About RTI Reporter
A printed law report for one Act: the Right to Information Act, 2005. Its purpose is to make the law under the Act citable, findable and complete.
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The publication
Since 2005 the Act has produced a large and uneven body of decisions. Much of it sits in Commission orders that are hard to trace and in High Court judgments reported, if at all, across general series. RTI Reporter brings that law into a single, consistently edited series.
It is a print publication. There is no online database and no digital edition: the volumes themselves are the product, made to be shelved, cited in pleadings and read alongside the bare Act.
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Editorial approach
Selection
Decisions are chosen for what they decide. A Commission order is reported when it settles a point of law or practice; repetitive orders on settled points are left out.
Headnoting
Each headnote states the question and the answer the forum gave to it, in the forum's own reasoning. Editorial views are kept to separate, clearly marked notes.
Text
Judgments are reproduced as delivered. Corrections are limited to obvious typographical errors, and paragraph numbering follows the original.
Masthead
Editorial board
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[Name]
Editor-in-Chief
[Designation, e.g. Advocate, Supreme Court of India]
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[Name]
Executive Editor
[Designation]
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[Name]
Assistant Editor
[Designation]
Advisory board
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[Name]
[Designation, e.g. Former Information Commissioner]
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[Name]
[Designation, e.g. Former Judge, High Court]
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[Name]
[Designation, e.g. Professor of Law]
Citation
How to cite RTI Reporter
Cite a decision by the volume it appears in, not by the date it was decided.
- [Year]
- The year of the volume, in square brackets. It is part of the reference, because volume numbers start again each year.
- Vol
- The volume number within that year.
- RTI
- The abbreviation for RTI Reporter.
- Page
- The page on which the report begins.
- (Forum)
- SC for the Supreme Court of India, CIC for the Central Information Commission, and the court's usual abbreviation for a High Court, such as Del or Bom.
To cite a particular passage, add the paragraph number of the judgment after the citation.
Imprint
Publication details
- Title
- RTI Reporter
- Subject
- The Right to Information Act, 2005
- ISSN
- Applied for
- Frequency
- [Publication frequency, e.g. quarterly]
- Format
- Print only
- Publisher
- [Publisher name]
- Address
- [Street address]
[City, State PIN code]