Legal Industry & Practice

The Delhi High Court is pressing the Centre to justify why private professionals must migrate digital signature tokens by September 21, 2026, while government users get until 2029.

The Centre notified Chief Justices for 8 High Courts on September 5, 2026, ending months of Acting-CJ vacancies — with one appointment shadowed by corruption allegations.

Supreme Court lets law graduates with a distance-mode prior degree provisionally enrol as advocates in Telangana, without settling whether BCI's Rule 5 actually bars them.

The Supreme Court's draft AI rules for courts have stalled since July over one clause: must lawyers disclose every use of AI in a filing? SCAORA and a sitting judge say no.

The Supreme Court has cut its 2025 three-year Bar practice rule for Civil Judge recruitment to one year plus paid training, and the judge who wrote the original rule dissents.

The Bar Council of India tried to freeze an entire law school's bar enrolment over a student protest against the CJI. The Supreme Court stepped in within a day to mark the limits of that power.

As AI tools become standard in Indian legal practice, law firms need clear policies on how lawyers can use them. This guide walks through everything a law firm needs to build a responsible, compliant AI usage policy in 2026.

The Supreme Court in Yatin Narendra Oza v. Suo Motu, High Court of Gujarat upheld the finding of criminal contempt against a senior advocate but invoked Article 142 to suspend the conviction indefinitely, balancing institutional dignity with judicial mercy and rehabilitation.

A practical comparison of BharatLaw.ai vs manual legal research, highlighting how speed, source-tracking, and citation control impact real legal work and decision-making.