A secret phone recording surfaces in a dispute or an arbitration. Can it be used? Indian law asks three questions in sequence. Is the recording relevant? Is it proved under Section 63 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam? What is it worth? Privacy, the objection raised first, controls none of these stages. We trace years of doctrine from Pratap Singh to Vibhor Garg, compare England, the US and Singapore, and set out what a person/legal team must preserve before relying on a rec

The draft IMI Code puts a flat ban on outcome-related fees. Here is the straight talk on why that is a dogma, not ethics.

The Karnataka High Court in Narayanamma v. State of Karnataka upholds the 2023 amendments that move all first appeals from Senior Civil Judges to the District Courts. Made retrospective from 2007 without a saving clause, the amendments put seventeen years of decided appeals in doubt. The Division Bench cured the omission by reading down Section 4, protecting concluded matters while transferring pending appeals. Our analysis asks where interpretation ends and legislation begin

When an AI model is trained on copyrighted works, it converts them into numbers. Does that amount to reproduction or storage under copyright law? A Munich court has held that it can, treating song lyrics memorised inside OpenAI's parameters as infringing copies. Our piece examines how Indian law would answer the same question under Section 14 of the Copyright Act, and why the absence of a text and data mining exception leaves developers exposed.