The Supreme Court has increase the monthly stipend it pays to its law clerks / research assistants from Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000, with a hike to Rs 32,000 for clerks who stay for longer than a year. The stipend was last hiked to Rs 25,000 in 2010, as reported by Legally India at the time. The notice d...

The central government Wednesday submitted to the Supreme Court names of the 627 people who are holding accounts in foreign banks revealed to it by the French government. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi handed over two sealed envelopes to the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu. Rohatgi...

Fixed fee bids submitted by law firms to win work to document clients’ non-convertible debentures (NCDs) are now only Rs 2-3 lakh per NCD, instead Rs 4-5 lakh that law firms would have charged at the beginning of this year, reported the Economic Times citing a “mid-sized law firm” promoter, as in-ho...

A Bangalore employee of Infosys has been arrested under section 377 of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly having sex with another man, which was recorded by his arranged-marriage-wife of six months on a hidden camera, reported the Bangalore Mirror . The Supreme Court reinstated the colonial-era sec...

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the plea by Nithari killer Surinder Koli seeking recall of the judgment upholding his death sentence in Rimpa Haldar murder case. The apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Anil R Dave and Justice SA Bobde, in the first open court hearing of the review...

“At Supreme Court for three years under a kind senior but he’s still paying me peanuts and not giving me any great work. At a loss…”

Even as the Centre today told the Supreme Court that the President has given consent to invite the BJP to form the government in Delhi, the court expressed its displeasure and frowned upon the delaying tactics being adopted by the government. Just before every date of the hearing, some statement is ...

Delhi’s former law minister Somnath Bharti today filed a plea seeking further investigation and registration of a first information report against erring officials, accusing them of bias in the probe into the 16 January midnight raid on a Delhi house. Bharti has also claimed Rs. 250 crore in compens...

The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea by S Nalini Srikaran, undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi killing, who had challenged a provision in the law that mandates the state government take prior consent of the centre before remitting the sentence of a convict whose offence was investi...

The Supreme Court today heard arguments by counsel in the allegation by a former Gwalior district judge that she was sexually harassed by a Madhya Pradesh high court judge SK Gangele. The order, uploaded on the Supreme Court website , stated: Arguments heard, which remained inconclusive. List for fu...

Amid opposition attack of being soft on money laundering, the Indian government Monday furnished the names two individuals, including a promoter of the Dabur consumer goods company, and a mining company and its five directors to the Supreme Court, alleging they had funds in bank accounts abroad over...

Results of the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) VII, held on 7 September, have been declared by the Bar Council of India (BCI) on the official AIBE website . Lawyers enrolled with the Delhi bar council (DBC) who passed the sixth AIBE, held on 19 January 2014, have not yet been given a certificate of...

The Karnataka high court Tuesday allowed the prosecution of BJP national vice president and former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and his kin in a case pertaining to the alleged encroachment of forest land in Shimoga district. Setting aside the Shimoga sessions court order that dismissed the case in ...

A court here today extended till 3 November the judicial custody of OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan, who was arrested in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper deal. Special judge VK Gupta sent Khaitan to 14 days’ judicial custody after he was produced in ...

The Kerala bar council is discussing plans to ban all lawyers from talking to the media about their own cases under the anti-advertising rule 36 of the Bar Council of India (BCI) Rules, which could be implemented after a meeting soon, reported the Deccan Chronicle . The rule states that advocates mu...

A Bangalore-based businessman was arrested and jailed by police for 21 days in April under section 66A of the IT Act for “spreading canards” about another on online forums, reported The Hindu (via Pranesh Prakash ). The businessman has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHR...

All 15,000 subordinate courts will have their judgments digitised, with new judgments to be uploaded by 6pm on the day that it is handed down, law ministry sources told the Times of India.

A US group that has filed a case against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for alleged crimes against humanity has said it would contest the Obama administration’s “suggestion of immunity” for the Indian leader. American Justice Centre, which filed the case against Modi during his recent visit to ...

The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has has requested the Supreme Court’s secretary general to issue contempt proceedings against Tamil TV news channel, Thanthi, for apparently having broadcast live the arguments of Fali Nariman successfully arguing for J Jayalalithaa’s bail in the Supreme Court, r...

A Delhi court today dismissed the bail plea of OP Khaitan & Co managing partner Gautam Khaitan, arrested in a money laundering case related to the AgustaWestland chopper deal. Special judge VK Gupta denied bail to Khaitan who is in judicial custody. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), while oppos...