The Kerala bar council’s disciplinary committee has stayed an advocate’s professional misconduct suspension for two months after an appeal by the advocate, against whom the bar council handed down a one year suspension for “proved misconduct” of a very serious nature for cheating the complainants in...

The Supreme Court ruled that Sahara boss Subrata Roy should stay in jail in a 207-page order, while noting in a post script to the judgment that Roy and Sahara had abused the judicial process and wasted “hundreds of judge hours”. Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Jagdish Singh Khehar ruled dismissed Roy...

The Supreme Court yesterday recommended that former Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia should mediate in a dispute of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) over two priests who were banned for allegedly performing allegedly unsanctioned ceremonies. The ban was quashed by the Bombay high court in 2011, and...

The government has conceded a major criticism against its Lokpal that resulted in several lawyers declining appointment to its search committee, and changed the rules for the search committee allowing it to select anyone qualified for the post of Lokpal, rather than waiting for applications from des...

A Supreme Court bench told the residents of the society that had been built illegally that they would have to vacate the building by 31 May, despite an earlier order staying their eviction in the midst of a media circus seven months ago. [Hindustan Times]

The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by ex-Maharashstra chief minister Ashok Chavan into whether the Election Commission can probe “paid news” allegations in cases where the expense was not accounted for in candidates’ election returns. The bench of justices Surinder Singh Nijjar and Justice F...

BJP leader Arun Jaitley claimed that no judge would “lend himself” to the ” “political and malafide” exercise of investigating charges that India’s possible future leader, Narendra Modi, and his Gujarat government had arranged to have a woman in his home state followed and “snooped” on illegally. Ka...

The Bombay Lawyers Association wrote to Chief Justice of India RM Lodha about an incident alleged by senior counsel Dushyant Dave in March about Supreme Court Justice CK Prasad hearing and deciding on a property matter listed before another bench himself: “We expected some response to our letter but...

The Supreme Court has announced the next Advocates-on-Record exam to take place between 3 and 6 June 2014, with lectures for papers taking place between 5 and 10 May hosted by advocates Dipankar Gupta, Indira Jaising, UU Lali and PP Rao. [Notice]

The Madras high court ordered Nokia to deposit Rs 240 crore as a deposit against the tax department’s claim of Rs 2,400 crore against the Finnish mobile phone maker. Its sales from a Chennai factory are subject to a tax demand, which it claims is without merit, and that it won’t be able to make the ...

“The temperature has soared up and the gentleman is not well,” senior advocate Rajiv Dhawan told justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar, appearing for the Sahara group and its boss Subrata Roy, who has been jailed for failing to turn up to Supreme Court hearings and not repaying amounts owed to inv...

Rights lawyer Monalisa argues that the former Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam introduced a seldom-seen sensitivity into the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence and culture, though one major opportunity was clearly missed.

The Andhra Pradesh high court has ordered the $3.2bn takeover to be stayed as “interim status quo” in a writ petition alleging insider trading, reported Bloomberg . The writ petition was filed by a number of investors, seeking to force an insider trading investigation by the Securities and Exchange ...

Khaitan & Co and Mulla & Mulla have served defamation notices on behalf of members of the Reliance family on authors of the book Gas Wars, who are defended by Amicus Juris.

Foreign lawyers should be allowed to work on arbitrations in India to make domestic arbitration more attractive and to unburden the courts said Supreme Court justices SS Nijjar and PC Ghose and retired judge AK Ganguly, reported Kolkata paper The Telegraph . Nijjar said at the seminar by the Indian ...

The Supreme Court has issued new guidelines for mentioning matters before it, according to a notice posted on the Supreme Court noticeboard.

The culpable homicide retrial of Bollywood megastar Salman Khan began today in a Mumbai sessions court over his allegedly running over several pavement dwellers while drunk, killing one, in 2002. The prosecution might call up to 64 witnesses, of whom the first appeared today. A magistrate in an earl...

Court Witness does former Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam and asks, was he great? Or merely safe?

The new Chief Justice of India RM Lodha and a bench of two others stayed the death penalty of 2000 Red Fort shootout convict because he had already served 14 years [Times of India]

The Hindu ’s senior court reporter J Venkatesan has interviewed Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow from his post. In the hour-long interview, excerpts of which were published by the paper, Sathasivam recounted how he rose to the highest judicial office in the country fro...