The Supreme Court has postponed its national Lok Adalat to Saturday 12 April 2014 from 29 March, requesting all advocates to submit their consent and parties details by 14 March [SC notice]

The Madras high court has admitted a petition asking the Bar Council of India (BCI) to look into recommendations to “eradicate malpractices” in India’s legal education system and those to “prevent dishonest candidates entering the Bar Council or other judicial appointments”.

The Supreme Court and the West Bengal Commission for Women today took suo motu cognisance of Monday’s alleged gang-rape of a 20-year-old tribal woman in the state’s Birbhum district, reported Zee News and IANS respectively. However the state human rights commission failed to act because it is missin...

Karanjawala & Co, the law firm representing Swatanter Kumar in his Rs 5 crore defamation suit, has sent Legally India a legal notice for the removal of an anonyised photograph of the ex-judge.

A delegation of Madras High Court Advocates Association president, Paul Kanagaraj and others met with CJI Sathasivam and SC justices Ibrahim Kalifulla and C Nagappan yesterday about their problems with the list of 12 names proposed for judgeship at the high court, reported The Hindu . The delegation...

Dowry case filed against AP HC judge : The daughter in law of an Andhra Pradesh high court judge has filed a case of dowry harassment against him. The judge, who has not been named in the report, allegedly made persistent demands for dowry from Kavya Rao’s family after his son lost his job in 2008 [...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Shiva Kirti Singh argued that the right to seek mercy is a constitutional right not at the “discretion or whims of the executive”.

Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) president Paul Kanagaraj, with an MHAA “delegation”, met Tamil Nadu governor K Rosaiah seeking his intervention in recalling a list of 12 names recommended for judgeship at the HC, and taking exception to the fact that the recommended advocates were “sh...

The Delhi high court yesterday restrained anyone from publishing or broadcasting the detailed sexual harassment allegations against Swatanter Kumar, without stating prominently that they are “mere allegations”, as a battery of counsel appeared for the former Supreme Court judge in the court yesterday.

Former Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar, who is the second former apex court judge standing accused of sexual harassment, filed a Rs 5 crore defamation claim in the Delhi high court against two English language TV channels and a national daily, reported the PTI . Justice GS Sistani presided in ...

Swatanter Kumar ex-intern PIL admitted : Former SC judge Swatanter Kumar’s ex-intern from NUJS Kolkata who had made sexual harassment allegations against him yesterday moved a petition in the SC for inquiry against him. The intern challenged the SC’s 5 December 2013 full court resolution that it cou...

Another graduate of NUJS Kolkata has alleged that she was sexually harassed by a then-sitting Supreme Court judge in 2011, reported the Indian Express today. The story follows in the wake of West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) chairman AK Ganguly’s resignation after claims that he had harass...

Delhi high court advocate Ram Singh Chauhan was elected today by the Delhi bar council members unanimously after previous chairman Surya Prakash Khatri stepped down.

Former Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly said in his resignation letter from the West Bengal Human Rights Commission that he bore his “detractors” no ill will but continued denying all allegations. He wrote, according to IBN : Dear Excellency, I would like to affirmatively say that allegations which are ap...

Justice AK Ganguly resigned as West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman today , reported IBN Live citing sources. Ganguly reportedly met West Bengal governor MK Narayanan in Kolkata to submit his resignation. Senior counsel and ex-attorney general Soli Sorabjee told The Hindu yesterday that Gang...

The Delhi high court today issued notice in the Supreme Court’s letters patent appeal against the 16 December decision by a single Delhi high court judge that the apex court’s method of selecting judicial clerks was unconstitutional.

Supreme Court Justice Gyan Sudha Misra is not available today (6 January) and the matters scheduled in court number 10, where she would have been presiding with Justice V Gopala Gowda, have been postponed to Wednesday 8 January [ SC notice PDF]. Gowda, however, will take in-chamber matters today at ...

Former Supreme Court Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, who is also chairman of the West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC), has quit as honorary professor at NUJS Kolkata, the alma mater of a former intern who accused him of sexual harassment. Ganguly wrote, according to NDTV : “I voluntarily opt out,...

The Union cabinet has greenlit the proposed presidential reference to remove West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman AK Ganguly, for allegedly having sexually harassed an intern. President Pranab Mukherjee will now be able to take a call on whether the reference to remove Ganguly under the Huma...

Twelve faculty members of NUJS Kolkata, the alma mater of the former student who accused retired Supreme Court judge AK Ganguly of sexual harassment during her internship a year ago, have issued a statement in her support.