Tagged “high-courts”

2 articles on high-courts.

Supreme CourtSupreme Court of India

m.v. Elisabeth v. Harwan Investment (1992): the inherent admiralty jurisdiction of India's High Courts

In 1992 a two-judge Bench of the Supreme Court held that India's High Courts possess inherent, unlimited admiralty jurisdiction — not a power confined to obsolete colonial English statutes. A digest of the arrest of m.v. Elisabeth at Visakhapatnam, the source of that jurisdiction, and the road to the Admiralty Act, 2017.

Valkya Editorial·19 Jun 2026·7 min

LandmarkSupreme Court of India

Three months, plus two weeks, then reassignment: the Supreme Court's directions on reserved judgments

On 29 May 2026, a Bench led by the Chief Justice issued the most prescriptive set of timeline directions ever placed on the High Courts in relation to pronouncing reserved judgments. A close reading of the directions, the escalation mechanism, and what they mean for the litigant on the other side of a reserved order.

Valkya Editorial·29 May 2026·9 min