CLPR Broadcast|April 2020 - Centre for Law & Policy Research

THE CLPR BROADCAST

(APRIL-2020)

The Centre for Law and Policy Research (CLPR) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making the Constitution work for everyone through law and policy research, social and governance interventions and strategic impact litigation.

Governance Reform: Release of Bail Report

CLPR has done a first-time extensive study to bail decision-making and released its report titled, “Re-Imagining Bail Decision Making: An analysis of Bail Practice in Karnataka & Recommendations for Reform” on March 30, 2020. This study looks at bail outcomes of accused at trial courts in three districts in Karnataka – Bengaluru, Dharwad and Tumakuru over a period of 6 months, to understand what guides the grant or non-grant of bail at the time of first production. It finds that bail outcomes depend on a variety of factors including the nature of offence, its classification as bailable or non-bailable, the punishment prescribed and effective legal representation by lawyers. Using the extensive findings,the report makes recommendations for statutory, judicial and institutional reform to improve bail decision making in India. Read more.

Community Meeting on Transgender Persons(Protection of Rights) Act 2019 and Trans Law Cell

CLPR held a community meeting “Conversations on Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019” to discuss the legal issues and challenges to the law. Read more

In the same meeting, Trans Law Cell was re-launched on Feb 13, 2020. It is a free legal cell for members of the transgender and sexual minority community. The initiative is in collaboration with Ondede – Swantantra, Bangalore. Read more

SC Observer Workshop

As a part of its Supreme Court in the Classroom series, the SC Observer team conducted a workshop in order to introduce to students how Supreme Court interprets the Constitution and how to anlayze and report on court cases. Read more

Inernational Women’s Day

Last month, on the occasion of Women’s Day, Vineeth Krishna, who leads the Constitutional and Citizenship Project, has written two blogs on the role of Women’s Indian Association in constitutional imagination of the country where these women took an active part in the constitutional negotiations with British. Read more: Part I & Part II

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