Intellectual property (IP) firm LexOrbis, which set up a Bangalore office in April, has merged with local IP boutique Inolyst, which was set up by Dilip Kumar.

Essar Steel India has filed a Rs 250 crore defamation suit in the Ahmedabad city civil court against Delhi-headquartered magazine Caravan, its publisher Delhi Press, several of its editors and staff reporter Krishn Kaushik.

60 Delhi University law students allege that they had attended an evidence law exam for which they had been marked as absent and having failed according to the mark sheets released recently. The Hindustan Times reported: “We had given the examination and now have been marked absent in the Evidence L...

Yesterday (August 21) senior advocate Kapil Sibal continued his arguments before the Supreme Court bench hearing the challenges to the Kerala Government’s liquor policy, making it clear that he did not want to whittle down Article 14.

Tight security measures were in place at the Punjab and Haryana High Court complex following an anonymous letter on Tuesday which threatened that blasts would rock the premises today. Scores of Chandigarh Police personnel and para-military forces were seen around the high-security complex since the ...

The Supreme Court yesterday (20 August) declined the CBI’s plea to put forward its arguments on the period of sentence for Ansal brothers - Sushil and Gopal - following their conviction for negligence in 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy which claimed 59 lives.

Yesterday (20 August), the petitioners in the ongoing Kerala Bar Hotels Association’s appeal against the Kerala high court’s decision approving the Kerala Government’s controversial liquor policy favouring the five-star hotels, concluded their arguments at Court No.11.

Taking note of the deplorable state of district courts in the national capital, the Delhi high court on Wednesday asked lawyers and bar associations to lend a helping hand in keeping the court premises clean.

A college student in China has sued the ministry of education to do away with textbooks describing homosexuality as a “disorder that should be treated”. The female student used the alias Qiu Bai when filing the case to prevent exposure of personal information to the Chinese public, who are largely c...

The Hindustan Times ’ Aloke Tikku reported: A first-of-its-kind set of statistics compiled by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) reveals that 2,402 people, including 29 women, were arrested in 4,192 cases under section 66A — which was struck down in March by the Supreme Court that ruled that i...

education?”)The Allahabad high court has passed an order taking away the freedom of children of public functionaries in Uttar Pradesh to enrol in private schools.

Justice CS Karnan of the Madras high court sought 12 weeks’ time to reply to a petition alleging “intemperate observations” made by him against the Madras high court Chief Justice SK Kaul, reported PTI . According to the PTI , Karnan had written to the registrar general of the Supreme Court and said...

Former Linklaters Singapore managing associate Pallavi Gopinath Aney is set to join Baker & McKenzie as a partner, an authoritative source has confirmed to Legally India.

After having been unsuccessful in getting anticipatory bail in late June , the Delhi high court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to a St. Stephen’s chemistry teacher accused of molesting a doctoral student and asked him to join the investigation. Justice Indermeet Kaur granted bail to Satish Kuma...

The Supreme Court on Monday extended till September 30 the special facilities given to Sahara chief Subrata Roy to facilitate communication for negotiating transactions to raise money to pay market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India. Seeking details of a loan transfer from the Bank of ...

Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Monday gave consent to the state Lokayukta Amendment Bill 2015, paving the way for the removal of a ‘tainted’ ombudsman through lawmakers and judicial probe . “The Karnataka Lokayukta amendment bill has been enacted into law with the governor’s consent and the ame...

Britain-based Cairn Energy on Tuesday said it would contest a Rs 10,247 crore ($1.6 billion) retrospective demand raised by India’s income tax department and it would seek damages for losses resulting from the department’s attachment of its stake in Cairn India. “Cairn is currently unable to access ...

Arguments continued by the appellants in the Kerala liquor ban case Kerala Bar Hotels Association vs State of Kerala for the second day on August 18 in the Supreme Court’s Court No. 11, with senior advocates, Harish Salve and N Venkataraman making a determined attempt to expose the State Government’s “discriminatory” liquor policy.

The PTI reported the law ministry releasing data that: according to the latest data compiled by the Law Ministry, as on [1 August], the high courts were facing a shortage of 384 judges as against the approved strength of 1017. Thus, the 24 high courts are functioning with a working strength of 633 j...

In the wake of the bar’s stand-off with the Supreme Court bench, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) of the “committee to oversee implementation of suggestions by SCBA” and a letter by SCBA president Dushyant Dave.