Senior counsel Abhishek Manu Singhvi was slapped with an Income Tax penalty of Rs 56.67 crore while his three-year “declared professional income” was increased by Rs 91.95 crore by a Settlement Commission order, which was stayed on 11 September by the Jodhpur high court, reported the Indian Express ...

Senior advocate Vikas Singh alleged before a Supreme Court bench of justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana that an ex-Supreme Court judge made a ruling on 11 February, which helped the judge’s sister in a similar case under the Bombay Rent Act, in which she allegedly cited her brother’s judgment, re...

Ashok Parija suggests 5 simple ideas that would go some way to curing the Indian legal profession and regulation of many troubles.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Sunday re-elected the Bihar state bar council representative Manan Kumar Mishra back into chairmanship of the BCI, afterRajasthan member Biri Singh Sinsinwar occupied the post from April having succeeded Mishra, reported the Deccan Chronicle . Madras high court seni...

The Supreme Court on Friday said it was not the job of the courts to examine the contours of a government policy and whether there could have been a better version of a particular policy followed by the government. “… it is clear as noon day that it is not within the domain of the courts to embark u...

The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to approach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu asked the petitioner to first make an appropriate representation before an author...

S&R Associates Delhi partner Rajat Sethi has moved to the Mumbai office of the firm as a “strategic decision” to bolster the corporate and private equity practice of the firm, reported Bar & Bench . His move, increasing the partner headcount in Mumbai to three and reducing Delhi to five pa...

Advocate Deepak Khosla, who complained to Delhi high court chief justice (CJ) G Rohini yesterday against metropolitan magistrate Niti Phutela’s recusal and transfer of his case to another judge, has filed a criminal defamation case against Phutela in the Saket district court, asking for Rs 50 crore ...

Metropolitan Magistrate Ankita Lal today transferred the alleged midnight raid case against former Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti to a higher court after being annoyed by defence counsel Deepak Khosla.

A Delhi court on Monday extended until 14 November the judicial custody of OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan, who was arrested in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland VIP chopper deal. Special judge VK Gupta sent Khaitan to 11 days’ judicial custody after he was p...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), on 24 September, proposed six amendments to its rules and allowed temporary SCBA members with proximity cards to gain 60 entries to the Supreme Court’s high security zone. The association proposed to: impose restrictions on the number of times a member can h...

A circular issued by Madras high court registrar General P Kalaiyarasan, as agreed to by all the bar associations in the city, said that lawyers should now file their cases without folding the case papers in half along the longer side, reported The Hindu . The so-called ‘flat filing system’ was a “w...

“The judges are serious about rendering speedy justice to litigants. In most cases, the law has already been succinctly laid down and does not require further arguments to delay a verdict. Those cases need to be decided fast with crisp judgments focusing only on facts in the backdrop of the already ...

A court here Saturday issued a bailable warrant against Congress leader Digvijaya Singh after he failed to appear before it in a criminal defamation case lodged against him by union minister Nitin Gadkari. Metropolitan Magistrate Gomati Manocha also warned Road Transport and Highways Minister Gadkar...

A Delhi high court judge initiated contempt proceedings and ordered injunction against a legal news magazine over a story alleging links between his son and a late-opening night club.

Like Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal who devoted his life to tracking down and prosecuting war criminals, senior advocate HS Phoolka says he will not give up in his fight for justice for the 1984 anti-Sikh riot victims. He says though three decades have elapsed “we have to prove the law of the land is ...

The Supreme Court Thursday suspended defamation proceedings in five cases initiated by the Tamil Nadu government against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for making critical observations against former chief minister J Jayalalithaa. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice UU Lalit, while suspending t...

The Delhi high court Thursday issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on a bail plea of OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan, arrested in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper deal. Justice VP Vaish sought response from the ED and asked it to file a ...

The proposal for legalising prostitution in India will be placed before the Supreme Court constituted panel Nov 8, National Commission for Women (NCW) chief Lalitha Kumaramangalam said Wednesday. “The proposal for legalising prostitution will be put forth in the National Consultation scheduled to be...

An Andhra Pradesh law student was arrested under the IT Act, presumably section 66A, and the IPC, for allegedly posting a comment on Facebook in English and Telugu that stated “I love u hudhoodh”, referring to the destructive cyclone and noting that it was taking revenge against “betrayers”, reporte...