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Looking inward
While acknowledging that the SC needs to apply its own judgements, the CJI recently announced reservations for administrative staff roles
6th Jul 2025
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Monthly Review: June 2025
June 2025 saw the retirement of Justice BM Trivedi; partial working day benches took up key matters on free speech, detention and bail
4th Jul 2025
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Supreme Court’s strictures against summoning lawyers are backed by precedents
In several cases, the Supreme Court and High Courts have emphasised the confidentiality of communication between a lawyer and their client
3rd Jul 2025
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Where does the Supreme Court really stand on free speech?
Mainstream media coverage of three recent free speech cases in the Supreme Court highlights the inconsistencies of a polyvocal court
2nd Jul 2025
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SCO.LR | 2025 | Volume 6 | Issue 4
In this Issue of SCO.LR, we summarise five significant and unmissable bonus judgements from January to May 2025
30th Jun 2025
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Will the Supreme Court’s new case categorisation system work?
The new system aims to do away with the overlaps of the old one. We asked Advocates on Record whether it has reduced friction in filing
30th Jun 2025
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How the Emergency birthed the Collegium system
The Emergency left deep scars on the judiciary—it took until the 1990s for the Supreme Court to acknowledge and respond to those compromises
29th Jun 2025
From the editor's desk
The differential levels of scrutiny the Court applies to studies on caste vis-a-vis economic backwardness may have deep and abiding implications for how affirmative action policies are crafted in the future, and is especially prescient in a situation where challenges to EWS reservations remain pending.
The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
Studies examining caste-based backwardness have a higher bar to pass than those studying backwardness within the ‘general category'.
SCO Team
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Analysis
Can the Supreme Court Provide Reservations for Orphans?
With the petition seeking orphans to be identified as a backward class, are we moving away from a caste centric definition of backwardness.
8th Jun 2021
Analysis
Part I—The Mandal and Sinho Commissions: A Study in Contrasts
There is a marked difference in the methodology employed by the Mandal and Major Sinho Commissions in studying backwardness.
11th Jan 2022
Analysis
SC Offers Hope for OBC Reservations in Maharashtra Municipal Elections
The Maharashtra government was directed to submit data justifying its OBC reservation policy to the State Commission for Backward Castes.
20th Jan 2022
Analysis
Medical Students Relieved as SC Issues Order in PG NEET Case
DESK BRIEF: The SC issued an Order allowing the Union to immediately commence counselling for admissions to postgraduate medical programmes.
8th Jan 2022
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Do you have a right to the “truth serum” or narco analysis test in a criminal case?
8th Jan 2022