public interest litigation and access to justice

The development of public interest litigation in India has been one of the important legal developments of the past couple of decades. The following publications analyse specific aspects of public interest litigation. Some of them focus on the environment specifically while others are of more general import.

Selected Academic Documents on Public Interest Litigation

India: Public Interest Litigation - Survey 1997 - 1998
author(s):	S. Muralidhar
source:	33-34 Annual Survey of Indian Law (1997-98), p. 525
date:	1998
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text PDF	629 [KB]


Public Interest Litigation (1995)
author(s):	S. Muralidhar
source:	Annual Survey of Indian Law 1995 (1995), p. 395
date:	1995
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text PDF	411 [KB]


Public Interest Litigation (1999)
author(s):	S. Muralidhar
source:	35 Annual Survey of Indian Law, 1999 p. 477
date:	1999
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text PDF	452 [KB]


Public Interest Litigation: Potential and Problems
author(s):	S. Muralidhar, Ashok H. Desai
source:	in B.N. Kirpal et al. eds, Supreme but not Infallible - Essays in Honour of the Supreme Court of India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 159
date:	2000
publication:	academic
	abstract	full text PDF	510 [KB]

Selected Shorter Contributions on Public Interest Litigation

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conciliation, Mediation and Case Management
author(s):	S. Muralidhar
source:	Special Address made at the International Conference on ADR, Conciliation, Mediation and Case Management organised by the Law Commission of India, New Delhi, 3-4 May 2003
date:	2003
publication:	newspaper
	abstract	full text PDF


Alternative Dispute Resolution and Problems of Access to Justice
author(s):	S. Muralidhar
source:	Presentation made at the Maharashtra Judicial Exchange in Mubai on 16 November 2003
date:	2004
publication:	newspaper
	abstract	full text PDF


No Judgment, No Appeal - a Plea for Reviving the Mandate of Hoskot
author(s):	S. Muralidhar
source:	Subash C. Raina & Usha S. Razdan, Law and Development - An Anthology of Topical Legal Studies (New Delhi: Regency Publications, 2003), p. 180-186.
date:	2003
publication:	newspaper
	abstract	full text PDF


Access to Justice
author(s):	S. Muralidhar
source:	Seminar #545 (January 2005)
date:	2005
publication:	newspaper
	abstract	full text PDF


The Disturbing Truth about an Execution
author(s):	Usha Ramanathan
source:	The Hindu, 13 March 2013
date:	2013
publication:	newspaper
	abstract	full text PDF