Recounting experiences of the Justice Leila Seth Fellowship: learnings through courts and advocacy and from society intertwined with law.

by Ankita Talukdar, Justice Leila Seth Fellow – June 2024 Does the Mental Healthcare Act 2017, exclude children from a rights-based approach to care?  India has one of the largest youth populations in the world, constituting approximately one-fifth of the world’s youth. Yet the mental health of its young population remains a significant concern. In […]

The contradictions between these key laws in India are affecting adolescents’ access to safe reproductive healthcare.

A personal reflection by a Justice Leila Seth Fellow on how her experience of secondment led to broadening perspectives in criminal law.

by Gowri Reghunath, Justice Leila Seth Fellow – June 2023 It was 24 March 2023. I was just back home from a team retreat in Jim Corbett. As I was showing pictures of the trip to my parents, I got a text on my phone saying, “DJS result out”. For a moment, I froze, I […]

Given the high number of undertrials lodged in India’s prisons, there is a need to examine how a law on pretrial probation can prove to be useful.