Landmark Judgments

464 Supreme Court judgments from 1950 to 2026, chosen from the cases our judiciary, CLAT and AIBE questions cite most. Each digest gives the facts, the questions before the Court, what it held and passages in the Court's own words, with a link to the official judgment.

Judgments: 464
Constitution Benches: 139
Subjects: 27

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Gaurav Kumar v. Union of India2024Professional Ethics2 judges
State Bar Councils cannot charge enrolment fees or other fees at the time of enrolment beyond what Section 24(1)(f) of the Advocates Act prescribes; excess charges…
Ex-Capt. Harish Uppal v. Union of India2002Professional Ethics5-judge bench
Lawyers have no right to go on strike or call for a boycott of courts, even a token strike; courts need not adjourn for strikes, and a lawyer who abstains while holding…
R.D. Saxena v. Balram Prasad Sharma2000Professional Ethics
An advocate has no lien over a client's litigation files for unpaid fees; refusing to return the files on demand is misconduct under Section 35 of the Advocates Act,…
Bar Council of Maharashtra v. M.V. Dabholkar1975Professional Ethics4 judges
Soliciting briefs by snatching, fighting for and undercutting clients is professional misconduct; the Bar Council of India's tribunal erred in reading Rule 36 as…

How these pages are written

Every digest is written from the judgment itself, taken from the Supreme Court's own website (sci.gov.in), and links to that file.
Quoted passages are copied from the official text and were checked against it word for word; each gives the page of the PDF.
Where the bench split, the holdings given are the majority's. Where a later judgment in this library overrules or explains a case, that case's page says so, quoting the later Court's words.
A digest is a study aid. Read the judgment before citing it.

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