Gulnar A. Mistry

In permitting retrospective environmental clearances, the Court subverts legal principles and turns the rule of precedents on its head

The original promise of the PIL from the 1980s, based on social justice, has devolved into a confused and intimidating jurisprudence

One unnecessary advance for curative petitions, two steps backward for arbitration

By affirming that non-signatories can be parties, the ruling provides a fillip to arbitration as a mode of dispute resolution

The SC's recent decision invalidating unstamped arbitration agreements poses practical difficulties in resolving urgent matters.