The Supreme Court authorized high courts to appoint ad-hoc judges, up to 10% of their sanctioned strength, to address pending criminal case...

The Supreme Court has suggested appointing ad-hoc judges in high courts to address the backlog of criminal appeals. High courts including A...

The Financial Action Task Force's mutual evaluation report on India highlights significant terrorism threats from Islamic State and Al-Qaed...

India's new criminal justice system has faced criticism for potentially granting more power to police and increasing case backlogs. The ove...

President Droupadi Mumru, the immediate suspension of new criminal laws is crucial. Rushed passage without scrutiny threatens legal safegua...

A landlord in Jaipur is set to regain possession of a property after a 38-year-long legal battle. The case involved eviction three years in...

Following the UK government's offer of a revised pay deal, the criminal barristers in England and Wales agreed to stop their protracted str...

Acknowledging the seriousness of the backlog of bail applications, the SC bench said that normally those who have undergone eight years in ...

The proposal moots that post hearings in district courts, appeals in all civil and criminal cases will be heard in the courts of appeal.

The court is ready to sit even on Saturdays and Sundays to hear matters relating to scrapping of 'triple talaq', 'nikah halala' and polygam...

The 'Indian Judiciary Annual Report 2015-2016' issued by the SC shows that as on Se 30, 2016, a total of 60,938 cases, including 50,205 civ...

Everyone agrees that judicial pendency is a serious problem in India. Most of the suggested big-ticket reforms call for major changes in th...

In a written reply, Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda had informed Lok Sabha in December last year that the subordinate courts settled 1,901...

However, fresh cases instituted in the family court in the last three years have remained, more or less the same, an RTI response revealed.

The data available for the 24 High Courts and lower courts up to the year ending 2013 showed pendency of 44.5 lakhs and whopping 2.6 crores...

If one is making a general observation that lawyers (and litigants) are often responsible for delays, that's a fair point to make.

Data given are not quite amenable to statistical analysis of the kind one has in mind. Therefore, one has to take some liberties with numbe...