Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news

Sometimes, the path to equality begins with something as basic and as essential as a room of one’s own.

Section 69A and the March 2026 draft IT Rules have transformed India's online-speech regime into an expansive, secrecy-driven architecture that undermines Shreya Singhal's safeguards.

The agreement-centric Section 3 has served Indian competition law well against human cartels, but is ill-suited to autonomous algorithmic coordination.

The woman who was promised the protection of the law and discovered at the police station, in the courtroom, in her own home, that the promise was notional, is not asking for a new statute.

An Indian passport, validly issued by the Indian State, preceded by declaration & the State's own satisfaction of citizenship to a person it has already determined to be Indian, should be sufficient p ...

Why doing “nothing” after law school may not be nothing at all.

A steadied client is a case that survives; a frightened, uninformed one is a case quietly dying in the next adjournment.

A member of the Bar reflects on the tenure of the former Chief Justice of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh.

A teacher's hope and anxiety that his students will remain committed to the ideals of justice as they embark on their careers as lawyers.

For core and essential functioning, the judiciary must be treated as one unified system, not a federated coalition of wildly individualistic sub-systems.