Reading the Exception: Marital Rape and the Limits of Judicial Restraint
Two High Courts, one split verdict, and a constitutional question the Supreme Court can no longer defer. What the 2026 referrals reveal about consent within marriage.
The Quiet Amendments: How Procedural Reform Reshapes Access to Justice
The changes that never make headlines often decide who reaches a courtroom at all. A reading of the year's least-noticed reforms.
Maternity Benefits and the Gig Economy: A Gap in Plain Sight
Platform work falls outside the statute that was meant to protect it. A reading of who the law forgot.
Beyond the Binary: Identity Documents and the Reach of Administrative Law
Recognition on paper, and the gap between a judgment and a form at the counter.
From the Clinic: What Survivors Teach Us About Evidence
A practitioner on the distance between rules of proof and lived testimony.
Care Work, Counted: Valuing the Invisible Economy
What changes when unpaid labour enters the ledger of national accounts.
Personal Law and the Constitutional Guarantee: An Uneasy Coexistence
Where community-specific codes meet Article 14, and the doctrine bends to accommodate both.
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Judicial DevelopmentsConsent, Capacity, and the Mental Healthcare Act
The statute presumes capacity; practice too often presumes its absence. On the gendered weight of that gap.
LegislationWhen Workplaces Investigate Themselves: The PoSH Act at Eight
Internal Committees were designed for redress. A look at what self-regulation has, and has not, delivered.
Guest BlogsDrafting for Dignity: Language in the New Criminal Codes
A drafter's note on how a single defined term can widen, or quietly narrow, a protection.
Policy FrameworksThe Bail Gap: Gendered Outcomes in Pretrial Detention
Discretion is neutral on paper. The data on who waits in custody tells another story.
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