public-policy

Senior lawyers call on prime minister to request Indian prosecutors drop charges that would breach double jeopardy rule Four senior lawyers, including the former attorney general Dominic Grieve, have written to Keir Starmer urging him to request that Indian prosecutors drop charges against the British national Jagtar Singh Johal on the basis that continued prosecution would be in manifest breach …

Rehabilitation of young offenders is vital. But victims should not leave court wondering why they bothered The decision to review the sentences of two teenage boys convicted of raping two girls, aged 15 and 14, in separate incidents in November 2024 and January 2025, and a third boy who took part in the second rape, is correct. A knife was used to threaten the second victim, and the attacks were …

India’s Digital Future Is Moving Faster Than Its Laws Artificial Intelligence can now generate art, clone voices, imitate personalities, and create highly convincing deepfakes within seconds. Yet, many of these emerging issues are still being governed through legal interpretation of statutes enacted long before the AI era. India currently has: no dedicated AI legislation, no standalone deepfake r…

Prof Mark R Sanderson says the council is Britain’s most effective instrument of soft power and should be funded properly, not hollowed out The hollowing out of the British Council across Europe should alarm anyone who cares about the UK’s standing in the world ( Soft power sell-off: anger as British Council announces sale of historic Madrid building, 22 May ). For decades, it has been one of Bri…

IntroductionThis article presents an in-depth single-case study of Kazakhstan and examines the latent negative effects that may accompany the expanding use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector. The central premise is that such risks arise less from isolated technical performance indicators of particular AI systems than from the broader architecture of legal regulation, institution…

Suppose there is a family of four living in Maryland: A mother, a father, and two adult children. The parents have significant jointly-owned assets. It seems likely that the mother and two children ...

Links between Trump Organization and Ivanishvili family for Tbilisi skyscraper raise new conflict of interest concerns A Trump Tower planned for the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, is to be built on land currently part-owned by the son of the US-sanctioned leader of the country, according to official records. The proposed skyscraper, a joint venture between a local consortium and the Trump Organizatio…

Jay Morris denies experts’ claims that he violated ethics rules over land deals near the site of Meta’s Hyperion datacenter This story is from Floodlight , a non-profit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling climate action For more than two years, John “Jay” Morris, a Louisiana state senator, helped pave the way for Meta to build one of the world’s largest datacenters, called Hyperion, in…

Ex-husband of Nicola Sturgeon admits reduced charges in court after deal with prosecutors Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National party, has pleaded guilty to charges of embezzling £400,310.65 from the party after agreeing a deal with prosecutors. Murrell, the ex-husband of the former SNP leader and first minister Nicola Sturgeon, appeared in the high court in Edinburgh…

The design of autonomous AI agents that behave responsibly and foster trust in open multi-agent systems remains a fundamental challenge. Traditional game-theoretical approaches largely assume self-interested behaviour, yet real-world collaborations among humans often rely on prosocial considerations that extend beyond individual utility. To address this, for the first time in this paper, we inves…

The director of national intelligence was sidelined as the president abandoned his pose as the ‘candidate of peace’ Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, stayed loyal to Donald Trump until the end – and nurtured the president’s grievances against his political enemies. Last year, she accused Barack Obama and several of his top national security officials of leading a “treasonou…

Andrew Weissmann argues for new law to hold political liars like US president accountable for harming democracy Politicians must be held accountable if their lies damage democracy, according to a former US federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel who was pursued by Donald Trump . The US must be “as creative as possible” and introduce sweeping structural reforms if it escapes its current “mess”,…

A new survey finds deep concern about presidential overreach, persecution of enemies and other unchecked abuses of power. The poll shows the stakes in November.

Aswathi P.M., LL.M., Department of Criminal Law, School of Excellence in Law, The Tamilnadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai. ABSTRACT This article critically examines the evolving landscape of cybercrime investigations in India, with a particular focus on recent legislative reforms and technological advancements. It underscores the growing inadequacy of conventional investigative approaches …

Satendra Yadav, Research Scholar (Law), Bundelkhand University, Jhansi Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Assistant Professor, Bundelkhand Degree College, Jhansi (U.P.) ABSTRACT The development of LGBTQ+ rights in India is one of the most notable constitutional and human rights in contemporary Indian Jurisprudence. The notion of gender identity, sexual orientation, dignity, privacy and personal autonomy has se…

Reshma L J, Govt. Law College Thiruvananthapuram The achievement of the disability movement has been to break the link between our bodies and our social situation and to focus on the real cause of disability, i.e. discrimination and prejudice. -Shakespeare INTRODUCTION People with disabilities can sometimes be referred to as change makers since their presence transforms environments. The society …

Arunima Jha, High Court of Bombay ABSTRACT India is home to one of the world's fastest-growing gig economies. The Niti Aayog estimates approximately 7.7 million gig workers were engaged in platform-based work in 2020-21, a figure projected to reach 23.5 million by 2029-30. These workers operate in a legal interstice: classified neither as employees entitled to labour law protections nor as indepe…

Rounak Chakraborty, B.A., LL.B. (H), Amity Law School, Amity University Kolkata ABSTRACT The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been vested the power to exercise extensive investigatory, regulatory as well as adjudicatory powers within the securities framework. While such concentration of authority is often justified on grounds of regulatory efficiency and technical expertise, it s…

Shagoon Varma, New Law College, Bharati Vidyapeeth ABSTRACT The legal framework governing gambling in India remains fragmented, outdated, and heavily dependent upon judicial interpretation. While the Public Gambling Act, 1867 prohibits most forms of gambling, courts have repeatedly carved out exceptions for activities categorized as “games of skill”. Horse race betting emerged as one such excepti…

Aditi Naik, Jindal Global Law School ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is no longer a distant possibility in dispute resolution, it is already here, reshaping how legal research is conducted, how documents are reviewed, and even how arbitrators manage proceedings. Yet, while institutions rush to embrace technology, a foundational question remains underexamined: can AI really ever completely…