1,294 datasets found

The Supreme Court Observer’s Statistics Pack 2018 (“Stat Pack”) is the first in an annual series that aims to collate, analyze and present a quantitative data overview of the...

How does judge vacancy affect trial-level and litigant outcomes? Emerging economies like India suffer from state capacity constraints that affect economic outcomes. While...

Our publication covers movements in the death row population in India as well as political and legal developments in the administration of the death penalty and the criminal...

In this paper, we analyze the data that we have collected on the pendency of 24 high courts in the Republic of India as they were made available on High Court NJDG (HC-NJDG).

We obtained case records from the Indian e-Courts platform - a public system put in place by the Indian government in 2013. The publicly available information includes the...

We use the most extensive original dataset of Indian Supreme Court opinions yet created to provide a broad, quantitative overview of the social identity of the...

This article and dataset presents an empirical analysis of the Indian Supreme Court’s discretionary appellate jurisdiction (called the ‘special leave jurisdiction’ or SLP)....

This dataset contains information on the Former and Current Justices of the Indian Supreme Court. The data has been sourced primarily from the official website of the Supreme...

This report is the first watch report to check compliance on the formation and functioning of Under Trial Review Committees (UTRCs) as directed by the Supreme Court in its order...

The article is based on a study of all habeas corpus petitions of the Supreme Court in preventive detention cases in a 20-year time frame.

An empirical analysis of the cases prioritised by the SC during the lockdown. The paper gives an overview of the ‘urgent litigation landscape’ of the SC through a comparative...

This dataset contains information on the regional and professional background of the Indian Supreme Court judges along with their gender and intended date of retirement. It also...

After undertaking an extensive analysis on various parameters, the report ranks all the High Courts on their compliance with the RTI Act by devising four indices – Legality...

This paper uses a novel dataset of more than one million cases filed at the Patna high court between 2009 and 2019 together with a variety of supplementary data to analyze the...

The second edition of the India Justice Report (IJR) is all about comparisons and tracking the rise and falls in each state’s structural and financial capacity to deliver...

India Justice Report ranks individual Indian states in relation to their capacity to deliver access to justice. The Tata Trusts brought together a group of sectoral experts —...

The paper utilises case-level data from the Delhi High Court to establish how immovable property-related litigation is responsible for a major fraction of the Indian Courts’...

The prisons in the country and more particularly, Assam, are in an especially vulnerable position in the fight against COVID 19. It is true that Assam’s correctional homes or...

Research Reports from the Eighteenth Law Commission

Our report seeks to examine the criminal justice system through excise policing in Madhya Pradesh (‘MP’). We study who is policed, which activities are particularly targeted...