AIBE: A Predictable Script: Confidence Before, Chaos Later!

Every year, the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) follows a remarkably predictable script.Months before the exam, aspirants are reassured that there is little to worry about. Seniors dismiss it as a mere formality. Coaching institutes and YouTube channels package it as “the easiest exam a law graduate will ever take.” Social media is flooded with reels confidently declaring: “Nobody really fails AIBE.”What gets steadily sold—and widely consumed is this comforting illusion: that an open-book exam...

Danger Of Judge Made Intra-Court Appeals

In a constitutional democracy, the Supreme Court commands obedience not because it is infallible, but because it is institutionally disciplined. Its power is not the power to react; it is the power to decide according to law. That is why any emerging tendency of the Court to revisit, neutralise, or effectively reopen its own orders in the wake of social media outrage should cause serious concern. The issue is not whether the Court may correct itself. It certainly may. The issue is whether...

Ethical Labyrinth Of Artificial Intelligence: A Legal Analysis In Light Of Deepfakes

Brief Overview of DeepfakesThe technology pertaining to the manipulation of the pictures or photographs was developed in the late nineteenth century. The technology thereafter, with necessary modifications was used to manipulate the motion pictures as well. More technologies became available during the 20th century and changed more rapidly due to the advent of digital video. We are living in the age where the governance of the nation is technologically driven, social media plays a prominent role...

Analyzing Liability In 2026 Draft Regulations For Using Artificial Intelligence In Courts & Suggestions

The New Draft Regulations: A Landmark DevelopmentThe integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within Indian courts is no longer a distant prospect. The Supreme Court has initiated a significant development by introducing the “Regulations for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Courts (2026)”. The adoption of AI is imperative, considering the substantial backlog of cases currently burdening the Indian judicial system.Here Regulation 4 talks about “human primacy”, basically saying AI should...

The Dead Do Not Log Out: Juridical Recognition Of Digital Estates In India

On May 5, 2026, the Additional Senior Civil Judge, Gandhinagar, Gujarat granted Letters of Administration over a deceased man's iPhone and iCloud account to his daughter.[1] Her father had died intestate. The family approached Apple seeking access to the deceased's account. Apple, exercising its contractual prerogative and institutional caution, communicated to the family that access to the deceased's data could be facilitated provided the petitioners produced a court order formally appointing...

Taxing Entry: H-1B Surcharge And Constitutional Limits On Executive Revenue Power

On June 8, Judge Leo Sorokin of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts[1] vacated Presidential Proclamation 10973, which had imposed a $100,000 surcharge on new H-1B petitions.[2] The ruling is analytically interesting less for what it decides and more for how specifically the doctrinal move the Court makes in calling the charge a tax rather than a regulatory fee, and why that judgment has consequences well beyond this case.The result gives employers immediate relief. However, the more...

Legality Of Regularisation: What Courts Say About Contract Employees

In India, we have millions of workers including but not limited to guest lecturers, ,pump operators, data entry assistants, special police officers who serve for decades in departments of the central government and different state governments performing functions that are not distinguishable from those of regular employees, yet these workers continue to hold the status of a “temporary” or “contractual” employee and they are perpetually denied pensions, increments, and social security benefits at...

Forensic Bedroom: How Ghost Of Section 497 Leaped From Court Files To OTT Screens

French novelist Honoré de Balzac poignantly noted that families are like secret societies, governed by their own hidden laws and private operations. However, when the Madras High Court recently granted a divorce to a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) constable on the grounds of adultery, it acknowledged a domestic reality long understood but very rarely put forth. Overturning a rigid family court order that had demanded direct, physical proof of an illicit relationship, the High Court observed...

DNA Tests, Privacy, And Paternity: Supreme Court Clarifies The Law

The Supreme Court, in a recent ruling, upheld the use of a DNA test for determining paternity and addressed a long-standing legal question: does an individual's right to privacy override the need to ascertain biological parentage? Prior to this decision, the Court had consistently maintained that DNA tests should be ordered sparingly and only in exceptional circumstances. However, there was no definitive answer regarding the precise situations in which such tests could be permitted.A paternity...

One Land, One Heart: How Faith And Freedom United My India

There is a huge difference between reading about India's "Unity in Diversity" in a school textbook and actually feeling it under your feet. Recently, my wife and I went on a quick two-day journey across Tamil Nadu. It wasn't a long trip in terms of miles, but it completely changed how we look at our country. In just forty-eight hours, we walked through the heart of India's spiritual diversity, discovering how a land of so many different faiths can live together under one shared culture. Our...

Forget Me, Or Forget Me Not? Implementing Right To Be Forgotten

The Right to Privacy, has over the years, been considered as one of the most important facets of Article 21 of the Constitution of India. The Courts across the Country have repeatedly held that the Right to Privacy being a crucial and intrinsic element of human dignity squarely falls under the ambit of Right to Life under Article 21 of the Constitution of India, however, the same is subject to reasonable restrictions.It is in this digital age, Right to be Forgotten has come to forefront. In...

Is The Supreme Court Overstepping On Its Draft AI Regulations, 2026?

Whether Draft AI Rules Apply To High Courts ?On 3 June the Supreme Court released a draft for public comment, titled, “Regulations for Use of Artificial Intelligence in Courts, 2026.” The instinct is sound since litigants, lawyers and Court already use AI and guardrails are long overdue. But the fine print presents a constitutional problem. The issue is that it is just not a set of housekeeping rules for the Court's own registry or administration as you may expect under Article 145. It is a...