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Vikram Hegde Profile picture
Vikram Hegde
@vikramhegde
Civil in the civil courts,criminal in the criminal courts, & good company in the company courts. Advocate on Record in the Supreme Court, off the record here.
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Dec 15, 2023 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
Today is the last working day at the Supreme Court. Which means that it's time for me to take stock of the important judgments of the Supreme Court this year.

Many Constitution Bench judgments this time so you don't want to miss this. 👇 1. The year began with a bang when a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in Vivek Narayan Sharma v. UOI upheld the demonetization of bank notes of value Rs. 500 and 1000 in November 2016. J. BV Nagarathna differed and held that RBI was not adequately consulted.
Dec 16, 2022 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
My favourite ritual on twitter is a list of notable judgments of the year.

It comes out on the last working day of the Supreme Court for the calendar year, which is today. So here's my list 👇 Reservation was earlier described as an exception to the rule of merit. The Supreme Court while permitting EWS and OBC reservations in NEET, in Neil Aurelio Nunes v. Union explained that reservations are not an exception to merit but rather advance a holistic conception of merit
Dec 17, 2021 • 34 tweets • 6 min read
It's the last working day at the Supreme Court for 2021.

Which means it's time for me to recount the notable judgments of this year.

Thread 👇 The year began with the Supreme Court dismissing a challenge to the Central Vista project in Rajiv Suri v. DDA.

Justice Sanjiv Khanna in his dissenting opinion said the required public hearings had not been conducted and gave directions to publicize such a hearing.
Jun 9, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. I have a theory on Good™ judges and Great™ judges. Applying the logic of the theory to the theory itself, it could be a Great theory but perhaps not a Good theory. Bear with me on this thread, you'll see why. 2. To dive right into the center of it-

A Good judge grants effective relief.
A Great judge develops jurisprudence.

A Good judge needn't necessarily be a Great judge.
A Great judge needn't necessarily be a Good judge.
Dec 18, 2020 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Today is the last working day of the Supreme Court for the year 2020.
 
In a year of many unprecedented events, the Supreme Court has laid down many precedents, in more than one sense of the term. 

My list of the notables, but not necessarily in order of notability, is here👇 1. In re. problems and miseries of migrant workers: A petition seeking help for migrant workers affected by the COVID lockdown had been disposed off. Then the Court suo moto took up the miseries of workers and sought to oversee the facilities for the migrant workers.
Nov 1, 2020 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
As suggested by @BurgerrB let me tweet a little about the significance of Rajyotsava, with special focus on Bombay Karnataka as I come from Uttara Kannada district which used to be part of Bombay Presidency.

First, look this map to see how Karnataka was peiced together. One of the early demands for unification of Kannada speaking areas was by the Bellary Collecto, Sir Thomas Munro (later governor of Madras) though of course his motivation was to limit Maratha influence as part of their wars with the Peshwas.

This guy
Aug 29, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Today marks ten years of me being a lawyer. I'd like to share 10 thoughts about going about life as a lawyer.
 
Please note this isn't about being a better lawyer. There are far more experienced and capable people who've been explaining that, especially in this lockdown. 1. Anything can be dressed up as legally right or wrong. As lawyers we get used to an amoral analytical rule based articulation of day to day issues. It's important to keep that legal analysis out of our personal lives.
Dec 18, 2019 • 33 tweets • 8 min read
It's the last day of Supreme Court for the year and the benches are rising one by one. It's time for a recap of the noteworthy judgments and orders of the Supreme Court in 2019
#thread
#SupremeCourt 1. The CBI director whose appointment and transfer was a matter of controversy last year was reinstated in Alok Verma v. Union of India.
Dec 10, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Indians and naturalization on the basis of religion and ethnicity have had a strange encounter almost a hundred years ago. Strange by today's standards that is.
We're talking about United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/… US Naturalization law at time said that only "Free White Men" or Africans could become citizens. Bhagat Singh Thind, a Sikh from Amritsar serving in the US Army sought citizenship claiming as a free white man.
Dec 14, 2018 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
The Supreme Court shuts for the winter vacation and will be back only in 2019. Which means its time for a thread of the important judgments of 2018. And there have been a few. Let me know if I miss out any 1. In K. Puttuswamy v. Union of India, the SC upheld Aadhaar while striking down some provisions of the act, which permitted private parties to insist upon Aadhaar data.
Nov 10, 2017 • 47 tweets • 4 min read
OK. Live tweeting this 7 judge bench best I can. Prashant Bhushan reading out report. DM says statung this is also contempt.