Supreme Court 2025 Round-Up For Disability Rights

2025 continued to contribute to the disability rights jurisprudence with some of the important judgments, which also witnessed an intersectional approach. In this article, we look at those judgments.1. Supreme Court Allows All Disabled Candidates To Take Scribe In Exams Without Meeting Benchmark Disabilities: The Supreme Court allowed a writ petition filed by a candidate suffering from...

Business Law Daily Round-Up: January 02, 2026

TAX New RSP Based Valuation Mechanism, 40% GST Rate On Pan Masala, Cigarettes, Cigars, Tobacco Products From February 01No GST On Liquidated Damages For Breach Of Contract: Karnataka High Court Quashes SCNER-1 Returns Don't Require Detailed CENVAT Disclosure; Extended Limitation Not Invocable: CESTAT DelhiIPRDelhi High Court Upholds Order Rejecting Ericsson's Data Security Invention...

Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2025 On Evidence Act & BSA

Evidence Law Circumstantial Evidence - Last Seen Theory - Absence of Test Identification Parade (TIP) - Value of Scientific Evidence – Principles - The Supreme Court reiterated the 'five golden principles' for sustaining a conviction on circumstantial evidence - the circumstances must be fully established, consistent only with the hypothesis of guilt, of a conclusive nature,...

Supreme Court Annual Round Up 2025: Civil Procedure Code, 1908

1. Order XLI Rule 27 CPC | Appellate Courts Must First Examine Pleadings Before Allowing Additional Evidence : Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court held that appellate courts cannot permit additional evidence under Order XLI Rule 27 of the CPC unless such evidence is supported by proper pleadings. It emphasized that before allowing additional evidence at the appellate stage, courts must first...

Business Law Daily Round-Up: January 01, 2026

TAX CBI Court Convicts Central Excise Inspector In Disproportionate Assets Case, Awards 5 Yrs Imprisonment & ₹63 Lakh Fine; Wife Jailed For Abetment Gujarat High Court Grants Relief After Transfer Pricing Objections Were Mistakenly Filed Before Wrong Authority, Quashes Final AssessmentTree Plantation & Maintenance In Non-Forest Areas By Charitable Trust Exempt From GST: Gujarat...

Centre Notifies Appointment Of New Chief Justices To 2 High Courts, Transfer Of One CJ To Another HC

Acting on the recommendations made by the Supreme Court Collegium last month, the Central Government today notified the appointment of two High Court Judges as Chief Justices of different HCs. A transfer of one Chief Justice has also been notified today. Justice Soumen Sen, currently the Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court, has been transferred to the Kerala High Court. This...

Split Verdicts Given By Supreme Court In 2025

Reports/JudgmentsTahir Hussain's Interim Bail : Supreme Court Delivers Split Verdict, Referred To Larger BenchCase Title: Mohd Tahir Hussain v. State of NCT of DelhiCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 106A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on January 21, 2025 pronounced a split verdict on the petition filed by Delhi riots case accused Tahir Hussain seeking interim bail to campaign for the...

Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2025 On Murder Trial

Appellant-accused was sentenced to death for murder and rape of the victim under section 302, 376 and 397 of the IPC - Faulty Investigation - i. identity of accused could not be sufficiently protected leading to its disclosure before the TIP; ii. 9-day delay in TIP is unexplained; iii. Lack of coordination between investigating agencies and not arraying person having direct link...

Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 31, 2025

TAX Kerala High Court Grants Bail To Accused Caught In ₹5,000 Land Tax Bribery Trap By VigilanceCustoms | I-STAT Blood Gas Cartridges Are Accessories Of Analyser And Not Diagnostic Reagents; No Differential Duty Payable: CESTAT MumbaiNo Interest On Excise Duty Payable In Revenue-Neutral Situation Even Though Duty Demand Attained Finality: Calcutta High CourtCustoms | Barcode Scanners...

2025-Unprecedented Year For Judiciary

To borrow Charles Dickens' words, 2025 was the “best of times, it was the worst of times” for the judiciary.The year began with an extraordinary incident which sent shockwaves not just to the judiciary but also to the legal fraternity after a fire incident led to the accidental discovery of piles of burnt currency at a judge's official residence.It went on to witness some rare...

Time, Arguments And Justice: Cooperation, Not Compulsion, At The Heart Of New SOP

The Chief Justice of India Surya Kant made several specific public and in-court remarks regarding the restriction of argument time in the weeks leading up to the release of the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on December 29, 2025. The CJI's comments cantered on the idea that judicial time is a "limited public resource" and that prolonged oral arguments by senior counsel were unfairly depriving "poor and ordinary litigants" of their day in court.On December 11, 2025, during a hearing involving...

Igniting Flame Of Growth: A New Year's Call To Evolve In Justice

Dear Brother and Sister Judges, Esteemed Young Advocates, and Fellow Legal Minds across India,As 2025 draws to a close, a simple book has quietly reshaped my own approach to our demanding profession. Dr. Carol S. Dweck's Mindset: The New Psychology of Success draws a clear line between two ways of seeing ourselves: the fixed mindset, which treats abilities as unchangeable traits, and the growth mindset, which views them as muscles strengthened through effort, challenge, and learning. In the...