Senior counsel and Supreme Court judge candidate Gopal Subramanium has sent a rather candid letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) withdrawing his candidature.

A judge on the Supreme Court’s collegium, talking on condition of anonymity to the Economic Times , has come out in support of elevating senior counsel Gopal Subramanium to the Supreme Court, despite the government’s attempts to veto his earlier nomination . The judge said that Subramanium’s “credib...

Former solicitor general (SG) Gopal Subramanium had written a letter to former law minister Kapil Sibal during the 2G scam, denying allegations of having “interacted with any lawyer” – allegations on the basis of which the new government has tried to veto his name for elevation to the SC as judge , ...

Former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium’s name has not been cleared for elevation as a Supreme Court judge by the government which cleared the names of senior advocate Rohinton Nariman, Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Orissa High Court Chief Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel for the ele...

[Read the litigation files & IB reports]: After the Essar Group last week tried to bring an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report into its litigation against Greenpeace, the NGO is claiming that it’s a strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP).

The law ministry has returned the file to elevate senior counsel Gopal Subramanium to the Supreme Court bench to the collegium, which will again have to reconsider whether it wants to elevate the advocate, though the ministry cleared the elevation of senior counsel Rohinton Nariman and high court ch...

The SC has said that from 8 July, two benches would only hear miscellaneous matters in service matters, cheque bounce appeals and labour matters.

Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) RC Lahoti is now arbitrator on the international arbitration between Vodafone and the Indian government under the India-Netherlands bilateral treaty, to decide validity of the Rs 27,000 crore tax demand from Vodafone, reported the PTI . The finance ministry’s deci...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), through president Pravin Parekh, wrote to Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha suggesting that in his proposed scheme of 365-days working courtrooms, lawyers be consulted before listing their matters on what would otherwise be non-working days. Asking for “...

Nine Kerala students were arrested and bailed on Sunday after posting “NaMo” as a crossword clue to the expected solution “NAyeente MOn”, which, according to the Times of India loosely translates to “son of a bitch”, only several days after six other Kerala students and educational staff were arrest...

The Tiruchi Bar Association called a strike yesterday over the murder of advocate S Mathiazhagan, demanding that the case be handed to the Crime Branch CID or the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after little progress in the investigations for a month, presenting a memorandum to the city’s poli...

Two members of staff and four students of a Kerala polytechnic were arrested, then bailed, after publishing a campus magazine that contained a photograph of Narendra Modi alongside Adolf Hitler, George W Bush, Osama Bin Laden and others in a “negative faces” collage, reported the PTI . They, and the...

According to the Economic Times , citing an unnamed “senior law ministry official”, senior counsel and former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium’s nomination to the Supreme Court bench, which was announced by the collegium and then-new Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha last month , is currently...

The BJP government’s law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad signed off on senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi becoming Attorney General of India yesterday, reported the Times of India and other papers citing ministry sources, which is set to be approved by the president in a day or two. Although Rohatgi’s appoi...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has ordered all Supreme Court advocates’ clerks to wear a uniform of “sky-blue shirt and navy blue trousers” while also being coached to keep out of the aisles in the court room and clear the space as soon as possible after court appearances. In the notificat...

Senior advocate Ranjit Kumar has today been appointed solicitor general of India by the new BJP government’s law ministry, reported the PTI . Senior advocates Maninder Singh, Tushar Mehta, L Nageshwar Rao, PS Patwalia, Neeraj Kishen Kaul and PS Narasimha would each become additional solicitor genera...

The appointment of Mukul Rohatgi, who was considered a shoo-in to become the next Attorney General of India , appears to have been put on hold following a critical letter by senior counsel and former BJP member Ram Jethmalani to the BJP leadership. Jethmalani told the Indian Express : “Yes, I have w...

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) cannot take any action against retired Supreme Court (SC) justice and National Green Tribunal (NGT) head Swatanter Kumar in the sexual harassment complaint against him, as the charges are from when he was an SC judge, the MoEF told the SC, reported the ...

The Bar Council of Delhi’s (BCD) chairman RS Chauhan accused Luthra & Luthra litigation partner and former BCD vice chairman Vijay Sondhi of trying to obstruct the BCD from initiating disciplinary proceedings against Luthra, which Sondhi denied in a 2 June letter to Chauhan as “frivolous, bald and baseless”.

The Andhra Pradesh High Court, which from today will be called the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the state of Telangana and the state of Andhra Pradesh, has enforced new rules for entry of litigants and advocates not practicing in it, reported the New Indian Express . All outsiders can o...