The Advocates’ Association of Western India (AAWI) has asked chief minister Prithviraj Chavan that an extension to the Bombay high court should be built in the Bandra Kurla Complex in the Mumbai suburbs, to allow for more courts, chambers and storage of documents DNA

Sessions court judge MT Gaikwad has been suspended in South Mumbai after a preliminary inquiry about a complaint from a female member of the court staff complained of his “inappropriate behaviour” - in particular, by staring at her in an offensive manner, reported the PTI . The preliminary inquiry w...

A petition in the Supreme Court pleaded for a constitutional amendment to make Hindi an official language to conduct high and apex court proceedings in. A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice HL Dattu issued notice to the government about the petition that was filed by advocate Shiv Sagar Tiwari, w...

The former Gwalior district judge who alleged she was sexually harassed by a high court judge who transferred her, said she would not cooperate with the panel set up to investigate her complaint until the panel is reconstituted. The panel set up by Chief Justice of India RM Lodha to probe the allega...

The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Bill 2014 was passed by the Rajya Sabha today, including a Lok Sabha amendment from yesterday by senior Congress politician and former law minister Veerappa Moily to restrict the government’s effective veto over new appointments. The upper house c...

A Delhi high court bench of chief justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw rejected the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) appeal against a stay order in the same court by Justice Manmohan Singh, reported Mint . Justice Singh had stayed a CCI investigation into the Institute of Chartered...

Justices Abhay Manohar Sapre, R Banumathi and Prafulla Chandra Pant, together with former senior counsel UU Lalit today took up their post as Supreme Court judges to take the bench strength of the apex court up to 30 out of 31 sanctioned judges. PTI

Update 15:12: The bill has been passed. @CourtWitness1 commented on Twitter: The INS JAC has left the dry docks. Without right armaments it’s woefully exposed to destruction by judicial torpedoes. If the RS doesn’t amend the veto power given to Law minister in the NJAC, it’s pretty much dead in the ...

Current Press Council of India (PCI) chairman and former Supreme Court and high court judge Markandey Katju, has written another blog post about judicial corruption, attacking the system of judicial transfers and the conspiracy of silence on judicial corruption within the bench. He argued that: “Mos...

The Karnataka high court will introduce wireless internet in six to seven months, reported the Deccan Herald . The advocates association had made the request for a court-based wireless internet network to the registrar general, who have now started the tendering process to find a provider of the int...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) executive commitee is “prima facie of the view” that a female additional district judge in Gwalior was sexually harassed by a more senior judge, and that this complaint should be dealt with immediately by the CJI. The SCBA also urged the CJI to file an FIR an...

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and Anil R Dave asked Gopal Subramanium to reconsider his recusal as the amicus curiae in the Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure case, because he had already put significant work into the case, reported The Hindu . Subramanium had announced, as reported on 5 August , th...

Senior counsel and ex-law minister Kapil Sibal, won a Delhi high court stay for the Gandhis and other Congress politicians over a summons obtained by BJP politician Subramanian Swamy in a magistrate’s court in June. In the case revolving around an alleged loan by the Congress party, which Swamy clai...

A letter of complaint was sent on 1 August to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha and the rest of the Supreme Court collegium by a female additional district and sessions judge in Gwalior, who resigned on 15 July, allegeging that she was sexually harassed by a more senior male judge of the Mad...

The Bar Council of Delhi (DBC) has elected advocate KK Manan as chairman and advocate Amit Sharma as vice chairman, both uncontested, to respectively replace advocates Ram Singh Chauhan and Rakesh Sherawat on Wednesday. Newly and controversially appointed DBC secretary and former DBC vice chairman V...

According to the Times of India , Senior counsel Harish Salve has been the latest lawyer to have been instructed to appear for Sahara boss Subrata Roy, who continues to be locked up in Tihar Jail for contempt of court . Salve’s first act as counsel was to accept the offer of a bigger cell for Roy - ...

The Law Commission chairman Justice AP Shah has recommended that the tenure of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) should be fixed to at least two years, and that the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) should consist of at least four judges, including the CJI as chairperson, reported The Hindu and ...

Yesterday’s high-powered law ministry meeting with a who’s who of the legal profession , reportedly resulted in a consensus from most present about the need to abolish the existing collegium system of judicial appointments, with the government now producing a draft. The three hour meeting, according...

The central government and its law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad are set to meet in Delhi with a number of advocates today, to discuss the shape of a constitutional amendment on judicial appointments, reported the Times of India . The panel to give feedback on a possible change to the collegium syste...

Justice Markandey Katju has continued his indictment of the collegium system on his blog, now alleging that then-Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan pushed hard for the elevation of Justice PD Dinakaran to the Supreme Court, despite strong evidence of corruption against the latter. While no...