India, lacking the requisite culture for developing a strong arbitration system, has over 95 percent of arbitration turning out to be “ad hoc”, it was revealed in a conference here. This is despite a situation where 80 percent of Indians consider arbitration as the preferred system for dispute resol...

Advocate KV Dhananjay argues that a recent decision of the Karnataka high court in one of his cases amounts to a rewriting of the Constitution of India, which is without parallel or precedent in the constitutional history of India.

Incumbent Law Minister H R Bhardwaj has been dropped from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s new Cabinet in a surprise round of appointments today that could derail the process of India’s judicial and legal reform. With continuity being a prized quality in Indian political progress, it is still unclear who will get the law and justice portfolio and whether the existing course of reform will be held.

One Delhi lawyer, who preferred not to be named, said: “If he had come in, we would probably be looking at a December opening. But now that he is not and some non-descript person is slated to come in, I think it is open for speculation.”