From FY 2027, each partner in a CA firm will be allowed to sign no more than 60 tax audit reports a year—a proposal the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) says will “improve audit quality and manage workload.”
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The clocks of justice in India tick much slower than any citizen would hope. At the time of writing this article, 5.22 crore cases are pending across all levels of courts in India. Quasi-judicial bodies like the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) also have large backlogs.
The Supreme Court recently reiterated that a High Court's interference in an order of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution is unwarranted where the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) constitutes the appropriate appellate forum.
The Karnataka government recently published in the Official Gazette new Rules for the service of summons/notices through email and courier for civil cases in district courts and the High Court.
Last month, the President of India, Droupadi Murmu, highlighted the issue of court delays. In her speech at the National Conference of the District Judiciary, she noted that these delays are what are making people hesitate approaching courts, as they fear that the pursuit of justice will complicate their lives further.
A few weeks ago, the case of a woman who had filed a rape case, was sentenced to imprisonment, and fined by a court in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, dominated the headlines. The narrative, echoed by select media users, painted a picture of a woman who had brazenly fabricated rape accusations.
The number of bail applications filed in the country's high courts has increased by 35 percent in the past eight years.
Over the past eight years, bail cases filed across high courts in India have increased by about 35 per cent. Amid innumerable Supreme Court declarations emphasising bail as a ‘default’ practice, district courts routinely deny it.
Karnataka fell to 14th rank in 2020 from 6th rank in 2019 in terms of the overall justice delivery system, as per the India Justice Report released in Bengaluru on Saturday. While Karnataka topped the list in policing,
India takes an average of 2,184 days to dispose a case in its subordinate courts, 1,128 days in its High Courts, and 1,095 days in the Supreme Court, bringing the total life cycle of a case in India to 12+ years
Several government decisions and Supreme Court observations and verdicts delivered in 2022 have had, or will have, an impact on the justice system in India.
Affordable justice, much like affordable healthcare and housing, is a bedrock of modern democracies which place a premium on the welfare of their citizens
Justice Gautam Patel and Cyril Shroff share their thoughts around 'Amrit Kaal' on the occasion of the 73rd Constitution Day.
After 108 years, a district court in Bhojpur, Bihar, finally rendered a decision in a case involving a land dispute in May of this year. This implied, without a doubt, that the matter has been ongoing since colonial times
India has 371,848 prisoners in pre-trial detention, known locally as undertrials. 76%--three in four--of all prisoners in Indian jails are awaiting trial. This compares unfavourably with the global average, which is 34%.
he experience online has been refreshing. One has to ensure that one has downloaded the necessary apps which are usually Webex, Vidyo, or Zoom depending on the forum one is arguing in.
Any talk of access to justice in India inevitably circles round to the almost perennial, much-lamented issues of case pendency, backlog, and delays in justice delivery.
In this episode, we talk with Shruti Vidyasagar and Shruthi Naik of Daksh. Daksh is a Bangalore based civil-society organization that uses data science to address the problem of pendency in Indian courts.
New Delhi: Delay by courts in deciding cases is forcing the public to resort to extra-legal measures to solve their disputes and law-abiding citizens are becoming lawbreakers, retired Supreme Court (SC) judge justice RV Raveendran said last week.
A major problem faced by Indian courts, something which has become even more apparent during these times, is the matter of delays. There is a lot of uncertainty in the system.
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Paper 1: The Vision
These goals are rooted in principle, rather than potential technical achievements, for two reasons. One is that technology must ultimately serve goals that are socially desirable, and the strategies adopted to fulfill them must then be based on morality and constitutional values. The other is that technology evolves at a pace where any vision for public institutions based on fulfilling technical capabilities will be rapidly outdated, and it makes more sense to tether the vision to something more permanent. These principles form the core of the first paper in the series ( Whitepaper Series on Next Generation Justice Platform, Paper 1: The Vision ), which describes a vision for a citizen-centric justice system.
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The second paper in the series ( Whitepaper Series on Next Generation Justice Platform, Paper 2: Implementation and Transition ) lays out the implementation strategies necessary to bridge the technical gap between current systems and those that would fulfill the vision described in Paper 1. These strategies are based on a consideration of the processes that are necessary for the design of the platform to meet its users’ needs and for the implementation to be successful, such as process re-engineering and stakeholder consultation. Effective planning of the sequencing of the implementation is essential for the platform’s success, and the paper discusses concerns regarding the phases of implementation based on the modules that the platform comprises, based on their functions and interdependencies.