Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Handout 10 01 2024
Handout 10 01 2024
Analyst
Handout Rule of law
10th January,2024
Context: A Bench headed by Justice B.V. Nagarathna said that the rule of
law was quintessential for personal liberty or any other fundamental right to
exist and flourish.
About : upholding democratic principles
and accountability.
Dicey’s Concept
● Supremacy of Law
● DK Basu vs State of West
● Equality before Law
Bengal : Strengthens the rule of
● Predominance of Legal Spirit
law by outlining guidelines to
prevent custodial torture and
Indian Context protect individual rights during
● Article 13 arrest.
Context: Website blocking orders have grown over 100 fold in the past
decade, shows an RTI reply.
Judicial take :
● Laws pertaining to censorship
○ Temporary Suspension of Telecom ● UNHRC General Assembly -
Context: Govt is likely to increase the budget outlay for MGNREGS by 50%
over the budget estimate for FY 2024.
● Creative destruction
● Public policy response to a
recession - benefit some
segments
● Differential impact of the initial
recession
Context: The increase in Earth’s surface temperature nearly crossed the critical
threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius as per EU climate monitors.