The Supreme Court’s guidelines to deal with sexual harassment complaints within the court corridors are now up on its website, reported PTI . The Gender Sensitisation and Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal), Regulations 2013 [ link via Gaz...

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani has filed a defamation case against the BJP party’s parliamentary board for expelling him from the party in May 2013, claiming Rs 50 lakh from each of the 11-odd members of the board. (However, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and former prime minister Ata...

Senior counsel Ram Jethmalani talked to the Wall Street Journal in typically freewheeling and candid manner about his representation of godman Asaram Bapu, who was accused of sexual assault on a teenager. Excerpts: RamJet on reports that the alleged victim had a condition that attracted men towards ...

The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) today succeeded in its challenge to the Delhi government’s tenfold court fee hike of August 2012.

The Delhi bar council complaint against the December 16 rape convicts’ lawyer AP Singh was transferred to the BCI, which on Saturday issued a show-cause notice to Singh, reported the Hindu . Singh had made sexist remarks to the media outside the Saket trial court that had convicted his clients, clai...

A CBI court today found Rashtriya Janta Dal chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav guilty in the “food for fodder” scam, reported the Business Standard . Yadav has been booked for criminal conspiracy, corruption and cheating. The case was lodged by the Bihar government in 1996 again...

Today’s landmark judgment by the Supreme Court on the petition of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has for the first time given the Indian voter the right to reject all candidates contesting an election, reported the PTI . The voter can now mark the “None of the Above” (NOTA) option tha...

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati apologises to SC bench headed by Justice RM Lodha for apparent annoyance when unable to respond properly to Coalgate grilling (“It’s very difficult. It is a tremendous strain. I cannot carry everything in my head. Once I argue on one aspect, another question arises ...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) wants chartered accountants and auditors banned from advising on income tax matters of values below Rs 60 lakh, therefore leaving the domain exclusively to advocates, reported the New Indian Express . The regulator has sent a communication dated 11 September to the Cen...

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani faced the ire of social groups and Twitter users after arguing that the girl who had charged his client Asaram Bapu with rape, was suffering from a chronic disease “which draws a woman to a man” and that her entire case, including her age, was fabricated, reported the ...

Advocate AP Singh, who represented two of the four gang rapists who were sentenced to death last week for the December 2012 murder of a student, said that he was pressured by an “anti-social element” to say that he would burn his daughter alive if he caught her out late at night with a boyfriend or ...

Around 1200 Tamil Nadu advocates await enrolment with the state bar council (SBC) which has not issued any enrolment certificates in four months.

Delhi gang rapists guilty: Four men were convicted of raping and killing a woman in December 2012 by Judge Yogesh Khanna in Saket’s district court. The sentencing arguments – anticipated to be for the death penalty – will begin tomorrow. The men’s lawyer AP Singh said they would appeal the verdict [...

The Supreme Court has designated 12 new senior advocates including eight retired high court (HC) judges and four advocates-on-record, three of whom are women. Retired justices SN Aggarwal and Rakesh Chandra Mishra from the Madhya Pradesh HC, Ashok Kumar Roopanwal and Yogendra Kumar Sangal from the A...

Delhi’s Tis Hazari district court lawyers yesterday boycotted work to protest against allegedly inflated electricity bills for power supplied to their chambers. The Delhi Bar Association (DBA) has demanded a roll back of the bills and to have them resent as domestic instead of non-domestic supply bi...

The Supreme Court yesterday decided to designate women advocates Vibha Dutta Makhija, Meenakshi Arora and Kiran Suri as senior advocates by a unanimous decision of a full court, reported the Times of India . Advocate Sushil Jain was also designated a senior in the same meeting. This is the first tim...

The Supreme Court today admitted that it made a mistake of law in September 2012 when it had directed that only sitting or retired High Court Chief Justices or an apex court judge could head the central and State information commissions, and recalled its 13 September 2012 judgment to that effect, re...

The Supreme Court will have two new judges in Allahabad high court chief justice (CJ) Shiva Kirti Singh and Orissa High Court CJ C Nagappan, reported the Hindu . Both will serve three-year tenures at the SC, taking its judges’ strength up to 30. Justice Singh is the third judge representing Bihar in...

At the apparent request of lawyers upset with overcrowding, the Supreme Court (SC) has prohibited law students and interns from entering the apex court on Mondays and Fridays.

The Madras high court, the Jharkhand high court, the Delhi high court and the Meghalaya high court will soon have new chief justices respectively with Madras HC acting chief justice RK Agrawal, Madras HC seniormost judge R Banumathi, Andhra Pradesh HC acting chief justice NV Ramana and seniormost Ut...