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The Consumer Forum Is Not Your Civil Court: 2026's Jurisdictional Reckoning for Property Disputes
The Great Forum Sorting: 2026 Draws Hard Lines Around Consumer Jurisdiction in Property Disputes If there is one thread running through this year's consumer and civil law decisions, it is this: the era of treating consumer forums as a convenient shor...
The New Gatekeeper: Supreme Court Turns Section 223 BNSS Proviso into a Substantive Shield
The Death of Summary Cognizance The Supreme Court has done what trial lawyers have demanded since the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) replaced the CrPC: it has transformed the first proviso to Section 223(1) from a procedural nicety into a ...
The Gatekeepers' Year: How 2026 Redrew the Boundary Between Consumer Fora, RERA and Civil Courts in Property Disputes
The most consequential civil-law story of 2026 is not a single blockbuster judgment. It is a pattern — a quiet, coordinated assertion of jurisdictional discipline across consumer commissions, high courts and the Supreme Court, all telling litigants t...
Continuous Treatment Trumps the Calendar: The Madras High Court Dismantles the "Hyper-Technical" Limitation Defense in Medical Negligence
There is a recurring, almost mechanical strategy deployed by hospital defence counsel in medical negligence cases: the moment a consumer complaint is filed, point to the date of the patient’s initial discharge, invoke the strict two-year limitation p...
The "Continuous Treatment" Trap: Why Hospitals Can’t Hide Behind Section 69 When Corrective Surgeries Fail
The Hook: When Does the Clock Actually Start Ticking? In medical negligence cases, Section 69 of the Consumer Protection Act, 2019, is the standard shield for defending hospitals. The two-year limitation period is usually calculated from the date of ...
Zoning by Stealth: Why the Madras HC Was Right to Strike Down the CMDA’s ‘Catchment Area’ Freeze
The Hook: The Constitutional Cost of "Freezing" Real Estate There is a growing, dangerous trend among municipal and urban planning authorities in India: classifying vast tracts of private land as "eco-sensitive" or "no-development" zones, effectively...
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