Even after 75 years of independence, the shadow of British rule continues to stretch across many of India's most fundamental ...

A judicial backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases is not merely a statistical anomaly but a reflection of systemic issues exacerbated by political interference. India is grappling with a ...

Highlighting the growing role of technology in legal practice, the Chief Justice stressed the need for lawyers in semi-urban ...

As Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, former CJI, aptly stated: ‘Confidence in the judicial process is predicated on the trust which its written word generates.’ On March 14, a fire erupted in the residential ...

In most faiths judgment is delivered in the afterlife. India’s judiciary seems to have adopted a similar approach. Earlier this year in the central city of Bhopal, a newspaper revealed that a case ...

How the Supreme Court’s AI White Paper could transform judicial delays, governance, and India’s Viksit Bharat ambition.

Sandhya Fuchs receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Wenner Gren Foundation and the Swiss National Fund On a crisp winter morning in February 2023, I meet one of my South Delhi neighbours, a ...

Justice Surya Kant has recently taken oath as the 53rd Chief Justice of India (CJI) at a time when India’s justice system is not merely burdened but is at its tipping point of explosion. With judicial ...

In several of the 24 countries surveyed, rule of law issues and improving public safety rank toward the top half of the changes people say could help improve democracy in their country. And safety – ...