Legal scholar Nick Robinson explores how (and if) the proposed new commercial fast-track courts might work.

Lawyers’ lack of professionalism is affecting litigants’ cases and causing them distress, as judges ignore the problem helplessly, argued Harvard Law fellow and Centre for Policy Research visiting faculty Nick Robinson in The Hindu . A prestigious law firm employs an associate to follow a well-known...

A research paper published today has analysed nearly 60 years of cases pending in the Supreme Court and revealed a host of trends, including that litigation in states geographically nearer to Delhi is more likely to end up in the apex court, that the longest pendency plagues company, tax, mining and public interest litigations.