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As per Exception 2 to Section 375[1] (“the Exception”), Indian Penal Code, 1860 (“IPC”), any man who indulges in sexual activity with his own wife (the wife not being under eighteen years of age) will not be constituted as an offence of rape.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana’s dream project, the National Judicial Infrastructure Authority of India (NJIAI), now seems set to become a reality. The aim of the NJIAI is to upgrade and refurbish the judicial infrastructure of courts.

ot only on the arithmetic, but also on commitment and motivation. The number of judges in India is abysmally less as a ratio to its population. The judge-population ratio in India, as of today, is 20 judges per 10 lakh people which is the lowest in the world.

Supreme Court judge Justice Uday Umesh Lalith, also the Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority, stressed upon the benefits of ADR vis-à-vis the normal court apparatus, which is being burdened with arrears to dispose of matters within time.

Shortcomings in infrastructure and lack of awareness pushing ADR into slow trajectory,"observed Justice A.M. Khanwilkar at the 2nd Justice J.S. Verma Memorial ADR & Client Counselling Competition 2022.

The Faculty of Law, & Delhi School of Public Policy & Governance, Institution of Eminence, University of Delhi in association with Mediation and Conciliation Project Committee, Supreme Court of India is organising a 3rd International Conference on Mediation on 9th-10th April, 2022 through a virtual mode. 

Chief Justice of India NV Ramana recently lamented that available resources were not being put to maximum use to upgrade judicial infrastructure in the country. The apparent resource squeeze and unde...

We have to part company with the precedents of the British-Indian period tying our non-statutory area of law to vintage English Law christening it “justice, equity and good conscience”. After all, conscience is the finer texture of norms woven from the ethos and lifestyle of a community and since British and Indian ways of life vary so much that the validity of an Anglo-philic bias in Bharat’s justice, equity and good conscience is questionable today,

Justice DY Chandrachud, senior Judge of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, during a recent hearing revealed the significance of immortal words of Tilak, during a Video Conference hearing. Remarks of Justice Chandrachud were inspired by seeing painting in the background of appearing Senior Counsel. He revealed that he read those words every day when he was in that High Court as the words had great significance for justice.

By Sanjay Raman Sinha  As the world celebrated International Women’s Day on March 8, it was an appropriate time to take a hard look at women representation in the judiciary. The crisis of gender i...