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Who gets to become an advocate? : Supreme Courts suggestion to create Young Lawyers Professional Assistance Fund could improve access to justice
8+ hour, 58+ min ago (1047+ words) The Leaflet...
Who pays for the Adani dismissal? : A weekly roundup on Constitution First & Editor's Pick - June 2026
9+ hour, 13+ min ago (201+ words) The trickle down damage is, to say the least, very unsettling. Justice Chandru on Welfare Exclusion on the Basis of SIR This week, Justice K. Chandru speaks to The Leaflet on whether the linking of citizenship to welfare and labour benefits,…...
On the Kerala High Court's Judgment: Must a doctor erase her medical past to become a lawyer?
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (203+ words) Registration equal to practice? Against this backdrop, why should the State compel a professional to surrender statutory recognition of expertise that society has invested so heavily in creating merely because she wishes to pursue another profession? The law envisages Lawyer-Doctor…...
A woman has to be beaten up to be able to use the PWDVA: A survivors reckoning with promises the law offers
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (1549+ words) I WOULD LIKE to recount a conversation. I have had several such conversations, but I will focus on this one." I was in the drawing room of a lawyer, a young man well-established in the profession. I was offered a…...
Does a Satisfied Contingency Tantamount to "Determinability" in a Contract? : An Unanswered Question
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (646+ words) While these judgments confirm the validity of another typical M&A mechanism under Indian law, it adds to a worrying trend of Indian courts expounding on private and contract law concepts through arbitration related proceedings only, and not through civil…...
The Renaissance Man of Law: A review of Professor Amita Dhanda's biography of Justice M. N. Rao
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (224+ words) Although Justice Rao published his memoir, "Glimpses from the Recital of My Life," in 2021, the present book is less interested in reminiscence than in reckoning. Organised into seven chapters, it follows the major phases of his career in roughly chronological…...
Is "Abolition" the answer to the PIL problem?
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1446+ words) Chief Justice of India Surya Kant responded saying that the courts were cautious. That same day, Justice B. V. Nagarathna observed that the petition challenging the temple entry practice should not have been fit to be entertained in the first place as…...
What the recent Bombay High Court ruling on compensation for custodial death means for victims and their families
2+ week, 3+ day ago (583+ words) The Leaflet...
Notified but dormant: What a new RTI-based report reveals about the state of Indias Anti-Human Trafficking Units
2+ week, 4+ day ago (867+ words) The Leaflet Notified but dormant: What a new RTI-based report reveals about the state of Indias Anti-Human Trafficking Units ON MAY 20, 2026, Sanjog, a social impact organisation that works on anti-human trafficking, published an Anti-Human Trafficking Unit Watch Report tracing the…...
Indira Jaising's memoir is a guided tour of the "multiple wor(l)ds of lawyering'
2+ week, 6+ day ago (462+ words) Whatever one's preferred route to the constitutional court, there has always been a current of resistance [] against the repressive power of the State. Democratic lawyering must, therefore, also serve as a dual function: as a shield against authoritarianism as well…...