The Next Big Reform: Why the Government of India Should Move from Cash Accounting to Accrual Accounting Parv Tyagi “In Greece, statistics is a combat sport.” Andreas Georgiou declared in 2011, after […]
LSPR Monthly Newsletter (Volume 8)
State Bank of India v Ajay Kumar Sood: Clarity in Judgements is a Prerequisite for Legal Awareness
Parth Birla and Chirag Motwani Judicial precedents are of paramount importance. The clarity of judgments becomes a prerequisite for the sustenance of the legal system. The article focuses on the lacunas on […]
Reinforcing the Limits of Time in Commercial Suits: Written Statements vis-à-vis Counter-Claims
Kabir Singh The Indian judiciary’s clogged pipelines of justice are a problem which has been ongoing for decades. One of the largest contributors to the same has been the delay of filing […]
Some Thoughts on Marriage Equality, the Uniform Civil Code and Queering Indian Family Law
Akshat Agarwal* Marriage Equality and the UCC There has perhaps never been a better time to write and think about family law in India. Recently, the Indian Supreme Court started hearing two […]
Reducing the Age of Consent: A Liminal Stand
Saumya Ranjan Dixit This article explores the preparedness of India for the reduction in the age of consent. It highlights certain prerequisites that need to be met before reducing the age of […]
Freezing of Sovereign Assets: The Upcoming Case of Iranian Assets in ICJ
Smriti Jaiswal In recent years, the assets of foreign nations have been regularly used for economic sanctioning, settling creditors, granting compensations, etc. without the owner nation’s permission. As a general rule, the […]
Criticising Judges and the Damage to Judicial Independence
Professor Satvinder S. Juss, Phd (Cantab), FRSA In this piece, Professor Satvinder Juss places the recent attacks on the Indian judiciary and thereby its independence, in a global context. Drawing from the […]
Too Deferential: Critiquing CCI’S Approach in the Amazon Private Label Brands Case
Bipasha Kundu In this piece, the author argues that the CCI should have taken a more inquisitorial approach in the case of In Re: Allegations pertaining to private label brands related to […]
Supreme Court’s Horizontality Judgment: Errors, Omissions and Questions Left Unanswered
Ashwin Vardarajan image source On January 3, 2023, the Supreme Court (‘SC’) delivered its decision in Kaushal Kishor v. Union of India [Writ Petition (Criminal) No. 113 of 2016], where it, inter […]
LSPR Monthly Newsletter (Volume 7)
The Executive-Judiciary Debate: On Judicial Appointments Akhil Surya Introduction Mr. Kiren Rijiju’s statements, yet again, on (and against) the collegium system and the State’s role in judicial appointments have spurred the debate […]
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