Open Legal Data Has Arrived in India. The Citation Problem Hasn’t.

A fortnight spent building a local corpus of Indian primary law, and what it turned up: judgments with no citations, statute text filed under the wrong section number, gaps in India Code, and a stamp article in Schedule I-A that nothing in circulation applies. Read More …

Which Way the Statute Faces: Prospective, Retrospective, Retroactive — and the Word That Doesn’t Belong

Retrospective, retroactive, prospective, ex post facto, prospective overruling — and why “proactive” isn’t the antonym it looks like. How Indian law reads each term. Read More …

Wrong Relief, Right Case: Choosing Between Injunction, Declaration and Possession

A practical, plain-language guide for junior advocates and civil litigators on choosing the correct relief — injunction, declaration, possession, cancellation or rectification — before drafting a plaint, built around Anathula Sudhakar and the leading Supreme Court authorities. Read More …