Community service, introduced for the first time in Indian criminal law by the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) 2023, has no statutory guidelines for its…
The right to equal pay for equal work, now a fundamental right under Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution, is not automatically applicable. An employee seeking parity must actively plead and…
The Supreme Court has doubted its own 2009 ruling in SK Jain v. State of Haryana that upheld arbitration clauses requiring contractors to deposit a percentage of their claim before arbitration can…
Hindustan Times has argued that ecological inequality is a largely unrecognised form of inequality in India that needs constitutional protection. An opinion piece in the newspaper says forest-rich states like those in…
The Allahabad High Court has ruled that a state which adopts a Centrally Sponsored Scheme and recruits employees to implement it cannot selectively enforce only convenient parts while ignoring clauses that benefit…
Livelaw.in reports that the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Act, 2026, passed by Parliament on 2 April, replaces jail time with flat fines across 784 provisions in 79 central laws. The analysis…
