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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...
Supreme Court Round-Up 2025: Free Speech
In 2025, the Supreme Court handled significant cases dealing with free speech. From poetry and political dissent to Wikipedia entries, online comedy, social media commentary and cinema, the Court was repeatedly required to navigate the fraught boundary between liberty and regulation. When poetry was criminalised - Imran Pratapgarhi caseOne of the clearest affirmations of free speech came...
Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2025 On Bail & Arrest
Amicus Curiae Suggestions - Policy strategy for bail and speedy disposal of criminal appeals - Model Action Plan for Baseline Report of NCMS (National Case Management System) - which has been approved by Chief Justice of India and forwarded to all High Courts for adoption - Vacancies in High Courts directly impact and corelate with the pendency of criminal appeals - Video Conferencing...
Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 30, 2025
TAX Taxpayers To Be Barred From Filing GSTR-3B Return For Excess GST ITC Claims: GSTN Issues AdvisoryService Tax | Co-Op Society Paying Rent Arrears To Local Municipality For Gas Transportation Pipeline Not Liable Under Reverse Charge : CESTAT AhmedabadProfit From Securitisation/Sell-Down Of Loan Receivables Not Taxable As Service: CESTAT ChennaiExcise | Cutting/Slitting HR-CR Coils...
Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up: December 15, 2025 To December 21, 2025
JudgmentsS. 389 CrPC | Gravity Of Offence And Role Of Accused Must Guide Suspension Of Sentence: Supreme CourtCase Details: Rajesh Upadhayay v. State of Bihar & Anr.Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (SC) 1127The Supreme Court set aside the Patna High Court's order suspending sentence of a murder convict, holding that the relief was wrongly granted in ignorance of the gravity of the offence and...
Supreme Court Annual Digest 2025 - Lok Adalat
Adalat Code of Civil Procedure, 1908; Order XXI Rules 97, 99, and 101 — Powers of Executing Court regarding Lok Adalat Awards — Held, while these provisions enable an Executing Court to address incidental questions during execution (such as the extent of enforceability against a person in possession), they do not authorize the court to examine the validity of the award itself...
Tripura Student's Tragic Death: Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Recognition Of 'Racial Slur' As Hate Crime & Guidelines To Tackle Discrimination
Following the tragic death of a 24-year old student subjected to a racial attack in Dehradun over his north-eastern appearance, a public interest litigation has been initiated before the Supreme Court to address racial discrimination and violence against Indian citizens from north-eastern states and other frontier regions of India.The plea, filed by Advocate-on-Record Anoop Prakash Awasthi,...
Sorry State Of Sanitation In Uttar Pradesh's Courts For Women
Beneath the solemn domes and echoing corridors of Uttar Pradesh's district courts and tribunals, where the fundamental rights of citizens are passionately defended, lies a silent, shameful contradiction. While legal minds debate the finer points of Article 21 of the Constitution—the Right to Life and Personal Liberty—a stark violation of those very right festers within the court premises, i.e. the deplorable state of public toilets.For the women who serve and seek justice here—lawyers,...
Supreme Court Introduces SOP Mandating Timelines For Oral Arguments To Streamline Hearings
Aiming at improving court management and speedy disposal of cases, the Supreme Court has issued a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) prescribing strict timelines for the submission and conduct of oral arguments in all post-notice and regular hearing matters.Mandatory Timelines for Oral Arguments Needs To Be Stated In Advance Under the new SOP, Senior Advocates, arguing counsel,...
Business Law Daily Round-Up: December 29, 2025
TAX APVAT | Value Added Tax Not Leviable On Offshore Sales Beyond Territorial Waters: Andhra Pradesh High CourtIncome Tax Act | Delhi High Court Sets Aside Reassessment Against MakeMyTrip Over ₹50 Crore Receipt, Cites Vague S.148A NoticesBombay High Court Upholds 18% Interest Levy On Delayed VAT Payment, Says Interest Levied Automatically Once Payment Is DelayedPunjab & Haryana High...
Tenant Cannot Dictate Landlord Should Choose Another Property To Start Business: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has held that a tenant cannot dictate to a landlord which accommodation should be treated as suitable for the landlord's bona fide requirement, nor can the tenant insist that the landlord start a business from some other premises suggested by the tenant.Allowing an appeal filed by the landlord, the Court set aside a Bombay High Court order which had overturned...