In a breather for union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, the Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Karnataka high court direction to the Bangalore Development Authority to repossess a residential plot allotted to him. An apex court bench of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice SA Bobde also held that Gow...

In a setback to Cipla, the Delhi high court on Friday held that the Indian drug major was infringing Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman-La Roche’s patent in lung cancer drug erlotinib hydrochloride, sold under the name of Tarceva. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Mukta Gup...

The Delhi high court on Friday asked its registry to file reply on a plea which sought to quash an order directing transfer of all pending cases up to the value of Rs 1 crore to subordinate courts. The plea filed by Asian Patent Association sought stay of transfer of cases which fall under the categ...

Harish Salve said he has materials to show that “dance bar is an animal in itself”, while acting for Maharashtra which defended its defiance of the Supreme Court’s order that had directed it to begin accepting bar licence applications, reported Indian Express . Salve asked a bench of justices Dipak ...

The Essar group told a bench headed by justice TS Thakur of Supreme Court that there is “nothing illegal or improper” in politicians and bureaucrats making job requests to them and that certain favours to government servants are “common courtesies extended by corporate houses” in a counter affidavit...

A sedition case was filed against Bollywood actor-producer Aamir Khan and his wife Kiran Rao on Wednesday in a Bihar court based on his statement on increasing intolerance in the country. Lawyer Sudhir Kumar Ojha filed the sedition case in the chief judicial magistrate court in Muzaffarpur district....

The suspension of 20 more errant lawyers by the_Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry_, as reported by the Times of India takes the toll of Madras lawyers suspended recently from practicing in any court or tribunal, to 35. Among the latest 20 suspended advocates are 10 who laid siege to the court...

Lawyer _strike_s are illegal, said the Madras high court while refusing to set aside a proceeding against a man who had challenged the proceeding on the ground that it took place in the absence of his striking lawyer, reported PTI . The high court’s Madurai bench of justices R Sudhakar and VM Veluma...

Taped telephonic conversation was admitted in defence evidence, in an unprecedented move by the Supreme Court, in a child sexual abuse case’ trial on Monday, reported the Times of India . A Supreme Court bench of justices Dipak Misra and PC Pant admitted the CD produced by the alleged sexual offende...

The Delhi high court began transferring all cases of value lesser than Rs 1 crore, and all non-commercial disputes of value between Rs 1 crore to Rs 2 crore, to Delhi’s lower courts, yesterday onward. Cases in which judgment has already been reserved by the high court will remain with the high court...

A Delhi court on Tuesday accorded permission to environmentalist RK Pachauri, accused in a sexual harassment case, to travel abroad to attend an international meeting, a workshop and conferences. Metropolitan Magistrate Shivani Chauhan allowed Pachauri to travel to La Paz in Bolivia, Riyadh in Saudi...

The apex consumer court on Tuesday said “unending testing of Maggi samples cannot go on”, following the Rs 640-crore class action suit filed by the government against Nestle India. A bench of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), comprising Justice VK Jain and Justice BC Gupta...

Jail authorities in Pakistan were on Tuesday set to hang a paraplegic who developed tubercular meningitis while on death row after being convicted of murder, which according to rights group will be the 300th execution since the controversial moratorium was lifted in the country. Abdul Basit, 43, who...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hold an urgent hearing of a PIL seeking CBI probe into the allegation that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi had declared himself a British national in the documents filed before the registrar of companies in Britain. “There is no urgency in the matter,” t...

Pre-nuptial agreements, entitling women to maintenance through contractual clauses, will be legal in India soon as per plans of the Women and Child Development ministry, reported The Indian Express . Woman and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi said that the ministry is currently draftin...

The central government on Monday said that 26 November would henceforth be marked as Constitution Day. On this day in 1949, the Indian Constitution was adopted, and came into force on 26 January, 1950. The ministry of social justice and empowerment would be the nodal ministry for organising the Cons...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has decided it wants lawyers to have lower court experience before they are allowed to practice in the Supreme Court or in the high courts, reported the Times of India . BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told the Supreme Court collegium headed by justice JS Khehar that, ...

Counting the Rs 40.4 lakh of fees paid to 10 lawyers for 151 cases, Ignoring the higher fees paid to the two highest paid lawyers, that works out to a mathematical average of only Rs 2,675 per case.

The Odisha government is setting up a law commission to receive advice in carrying out legal reforms and drafting of new laws. “We are in the process of constituting a law commission to aid and advice (the government) in the matters of legal reform and qualitative legislation relevant to the present...

Counting the Rs 40.4 lakh of fees paid to 10 lawyers for 151 cases, Ignoring the higher fees paid to the two highest paid lawyers, that works out to a mathematical average of only Rs 2,675 per case.