The Justice Law PartnersSupreme Court watch · Reviewed updates
Selected Supreme Court decisions, explained through the questions decided and their practical significance for litigants.
Our editorial process checks recent official judgments and prepares updates for approval. Only approved notes appear below. This is a curated publication, not a real-time court-status service or an exhaustive record of every decision.
Judgment · 16 October 2026 · 2026 INSC 1136
The Supreme Court has clarified that disciplinary findings unsupported by evidence remain reviewable under Article 226, while also explaining the proper limits of interference by a Letters Patent Bench.
Read the approved legal update →Judgment · 15 October 2026 · 2026 INSC 1135
The Supreme Court has held that a sufficiently broad contractual no-interest clause can bar both pre-reference and pendente lite interest under Section 31(7)(a) of the Arbitration Act.
Read the approved legal update →Judgment · 15 October 2026 · 2026 INSC 1134
The Supreme Court has clarified that an authenticated Information Utility Record of Default carries high evidentiary value in Section 7 IBC proceedings and that admission does not require a forensic reconciliation of accounts.
Read the approved legal update →Judgment · 15 October 2026 · 2026 INSC 1132
The Supreme Court has upheld the quashing of the YES Bank AT-1 bond write-down, holding that the decisive issue was not whether AT-1 bonds could ever be written down, but whether the power had been exercised lawfully and by the competent authority.
Read the approved legal update →Judgment · 15 October 2026 · 2026 INSC 1131
The Supreme Court has explained how refunds should be structured where a failed flat purchase was partly funded by a housing lender, separating the buyer’s own contribution from loan money still subject to lender-borrower proceedings.
Read the approved legal update →Judgment · 15 October 2026 · 2026 INSC 1129
The Supreme Court has held that conversion to Islam does not by itself confer membership of a notified Backward Class Muslim community and that pre-conversion caste status cannot automatically be transposed into that category.
Read the approved legal update →Reportable order · 14 October 2026 · Two-judge Bench
Sanjay Prasad, 2026 INSC 1128. The available Special Appeal and a wider Article 226 question that remains under reference.
Read the order and reference note →Judgment · 14 October 2026 · Two-judge Bench
Sanjay Sureka, 2026 INSC 1124. Article 21 safeguards, trial delay and the limits of the bail ruling.
Read the reviewed judgment note →Final order · 12 October 2026 · Two-judge Bench
Pooja, 2026 INSC 1119. Fact-specific quashing of criminal proceedings and what the order does not decide.
Read the reviewed order note →The six legal updates above were approved by Binay Kumar and published on 16 October 2026. Earlier notes remain available below them.
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