Judiciary, Law & Institutions
Having covered nineteen distinct legal and institutional developments across this category, from the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita to the Right to Privacy judgment to chronic tribunal vacancies,…
Our earlier article covered the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code's substantive framework, and our companion article covered the broader Tribunal Reforms Act's judicial-independence litigation. This article looks…
India significantly updated its competition law framework in 2023, changing how mergers are reviewed and how the Competition Commission of India can resolve investigations. This article…
India passed its first comprehensive data protection law in 2023, establishing rules for how companies and government bodies can collect and use citizens' personal data. This…
India's Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act was strengthened in 2019 with tougher penalties, but the law's practical delivery since then tells a more complicated…
Tribunals, specialised quasi-judicial bodies that handle specific categories of disputes outside the ordinary court system, have been a recurring source of legal and institutional friction between…
India's national anti-corruption ombudsman, the Lokpal, was legislated into existence years before it actually began functioning. This article explains why that delay happened, what changed once…
Few institutional debates in Indian politics generate as much sustained controversy as the question of whether central investigative agencies, specifically the Central Bureau of Investigation and…
Who gets to select India's Election Commissioners, the officials responsible for overseeing every national and state election, has become a genuinely contested question in recent years,…