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…
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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.…
A fresh Supreme Court petition has reopened one of the most difficult questions in Indian law: what happens when a criminal protection applies to some citizens and not others, because of the…
A movement that started as a social media meme became a Parliament-shaping force in five weeks. The law around how it organised itself is far less settled than the law around the…
A recent Patna High Court ruling draws a line that matters to anyone going through a difficult separation: hard negotiation is not, on its own, a criminal offence. Matrimonial breakdowns are rarely…
July's protests put a question in front of a lot of people who had never asked it before. What are you actually allowed to do, and what can the police actually do…
A cancelled national exam is not just an administrative headache. For lakhs of families, it is a financial loss too, and one that consumer law has barely begun to address. India's competitive…
This issue reaches you around the fifteenth of August, which this year carries a little more weight for us than usual. It marks the close of our first full year as a…