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Arbitration is a private, consensual method of resolving disputes in which the parties refer their conflict to one or more neutral arbitrators instead of a court, and agree in advance to be bound by the arbitrator’s decision, called an arbitral award. In India, arbitration is governed by the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, which is […]

The types of arbitration in India are grouped by four things: how the arbitration is administered (ad hoc or institutional), where it is seated and who the parties are (domestic or international commercial), how the procedure is run (fast-track under Section 29B), and where the reference comes from (consensual or statutory). All of them operate

Last verified: 10 July 2026 Filing for divorce in India means asking a court to legally end a valid marriage, and the way you do it depends on two things: whether both spouses agree to separate and which personal law governed the marriage. A marriage between two Hindus, Buddhists, Jains or Sikhs is dissolved under

Last verified: July 2026 Hurt and grievous hurt are the graded offences against the human body that sit just below culpable homicide, and since 1 July 2024 they are governed by Chapter VI of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (“BNS”), Sections 114 to 125, which replaced Sections 319 to 338 of the Indian Penal Code,

Last verified: July 2026 Artificial intelligence has become part of everyday legal work in India, and the question of whether it will replace lawyers is now asked seriously by law students, junior associates, and senior partners alike. The honest position, supported by how the technology is actually being deployed and by how Indian courts are

Last verified: 10 July 2026 The duties of directors under Section 166 of the Companies Act, 2013 are the statutory heart of Indian company law’s answer to a simple question: what does a person owe the company that puts them on its board? For the first time in Indian legislation, the 2013 Act wrote those

Last verified: July 2026 A regular bail application under Section 480 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS) is the application by which a person already arrested in a non-bailable offence seeks release from custody while the investigation or trial continues. Section 480, which succeeds Section 437 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973,

Last verified: 9 July 2026 Whether menstrual leave is a legal right in India is among the most contested questions in the country’s labour and employment law in 2026, and the year has already produced two judicial answers that appear to point in opposite directions. On 13 March 2026, the Supreme Court of India declined

Last verified: July 2026 Two men meet in a parked car and agree to rob a bank the following week. They buy no gun, case no branch, and touch no cash. On the law of most ordinary crimes, nothing punishable has happened yet: there is no theft, no hurt, no trespass. Criminal conspiracy is the

Last verified: July 2026 A shopkeeper in Kanpur is charged with a first-time offence that carries a maximum of three years in prison. His lawyer is honest with him: the trial will grind on for four or five years, he will lose days of work for every hearing, and even a decent chance of acquittal