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The phrase "access to justice" cannot be easily defined. It is a political, legal, and rhetorical symbol of undeniable power and attractiveness for the subjects of statecraft.

India's Ministry of Home Affairs has introduced sweeping amendments to the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act framework through the 2026 Amendment Rules, fundamentally transforming how NGOs and not-for-profits receive and utilize foreign funding. These changes establish purpose-specific and geography-specific registration requirements, enhanced disclosure obligations including ultimate donor identification, and objective benchmarks for organizational activity. Will these reforms strengthen accountability

Modern democracies face an escalating paradox: laws are multiplying, yet justice is receding; regulation is expanding, yet enforcement is weakening. For every social, economic, or political malaise, the default response has become enactment of new law. This assumption—that legislation is always the solution—is a fallacy.

A Look Out Circular ("LOC(s)") is essentially an administrative mechanism whereby certain designated authorities are permitted to issue requests to the immigration/emigration authorities...

The Hon'ble Apex Court in Radhakrishnan Varenickal v. Union of India, in 2018, while delivering a verdict on a petition requesting ban on a book stated...

The article discusses the judgment in Gayatri Balasamy v ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited regarding the modification of arbitral awards under Section 34 or Section 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act.

A five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark ruling in the case of Gayatri Balasamy vs M/s ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited...

Nearly half a century after the 1975-77 Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi's government - a period that witnessed wholesale press censorship and the suspension of fundamental rights - India finds itself confronting a new, more sophisticated threat to media freedom.

On May 29, 2026, the Delhi High Court delivered a landmark judgment in a batch of petitions that raised the same question, that stood at the intersection of constitutional law and the digital age viz. whether an individual whose name appears in judicial records that are accessible through internet search engines is entitled, by virtue of the right to informational privacy guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, to seek de-indexing of those records from name-based search results and masking of personal identifiers (including names) from publicly accessible digital versions of those records.

The issue before the Apex Court for consideration was whether the arrest provisions provided under the Customs Act, 1962 and Goods and Services Tax Law [GST Law] [hereinafter referred to as ‘Special Laws' collectively]...

The issue before the Apex Court for consideration was whether the arrest provisions provided under the Customs Act, 1962 and Goods and Services Tax Law are constitutional and whether the statutory and constitutional safeguards are followed by the authorized officers while exercising the powers of the arrest under the Special laws.

Spectrographic or "voiceprint" identification process is based on comparative analysis of voiceprints or phonetic elements to arrive at an identification of an individual.

Tribunals are not defined in any legislation. Courts, in various judgments, have clarified that the tribunals are not courts.

In Mohd. Aftab v. Union of India and others, the Allahabad High Court, by an interim order dated September 14, 2026, observed that passport authorities have, prima facie, no business denying a passport merely because a criminal case is pending against the applicant. The Bench of Justice J.J. Munir and Justice Indrajeet Shukla also clarified that holding a passport does not give a person a spontaneous passage across borders.

The Industrial Relations Code, 2020 (Act No. 35 of 2020) came into force on 21st November, 2025, consolidating three foundational labour statutes. The Code represents a significant structural...

The Hon'ble Bombay High Court ("HC") was recently seized with a writ petition[1] under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, challenging an order of an Industrial Court...

As per the CSC Convention and section 4 of the Act, the liability of an operator would be strict based on the principle of no fault liability.