Markandey Katju, former Supreme Court judge and current Press Council chairman, has tweeted that the situation has worsened in the judiciary since former Chief Justice of India (CJI) SP Bharucha implied in 2001 that as many as 20 per cent of judges might be corrupt . Katju tweeted about the topic af...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has stated that under Rule III of the BCI rules “wearing of advocate’s gown shall be optional except when appearing in the Supreme Court or in High courts”, reported the Times of India , and under Rule IV, “wearing of black coat is not mandatory” during summer. The rel...

Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was today sworn-in as chief justice of the Madras high court. The 55-year-old Delhi University law graduate and former senior counsel replaces Justice RK Agrawal, who was elevated to the Supreme Court, and acting chief justice Satish K A...

The force feeding of a fasting Muslim by a Shiv Sena politician was termed “ very regrettable and unfortunate ” by the home minister in Parliament; an NGO meanwhile took legal action: Advocate Imran Ali alleged that the act of Sena MP Vichare was a “deliberate act” to “grab public attention” and “hu...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has proposed changing its articles, with its general body due to vote on 12 August between 10am and 4pm, primarily amending who can stand for elections to become office bearers and executive committee members. The proposals, digested: 1. You can’t hold a sing...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday passed a resolution unanimously to request the Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha to delay the implementation of the Supreme Court Rules 2013 and seek feedback from its members for the next 10 days. The rules, which were notified earlier this wee...

The Supreme Court has appointed senior advocate RS Cheema as the special public prosecutor (SPP) in the Coalgate scam special court trial, reported the PTI , presided over by additional sessions judge Bharat Parashar. A week ago the bench of Chief Justice RM Lodha, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice ...

Karnataka high court advocate TN Raghupathy has filed a writ challenging the designation of 15 new senior advocates at the HC this year , tweeted BurgerrB and reported Bar & Bench . Raghupathy, who has impleaded the 15 senior advocates in the PIL, has argued that the HC’s senior designation pro...

A Supreme Court constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha and four other judges yesterday dropped the contempt of court proceedings started by Subramanian Swamy against then- Indian Express editor Arun Shourie, wrote the Times of India in a detailed report including the case...

Mulla & Mulla, acting for its client Anil Ambani, has served a legal notice on Google and Pranav Sachdeva, a junior of advocate Prashant Bushan, for a blog post on Ambani entitled “Black money of Anil Ambani (Prashant Bhushan’s Complaint SIT)”, allegedly posted by Sachdeva on Google’s blogging ...

The Calcutta high court is set to get its first female chief justice, as Kerala high court chief justice Manjula Chellur gets trasnferred to Calcutta after its CJ Arun Mishra was elevated as a Supreme Court judge, reported the New Indian Express . Justice Chellur became a Karnataka HC judge in 2000 ...

Apart from capping the upper limit of summer vacations, the Supreme Court’s new Supreme Court Rules 2013 include at least two other major procedural changes (see below). No newbies First, the Supreme Court rules now state that advocates enrolled for less than one year can not address the court “for ...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has notified the Supreme Court Rules, 2013 that have received the president’s assent and will reduce the maximum time of the apex court’s summer vacations from 10 to 7 weeks, reported the Indian Express , though the total annual holidays will remain capped at 10...

KG Balakrishnan, ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) and currently chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, told The Hindu that, contrary to ex-SC Justice Markandey Katju’s blog post alleging he appointed a judge known to be corrupt to the Madras high court, there were no adverse reports agains...

A blog by former Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju, who is now Press Council of India (PCI) chairman, has caused a “ruckus” in both houses of parliament, according to the DNA and the PTI . Katju had written in his blog that the tenure of an additional judge in the Madras high court had been exte...

Supreme Court advocate Vineet Dhanda, who was booked in March for an alleged altercation with the police, has hit back at the cops by reportedly exonerating himself with CCTV and video footage of his interaction with the police that he obtained via a right to information (RTI) request for the police...

“Daring” the government to do away with laws requiring tribunals to be headed by judicial members chief justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that it is these laws that create a public perception that retired judges are “running and running and running after tribunals”, reported the Economic Times . ...

The Supreme Court collegiums turned down the government’s advice to “reconsider” its recommendation to elevate Karnataka high court justice Manjunath to chief justice at Punjab & Haryana, reported NDTV . The Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha had criticized the government, two weeks ago, for dro...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has warned Supreme Court interns that if they use the court’s main canteen between 12:30pm and 2:30pm, they may face “the embarrassment of being asked to leave”, as those hours at the canteen are reserved for the exclusive use of SCBA members. In a notice pub...

The Rajasthan high court issued criminal contempt notice to the president of the Bar association and other lawyers, for giving a boycott call demanding the transfer of a judge, reported the PTI . Bar Association president Gopeah Kumbhaj, former general secretary Rajesh Choudhary, lawyer Bharat Bhush...