Massa V. Formula 1: Inside UK High Court's Crashgate Ruling

Felipe Massa's claim against Formula One Management (“FOM”), Bernie Ecclestone and the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (“FIA”) reads like a story about sport, secrecy and missed remedies – but it is, above all, a test of private law doctrines. Who can sue, for what, and when. At stake is Massa's long-standing assertion that the deliberate crash during the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix in 2008 cost him the World Drivers' Championship. On 20 November 2025, Hon'ble Mr Justice Ray...

Harmonising Privacy, Accountability, And Inclusion In India's DPDP Act

Recently, the apex court in Anjali Bharadwaj[2] sharply criticized the Government for its unexplained delays in appointing Information Commissioners, noting that such administrative indifference has created massive backlogs and has already weakened the enforcement of the Right to Information Act. The Petitioner argued that systemic failures, coupled with a history of official bias in appointments where positions meant for individuals from diverse fields have been repeatedly filled by former...

The Regulatory Gridlock: Jurisdictional Overlaps Between CCI And Sectoral Authorities

Competition Commission of India (CCI) serves as the Competition watchdog by ensuring free and fair competition across various sectors. Its functions encompass ensuring freedom of trade, preventing market failures, prohibiting anti-competitive practices and preserving consumer interests.[1] The CCI is not a sector-based body and enjoys a broad range of jurisdiction which cut across sectoral boundaries and thus covers all the industries with the primary focus on the objects behind the Competition...

Vows Of Silence

For a country that reveres marriage as a sacred bond, India's silence on marital rape remains one of its most unsettling contradictions. In the eyes of the law, a husband's right to his wife's body still overshadows her right to autonomy. Section 63 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, which defines rape, explicitly exempts intercourse by a man with his wife (if she is above 18) from the crime of rape.The message sent? Consent, when placed within marriage, becomes irrelevant.The persistence of this...

Dark Patterns And Deep Manipulation: Regulating Psychological Exploitation In Indian Digital Markets

The deceptive or manipulative user-interface designs that trick or coerce users into the actions that are against their best interest are “Dark Patterns.” These create exploiting cognitive biases such as scarcity, fear of missing out or guilt laden language, this negatively affects user autonomy and leads people into unnecessary data sharing. The psychological exploitation which is done by false urgency not only breaches the ethical norms of consent but constitutes unfair trade practice. In this...

Love On Trial: The Extra-Constitutional Power Of Khap Panchayats

Across the rural heartlands of India, Justice is not always administered in courtrooms decorated with law books and lined with judges' benches. Sometimes, it is delivered under a modest roof by elderly males of the village, who invoke tradition and honour rather than statutes and precedents. This is one of the various non-conventional adjudication systems across the world, primarily known as the Khap Panchayat. Khap Panchayat is an informal judicial assembly that seeks to preserve morality and...

Supreme Court's National Task Force And Constitutionalisation Of Student Mental Health

On this World Mental Health Day, while global efforts rightly focus on 'Mental Health in Humanitarian Emergencies,' the Indian context presents a profound and urgent domestic crisis- Why students are committing suicides, the escalating epidemic of student suicides. This day, dedicated to raising global awareness and mobilising action for mental health, casts a sharp light on the colossal gap. The historic judicial intervention, enunciated a month ago in the Supreme Court's verdict in Sukdeb Saha...

Pacts Before Promises: Unsettled Legality Of Prenuptial Agreements In India

Indian religion, culture and society have revered matrimony. It often bonds families and communities. Against this context, the concept of a prenuptial agreement, a compact entered into prior to marriage that defines property rights, financial duties, and prospective arrangements in case of separation or divorce appears to many as odd, if even subversive. A concept evolved from the west, prenuptial agreements are designed to protect the individual rights and assets of each spouse and specify...

RPNLU Prayagraj Concludes Para Legal Volunteers' Basic Training Programme

Dr. Rajendra Prasad National Law University, Prayagraj (RPNLU), in collaboration with the Uttar Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (UPSLSA) and the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), successfully concluded a three-day Para Legal Volunteers' (PLVs) Basic Training Programme for the B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) students of the 2025 batch. Held from October 6th to 8th, 2025, the initiative aimed to impart foundational knowledge of India's legal aid framework and cultivate a cohort of socially...

RGNUL Punjab Organises Blood Donation Camp In Collaboration With Govt. Medical College, Patiala

The Legal Aid Clinic at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law (RGNUL), Punjab, organized a Blood Donation Camp on October 4, 2025. The event was held in collaboration with the Government Medical College, Patiala.Key university officials, including Vice-Chancellor Dr. Jaishankar Singh, Registrar Prof. Ivneet Kaur Walia, and Legal Aid Clinic Faculty Coordinator Dr. Abhinandan Bassi, were present at the initiative. A team from the Government Medical College, which included Dr. Loveleen, Dr....

From Policy To Protection: Third-Party Liability And Insurance In Indian Space Exploration

There are around 300 space-tech startups in India as of 2025, making the space sector account for an estimate of $8.4 billion. According to the World Economic Forum, with this current pace of the Indian space industry, the sector is expected to hit a size of $47.3 billion by 2032, making itself a significant contributor in the global market.Following this, in May, 2024, Tata AIG introduced India's first insurance scheme tailored specifically for the rising space industry. The company unveiled...

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing: Justice Or Injustice

While times change, the issue of Mandatory minimum sentencing in law which sounds simple but is actually multifaceted when you start thinking about it. Which in simpler terms means that the law says you have to give at least a certain minimum punishment for a particular crime, irrespective of mitigating circumstances. This idea started mainly to make sure that people who do serious crimes get punished properly. However, many people argue that it can sometimes lead to injustice because every case...