IBC Landmark SeriesONE JUDGMENT · THREE SEATS
IBC Landmark Series A new way to read judgments
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The Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, judgment by judgment

One judgment.
Three seats.

Landmark insolvency judgments of India, framed for every reader in the courtroom — a story anyone can follow, the law a lawyer can argue, and the craft even seniors miss. Pick your seat and climb.

✓ Every quote on every page is verbatim and paragraph-cited — checked against the certified copy of the judgment.
Seat one

The Gallery

~5 minutes · no legal vocabulary

The case as a story — who wanted what, the twist, the verdict. Walk out able to tell it over dinner.

Seat two

The Bar

~12 minutes · for the practitioner

The questions, an interactive chart of the mechanism, and the holdings you may cite — in the Court’s own words.

Seat three

The Bench

Deep · the craft

The over-readings that trip up even seniors, both edges of the sword, and a live test on your own brief.

The Judgments

newest first
No. 2 of 100 · ss. 7 & 32A SC · 19.01.2021

Manish Kumar v. Union of India

(2021) 5 SCC 1 · three-judge bench

Parliament built a gate on the homebuyer’s petition — 100 allottees or 10% — and a shield over rescued companies. Both survived. The Gate, the Shield, and the clock that decided who was caught in between.

Gallery 5′Bar 12′Bench Read the judgment →
No. 1 of 100 · s. 29A SC · 04.10.2018

ArcelorMittal India v. Satish Kumar Gupta

(2019) 2 SCC 1 · the Essar Steel bidding war

Who may bid for a bankrupt company? Two global giants, two hidden family skeletons, two eve-of-bid cover-ups — and the see-through provision that caught them both.

Gallery 5′Bar 12′Bench Read the judgment →

More landmarks are in chambers — the series runs to one hundred.

Why three seats

A judgment is read differently from every seat in the courtroom

The public hears a story. The bar argues the ratio. The bench watches for what everyone else missed. Most legal writing picks one audience and loses the others — each page here serves all three, at three depths, and lets you stop at any level with something complete. How the series is made →