Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar on Tuesday urged the high court to stay the proceedings of the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) initiated against him in an alleged “fake law degree” case. Approaching the high court, senior advocate AS Chandhiok who appeared for Tomar mentioned the case before Just...

The legislature of the US state of Nebraska has approved abolishing the death penalty there in a 30-19 vote, a sufficient majority to avert a veto attempt by Governor Pete Ricketts, Efe news agency reported. The sponsors of the initiative needed exactly 30 votes to overcome the veto issued Tuesday b...

The Supreme Court will hear on Friday the central government’s plea challenging the Delhi high court verdict (click to read judgment) which described as “suspect” the May 21 central notification on the Delhi government powers. The notification barred the Delhi government from proceeding against cent...

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday allowed NGO Greenpeace India to operate two of its domestic accounts, which were frozen by the central government last month, to accept fresh domestic contribution. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also allowed Greenpeace to liquidate the fixed deposits and utilise the funds ...

Photographer Prashant Panjiar got rare camera access to chronicle Patna high court’s daily ins-and-outs, with the series of beautiful black and white photos published by the BBC.

Definitely worth checking out for any court buff.

The Delhi high court on Monday asked the censor board to issue a certificate for public screening to documentary film “Textures of Loss” which is based on the violence in Jammu and Kashmir. Justice Rajiv Shakdher directed the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to issue a certificate of scree...

The Supreme Court today stayed the execution of death warrants of Shabnam and Salim - convicted for murdering seven members of the girl’s family, including a ten-month-old child, and whose death sentence was upheld by the top court on May 15 . “Execution of death warrant is stayed,” said the vacatio...

The Supreme Court restored its practice of “listed mentioning” of matters before the registry, less than 10 days after issuing a circular discontinuing the practice. The SC had on 14 May issued a circular stating that from 1 July 2015 all urgent matters could only be orally mentioned before the chie...

Making it clear that the government did not believe in retrospective taxation, and had also taken action in the matter, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said past cases will be decided by the judicial process, even as it will await suggestions from an expert panel. “I have already said old ca...

A Delhi court today granted bail to industrialist Naveen Jindal, former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda and eight others in a case relating to the allocation of coal blocks. Among others who got bail are former union minister of state for coal Dasari Narayan Rao and former coal secretary HC Gupt...

Justice JS Khehar of the Supreme Court today inaugurated a mediation centre at the Patiala House district courts here. Justice Khehar, in his inaugural address, highlighted the benefits of mediation and the success it has achieved in India in reducing the huge pendency of cases. He expressed the hop...

Tata Capital human resources group head Amar Sinhji joined Khaitan as executive director, human resources, after Khaitan & Co’s human resources head of six years Swapnakant Samal left to join Human Capital Consulting as a consultant in April. Khaitan Mumbai partner Rabindra Jhunjhunwala told Le...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has sent a letter to Legally India and 147 other recipients, including journalists, the President and Prime Minister of India, all Supreme Court judges and high court judges and others.

The Delhi high court on Wednesday asked TERI director general RK Pachauri to file his response on a plea by a woman research analyst who has accused him of sexual harassment to cancel the bail granted to him. Justice SP Garg granted Pachauri four weeks time to respond and posted the matter for July ...

The Supreme Court will hear, on Thursday May 21, a petition seeking re-conduct of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) as the key to the answers was leaked in several states and was made available to some candidates using sophisticated technology. The vacation bench of Justice AK Sikri an...

Pleas for euthanasia were made not only on behalf of nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who passed away of natural causes yesterday after 42 years in a vegetative state following her rape, but kin of many others in similar situation also had sought end of their lives in a dignified manner. Most of these pleas we...

Lawyers throughout Jammu abstained from the courts on Monday to press their demand for setting up an AIIMS-like medical institute in the region. Abhinav Sharma, president of the Jammu Bar Association (JBA), called for a boycott of the courts in the region by lawyers to press for JBA’s demand to esta...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has complied with Legally India’s 20 October 2014 right to information (RTI) request on 20 April 2015, supplying around 1,600 pages of documents.

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the death sentence of a couple for killing all seven members of a girl’s family, holding that the “couple indulged in such debased act of multiple murders driven by infatuation and exhibited no remorse”. Upholding the death sentence of Shabnam and her partner Salim, a...

Advocate and patent lawyer Naren Thappeta, armed with rigorous data, argues that ‘Eminent People’ must consider metrics in judicial appointments.