Digitalization Of Commercial Justice in India: A Tribunal Blindspot
India in the past few years has spent thousands of crores on digitalisation of courts through e-filling, virtual hearings or case management systems in District Courts, High Courts and the Supreme Court through the e-Courts mission mode project1.
AI in Audit Oversight: Advancing in Detection, Lagging in Governance
Abstract: India AI’s recent challenge for the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the audit ecosystem reflects an emerging regulatory interest in the potential use of AI tools to strengthen the National Financial Reporting Authority’s (NFRA) supervisory and enforcement capabilities.
NCLT: More Concerned for Recruitment of LRA than Members
The National Company Law Tribunal has recently conducted a recruitment process for their Law Research Associates (LRA) through a multi-tiered selection process notified in late 2025 for all benches throughout India.
Epistemic Asymmetry and the Limits of Appellate Review in Competition Enforcement
Digital platform markets challenge conventional modes of competition enforcement by amplifying feedback effects, cumulative advantage, and temporal irreversibility.
Looking Inside the DRT Process: When Cases Are Settled Through Lok Adalat
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the municipal corporation of Bengaluru city, till recently, managed core urban municipal functions in Bengaluru, including property tax administration, building regulations, and licensing.
High-Value Cases in Debt Recovery Tribunals: Legal Frictions
High-value debt recovery cases play a disproportionately important role in India’s financial system. While such cases reportedly constitute a very small fraction of the total caseload before Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs), they account for a dominant share of the total value of claims, prompting policy measures such as the creation of special DRT benches for cases above specified monetary thresholds.
The Performance and Institutional Design of Indian Tribunals: A Comparative Empirical Analysis (2021–2025)
Tribunals occupy a central position in India’s justice framework. Conceived as specialised adjudicatory bodies operating outside the traditional judiciary, they aim to deliver faster dispute resolution while incorporating subject-matter expertise.
When Algorithms Meet the Bench: Large Language Models & the Transformation of Judicial Decision-Making
The integration of artificial intelligence into legal decision-making is no longer speculative. Large language models (LLMs), trained on massive corpora of text and capable of sophisticated pattern recognition, now demonstrate unprecedented competence in core legal tasks such as extracting issues from pleadings, mapping statutory
Listening to Justice: What Audio and Video Glitches Reveal at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)
Discussions on technology in the judiciary today often centre around ambitious ideas. Artificial Intelligence (hereinafter AI), blockchain, Internet of Things (hereinafter IoT) and automated case management systems are regularly projected as the future of courts.
Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT): The Capacity Crisis Affecting Its Effectiveness
When people talk about India’s telecom story, the spotlight falls on 5G auctions, startups and big telecom companies. Fewer notice the small, specialised tribunal that regularly decides the rules those markets live by, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT).







