The AAP-run Delhi government on Tuesday decided to scrap Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridor system introduced by Sheila Dikshit-led Congress government in the city, after the Delhi high court had declined to ban it in 2012 . “The decision to scrap BRT was taken in a meeting chaired by Delhi Chief Mini...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a curative petition by 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, who is scheduled to hang on July 30 . Memon had challenged the earlier verdict of the apex court to uphold his death sentence. Rejecting the curative petition, a bench of Chi...

The Supreme Court on Monday permitted the Special Task Force (STF) to take “appropriate steps” under the Code of Criminal Procedure against the Vyapam accused so that they do not take advantage of delayed action and seek bail. “Keeping in view the urgency of the matter, we permit the SIT/STF to take...

The Bombay high court on Monday rejected a murder convict’s challenge against Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s stay of his five-year jail sentence in the actor’s 2002 drunk-driving accident case. The intervention appeal, filed by a murder convict whose plea has not been heard since 2009, contended that...

As first reported by Legally India on Wednesday, Calcutta high court Justice Aniruddha Bose made history as probably the first high court chamber to install a permanent video camera on the request of advocate Deepak Khosla.

A Delhi court on Friday allowed environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, accused in a sexual harassment case, to visit all but two offices of TERI, with the complainant working in one of the offices.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the central government on a petition challenging the second re-promulgation of the land ordinance to amend the 2013 land acquisition law to ease the process of land acquisition. The bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel iss...

The union cabinet on Thursday approved the Repealing and Amending (Third) Bill, 2015, for repealing 187 obsolete acts. Download bill and full list (PDF) via PRS India . The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also approved introduction of Repealing and Amending (Fourth) Bill, 2...

The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred hearing on a petition by former high court judges who were appointed directly from among practising lawyers, seeking pension and other benefits on par with those judges who came through the judicial service. The apex court bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Just...

To mark the International Day of Justice on Friday, animal activists will come together in the national capital to demand that the Constitution recognise all animals as sentient beings. The two-week campaign titled “Demand Justice for Animals” was launched by the Federation of Indian Animal Protecti...

Four members of civil society, represented by Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay, have filed a writ petition in the Karnataka high court praying that a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation be started against the Lokayukta of Karnataka, Y Bhaskar Rao and his son Ashwin Y Rao, who are being investigated for corruption charges by the Lokayukta’s internal police force.

One of the many things that lawyers practising at the supreme and high courts hate most about the filing process is curing defects in the paperbooks.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) and extended its interim order protecting services of the additional judges till the verdict is pronounced A constitution bench of J...

Justice Aniruddha Bose created history today when Calcutta high court room 24, outfitted with a permanent video camera and microphone for the occasion, recorded the proceedings of advocate Deepak Khosla, which Khosla claims is the first time this has happened in a high court.

After Subramanian Swamy and PP Rao began arguing yesterday in the multi-petitioner challenge of sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Swamy, senior counsel Rao and Rajeev Dhavan today continued their arguments.

Thousands of lawyers in Bihar on Wednesday abstained from work, protesting against the lack of initiative by the Patna High Court on their demand to allow unrestricted entry of vigilance officials into the premises of subordinate courts. Their demand was in order to curb the prevailing corruption in...

Yakub Memon, convicted for his role in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, will be hanged on July 30, official sources said here early Wednesday. He is likely to be be hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail, where he is currently lodged, following the rejection of his mercy plea in April this year by ...

“)The process of appointing senior advocates is broken and no one has bothered to fix it, until now.

The hearings in the Subramaniam Swamy v Union of India case began today, with Swamy, alongside several other petitioners, seeking to get the Supreme Court to strike down section 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. This is what happened.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has published on its website a list of 111 lawyers with between 0 and 30 years of experience, in a bid to encourage more senior lawyers who are looking for associates or junior lawyers to contact those job seekers directly.