The notice has reportedly being sent by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to the seven sitting Tamil Nadu and Puducherry state bar council members for opposing the BCI’s earlier purported disqualification of 15 local advocates for alleged violence . BCI sources in New Delhi told TOI on Wednesday that t...

Should it be directed to the Government of India not to give permission to the Attorney General for India to appear for private parties against the state and its instrumentalities? This is the question which a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy would be faced with, when a PIL seeking such a direction would be called for hearing before them.

Unprecedented scenes; caused by fear of the bar.

In Arjun Gopal vs UOI filed in the Supreme Court, the three infants, all residents of Delhi, have sought the immediate intervention of Supreme Court against the inevitable and upcoming widespread use of firecrackers and fireworks and other products of the same classification, especially during the festivals of Dussehra and Diwali. The Supreme Court, their petition says, is bound under Article 32 to take interim steps in effectuating the people’s right to clean, healthy and breathable air under Article 21.

A Mumbai special court today awarded death penalty to five and life sentence to seven others, all convicted in the 7/11 serial blasts in Mumbai suburban trains which killed 189 people.

The reported comments of the Chief Justice of India, Justice HL Dattu, while refusing to entertain a petition from a journalist from Chennai seeking a ban on the sacrifice of animals during religious festivals across the country, have led to considerable consternation.

Male rights groups working for “gender-neutral” family laws on Saturday demanded implementation of the Law Commission of India recommendations to make shared parenting mandatory. They said the central government should take steps to pass the bill to prevent thousands of fathers from committing suici...

The protracted war of attrition between Delhi’s ex-law minister Somnath Bharti and police ended on Monday evening when Bharti surrendered to police in a domestic violence case filed by his wife Lipika Mitra. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Malviya Nagar constituency in south Delhi reached ...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said his government has almost prepared the Jan Lokayukta Bill’s draft and planned to present it in the next session of the state assembly. “Jan Lokayukta Bill (is) almost ready. We should be able to present it in next session of assembly,” Kejriwal twe...

In a huge setback to corporate honcho Anshuman S Ruia and Ravi S Ruia and their company Essar Teleholding, the Supreme Court today upheld their trial by the Special CBI court trying 2G scam cases, rejecting their plea that they should instead be tried by a magisterial court.

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the religious practice of sacrificing animals to please gods and goddesses across the country on the plea that it amounted to cruelty to animals under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act. Declining to entertain the PIL by Varaaki, a Chennai-...

In a significant order, the social justice bench of the Supreme Court Justice Madan Lokur and Justice UU Lalit on Monday, 28 September, dismissed an application filed by the Government of Madhya Pradesh (GoMP) / Narmada Valley Development Authority (NVDA) seeking a ‘modification / clarification’ of the apex court’s previous judgements of 2000 and 2005, thereby denying right to land of a few thousand adult sons of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) affected farmers.

When the BJP formed the Government at the Centre in 2014 with an absolute majority of its own, it was widely expected that judicial activism, which was on the rise in the 1990s and 2000s when coalition governments with bare majorities were in power at the Centre, might well be on its decline.

TMT Law Practice opened an office in Bhubaneshwar, its second in the eastern region after its recently opened Kolkata office . The firm will start operating in Bhubaneshwar from 1 October. Delhi-based TMT managing partner Abhishek Malhotra will head the Bhubaneshwar office, which has two associates ...

Madras-based Additional solicitor general (ASG) G Rajagopalan today approached the Madras high court to order the Bar Council of India (BCI), to dissolve the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry bar council, which had not effectively disciplined its members, reported The Hindu , following the BCI having suspen...

India, lacking the requisite culture for developing a strong arbitration system, has over 95 percent of arbitration turning out to be “ad hoc”, it was revealed in a conference here. This is despite a situation where 80 percent of Indians consider arbitration as the preferred system for dispute resol...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has suspended 15 lawyers who were allegedly involved in violence in the Madras high court, reported The Hindu and others.

When the petition filed by Delhi Grameen Samaj and others against the Central Government’s Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance came up in court No.4 on Thursday, 24 September, it was a foregone conclusion that Justice JS Khehar, and Justice R Banumathi who heard it, would consider it infructuous, as the ordinance had already lapsed.

The government may have to hasten its efforts to define the termonline marketplace and also explicitly mention what constitutes retail and wholesale trading on such platforms after the Delhi high court issued a notice seeking its reply to a petition filed by a body of offline (or brick-and-mortar) r...

The Gujarat government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that sacked state cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, accused of hacking the email of its former law officer, could not ask which agency would undertake an investigation and how it would do so.