Author: Ranjeev C Dubey

Uber Rubbish

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
The tragic rape of a girl in an Uber cab triggered the usual tryst with unreality. The Delhi Government’s Transport Department immediately ‘banned’ internet cab aggregators- including Uber, Taxi-for-Sure and Ola- from operating in Delhi. Meanwhile, Delhi Police registered an FIR against Uber for misleading customers by falsely suggesting that…

Black Money Ballyhoo

By Ranjeev C DubeyCompany Law
Of all the doublespeak Indians have been sold at election time since we declared ourselves a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic, the elimination of corruption and black money has remained the all-time bestseller regardless of market sentiment. So why has this eternally winning formula never translated into any effective action…

Judging Judges

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
Freedom of speech is a right that is gaining in value in India. At the same time, restraint in public discourse is confronting a high strung emotionally overblown hysterical form of self-expression When it comes to a conflict between constituted judicial power and conflicting political ideology, the most poignant image…

Commercial Common Sense Justice

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
The judiciary is ambivalent on the sanctity of commercial contracts. All too often, the judge prioritises a quest for what he thinks is justice over the integrity of contracts in the market place. To make India a wealthy country, we don’t need to read Arnold Toynbee’s twelve volume “A Study…

Criminalising Corporate Restructuring

By Ranjeev C DubeyCompany Law
If you are one of those corporate consultants who advise clients on business restructuring, here is a piece of gratuitous advice: get out of it. It’s too dangerous. If you are a professional manager who has consented to sit on the board of a spun off business, or its holding…

The Future Of Firebomb Feminism

By Ranjeev C DubeyCriminal Law
If you are a women and live in India’s Rape Capital, the good news is that you are at a much lower risk of rape than sensationalists would have you believe. Modern attitudes to permissive relationships may have served to greatly enrich the lives of some business executives but the…

Jailbird Republic

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
It seems that the default way to enforce resolve disputes these days is to employ the services of swashbuckler Station House Officers and file criminal cases in order to intimidate or imprison those with whom you do not agree. The great tragedy of our democracy is not that 22.1 per…

My Wages For Your Sins

By Ranjeev C DubeyLitigation
Why in this world of paralysed time and frozen turbulence, Supreme Court senior counsel aren’t taken seriously till they make Rs 10 lakh a day ! “Can’t you see”, Pink Floyd’s singer song writer Roger Waters berated us in 1984, “it all makes perfect sense, expressed in dollars and cents”.…

Blowing Away Whistle Blowers

By Ranjeev C DubeyCompany Law
Election fever this time has sent the outgoing government scurrying in search of a brave new world of probity, the main manifestation of which are (1) a whistle blower protection law and (2) a Lokpal law. Is it fair to expect that the Whistle blower legislation will herald in an…