The Delhi district courts will go on strike tomorrow to protest against parliament not having passed the pecuniary jurisdiction increase bill . A message from Delhi Bar Association (DDA) secretary DD Sharma stated: “In view of [coordination committee] decision complete strike is observed tomorrow on...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) announced it would lodge its protest against last week’s alleged killing of a lawyer by wearing white ribbons, but would not be going on the national strike called by the BCI.

Allahabad advocate Nabi Ahmad was allegedly shot dead by a police sub-inspector resulting in local riots and a call by the Bar Council of India (BCI) for a national strike by lawyers.

“The number of posts for judges in the Bombay high court has been increased from the current 75 to 94, announced chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in the legislative assembly on Friday. However, of the 75 existing posts, ten are vacant. So in effect there are only 65 judges,” reported the Times of In...

The Supreme Court on Friday gave Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy a “final chance” to raise Rs 10,000 crore - Rs 5,000 crore in cash and Rs 5,000 crore in bank guarantee - to make part repayment of investors’ money raised by the company in 2008 and 2009, which is also a condition for his and two other...

The Law Commission yesterday said that it was not in the favour of introducing compulsory voting, terming it undemocratic, undesirable and not helping to improve political awareness and participation. ( Read 255th Law Commission report here (PDF) ) Coupled with this, it has also not favoured the oft...

The BCI has called for a national strike on Monday, 16 March, to protest the “ghastly and brutal killing of a lawyer by the police officials in court premises” at Allahabad yesterday.

Both houses of parliament have now condemned former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju for his blog post calling Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose , British and Japanese agents, respectively. Rajya Sabha leader Arun Jaitley used the opportunity to call out Katju as evidence of the broke...

From Monday, 9 March 2015, a special Supreme Court bench comprising of two seasoned tax hands, Justice AK Sikri and Justice RF Nariman, began exclusively hearing and deciding tax cases from Monday to Friday.

The Delhi High Court on Thursday declined to immediately revoke the ban on the telecast of controversial BBC documentary “India’s Daughter” on the December 16, 2012, gang rape. A division bench of Justice BD. Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva posted the two public interest litigations (PILs) for re...

Granting relief to Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai, who was stopped from flying to London in January, the Delhi High Court on Thursday quashed the ‘look out’ circular issued against her.

The central government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government could not be restrained from notifying the constitutional amendment and the law for replacing the existing collegium system by NJAC for the appointment of judges to the apex court and the High Courts. “I am rigorously conte...

The Delhi high court today held that the office of the Attorney General of India carries out public function and it comes within the ambit of the Right To Information (RTI) Act. Justice Vibhu Bakhru also said that the top law officer performed public functions and his appointment was governed by the...

The government argued in its advisory sent to TV channels that excerpts from the documentary India’s Daughter shown on some TV channels appeared to “incite violence against women, thus compromising women’s public safety”.

Advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh, who have represented the 2012 Delhi gangrape convicts and recently made controversial and misogynistic comments in a documentary that was banned in India, have been served with three-week show cause notices by the Bar Council of India (BCI), which deliberated on the...

The Delhi bar council will take suo motu action against advocates ML Sharma and AP Singh, who made controversial comments in a documentary about the December 2012 Delhi rapists.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) is likely to meet this evening over the controversial remarks made by two defence advocates in the BBC documentary about the December 2012 gang-rape . “The meeting will take place late evening in Delhi to decide further course of action on the matter,” BCI chairman Man...

Gangrape lawyers ML Sharma, AP Singh might face BCI inquiry (again), promises BCI chairman MK Mishra.

The Rajya Sabha yesterday deferred passing the bill to increase the pecuniary jurisdiction of the Delhi high court, with some members saying that the reform should be clubbed with pending legislation to create commercial divisions in high courts (the Commercial Division of High Courts Bill 2009), wi...