In a session titled 'The Measure of Justice' at JLF 2026, lawyers Ashwani Kumar and Vrinda Grover and US judge Ketu Shah discussed the Indian constitutional, moral and legal crises.
The dogs will survive whatever orders are passed. But institutions are more fragile than we imagine. Once lost, the trust they embody takes generations to rebuild.
Disposal rate in 2025 reached 109 percent, meaning the courts cleared backlog of previous years. However, conviction rate has been reducing since 2019. System also struggling with delays.
Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.
The Supreme Court’s judgment pushes the conversation in the right direction, but it does not resolve the full range of structural issues that determine how tribunals work on the ground.
Real gains can be achieved when the government focuses its reforms upstream in better contract design, stronger capacity to monitor performance and maintain documentation.
Case stems from a bunch of PILs filed before Punjab and Haryana HC regarding rampant building violations in Gurugram. State submitted detailed reports that didn’t deny the allegations.
Subordinate judiciary plagued by stagnation, bleak promotional avenues & disillusionment, with most only dreaming of being district judge. A constitution bench looks for solution.
The totalitarian states indeed are never tired of claiming a legal basis for their action and are too eager to make use of conventional legal institutions to further their ends, said Justice HR Khanna in 1980.
The Telangana government, which has still not even fully absorbed the TGSRTC, is now going to take over the Hyderabad metro rail. Expectations are not high.
Instead of buying more Mirages outright in early 2000s, the requirement was tweaked in favour of a medium-weight, multi-role fighter with Mirage-like performance.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
The sitting judge openly called members of a minority community, ‘ K@thmullas’ , said that this community is hampering our development and that their taught intolerance which is bizarrely referring to sacrifise of animals during Eid
Conveniently leaving these comments by a sitting judge out and simply printing objections to thus event by lawyers Indira Jaisingh and Rebecca John shows that you want to portray their objections to a Hindu organization organizing these activities not the fact that unbecoming language was used by a sitting judge.
The sitting judge openly called members of a minority community, ‘ K@thmullas’ , said that this community is hampering our development and that their taught intolerance which is bizarrely referring to sacrifise of animals during Eid
Conveniently leaving these comments by a sitting judge out and simply printing objections to thus event by lawyers Indira Jaisingh and Rebecca John shows that you want to portray their objections to a Hindu organization organizing these activities not the fact that unbecoming language was used by a sitting judge.