child marriage under Shariat Law
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court held that the Shariat Law providing for puberty as the competent age under the law, permissible for a girl to marry or be married, violates the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act and the POCSO Act.

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Moot courts at IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026
Eurasia Arbitration WeekEvents & CollaborationsInternational

In a student-oriented panel discussion at the IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026, the panel title “The Role of Practical Programs in the Development of ADR Education” examined how experiential legal education, moot competitions, ADR clinics, and institutional collaborations are reshaping arbitration practice.

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Future of legal education
Eurasia Arbitration WeekEvents & CollaborationsInternational

In a student-oriented panel discussion at the IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026, academics explored the future of ADR education, emphasizing the role of experiential learning, legal clinics, AI, behavioural science, and institutional collaboration in preparing globally competitive lawyers.

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procedural efficiency in arbitration
Eurasia Arbitration WeekEvents & CollaborationsInternational

Blending legal principles with practical experience, empirical studies and humour, the debate titled “Procedural Efficiency in Arbitration: Myth, Mantra or Menace?” underscored the constant balancing exercise between due process, document production, witnesses, and state treatment versus efficiency, economy, and the search for justice.

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Legal Developments This Week
Legal RoundUpTopic-wise Roundup

A quick roundup to cover all the important legal developments and cases this week.

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2026 SCC Vol. 5 Part 3
Cases ReportedSCC Weekly

Explore the latest Supreme Court Cases in 2026 SCC Vol. 5 Part 3 on arbitral awards, teachers, fire insurance, GST attachment, and more.

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Investment Arbitration
Eurasia Arbitration WeekEvents & CollaborationsInternational

The session explored both the remarkable institutional developments taking place across Central Asia and the broader global movement towards modernising investment treaties through balanced treaty drafting, stronger procedural safeguards, and greater emphasis on dispute prevention.

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IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026
Eurasia Arbitration WeekEvents & CollaborationsInternational

From what does the new Constitution represent to the Supreme Court’s efforts in the arbitration ecosystem, Justice Margarita Odintsova and Justice Aigul Kydyrbayeva deliver notable addresses at the IAC Eurasia Arbitration Week 2026.

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IAC EAW26
Eurasia Arbitration WeekEvents & CollaborationsInternational

From Kazakhstan’s new Constitution reinforcing the rule of law to the AIFC Court’s year-on-year growth in cases, mediations and delegate numbers, the opening ceremony of EAW26 set the tone for a conference that has grown from a single online session in 2022 into one of Eurasia’s most significant gatherings for international arbitration practitioners, policymakers and academics.

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Pregnant wife murder on provocation
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court found that the wife’s statement that she could keep a thousand husbands like him constituted grave and sudden provocation within Exception 1 to Section 300 IPC, and that the fatal injuries were consistent with a single blow rather than repeated pelting, bringing the case within Section 304 Part II rather than Part I.

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AI Adoption LegalTechTalk 2026
Events & CollaborationsInternationalLegalTechTalk

In a panel discussion titled “How to Make Smart Tech Strategy Choices in 2026 and Beyond” at LegalTechTalk 2026, the panellists explained that successful legal technology strategies are built not on the latest tools but on a careful understanding of people, processes, governance, and long-term organizational goals.

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AI in Court LegalTechTalk 2026
Events & CollaborationsLegalTechTalk

In the session titled “AI in Courtroom”, Ms. Mona Datt and Ms. Caoimhe Powell discussed the journey of AI in Law from skepticism to curiosity, keeping humans in the loop, transparency and disclosures, analyzing risk levels, and much more. The panel underscored that AI can accelerate legal work, but justice itself continues to depend upon human responsibility, critical reasoning, and professional accountability.

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Sarah Walton LegalTechTalk 2026
Events & CollaborationsInternationalLegalTechTalk

At LegalTechTalk 2026, Weightmans Managing Partner Sarah Walton delivered a direct message to the legal profession: the greatest risk from AI is not that firms use it — it is that they prohibit it without providing secure alternatives, driving lawyers to use publicly available tools like ChatGPT with client data they have no business feeding into them.

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John Saiz NASA LegalTechTalk 2026
Events & CollaborationsInternationalLegalTechTalk

LegalTechTalk 2026 opens with Bradley Collins on why transformation is about people, not technology and John Saiz on what NASA’s greatest disasters teach us about building cultures that can actually innovate.

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technology and AI in international mediation India UK
Events & CollaborationsInstitutional Events

At the Mediation Event organised by the Indian High Commission in London, the panelists reinforced that the future of mediation lies not in replacing human mediators with artificial intelligence, but in creating a collaborative model where technology strengthens human-led dispute resolution while preserving its core values of trust, human perception, and understanding.

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CJI Surya Kant Indian High Commission London
Events & CollaborationsInstitutional Events

From Lok Adalats to the Mediation Act, CJI Surya Kant mapped India’s mediation journey at the Indian High Commission in London, while Lord Hamblen, Ms. Brimelow KC and Mr. Dixon placed the UK’s mandatory mediation reforms alongside it.

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enhancement of maintenance child marriage MP High Court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

Disclaimer: This has been reported after the availability of the order of the Court and not on media reports so as to

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Legal Developments This Week
Legal RoundUpWeekly Roundup

A quick roundup to cover all the important legal developments and cases this week.

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MP Cough Syrup Deaths Case
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court noted that the accused prescribed the fixed dose compound to the children below the age of 4 years, which was banned by the Government Circular, due to which many innocent children died.

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2026 SCC Vol. 4 Part 5
Cases ReportedSCC Weekly

Explore the latest Supreme Court Cases in 2026 SCC Vol. 4 Part 5 on double taxation, insurance contract, pre-institution mediation, and more.

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