When Kenya’s Supreme Court said that the basic structure doctrine is not part of Kenya’s constitutional culture and therefore the 2010 Constitution will not be interpreted through that lens ...

It is natural that the basic structure which binds the Constitution also binds legislation that are derivatives of the former. The decision of the Court in deciding, on the Farm Act, on the ...

The Emergency was more than a political crisis, as the Constitution’s basic structure was once again under siege.

The historically acclaimed 1973 Kesavananda Bharati judgment by an unprecedented 13-judge bench, by a majority of 7:6, propounded the "basic structure" doctrine and held that the soul of the ...

Had the Supreme Court not come up with the basic structure doctrine, the amendments to the Constitution could have wiped out the fundamental rights, former Supreme Court Judge Madan B Lokur has said.

My inquiry focuses on whether the basic structure doctrine provides a coherent theory by which constitutional arbiters can address some of the pathologies that are common to postauthoritarian ...

Justice Nariman: The endeavour of this book is that this doctrine [basic structure] has come to stay, it can never go. And if by chance, if it ever goes, then God help this country, Jallianwala ...

Former Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman on Monday spoke in defense of the basic structure of the Indian Constitution, stating that if it is ever overridden, it would be disastrous for ...

The Emergency was more than a political crisis, as the Constitution’s basic structure was once again under siege.