Delhi high court Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva has banned advocate Deepak Khosla from filing matters or appearing in a number of Delhi courts by himself without another counsel.

The Delhi high court Wednesday issued notice to two district court judges over a plea seeking directions for installing air conditioners in the two court complexes. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought a response from the district judges of the Tis Hazari ...

The Supreme Court Wednesday asked if the Narendra Modi government intended to complete the task of cleaning the Ganga river in its present term or carry it to the next term and keep the issue alive. The court sought details on the status of various sewage treatment plants (STP) that were being set u...

The Supreme Court Wednesday extended by three months Italian marine chief master sergeant Massimilano Latorre’s stay in Italy for his recovery in the wake of a heart surgery that he underwent Jan 5. The apex court Bench, headed by Justice Anil Dave, extended the stay of Latorre after his senior coun...

In a setback to filmstar Salman Khan, the Supreme Court today set aside the Rajasthan High Court order putting on hold his conviction in the blackbuck hunting case, and asked the high court to consider the matter afresh. The high court Nov 12, 2013 had suspended the conviction of Salman Khan in the ...

The Supreme Court Monday asked Gujarat’s chief secretary to explain as to why cooperation was not being extended to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by providing the investigating agency with the documents relating to Naini and Morga-II coal blocks. A bench of Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice...

A special Delhi court today granted bail to OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan accused in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland VIP chopper deal. Granting bail to Khaitan, the Central Bureau of Investigation Special Judge VK Gupta directed him to furnish a personal ...

The Supreme Court has published revised rules regarding its selection of judicial clerks, for the first time allowing non-national law school students from applying. The new rules, published on the Supreme Court’s website today, state that applicants can come from any law college accredited by the B...

Former Advocate General of Maharashtra Darius Khambata in his first ever soundbyte to the press, reflects on his career as a government pleader. In an exclusive interview with The Firm , he sheds light on the law officer’s powers of conscience keeping and persuasion, over five years of “stressful sp...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) requires lawyers who take the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) to waive their statutory and fundamental rights.

A plea was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday challenging the validity of the law setting up the National Judicial Appointment Commission to replace the collegium system for appointments to the higher judiciary on grounds it was an assault on the constitution’s basic structure and the independence...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) has opened its seventh office in Ahmedabad on 1 January after hiring Bijal Chhatrapati from Singhi & Co as an equity partner to head up the office. Senior partner Berjis Desai said in a press release: “For a few years, we had actively considered establishing our offices...

How can a first generation litigator survive? Advocate Dushyant Arora gives some handy tips.

The Mafatlal family, frequently featured in the Mumbai tabloids, has been dragged to court yet again, this time by the Tata-owned group company of Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace hotel for allegedly not settling Atulya and Sheetal Mafatlal’s 14-year-old unpaid wedding party bill. Atulya, once one of the h...

The Delhi high court Tuesday dismissed former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti’s plea seeking to quash an NHRC order against him related to his controversial midnight campaign against an alleged drug and prostitution racket in the capital. Justice VK Shali directed Bharti to approach the court once...

The All Indian Bar Examination (AIBE VIII) will be held on the 15 March 2015, reported Bar & Bench, quoting BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra.

Candidates will be able to apply online from tomorrow. AIBE VII was held on 7 September and its results were declared in November.

Two senior MPs were paid several crore Rupees in undisclosed legal retainer contracts over several years by Reliance Industries, raising questions of transparency and potential for conflict despite being completely legal, reported the UK’s Financial Times on its frontpage this morning. [ Full FT art...

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea challenging the ordinance on coal blocks, providing for retrospective recovery of a levy of Rs 295 per metric tonne of extracted coal and linking its payment as a qualification to participate in the cancelled coal blocks’ auction. The Coal Mines (Special P...

The Supreme Court Thursday extended the bail of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa by another four months as it asked the Karnataka high court to decide on her appeal challenging her conviction in disproportionate assets case within three months. Noting that Jayalalithaa had complied wi...

The Supreme Court today quashed the two judge panel set up by the chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh high court to probe the allegations of sexual harassment levelled by a woman district judge against sitting judge of the high court, Justice SK Gangele. [Download judgment (PDF)] A bench of Justice ...