It won’t be long after you start practice in the Supreme Court of India that you come across the figure of Prashant Bhushan striding purposefully between the courtrooms.

The Supreme Court today allowed the Indian cricket board to postpone its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections of the office-bearers till Jan 31, 2015, as the hearing into the allegations of betting and conflict of interest is continuing. The apex court bench headed by Justice T S Thakur allowe...

While a case of cheating and violating lawful orders was yesterday lodged against global cab company Uber after one of its drivers was arrested for raping a woman, a plea was filed in the Delhi high court alleging that the company was doing business in the country without accountability to Indian la...

A high stakes case was part-argued today by government and petitioners on the constitutional validity of certain sections of the Information Technology Act 2000.

A Delhi advocate, after encountering a number of allegedly unruly Delhi lawyers striking over the enhancement of Delhi district court’s pecuniary jurisdiction , sent Legally India an email earlier today. This is it: So this morning I was physically prevented by [officials] of the Saket Bar Associati...

Judicial work in the Delhi courts was paralysed due to indefinite strike of city lawyers protesting the delay in tabling amended bill regarding enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of district courts. The co-ordination committee of bar associations of all the district courts in Delhi said that desp...

Fortis Hospital Bangalore, whose organ transplant licence was cancelled in 2011 after alleged medical negligence by two of its surgeons led to the death of a patient undergoing pancreatic transplant, lost its appeal in the Karnataka high court. In a writ petition, Fortis had challenged the authority...

The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear a plea challenging the recent ordinance on coal block allocations, even as it declined a batch of petitions by private companies seeking that it re-look its Sep 24 order cancelling 214 coal blocks allocated from 1993 to 2011. The plea challenging the coal o...

The Supreme Court Monday grilled step-aside BCCI president N Srinivasan on conflict of interest and said it was difficult for it to accept that the involvement of his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan - a team official of Chennai Super Kings - in betting during the IPL 2013 did not result in conflict of...

The second National Lok Adalat held across India Saturday involving the Supreme Court, 24 high courts, districts courts and taluka-level courts saw the settlement of a record number of 1.25 crore cases, that also resulted in reducing the pendency of cases by about nine percent. “Approximately, 1.25 ...

A total of 62,641 cases were disposed of and settlement amount of Rs 65 crore awarded by various Delhi courts on the Second National Lok Adalat Saturday. “As many as 201 benches took up all kind of cases i.e. civil cases, criminal compoundable cases, Negotiable Instrument Act cases, electricity case...

The Supreme Court yesterday said that the public interest litigation (PIL) system may have started with good intentions to help the poor people by espousing their cause before the higher judiciary but was now being misused for raising frivolous matters. “It was started with a good intention of to he...

In a major move to enable private trusts to invest in listed shares and specified debt securities, the union cabinet today approved the tabling of a bill to effect long-pending amendments to the Indian Trusts Act. “This would enable the central government to notify securities, or class of securities...

The Delhi high court Thursday asked the registrar of the Supreme Court to maintain a compilation of pending cases, which have been heard and on which orders have been reserved. In a significant verdict aimed towards greater transparency in the judiciary, Justice Vibhu Bhakru said: “Indisputably, the...

According to a circular by the Supreme Court’s assistant registrar, published on the official website, an advocate wearing a long saffron-coloured gown over his shorter black gown was in the Chief Justice of India’s (CJI) court room last month. The circular stated that “advocates only in proper unif...

“Heavens are not going to fall if the provisions are stayed. This matter cannot be treated lightly. Two years have passed and there is no definite answer from you [Centre]… either you file your affidavit or we will stay the operation of these provisions,” said Supreme Court Justice J Chelameswar yes...

In a bid to address issues of social justice involving vulnerable sections of the society, the Supreme Court will now have a ‘Social Justice’ bench that would exclusively hear such matters once a week. Chief Justice HL Dattu constituted the special bench comprising Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice ...

The Allahabad high court today dismissed as premature, a writ challenging the Bar Council of India’s yet-to-be enforced Rule 7 that bars advocates with less than five years of lower court experience from practicing in the Supreme Court. RMLNLU Lucknow student Anubhav Verma was the lead petitioner in...

Showing clear intent in reforming India’s indirect tax regime within a time frame, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Monday said the government is making efforts to bring in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill in the ongoing winter session of parliament. “We will try and introduce the GST (Goods and S...

While recently returning home from work in west Delhi’s Mayapuri area around 10 p.m., a woman was chased by three youths who, apart from passing derogatory and lewd remarks, advanced and caught hold of her hands. After the woman resisted and shouted that she was a police officer, the three youths - ...