In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...
A judicial backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases is not merely a statistical anomaly but a reflection of systemic issues exacerbated by political interference. India is grappling with a ...
The Kalpetta judicial district in Kerala's Wayanad has become the first entirely paperless district court system in India.
Highlighting the growing role of technology in legal practice, the Chief Justice stressed the need for lawyers in semi-urban ...
India's judicial system is now the single biggest drag on the country's economic progress and it functions "as a medieval guild," says economist and Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PM-EAC) ...
Days after the Supreme Court of India’s landmark ruling against legalizing same-sex marriages, Chief Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud sat down with Harvard Law Professor David B. Wilkins ’77 to ...
This is the first time that an entire district-level judiciary has transitioned to a fully digital, end-to-end system.
As Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, former CJI, aptly stated: ‘Confidence in the judicial process is predicated on the trust which its written word generates.’ On March 14, a fire erupted in the residential ...
In several of the 24 countries surveyed, rule of law issues and improving public safety rank toward the top half of the changes people say could help improve democracy in their country. And safety – ...