News website Firstpost’s news satire offering Faking News debuted as “evidence” in court on Tuesday when Nitin Gadkari’s lawyers alleged contempt against Arvind Kejriwal based on a “news item”, reported Firstpost . Gadkari, represented by senior advocate Pinky Anand in his defamation case against Aa...

Senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, the “King of Miscellaneous Days” according to this profile by Court Witness , has formally been confirmed to be the recently elected BJP government’s Attorney General of India, reported the PTI . Rohatgi told NDTV : “My priority would be to streamline the litigation pro...

The Tis Hazari lawyer mob which allegedly assaulted a woman lawyer and her two north eastern clients is facing protests from hundreds of north eastern students and activists, reported the TOI . Yesterday the protesters met the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) members to demand that the mob lawyers’ lice...

A woman lawyer, allegedly manhandled by officers at the police station where she went to serve a court order restraining the eviction of vegetable vendors, has asked the Supreme Court for transfer of investigation to the CBI, reported Firstpost . The SC agreed to hear her transfer petition after her...

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati and Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran have tendered their resignations as is customary on change of government, reported the PTI . The AG’s and the SG’s tenures are conventionally co-terminus with the term of the existing government. According to speculation senior ...

Around 30 lawyers at Tis Hazari district court assaulted one woman lawyer and her two clients, in the court complex, on Friday, as reported by NDTV . The two clients – members of the North East Union - and the woman lawyer had gone to court to file a criminal case against a lawyer who had allegedly ...

BJP veteran, senior advocate Ravi Shankar Prasad has been assigned the union law ministry, tweeted journalist Ashok Bagariya . Prasad was designated a senior at the Patna high court in 1999 and at the Supreme Court in 2000, the same year as he also became a member of parliament. He became the Minist...

The Central Information Commission (CIC) fined the Bar Council of Delhi’s (DBC) secretary Murari Tiwari Rs 25,000 for not complying with its order and for failing to appear before it, reported the PTI . The CIC found Tiwari “fully responsible” for not furnishing information sought in a Right to Info...

The DBC’s secretary Murari Tiwari, whom former DBC vice chairman Vijay Sondhi had allegedly replaced on 13 May, today alleged that Sondhi’s claim was false, and that he is still continuing as secretary.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has set in motion the transfer of up to nine senior high court judges, reported the Economic Times . According to senior high court officials four judges had received ‘consent-seeking letters’ - Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul coul...

Responding to the incarceration of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, who refused to pay Rs 10,000 bail in a criminal defamation case filed by BJP politician Nitin Gadkari before a magistrate, advocate and AAP leader Prashant Bhushan said that it was a travesty of law that “an honest man [...

The Delhi high court adjourned its hearing in the Swatanter Kumar defamation case to 28 August, after the Supreme Court transfer petition was filed with the court in sealed cover.

The Supreme Court is for the second time in its history attempting to create its own dedicated intellectual and institutional research unit with the appointment of NLU Delhi assistant professor Anup Surendranath to the post of deputy registrar (research).

The Kerala high court has appointed practising lawyers at the court, PV Asha and PB Suresh Kumar, as high court judges, taking the bench strength to 34 [PTI]

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has been jailed in judicial lock-up after refusing to pay Rs 10,000 bail in a criminal defamation case over having called another politician a thief in January and including him in a list of “India’s most corrupt”. Kejriwal said he would not pay the bail in the ...

The Bar Council of (DBC), which yesterday appointed former vice chairman Vijay Sondhi as secretary, will meet on Monday to reconstitute its election committee, which will select a new chairman, vice chairman and secretary. The committee’s term expired on 22 March, confirmed Sondhi, adding that DBC c...

The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) will meet the law ministry and Delhi high court judges after court reopens post summer vacations, to push for rules allowing video recording of court proceedings in Delhi. DHCBA president Rajiv Khosla said: “We will pick up this issue with the high court ...

The Lahore high court today told the country’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif and 15 other politicians they’d have to give an account to the court of the assets they hold domestically and abroad, in a petition relating to the return of politicians’ overseas assets. [IANS]

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and AK Sikri told the Sahara Group after a two hour hearing that they would have to pay Rs 10,000 crore to get its boss Subrata Roy and two directors released from jail. The judges, who replaced the previous bench of justices KS Radharkrishnan and JS Khehar amid unpr...

Senior advocate UU Lalit, with Abhimanyu Bhandari as counsel, acting independently of Axon Partners where he is a partner, and Karanjawala & Co partner and advocate-on-record Sandeep Kapur acted for jailed Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal, getting him bail to attend the funeral of his mother...