The image from August that stays with me is not from a courtroom. It is an auditorium that will sit empty on the twelfth of September. The National Law School of India…
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August's law school controversy put a question in front of students, employees and professionals everywhere: when you criticise an institution, what protects you from its retaliation? The Bar Council of India's short-lived…
August's biggest stories were about the legal system itself: who regulates the regulators, how appellate review works in both directions, and what happens after a protest movement wins. BCI's Enrolment Threat Against…
The Month Professional Regulators Came Under the Microscope August's defining corporate-law theme was not a statute or a merger. It was the scrutiny of regulatory bodies themselves. The Bar Council of India's…
In three days this August, a special Lok Adalat settled 1,712 pending cases. Most consumers stuck in disputes have never seriously considered the mechanism that made that possible. Every month this column…
The Bar Council of India tried to stop an entire graduating batch from becoming lawyers over a student protest. It backed down within hours, but the questions it raised have not gone…
Most months, the legal system spends its energy examining everyone else. August was the month the machinery turned on itself. Consider what happened in the space of four weeks. The Bar Council…
The Supreme Court looked at the bodies that govern India's lawyers and called them "men's clubs." Then it did something about it. Institutions rarely hear themselves described bluntly by the country's highest…
Three days in August produced an acquittal in one high-profile case and a conviction on appeal in another. Together they explain something most people misunderstand about how criminal verdicts work. On 3…
AI tools now write, draw, compose and design at commercial scale. Indian copyright law was written for human authors. The gap between the two is where the next decade of disputes lives.…