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Would the interpretation of ‘Court’ under Section 29A be guided by the definition as provided under Section 2(1)(e) of the A&C Act or would it be the Referral Court?

A binary distinction between permitted and prohibited AI uses is useful, but it does not fully capture the middle ground.

Justice Krishna is in the spotlight for quashing the ED's case against NewsClick, coming down on online attacks against judges and slamming the Centre's plan to take over Delhi's green spaces.

Without safeguards, SIR may begin a long process of suspicion, exclusion, trial and potential statelessness.

The present framework taxes expected rent, even when recovery is doubtful and conditions relief on procedural compliance rather than substantive reality.

Courts routinely inquire whether a marriage has been consummated, but seldom whether such consummation was voluntary.

Students are not abandoning classrooms because they lack discipline; they are abandoning them because the traditional Indian law classroom has become pedagogically obsolete.

Open justice was never intended to transform judicial proceedings into consumable content.

Strict timelines, improved warrant execution, financial disclosure by accused persons and stronger interim compensation mechanisms may restore some effectiveness to the system.

Every High Court must establish dedicated election benches so that assigned judges can complete election petitions without competing docket demands.