The Legal Profession
Essays on the profession itself: who is allowed into it, who gets to regulate it, and what standards it holds itself to in practice. The Bar Council's powers over enrolment and over legal education, the rule that a law degree must be taken full-time and what that excludes, and the habit of citing judgments nobody has read. These are not constitutional questions in the usual sense, though they turn on the same discipline: when a body exercises power over people's livelihoods, it should be able to point to the provision that lets it, and to the standard it is applying.
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How to Read a Judgment
Reading a judgment is extraction, not reading. The anatomy of an Indian judgment, how to read it out of order, and what the Indian courts have said about finding the ratio.
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NLSIU Should Not Have Cancelled Its Convocation
Students objected to two guests. The university cancelled the ceremony for everyone, and called the reason unavoidable. Neither part of that is right.
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What a Neutral Citation Is, and Why It Should Come First
One judgment can carry five different citations. Only one of them was given to the case by the court that decided it. What the Supreme Court actually prescribed, and why it belongs first.
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The Bar Council Had No Power to Bar the NALSAR Batch From Enrolment
The Bar Council barred a graduating batch from enrolment for objecting to a judge. Its own rules protect an advocate who does exactly that.
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How to Do Legal Research in India
From the moment a matter walks in to the note you actually write: fixing the facts, finding the statute, searching for authority, reading a judgment properly, and checking it is still good law.
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Why Indian Advocates Cite Cases They Have Not Read
The Supreme Court has called fake AI citations misconduct. But it has been complaining that counsel cite judgments they have not read since 1967.
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Why You Cannot Study Law Part-Time in India
There is no upper age limit on studying law in India. There is a rule that the degree must be full-time, which shuts out anyone who must earn.