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SCO.LR | Volume 4 | Issue 2
We summarise five significant and unmissable judgements from 7 April to 13 April 2025
16th Apr 2025
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Breathless in the Capital
The season’s hearings on air pollution have opened several workstreams for authorities. But can the SC double down on enforcement?
15th Apr 2025
Analysis
Ambedkar: The Mooknayak of the disability justice movement
In an essay to mark Dr. Ambedkar’s 135th birthday, V.K. Tiwari suggests that his conception of ‘disability’ could fill constitutional gaps
14th Apr 2025
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Not just a title: India’s Senior Advocate system in global perspective
As we await the SC’s decision on the procedure for Senior Advocate designation, a look at how other common law countries confer seniority
11th Apr 2025
Analysis
2025 Spring Session Review
Fresh faces, familiar fault lines, and a scandal – this Spring, the top court found itself standing at the crossroads of promise and peril
11th Apr 2025
Analysis
Delhi Pollution Crisis | SC calls for mass awareness on solid waste rules, emissions norms
This week, the Court also reviewed Delhi-NCR’s compliance with colour-coded stickers and vehicle pollution rules
10th Apr 2025
Analysis
SCO.LR | Volume 4 | Issue 1
We summarise five significant and unmissable judgements from 1 April to 7 April 2025
9th Apr 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'.
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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
