Every democracy, at some point, has to answer the same question: who watches the institutions that watch the elections? India has been circling that question since 2023. On 23 September, the Supreme…
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September delivered developments across the full range of what courts handle: constitutional architecture, professional regulation, consumer rights, family law and disability. Several will take years to resolve. A few landed with immediate…
Supreme Court Lets the Fortis Forensic Audit Proceed, With a Caveat On 25 September, a Bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant, Justice Joymalya Bagchi and Justice V. Mohana declined to interfere with…
A husband told the Chhattisgarh High Court that his wife had called him dark and fat, threatened him with false cases, and kept leaving for her parents' home. The court's answer this…
I have been thinking about split verdicts this week, and about what they ask of the institution that produces them. When two judges on a bench hear the same arguments and reach…
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…
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…