Who Can Afford To Become Judge?

On August 21, 2026 the Supreme Court's three-judge Bench in the case of Bhumika Trust v. Union of India altered its direction of May 2025 which had required candidates to have three years' experience at the Bar before they could apply for the post of Civil Judge (Junior Division). The Court has now kept the principle of needing prior practical experience but has brought the requirement down to one year in respect of recruitments advertised from 1st April 2027. For the period up to 31st March...

Can Police Demand Your Phone Password? India Needs Digital Search Doctrine

On August 4, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a sweeping thirteen-point directive to combat “digital arrest” scams, a fraud that has cost Indian citizens over ₹52,976 crore in six years. The order is a welcome intervention against a specific criminal menace. But it also throws into relief a quieter, more structural problem the Court has been sitting on since October 2022: what happens when the police, not a con artist, are the ones asking for access to your phone?That question is the subject of...

Invisible Markets, Visible Harms: Rethinking Data Brokerage In India

In the year 2012, The New York Times reported that an incident which involved a disturbing new reality of digital economy where father complained to retailer after his teenage daughter received advertisement for maternity product. This is because Target's system had inferred from her purchasing behaviour that she was pregnant and the most concerning fact is that platform knew before her father. This coverage became a symbol of data mining which reveals that data gathered through ordinary...

Law Of Agency And AI Agent: Can An Autonomous AI Agent Bind Its Human Principal?

“Agentic AI” is rapidly transforming the relationship between AI and the legal and commercial world. An AI agent can decide on a series of actions, engage with external systems, make choices, and execute actions with limited human involvement, unlike traditional generative AI, which typically reacts to a user's instruction. Agentic AI emerged as a key governance concern at the India AI Impact Summit 2026, focusing on accountability, security, and human oversight. This raises an intriguing issue...

Final Judgement In Cloak Of Interim Order

What happens when the court grants a prima facie interim order, and it takes the shape of a long-lasting wait? Suppose investing all your savings in a project, and then the Court puts a stay on that project for five years, with no certainty that, even after five years any final decision will come, or another wait in the mask of an interim order will be there. An interim order is a temporary order taken during the pendency of a case to protect the subject matter. It includes, inter alia, a stay...

Who Really Owns Your Company's Domain Name? Limits Of UDRP

Imagine arriving at work to find that your company's website has gone down, email unreachable and the company's digital presence all blank. Now imagine all of these problems are not caused by a hacker or government. In fact, it is the founder of the company. This is somewhat the story behind Lazarus Enterprises Inc.Lazarus Enterprises Inc, the AI software business headquartered in Boston in December 2025 found itself locked out of the registrar accounts controlling 'lazarusai.com' and...

Architecture Of Restraint: EU Labour Enforcement And Worker Mobility In India

Historically, the Indian labour market has been regulated by labour and employment laws, which primarily focus on aspects such as wages, working conditions, and collective bargaining. Article 19(1)(g) of the Constitution guarantees every citizen the freedom to practice any profession or carry on any occupation, trade, or business. Although the State can impose reasonable restrictions under Article 19(6), the broader constitutional vision clearly supports occupational mobility and guards against...

When Can High Court Invoke Article 227 Against Arbitral Tribunal?

The Recurring QuestionOne question has consistently tested the boundaries of judicial intervention in arbitration, namely, whether a party dissatisfied with an order of an Arbitral Tribunal, typically one rejecting a jurisdictional objection under Section 16 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (herein after referred to as “the Act”), run to the High Court under Article 227 of the Constitution instead of waiting for the final award? The Supreme Court has answered this question...

From Risk Management To Business Strategy: Evolution Of Corporate Legal In India

For a long time, corporate legal departments were viewed as cost centres that were valued more for preventing issues than for producing results. That view is changing quickly. As businesses invest more in internal competence than in outside counsel, general counsel now sit alongside CEOs and boards as strategic decision-makers, evaluated on business performance measures rather than lawsuit results.What is causing this? Rapid technological innovation, the professionalization of legal operations...

Infodemic Crisis: Impact Of Online Vaccine Messaging On Public Trust

Vaccines are one of the biggest public health developments of all time, preventing millions of deaths and eliminating serious diseases every year. Even with all this success, vaccine hesitancy, defined as the refusal or delay in getting vaccines despite their availability, was named as one of the biggest health threats by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Vaccination scepticism dates back to the smallpox vaccination, but the digital era has uniquely fuelled its dissemination. In this network,...

Property Without Protection: Structural Marginalization Of Crypto Asset Stakeholders

WazirX, one of India's largest and well-known crypto marketplaces underwent insolvency proceedings in 2024 following a $235 million hack carried out by North Korean hackers. This insolvency proceeding revealed a fundamental gap in India's insolvency framework when dealing with the crypto assets. Even though the crypto assets are now given recognition in the IBC as 'property', the procedure for dealing with those assets is still uncertain. Under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the crypto...

Testing Places Of Worship Act

THE BACKGROUND OF THE ACTThe Places of Worship Act, 1991, was enacted in the backdrop of the Ram Mandir movement during the 1990s. Section 3 of the Act prohibits and criminalizes the conversion of a place of worship, as a whole or in part, from one religion to another or to a different sect of the same religion, while Section 4 of the Act bars courts from examining the religious character of a disputed place of worship, with a cut-off date of August 15, 1947. Section 5 exempted the Ram...