Editorial & sourcing policy
How the Valkya Editorial is researched, sourced, verified and corrected.
Who writes it
Digests and weekly reports are prepared by the Valkya Editorial desk and reviewed before publication. Each judgment digest carries the case name, the court, the citation and neutral citation where available, the bench, and the date of decision, so a reader can take the analysis straight back to the source.
How we research
Analysis is prepared with reference to primary sources — the reported judgment and the bare Act — not second-hand summaries. A digest states the facts, the question, the holding and the ratio, and what the decision changes for the practitioner. Where we set out a court’s words in a pull-quote, the words are reproduced verbatim from the judgment.
Sourcing
Beyond the primary judgment, we rely on established legal reporting — LiveLaw, Bar & Bench, Verdictum and the SCC Online Blog — and, for tribunal matters, the specialist reporters that cover them. Every article lists its sources. We do not present a holding we could not trace to the reported decision.
Verification
Before publication, the load-bearing facts of a digest — parties, citation, bench, the date of decision (distinguished from a news outlet’s publication date), and the holding — are checked against the reported judgment. Quoted passages are verified to be the deciding court’s own words, and are not attributed across cases.
Corrections
If a digest contains an error, we correct it. Material corrections are made promptly and the article’s revision date is updated. The Editorial is published for legal current-awareness; it is not legal advice, and a holding should always be verified against the reported judgment before it is relied upon.