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Nov 28, 2024 | 
hindustantimes.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
If, as Abraham Lincoln said, “The most reliable way to deal with the future is to create it”, our faith in our Constitution must be reinforced on its 75th birthday, since it has served us so well in the past.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
How do you judge a Chief Justice of India or, for that matter, any person in high office? The tests must be contextual to the job but, above all, if the overwhelming predominance of any person’s work is good, praiseworthy and positive, the fact that he has, fractionally, committed errors, does not deserve a harsh verdict. It only shows that he, like us all, has no claim to divinity or infallibility.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
If there is one abiding regret I have, it is that I did not get to know Ratan Tata intimately prior to 10 years ago, though I had known him for much longer in a formal sense. People have talked and written about his many qualities of head and heart: his ethics, integrity, honour, vision, intellect, passion, zeal, determination, tenacity, compassion, humility and so on.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Ratan Tata’s courteousness sat easily with his positive obstinacy in sticking to principles, writes Abhishek Singhvi, who has been Tatas’ counsel for many years, including in the Tata vs Mistry caseIf there is one abiding regret I have, it is that I did not get to know Ratan Tata intimately prior to 10 years ago, though I had known him for much longer in a formal sense.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
theweek.in | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
UNFORTUNATELY, TALKING ABOUT the Tenth Schedule and defections forces me to use the Shakespearean adage, “the law is an ass”. We, the operators of the Tenth Schedule, and that means all stakeholders and not just politicians, have actually made it an ass. If I tell you the kind of jugaads we have adopted on the subject of defections, you will actually start laughing. And it would be really comic, were it not tragic.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
the-ken.com | Vanita Bhatnagar |Sneha Swaminathan |Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Entered with a team of five, departed with 27. This high-profile partner exit shows how cutthroat the competition is among law firms On the afternoon of 17 July, J. Sagar Associates (JSA) announced the biggest-ever move in the Indian antitrust circles, stunning those in the legal fraternity.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Third, the government’s prime pitch of “Indian” laws is belied by neither decolonisation nor de-fanging of the most symbolic colonial curse — sedition (Rajdroh). Merely rechristening it as Deshdroh or a form of treason is an unintended salute to Macaulay. Adding insult to injury is the enhancement of the penalty from three to seven years.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
The reality is radically different. First, most potential defectors write a prior letter expressing no confidence in the Speaker and defect the next day. A loosely drafted paragraph in Nabam Rebia is invoked to argue that the Speaker is himself disqualified to adjudicate the disqualification petitions of those who have lost confidence in him. This interpretation of Rebia is pending reconsideration before a larger bench of the SC.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
When I learnt of Fali's demise, my first reaction was that they don't make them like that anymore. Equally valid would be the famous aphorism that God decided to break the mould after making just a few Narimans in the world. Of many of Fali's qualities, my first pick is his clean, open and magnanimous large-heartedness. Unfortunately, pettiness, jealousy and excessive internal rivalry have been an exponentially increasing phenomenon, making this a somewhat less "noble" profession than claimed.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Abhishek Manu Singhvi
The story starts with Shankari Prasad (1951) which upheld the validity of the first constitutional amendment making inroads into property rights by the legislature unchallengeable. The Court held Parliament’s amending power under Article 368 to be plenary and declined to fetter it by any limitations. Sajjan Singh (1964) followed and upheld the 17th amendment, which had immunised from challenge a large number of state enactments by putting them in the Ninth Schedule.
