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Strict timelines, improved warrant execution, financial disclosure by accused persons and stronger interim compensation mechanisms may restore some effectiveness to the system.

Every High Court must establish dedicated election benches so that assigned judges can complete election petitions without competing docket demands.

How a recent Supreme Court referral could come in the way of the IBBI’s latest amendments to the personal guarantor insolvency framework.

The Supreme Court addressed the question of the Bihar SIR’s legality but did not substantially engage with its democratic implications.

Until a crucial distinction is understood by the people shaping India's arbitration landscape, the reform agenda will continue to be built around the wrong question.

A two-judge bench cannot accomplish through purposive construction what it cannot accomplish by express overruling.

The aspiration of achieving genuine excellence in legal education cannot be realised through centralisation alone.

A brief personal account of a first-generation advocate who started their career as a junior of Justice V Mohana.

Revisiting the ghost of Pooran Mal in post-Puttaswamy Era.

The Mediation Act will be tested over the next few years on a single question: whether the Bar uses it.