With a retirement, two new judges, a Presidential Reference and several other major cases, the top court had to juggle it all in August

With over 7000 new cases instituted, the trend of increasing case pendency at the Supreme Court continued in August 2025

The number of cases instituted increased, the disposal rate dropped and the pendency increased by 1900 cases since June

A presidential reference, a voter list revision in Bihar, free speech jurisprudence—July was a busy month for the SC and the SCO

In this Issue of SCO.LR, we summarise five significant and unmissable judgements from 21 July to 26 July 2025

In this Issue of SCO.LR, we summarise five significant and unmissable judgements from 14 July to 19 July 2025

We bring you the key highlights from the first week of the Supreme Court’s new term

The Court acted with a mix of pragamatism and paternalism in free speech cases in the first half of 2025

In this Issue of SCO.LR, we bring you five bonus unmissable judgements from January to May 2025

The Supreme Court recognised the court’s limited power to modify arbitral awards and reiterated party autonomy in arbitration

June 2025 saw the retirement of Justice BM Trivedi; partial working day benches took up key matters on free speech, detention and bail

In this Issue of SCO.LR, we summarise five significant and unmissable bonus judgements from January to May 2025