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Shubhankar Dam

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2013

Constitutional Law

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Constitutional Standing In Singapore: A Comment On Tan Eng Fong V Attorney General, Shubhankar Dam May 2013

Constitutional Standing In Singapore: A Comment On Tan Eng Fong V Attorney General, Shubhankar Dam

Shubhankar Dam

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Criminal Wrongs And Constitutional Rights: A View From India, Shubhankar Dam Dec 2012

Criminal Wrongs And Constitutional Rights: A View From India, Shubhankar Dam

Shubhankar Dam

This essay offers an overview of how ideas of constitutionalism, rule of law and fundamental rights contributed to the development of criminal law in India. Various courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, have summoned these broad constitutional concepts to understand, interpret and develop criminal law doctrines. But they are also drawing on these concepts to increasingly address “structural” issues of the criminal justice system - the very apparatus responsible for implementing the doctrines.