SC serves notice on state, centre to probe cow vigilantism: “A number of PILs were filed by political leaders and activists in High Courts across the states and in Supreme Court demanding strong action against the cow vigilantes. One such PIL was filed by Congress leader Tehseen S Poonawalla in Supr...

Cauvery saga continues, SC ordesr 2,000 cusecs released: “On Monday, a high-level panel suggested doing away with ‘outdated and unscientific water application techniques’ to resolve the Cauvery wrangle, saying both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu were facing water shortage, creating unemployment and financ...

NYT’s beautiful smackdown of Donald Trump defamation notice: Reputation already shot, so nothing left to lower (Ps: Bring it on) : The New York Times has responded rather cleverly to the legal notice of US presidential hopeful Donald Trump, which was fired off by one of New York’s most feared litiga...

TERI Pachauri : RK Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment by a former colleague, has returned to TERI in a new role created just for him - executive vice chairman - after a decision by the governing body. ( India Today ). Many decade-old cases pending in lower courts : More than 10 per cent of 2,00,...

Senior general counsel (GC) could earn Rs 80 - 300+ lakh per annum , revealed a recruiter, adding that generally pay in-house was still lower than in private practice. Meanwhile our feature in Mint revealed that GCs may not be the only ones holding the purse strings though when it comes to the bitte...

Phoenix partner Kartikeya Singh is to become deputy GC at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas has completed another lateral hire in Mumbai with former Prism co-founder Yogesh Chande joining from Economic Laws Practice (ELP). Meanwhile, AZB turned out to have been the most a...

Amnesty International India Tuesday asked the Assam government to release a journalist from custody and guarantee him a fair trial after he was accused of having links with banned militant outfits. Kokrajhar-based 44-year-old Jaikhlong Brahma was detained Sep 2. He was sent to judicial custody by a ...

SCBA tea at 4 on SC Rules : The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will meet at 4:10pm today to discuss the new Supreme Court Rules and some of the minor tweaks regarding A4 paper and other concessions made by the Chief Justice of India (CJI), including putting “in abeyance” two examples of AoR mi...

Shiv Sena force feeders not PIL material : A Delhi high court bench of chief justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath have declined to hear public interest litigation (PIL) to disqualify 11 Shiv Sena MPs who allegedly force-fed a Muslim member of canteen staff over Ramadan as a way of protesting abo...

Senior counsel Fali Nariman has added another to the four public interest litigations (PILs) against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), which will be heard on Monday. Together with advocate Subhash Sharma, he claimed that the constitutional amendment “severely affects and damages ...

Governor files petition against NaMo for pushing out governors : Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi has filed a writ under Articles 155 and 156(1) of the Constitution against Narendra Modi and his government for pushing him (and other governors) out of their constitutional positions. He will be argui...

On Monday a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha would hear four petitions challenging the government’s freshly passed National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and accompanying constitutional amendment as unconstitutional. Petitions have been filed by ex-ad...

The Supreme Court told KK Venugopal, the senior counsel for former Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar, who is currently chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), that Kumar should respond to an apex court transfer petition within four weeks, which was filed by one of his former interns who a...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, who recently withdrew from the process to become a Supreme Court judge after government leaks about his suitability, should be the special public prosecutor in the Coalgate scam cases, reported the PTI . Lodha, who had...

The Supreme Court will hear a petition against the Tamil Nadu bar council, which allegedly issued show cause notices to 400 lawyers and began removing graduates who completed their LLB degrees after they were 30 years old. The petition by a group of graduates calling themselves the TN LLB Advocates ...

The Supreme Court of India has appointed ex Australian high court judge Michael Hudson McHugh to preside over the $1.8bn arbitration between the government and Reliance Industries (RIL) relating to the KG basin. Supreme Court Justice SS Nijjar had originally picked ex-Australian Supreme Court judge ...

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam has ruled in a writ petition on people disposing human waste manually from dry toilets, granting Rs 10 lakh compensation each to families of manual scavengers who died in sewers, manholes or septic tanks since 1993, after the ...

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Indian Corporate Law blog’s V Umakanth just reported that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has notified several further provisions of the Companies Act to take effect from 1 April [ Indian Corporate Law Blog ] [ Notification (mirror link since original MCA link unreliable at the moment) ] Com...

… less and less the older they get… Research by UK-headquartered international firm Eversheds, after interviewing 1,800 young lawyers to shed light on the ‘future leaders’ of the legal profession, revealed that female lawyers earned on average 30 per cent more than their male counterparts when aged ...