Legal Reform & Policy

From 15 October, UPI merchant payments above ₹2,000 carry a 0.4% fee. The Supreme Court asked whether it is a fee or a tax — and who decides.

The Supreme Court called a tenfold gap between a cancer drug's factory price and its MRP 'broad daylight dacoity.' The real scandal is how much of India's medicine market that gap is legal in.

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.

From October 1, the Bankers' Books Evidence Act, 2026 modernises how bank records reach Indian courts - but a clause letting police bypass a court order for banking data has triggered a privacy fight.

Calcutta HC just became the sixth High Court to strike down the Senior Citizens Act's bar on lawyers before Maintenance Tribunals. Parliament still hasn't amended it.

Supreme Court orders 449 exclusive NDPS courts nationwide within six weeks, citing an 'alarming increase' in narcotics cases with only 176 currently functional.

A fresh Supreme Court petition asks why judges who resign mid-impeachment still keep full pensions. Varma and Sen show it's a pattern, not an accident.

Parliament's MSMED Amendment Act, 2026 mandates TReDS for CPSE payments, decriminalises MSME Act offences, and rewrites MSEFC jurisdiction and timelines — but leaves works contracts and writ-jurisdiction questions unresolved.

India's Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2026 make IST the sole legal time reference from February 2027, raising real questions for contracts, digital evidence, and cyber compliance.