Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu and the apex court’s most senior judges have decided to continue holding collegium meetings to recommend new judges, reported the Indian Express , despite law minister DV Sadananda Gowda late last month warning that there would be no new judges until the Nationa...

Madras high court judge Justice TS Sivagnanam, hearing a petition by a mother that her daughter was not paid her prize for winning a beauty contest at an engineering college, decided to issue notice to the local government in his interim order to ban such events at universities. “It is not known as ...

Sahara’s deal with Mirach Capital Group to borrow $2bn to bail out the group’s supremo Subrata Roy - jailed by the Supreme Court for contempt of court since nearly a year - might be falling apart after a Reuters exclusive yesterday revealed that a Bank of America guarantee letter backing the loan ha...

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that suppression or non-disclosure of information about serious crimes by a candidate at the time of filing nomination interferes with the voters’ right to make an informed choice and the election of such a candidate is liable to be set aside. [ Download judgment: K...

The Supreme Court Thursday turned down the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress’s plea for the court monitoring of the CBI probe into Saradha and non-Saradha chit fund scam cases. Noting that there was no allegation by the applicants (West Bengal and Trinamool) that the Central B...

Pseudonyms such as “Obama” and “Putin” will no longer be available to Chinese citizens who wish to hide their identity on the internet, following new internet restrictions implemented by the country’s authorities

Lawyers agitating for setting up of a bench of Allahabad High Court in western Uttar Pradesh, decided to suspended their proposed Feb 5-7 boycott of the courts. The decision was taken at a meeting in Moradabad. “Keeping in mind the interests of the litigants, the lawyers decided to suspend the three...

Taking note of a report that said Delhi was the most polluted city in the world, the Delhi high court Wednesday said if nobody was looking into the issue, it will start giving directions and fix responsibility on the authorities. A division bench of Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva aske...

The India Today group has published a small note of mutual regret on the bottom right-hand corner of one of its websites, in its settlement of a Rs 1 crore defamation suit brought in 2012 by Louise Khurshid, the wife of Salman Khurshid, who was then law minister.

Since 2011 the Supreme Court of India seems to have got the message that relying on Wikipedia too much is simply not a good idea; India’s high courts? Not so much…

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The central government yesterday defended section 66A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 saying it was to curb posting of mischievous and objectionable material on social media and websites and in no way could be construed as curbing the fundamental right to free speech and expression. Describi...

The Uber cab driver accused of sexual assaulting a woman executive Tuesday told a Delhi court yesterday that he has not committed rape and he has been falsely implicated in the case. Claiming innocence in the case, Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav told Additional Sessions Judge Kaveri Baweja that it...

Bar associations in Delhi denied news reports that stated that “a mob of 400-500 people claiming to be lawyers attacked Bharatiya Janata Party chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi’s office” in her East Delhi constituency.

Ex-Supreme Court judge and high court chief justice Markandey Katju wrote on his blog that he had once spiked his own recommendation of a high court lawyer for judgeship, because that “male lawyer was having a live in relationship with a lady lawyer to whom he was not married. They were often seen o...

An Australian lawyer has successfully argued that his client, a 32-year-old Indian-origin security guard who emigrated to Tasmania three years ago, should not go to jail for up to five years for stalking a woman, because Bollywood movies had taught him that pursuing a woman hard enough could make he...

Law minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that there would not be any appointment of new judges to the apex or high courts, unless the Supreme Court disposes of the public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the National Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), reported the Economic Times today. The N...

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the conviction of Kerala CPM leader MV Jayarajan for calling state high court judges “idiots”, but reduced the sentence from six months to four weeks. An apex court bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen upheld Jayarajan’s conviction holding that he has no remorse for...

The woman who was allegedly raped in a Delhi Uber cab by its driver, has now sued the San Francisco tech company valued at $40bn for unspecified damages in a US federal court for having “had advanced knowledge of the unfitness of Yadav [the driver], and employed him with a conscious disregard of the...

A consumer activist Thursday filed a complaint against America’s New England Brewing Company, which sparked a controversy by using a picture of Mahatma Gandhi on its beer cans and selling them in certain parts of India. Consumer Guidance Society of India media cell chief Viveck Shettyy lodged the co...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has allowed Legally India’s Right to Information (RTI) appealagainst the regulator, having in December backtracked on its earlier position to provide information.