiling in Indian judiciary still a bitter reality for women

The Indian Express

The Stigma Surrounding Leprosy

The Quint 

Tilting of the Scale: Gender Imbalance in the Lower Judiciary

World Law Centre 

Gender Imbalance In Lower Judiciary: Only 27.6% Women Judges In Lower Courts Across India, Finds Vidhi Centre For Legal Policy

Live Law

It’s time to address gender imbalance in the lower judiciary

News Laundary 

Gender disparity in lower judiciary, shows study

The Hindu 

The Stigma Surrounding Leprosy

The Quint

 

Centre to consider leprosy-bias law deletion

The Telegraph 

Corrective Measures Will Be Taken Against Laws Discriminating Against Leprosy Patients: Centre Assures SC , SC Asks States To Do The Same

Live Law

Remove discriminatory provisions in laws regarding leprosy patients: SC

Deccan Herald

From Net Neutrality to IBC to Aadhaar, how Vidhi is Framing Key Government Legislations

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