On August 3, I officially graduated from the @UniofOxford completing my MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice. My journey at the University and @WolfsonCollege was a thorough learning experience and I am glad to have met some of the most brilliant people during my time there.
This young man with folded hands wanted mercy from the Court when it wanted to throw him behind bars. No lawyer should have to find himself or herself in a situation where he or she is forced to have to do that.
A lawyer in Patiala House told me something last month that I have not been able to stop thinking about.
He said "I have appeared very frequently before 12 judges in the last few years. I know exactly how each of them thinks. That ability to read a judge and predict their actions took me 15 years to build. My junior will never have that luxury because judges transfer every 3 years now."
The institutional knowledge of how a specific judge thinks, what arguments work in front of them, what irritates them, how they handle bail, how they approach interim relief, all of that used to live inside a lawyer's head. Built over decades of appearing in the same court.
That knowledge was the moat. The reason a senior could charge Rs 5,00,000 for a bail hearing and a junior could not. Not because the senior knew more law. Because the senior knew the judge.
Now two things are happening at the same time.
First, judge transfers are faster than ever. A judge who used to sit in one court for 5 years now moves in 2 to 3. By the time a lawyer builds a profile of the judge in their head, the judge is gone. The institutional knowledge resets.
Second, every order that judge passes is now on eCourts. Public. Free. Searchable.
The knowledge that used to take 15 years to build by appearing before a judge 200 times is now available to anyone who can read 200 orders (not perfectly, there is more than is done and said in the court room that does not show up in orders). The problem was always that no human could read 200 orders in a useful timeframe.
AI can read 200 orders in 4 minutes.
A 2-year call lawyer with Claude Code and a folder full of a judge's orders can now build the same profile that a 15-year senior has in his head.
Not a vague sense of "this judge is strict." A detailed analysis of how this judge reasons about specific issues.
You can add their publicly available data to your analysis to understand how the think, act and reason.
This does not replace the senior's courtroom presence. It does not replace oral advocacy. It does not replace the relationships built over years.
But it eliminates the information asymmetry.
The junior who walks into court knowing that this judge grants bail in 70% of DV cases where the victim has filed for divorce, that he always asks about community roots, that he rejected bail twice when the accused had a prior pending case, that junior is not guessing anymore. They are making the same informed decisions the senior makes. They just got there differently.
Now here is where this becomes a business.
There are roughly 700 district courts in India. Each has 10 to 50 judges. Each judge passes thousands of orders. This data refreshes constantly as judges transfer in and out.
Nobody is building judge intelligence profiles systematically. The analytics tools that exist in the US (Lex Machina, Trellis) do not exist for Indian courts. Not because the data is not there. Because nobody has built it.
The person who builds a judge intelligence service for Indian district courts will not need to sell to large law firms. They will sell to every litigation lawyer who walks into a courtroom they have never appeared in before.
That is 14 lakh lawyers. Not 200 firms.
At LawSikho we now teach lawyers to build these profiles for their own cases using Claude Code. Not as a product. As a personal tool. Put the judge's orders in a folder. Let Claude Code read them. Ask it questions. Correct its understanding. Then draft your arguments for that specific judge.
The skill takes weeks to learn. The advantage it gives lasts a career.
The senior in Patiala House was right. His junior will never have the luxury of 15 years in front of the same judge.
But that junior might not need 15 years anymore.
People ask me for book recommendations often enough that I finally did the uncomfortable thing: made a list.
I basically got a Large Language Model to process my Goodreads excel-sheet and reviews and filtered the same manually and came up with 100 that I really loved.
But yes, with a big caveat that no list of a hundred books can be final or really exhaustive; there are at least 200 hundred more I could have included, and I’ve probably done injustice to entire traditions, genres, and writers that I actually love.
But a partial guide is better than no guide. These are books that have moved, unsettled, delighted, or quietly changed me. Start anywhere. Here goes:
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Newspaper reading builds concentration and patience. Today technology makes us move fast, while skimming through. The printed page focuses attention, and creates room for absorption and analytical thinking. The UP govt move to make newspaper reading a daily routine in schools is a great initiative in education.
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Chhattisgarh HC expressed alarm over a teacher allegedly mixing phenyl in the meal cooked for over 400 students at a residential school.
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Chhattisgarh HC has directed the State government to pay compensation worth ₹25000/- to every student of Government Middle School, Lachchhanpur, who consumed mid-day meal licked by a dog.
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Doctrine Of Contributory Negligence No Defence To Criminal Action, Rash Driver Liable U/S 304A IPC Even If Victim Was Negligent: AP High Court
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Chhattisgarh HC pulled up authorities of a Govt Middle School located in Balodabazar district wherein "dog-licked food" was allegedly served to students, thereby endangering their life and making them highly susceptible to rabies.
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[S.22 BNS] “Erratic Behaviour, Classic Signs Of Psychotic Disorder”: Chattisgarh HC Overturns Murder Conviction Over Accused's Unsound Mind
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Press Freedom To Be Protected, Criminal Complaints Can't Be Filed Based On Interpretations Of News Reports : AP High Court
#Press#News
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The #AndhraPradesh High Court has held that the definition of '#Ganja' under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (#NDPS Act), is limited to the flowering or fruiting tops of the #cannabis plant, and excludes from its ambit the seeds and leaves when not accompanied by the tops.
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In a judgement dated 23.06.2025, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has held that the definition of 'Ganja' under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 (NDPS Act), is limited to the flowering or fruiting tops of the cannabis plant, and excludes from its ambit the seeds and leaves when not accompanied by the tops.
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