The Madras high court will get eight new judges as the SC collegium cleared eight out of 15 names recommended to it by the high court, reported The Hindu . Six advocates including two women (R Mahadevan, K Kalyanasundaram, PS Jayakumar, S Vaidyanathan, VM Velumani and Pushpa Sathyanarayanan) and two...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) was displeased with its completely “fruitless” and “meaningless” meeting with union law minister Kapil Sibal on 10 August. Sibal allegedly did not discuss any of the items on the meeting’s agenda and instead focused on the National Judicial Appointments Commission in w...

Delhi’s Saket district court took the lead among Indian district courts on 31 July in allowing emailed service of process.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan alleged in an interview that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) judgment was leaked from the chambers of ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir to private medical colleges. In response to a question about how Kabir had called Bhushan one of his enemies...

The Bar Council of India (BCI), which is currently pushing for representation in Supreme Court and high court judges’ appointments , on Saturday staged a demonstration at Rajghat, Delhi demanding immediate withdrawal of the National Judicial Appointment Commission Bill terming it as an “affront on i...

The Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) claimed that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) gave a negative report on three judicial candidates.

Ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir denied any knowledge of an alleged leak of the NEET judgment presided over by Kabir in a CNN-IBN interview with a typically combative Karan Thapar. On 18 July, several hours before the Supreme Court’s judgment in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Tes...

A group of 46 lawyers and civil society activists have asked Chennai’s and the country’s most senior judges to withdraw a list of names recommended for elevation to the Madras high court (HC), because it would lead to “undeserving persons of questionable competence, experience and integrity get appo...

The former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir, who retired last week, has lashed out at the Times of India and the Indian Express for their critical reports of Kabir, purporting to explain in a six-page press release what actually went on behind the scenes.

Senior advocate in the process of seeking admission at English bar and will join top English barristers’ set Blackstone Chambers as a tenant, focusing on international arbitration.

Outgoing Chief Justice of India’s (CJI) Altamas Kabir’s tenure has undone much of the good that his predecessor, SH Kapadia, has wrought, argued Supreme Court advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan in a column today: There is really no polite way of putting this. The Kabir court has seen a return to the qu...

The Supreme Court yesterday framed guidelines to deal with sexual harassment on its premises, broadening the definition of sexual harassment to include “sending of undesirable sexually coloured text or voice messages or sexually explicit material to women advocates and also stalking”, reported the T...

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the Bombay high court’s decision to strike down the ban on dance bars in Maharashtra, holding that “the cure is worse than the disease” and that safety measures and improvement in working conditions of the dancers was the solution, reported the Hindustan Times . No...

Deepak Khosla, a petitioner in the Shimla high court, asked for compensation of Rs 1 crore from two sitting judicial officers, police personnel, public prosecutors and McDonalds managing director Vikram Bakshi. Khosla alleged he had been “framed” in baseless criminal proceedings, resulting in substa...

The higher judiciary is revamping the system of appointment of senior advocates, to weed out incompetent advocates and appointment through ‘uncle judges’. In the Delhi high court, the full court will now have to consider the name of each applicant, while in the Supreme Court five sitting judges of t...

Have you heard about the senior advocate who “borrowed” paintings from a five-star suite and then got his client to pay for them?

Gujarat high court chief justice (CJ) Bhaskar Bhattacharya, whose elevation to the Supreme Court was rejected unanimously by the SC collegium , has accused chief justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir of bias spurred by Bhattacharya’s opposition of the CJI’s sister’s elevation to the bench, reported t...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices AK Patnaik and SJ Mukhopadhaya ruled that lawmakers can be disqualified if they have been convicted of a criminal offence. The bench struck down as ultra vires section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act (RPA), which protected MPs, MLAs and other legislator...

Lawyers’ lack of professionalism is affecting litigants’ cases and causing them distress, as judges ignore the problem helplessly, argued Harvard Law fellow and Centre for Policy Research visiting faculty Nick Robinson in The Hindu . A prestigious law firm employs an associate to follow a well-known...

Senior-most Supreme Court justice P Sathasivam was appointed Chief Justice of India-designate on Saturday. He will be sworn in as the Chief Justice of India CJI) on 19 July, a day after current CJI Altamas Kabir’s retirement. Sathasivam, aged 64, is the first judge from Tamil Nadu to become the CJI,...