Punjab and Haryana high court creates the post of “Court manager” on a three-year trial basis, to be held by engineers with an MBA degree. Court managers will manage the court’s budget and stock, human resource, case flow, electronic data, infrastructure, security and records. Currently, meritorious...

Maharashtra government submits draft circular on guidelines to invoke charges of sedition under the IPC, to Bombay high court’s chief justice’s bench through advocate general Darius Khambata. The circular specifying “limitations and parameters” for applying IPC’s section 124 includes creating “disaf...

Law minister Salman Khursheed’s wife Louise Khursheed, represented by Abhimanyu Bhandari, co-founding partner of Axon Partners, and senior advocate Parag Tripathy, has filed a Rs 1 crore defamation claim in the Delhi high court against the India Today group and 13 other defendants including prominent TV anchors, who are represented by senior advocate CA Sundaram.

In an injunction suit brought against NDTV news television network by ESPN, which was the broadcasting rights owner for the ICC T20 world cup cricket matches held recently, the Delhi high court prescribed guidelines for reporting of sporting events on news channels. The following observations were m...

A group of lawyers under the name ‘Lawyers for High Court Bench in Western Uttar Pradesh’ met in the Supreme Court arbitration room today and resolved to demand a permanent high court bench at any location in western UP, from the UP state government, the central government and the Allahbad high cour...

Publisher Lexis Nexis has obtained an injunction in the Lucknow District Court against Eastern Book Company (EBC) to prevent it from publicising that it was granted an interim injunction in the same court last month against Lexis Nexis for alleged plagiarism.

SC justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi are currently examining whether life-term convicts should undergo simple or rigorous imprisonment. A man convicted for murdering his wife, whom he suspected of adultery, was sentenced to the life-term by a Maharashtra sessions court and the sentence was reaf...

Bombay high court judge S A Bobde will be sworn in as chief justice of Madhya Pradesh high court on Tuesday. Bobde was designated as a senior advocate in 1998, after 20 years of practice, and was appointed as additional judge in the Bombay high court in 2000. He heard the Adarsh PIL until August whe...

Allahbad high court, which is the country’s biggest court in terms of judge-posts (160), leads the way in case-pendency. Out of the 43 lakh cases pending in India’s high courts, 10 lakh are in Allahbad alone. Madras with 4.6 lakh, Bombay with 3.6 lakh and Calcutta with 3.4 lakh follow Allahbad. Of t...

Former senior advocate RK Anand offers free legal service to the families of rioters arrested during the Azad Maidan riots, as reported by several websites and a staff reporter at the Hindu. The renowned criminal lawyer had, ten days ago, submitted an affidavit to the Supreme Court undertaking to pr...

Senior advocate Raju Ramachandran and advocate-on-record Gaurav Agrawal who were friends of the court in terrorist Ajmal Kasab’s Supreme Court appeal against the death penalty, donated their fee in the case, totalling Rs 15 lakh, to the Legal Services Authority. A bench of justices Aftab Alam and CK...

Newly appointed CJI Altamas Kabir has restored the practice of “oral mentioning” of matters in the Supreme Court, and applications for early hearing of matters, which his predecessor Kapadia had abolished when he had assumed office in May 2010 [The Hindu]

The Hindu has compiled a handy (but non-exhaustive list) of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies headed by retired SC judges, after Arun Jaitley’s and others’ comments criticising the existing rules about ex-judges’ appointments. 1. The National Human Rights Commission: Chairperson Justice K.G. Balakr...

Supreme Court Cases (SCC) case reports publisher Eastern Book Company (EBC) won a temporary injunction in a Lucknow district court against Reed Elsevier India which owns publishers Lexis Nexis and Butterworths on 22 September. The injunction restraining Reed Elsevier from selling its allegedly copyr...

A Mumbai law college student was caught recording court proceedings on his mobile phone in the Bombay high court and was served with a contempt notice. The student had recorded his brother – an advocate arguing a property dispute opposite senior advocate Venkatesh Dhond and in the court of justice K...

Delhi HC registrar general proposes to charge public ex-chequer more than Rs 88 lakhs for maintaining orderlies for retired judges of the HC. He asks for 55 orderlies to be provided at the residences of the retired judges. The orderlies will be appointed at the monthly basic pay of Rs 11,880, while ...

“How dare you?” she demanded, at which point he apparently retorted by saying: “I can do it again.” He followed that up by demonstrating his words — reaching out in the court office and touching her breast in front of an audience of 30-odd lawyers. The lady lawyer, feeling outraged, slapped him. The...

BJP suggests a two-year gap between retirement of judges and their assuming positions on various tribunals, to avoid the “ clamour” for post retirement positions among judges . Of the 21 judges who retired from the SC since 2008, 18 joined various commissions and tribunals. Former law minister Arun ...

Bangalore-based financial expert challenges SEBI chairman UK Sinha’s appointment to the SEBI chair in the Supreme Court through advocate Prashant Bhushan In the petition he has questioned Sinha’s integrity, denial of extension to the previous chairman, and his alleged leniency toward corporate lobby...

Today, blogging live from 2pm on the presidential reference about Supreme Court Justice GS Singhvi’s 2 February judgment that cancelled all awarded 2G licences and said that all natural resources should be allocated by the government by auction.