India is grappling with a massive crisis that strikes at the core of justice — an overwhelmed judicial system burdened by an astonishing backlog of over 50 million criminal and civil cases. This ...

High Court judge emphasizes social responsibility for lawyers, highlighting the importance of hard work in today's competitive legal landscape.

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 ...

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 ...

The recent suicide of Atul Subhash, a 34-year-old Bengaluru-based software engineer, has brought attention to the extreme and devastating misuse of existing legal pro-visions. It reveals extreme ...

This shortfall shows ongoing structural issues in the judiciary. India's judicial system faces serious challenges as the judge-to-population ratio is only 22 judges per million people. This is much ...

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 – ...