The Centre asked the collegium to reconsider its recommendation of Karnataka high court justice Manjunath for elevation to chief justice at Punjab & Haryana high court after, according to “highly placed sources in the law ministry”, the Centre received complaints against him, reported The Hindu...

“For the first time in the history of judiciary, the Bar Council of India has decided to address the woes of new entrants in the Bar by providing `5,000 as stipend, per month, for a period of five years,” reported the New Indian Express . The BCI’s members and various state bar council chairmen and ...

The Supreme Court’s secretary general advised Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) advocates to use their smart phones to access its cause lists and case status information , after the SCBA complained that the SC website was practically non-functional with respect to viewing of cause lists. The SCBA...

Crest Law Partners co-founding partner and 1998 ULC Bangalore graduate Dhyan Chinappa was designated a senior advocate, alongside lawyers BM Shyam Prasad, DL Jagadish, G Krishna Murthy, M B Nargand, M N Sheshadri, M V Seshachala, R L Patil, V Lakshminarayana, Vivek Subba Reddy and YR Sadashiva Reddy...

Senior Advocate UU Lalit was cleared for Supreme Court judgeship by the collegium, alongside Meghalaya chief justice Prafull Chandra Pant, Gauhati chief justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Jharkhand chief justice R Banumathi, reported The Hindu . Lalit will be elevated in place of former solicitor gener...

Senior advocate and BJP spokesperson Pinky Anand was appointed Additional Solicitor General (ASG) in the Supreme Court and she assumed office yesterday, reported The Hindu . The former Additional Advocate General of Uttarakhand is only the second woman ever to be appointed ASG. The first – Indira Ja...

Karnataka high court Justice Ashok B Hinchigeri has struck down the part of Rule-11(1) of the Karnataka Excise Licences (General Conditions) Rules 1967 banning dance as a form of entertainment in error petition filed by a restaurant in Domlur and two professional female dancers, reported the Times o...

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused the SCBA of “crass commercialisation and periodic auctioning and re-auctioning”, on its decision to rename the Supreme Court’s “Dr LM Singhvi library” to “Dr Awadh Behari Rohatgi library” after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, instead of Singhvi, ended up ...

The Delhi Bar Council (DBC) will elect a new chairman and vice chairman on 30 July, as RS Chauhan – the chairman elected in January – resigned on 28 June, on the brink of a no confidence motion being passed against him by 16 DBC members.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has resolved to strip the Supreme Court’s library II of its title – Dr LM Singhvi library. The association was apparently upset after the late senior advocate’s son, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, wrote a letter to the SCBA underscoring his previous R...

The Supreme Court yesterday laid down new directions making police officers and judicial magistrates liable for departmental action and contempt proceedings for making “scurrilous” arrests and ordering “routine” detention under Section 498A of the IPC or under Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act....

Senior advocate Arvind Datar is being considered by the Supreme Court collegium, the Times of India first reported yesterday, after Legally India reported last week that senior counsel Uday Lalit too was in the process of being elevated to the Supreme Court.

During the retirement function of Justice BS Chauhan, Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that he had requested Gopal Subramanium to withdraw his resignation from the Supreme Court bench elevation process, reported the Hindustan Times . However, the senior counsel wrote a “30-word regret lett...

The battle for Delhi Bar Council executive posts between chairman RS Chauhan and former vice chairman and currently disputed secretary Vijay Sondhi, has entered a new stage.

NLSIU Bangalore produced a total five senior advocates this year with three now in the Karnataka high court, who were designated next to one non-NLSIU alum.

Former additional solicitor general (ASG) Biswajit Bhattacharya was rebuked by Supreme Court justices HL Dattu and SA Bobde as their bench dismissed his PIL against Vodafone, reported the Mint . Bhattacharya had claimed “subversion of the rule of law” by not enforcing the retrospective amendment to ...

Former additional solicitor general and senior advocate Bishwajit Bhattacharyya has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court, seeking to get India to pay up its tax bill under a retrospective amendment passed in 2012 by the then-government, reported the Economic Times . Bhattach...

CBI judge JT Utpat, who was presiding in a Mumbai hearing into 2006’s alleged fake encounter of Tulsiram Prajapati, had told off BJP general secretary Amit Shah’s lawyers on 20 June because their client for wanted to be exempted from appearing in court and had skipped a hearing in the case on 6 June...

Legally India Supreme Court postcard writer Court Witness ’s latest column in the Mumbai Mirror on l’affaire Gopal Subramanium: Make no mistake about it. The underlying reasons for the rejection (or the “separation”) of the recommendation of the five senior most judges of the Supreme Court (better k...

Supreme Court senior advocate Uday U Lalit will be elevated to the apex court’s roster, it has been confirmed, as former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium withdrew his candidature facing controversy over his elevation.