Published on : 11 Oct 2025, 11:30 am 5 min read

There are few things in the legal universe more ambitious and more tragic than the compendium. In theory, it is supposed to be the neat little booklet that gathers every precedent your case may need. In practice, it is a jungle safari through judgments running into hundreds of pages, with annexures, photocopies and more highlights than a Delhi wedding album.

By the time it lands on the judge’s desk, it looks less like a legal aid and more like a family heirloom - something to be preserved, not read. Somewhere between the 47th and 93rd page, you realise this is not advocacy, this is archaeology with a stapler!

It only gets funnier when you step outside court. Conventional magazines, once fat with stories, are now thinner than a summ

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