About The JusticeInside

The JusticeInside reports on what the courts decide, what legislatures and regulators enact, and what both mean for the people who have to live with them.

We started with a simple observation: the two largest common-law democracies produce an enormous volume of legal news, and almost none of it is written so that a non-lawyer can follow it, or so that a lawyer in one country can understand what is happening in the other. We cover India and the United States side by side, in plain English, with the holding stated before the history and the practical consequence stated before the doctrine.

We are edited from Chennai, with correspondents in New Delhi, Mumbai, Washington and New York, and we publish in one language and one register for readers in both countries.

• Supreme Courts: the Supreme Court of India and the Supreme Court of the United States, from constitution benches and certiorari grants to the bail and criminal docket.
• Appellate and state courts: the high courts, the federal circuits and district courts, and the state courts that decide most cases.
• Corporate, Tax and Compliance: insolvency, securities, competition, GST and direct tax, data protection, labour, sanctions and the rules companies must follow.
• Law and policy: legislation, regulation, the judiciary as an institution, and legal reform.
• Legal tech: how AI, e-courts and digital evidence are changing practice, and how the courts are responding.
• Careers: law schools, firms, clerkships and in-house roles, with the pay and the hours reported.
• Opinion: signed columns and the editorial board's view, kept separate from the reporting.
• Know Your Rights: plain-language guides to what the law gives you and how to enforce it.
• Judgments: every significant ruling and order, with the holding in a paragraph.

The site has three front pages. The Global edition carries both countries together. The India edition and the US edition lead with their own courts and rules, and every story carries an IN or US mark so that you always know which law it is describing. The edition switch is at the top of every page and is remembered for your next visit.

Our reporting is sourced to the primary record: the judgment, the order, the gazette notification, the filing. Where we rely on a person, we say so, and we name them unless there is a reason not to. We do not take positions in news stories; opinion is signed, labelled and edited separately, and the editorial board's view is marked as such.

We correct errors of fact promptly and record every correction on a single page. We do not publish sponsored content as news. We do not accept payment for coverage, rankings or directory listings. The full rules are in our editorial standards, and the record of what we have fixed is on our corrections page.

Nothing we publish is legal advice. Laws differ between jurisdictions and change over time, and a guide that explains the general rule cannot tell you how it applies to your facts. For that, we would rather you found a lawyer.

Reporting and editing are done by a small staff of journalists, most of whom trained or practised as lawyers before they started writing about the law. The editorial board is listed on its own page.

• Arjun MehtaLegal affairs correspondent, New Delhi · Supreme Court, legislation, the judiciary
• Rachel OkaforUS courts correspondent, Washington · Supreme Court, federal courts, clerkships
• Hannah BergströmUS regulatory correspondent, New York · privacy, AI regulation, employment, sanctions
• Lekha MenonData protection correspondent, Chennai · DPDP, privacy, data governance
• Dev PatelCompliance correspondent, Mumbai · company law, labour codes, FEMA, financial regulation
• Nikhil RaoLegal technology correspondent · AI in law, e-courts, e-discovery, legal research
• Meera IyerCareers editor · law schools, law firms, Big Law, in-house
• Ritu SharmaKnow Your Rights editor · consumer, tenancy, property, family, debt and health guides
• Jordan EllisKnow Your Rights writer, US · consumer, tenancy, employment and debt guides
• Vikram RamanColumnist · the courts and the Constitution of India
• Eleanor BrooksColumnist · the US Supreme Court and American law
• The Editorial BoardEditorials, written separately from the newsroom

The JusticeInside is independently owned and is not affiliated with any law firm, bar association, court, political party or government. We carry no advertising at present. When we do, advertising will be clearly labelled and sold by people who have no say over what we publish, and we will say here who our advertisers are. We do not charge to be ranked, listed or covered.

Questions about any of this go to contact@justiceinside.com, or through the contact page.