The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned the hearing in Vodafone’s appeal against the 8 September Bombay High Court order to 15 November, following a Rs 11,218 crore tax liability notice served by the income tax department on the telecom giant on Friday.

The Mega Lok Adalat organised by the Delhi Legal Services Authority and the Delhi High Court yesterday has set a new record by disposing of one lakh cases, including 1,042 MACT (Motor Accident Claims Tribunal) claims, 90,000 traffic challans and 15,000 disputes related to recovery, injunctions, rent, cheque bouncing the Times of India reported.

A Supreme Court of India judgment, while defining “Common Law Marriage”, cited as a source Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia anyone can edit. The same judgment on live-in relationships was also slammed by additional solicitor general Indira Jaisingh for using gender biased terms “one night stand” and “keep”.

The Supreme Court has restored a criminal case of cheating filed by an Indian lender consortium against US telecom company Motorola and its directors after the Bombay High Court quashed charges in 2003 that involved a failed satellite communication project of 1987, reported the Financial Express.

The Delhi Legal Services Authority (DLSA) has enlisted 200 judges to work this Sunday and resolve over 30,000 civil and criminal compoundable cases in a “Mega Lok Adalat” in a bid to reduce the increasing backlog of cases.

One of the key parties to the Ayodhya title dispute Nirmohi Akhara has said it would challenge the Allahabad High Court’s verdict in the Supreme Court following similar decision by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) last week, thereby ruling out most chances of an out-of-court settlement at this stage.

The legal dispute between online data service providers Just Dial and Infomedia 18 has reached the Bombay High Court with Just Dial seeking the court’s direction to initiate criminal action against Infomedia’s directors.

Vodafone has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court challenging an apparent decision by the tax office to treat the company as the agent of the seller in the 2007 Hutchison acquisition, despite the Supreme Court still having to reach a decision on Vodafone’s appeal against the earlier ruling.

A total of 11 High Court judges have now been transferred as part of Chief Justice SH Kapadia announcement in September to transfer 20 High Court judges for reasons of “public interest”.

Chennai advocates demonstrated outside the Madras High Court yesterday, demanding a raising of the advocates’ welfare fund amount from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh, reported the PTI , adding that the advocates also demanded for Tamil to be made an accepted court language in High Court proceedings. Earlier...

Higher judges would now be made accountable to the public for alleged acts of misconduct and corruption as the long-awaited Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill 2010 wins Cabinet approval as an Oversight Committee is being set up.

Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has abandoned its high-rent offices at short notice after less than four months in the premises, which has caused logistical difficulties and shut down the Airtel-operated bar exam telephone helplines for nearly a week now.

The Supreme Court reduced the Delhi High Court’s death sentence handed down to law student Priyadarshini Mattoo’s rape and murder convict Santosh Kumar to life imprisonment in today’s ruling in the 14-year old trial.

India’s Supreme Court has stayed the Madras High Court’s order to shut a Sterlite Industries copper smelting plant that the lower court had decided was polluting and in ‘pathetic condition’, as reported two days ago on Wednesday. The apex court judges decided to stay the Madras HC order until 18 Oct...

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Sterlite Industries has to shut down its copper smelting plant in Tuticorin, due to the “negative impact of running of the industry at the place and in the manner it is being run” said a Madras High Court division bench.

The Supreme Court of India has rejected the plea to defer the Ayodhya ruling by the Allahabad High Court, which is now expected to be handed down at 3pm on Thursday 30 September, which has again put states on high alert fearing potential violence.

The Supreme Court declined to stay the Bombay High Court judgment against Vodafone of 8 September , giving the Indian tax department four weeks to decide how much Vodafone will have to pay in taxes on its purchase of Hutchison Whampoa’s Indian telecoms subsidiary, reported Bloomberg today . Vodafone...

Rakesh Tiku has been elected chairman of the Delhi bar council, winning all 14 votes cast today against opponent Rakesh Goswami in a fresh election held today after the post was left vacant for over two months following the demise of former chairman K K Sareen.

Tomorrow’s judgment in the Ayodhya religious dispute has been postponed by one week to 28 September by the Supreme Court, reported news organisations. The retired bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi filed a petition with the Supreme Court to make the dispute subject to mediation, which was yesterday ...