The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), that raises many public interest matters before the apex court and Delhi high court, to create a mechanism that inspires confidence that the suits filed by it were really in public interest centric and not a proxy f...

Nearly a month after Bollywood megastar Salman Khan was acquitted in the 2002 accident case, Mumbai Police have done some soul-searching on alleged lapses that led to the legal defeat, officials said on Tuesday. For starters, police top brass issued a circular to all police stations on the procedura...

The legislature and judiciary have been mostly aligned in spirit. Judges have been some of the most sympathetic towards environmental causes in recent years, developing a young environmental jurisprudence.

A fascinating article in the New York Times last week (6 January) profiled Rob Bilott, a lawyer at a Cincinatti-based corporate law firm, who “became DuPont’s worst nightmare”…

The Supreme Court has stayed the Centre’s notification that allowed Central Government’s notification allowing Jallikattu in Tamil Nadu.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to restrict the scope of its discretionary powers, under the constitution’s article 136, to entertain pleas challenging various high court orders, saying that the issue has already been decided by the earlier constitution bench. Declining to revisit the scope of i...

The Delhi high court on Monday asked the central government to file a response on a PIL seeking to declare a provision in the penal law unconstitutional as it discriminates against married women sexually assaulted by their own husbands. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant N...

A magisterial court here on Monday sent Unitech chairman, two managing directors and a director to 14 days judicial custody in alleged cheating cases filed by two investors but the sessions court later granted the three interim bail. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Rao denied bail to...

The Supreme Court on Monday said parliament may think of statutory provisions providing for harsher punishment for those accused of rape and abuse of minor children. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice NV Ramana said this while hearing a petition filed by Supreme Court Women Lawyers Associati...

The Supreme Court on Monday said that unless a temple had a constitutional right, it could not prohibit the entry of the women pilgrims to offer worship. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice NV Ramana said this in the course of the hearing of a petition by the Ind...

The Supreme Court on Monday said that unless a temple had a constitutional right, it could not prohibit the entry of the women pilgrims to offer worship. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose and Justice NV Ramana said this in the course of the hearing of a petition by the Ind...

A court here on Monday allowed the plea of Bhartiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy seeking some documents to support his National Herald case against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi. Metropolitan magistrate Lovleen allowed the plea of Swamy seeking some documen...

The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Monday stayed its earlier order directing the Tamil Nadu government to enforce dress code for devotees visiting temples under its control. The high court bench issued an interim stay on an appeal filed by the Tamil Nadu government against the November 20...

The Supreme Court bench comprising the Chief Justice TS Thakur, and Justices AK Sikri and R Banumathi, is set to hear as many as five writ petitions challenging the validity of the notification issued by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change on 7 January permitting the holding of jallikattu and other related festivals involving the performance of bulls in religious festivals, despite the Supreme Court’s 2014 judgment holding it illegal.

115 new high court judges could be soon appointed, as per plans expressed by union law minister DV Sadananda Gowda, reported the Express . Gowda said that the 453 high court judge vacancies which are there in India at the moment, will increase to 472 by the end of June. He added that he recently met...

The Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry’s disciplinary committee refused to revoke or stay its order suspending 10 lawyers for professional misconduct, citing lack of jurisdiction, reported the Business Standard . The committee comprising of chairman R Arunachalam and members K K S Ramachandran...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) unanimously voted in S Prabhakaran as its new chairman yesterday, for the next four months. The BCI also unanimously voted in Prabhakaran’s predecessor Manan Kumar Mishra to preside at the BCI as its third-time chairman from May 2016 onwards.

NLU Delhi ‘s legal aid cell is fighting against two foetal-sex-determination doctors in the Delhi high court, for girl-child-protection NGO Beti Bachao Samiti. Senior advocate Sidhharth Luthra is representing the doctors – Sunil Fakay and Urvashi Fakay.

The odd-even scheme is a policy decision and was introduced based on the opinion of experts, the Delhi high court said today, while refusing to interfere with the Aam Aadmi Party government’s pet project to curb air pollution. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said i...

Two very important cases related to the power to appoint teachers and rules on when special leave petitions (SLPs) should be entertained, are scheduled to be heard by two Supreme Court’s constitution benches today under CJI TS Thakur’s new constitution bench schedules.