Cyber policy 2013: The government has released the National Cyber Security Policy 2013 aimed at protecting information and at building capabilities to prevent cyber attacks. The policy plans to set up a national nodal agency to co-ordinate all matters related to cyber security in the country with cl...

IB nixes terrific collegium: A collegium of judges in a state affected by militancy had six months ago recommended an advocate, who was linked to a terrorist outfit, for elevation to the high court. The Prime Minister’s Office ordered an Intelligence Bureau (IB) scrutiny of all the persons recommend...

Soli vs political RTI ordinance : Former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee said that the government’s proposal to bring an ordinance to keep political parties out of the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, is an abuse of constitutional power. “Ordinance should be brought in only in ...

Muslim minor marriages challenged: Three writ petitions were filed on Wednesday in the Kerala High Court questioning the recent state government circular legalising underage marriages between Muslims older than 16 and providing for their registration [ Hindu ] Dodgy degrees: Madras HC lawyer files f...

MHAA recalls judge choices: Madras HC Advocates Association (MHAA) petitions the CJI to reject the list of 15 proposed judges sent by the Madras HC collegiums to him, on the ground of it being below “constitutional standards”. “It appears that the names have been proposed on extraneous criteria such...

No say on NSA: The Supreme Court today asked Ex-Delhi University law professor SN Singh to bring evidence on Friday (28 June) of violation of fundamental rights of internet users. His PIL alleges that nine US-based internet companies in India are sharing user data with the National Security Agency (...

Lawyers mourn telegram: The closure of India’s telegram service has left lawyers in the lurch, reports the New Indian Express , adding that lawyers will now have to find another way of making representations to authorities on behalf of clients. “In registered post, there is no guarantee of the conte...

Ramlu wants moolah: RMLNLU Lucknow on Saturday decided to raise its fees from the current Rs 80,000 per year to an, as yet, undecided amount, which “will be at par with other national law schools”. However, “the university will consider the financial status of students who come from UP before finali...

8 new Bom HC judges: The Bombay HC elevated eight lawyers to judgeship. The new judges: Advocates Suresh Gupte, Z A haq, K R Shriram, Gautam Patel, Atul Chandurkar, Revati Mohite Dhere, Mahesh Sonak and Ravindra Ghuge [ TOI ] DoT V TRAI: Telecom regulator TRAI and the Department of Telecommunication...

Obscene justice? A 61-year old doctor threatened a Supreme Court bench today that she would commit suicide if her case of malicious prosecution was sent back to the Delhi HC. She alleged that a Delhi HC judge had been sending her obscene messages and had colluded with BSES Rajdhani to falsely implic...

Nalsar tops India Today: Nalsar Hyderabad displaced NLSIU Bangalore at first place in India’s top 25 law colleges this year according to India Today . NLSIU, Delhi University, NUJS Kolkata, NLIU Bhopal, GNLU Gandhinanar, Symbiosis Pune, NLU Jodhpur, ILS Pune, AMU Aligarh, BHU Varanai and Amity Law S...

Manu Singhvi disclosures: Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi has dsiclosed an undeclared income of Rs 11 crore and deposited Rs 3.26 crore in tax on it, however the income tax department claims that his actual undisclosed income is Rs 22.86 crore taking his tax liability to Rs 7 crore, for the ye...

TN NLS late : The Rs 100 crore campus Tamil Nadu National Law School in Trichy, which vowed to admit its first batch of students this year, has still not clearly stated its admission process [ TOI ] Doctrine of frustration : A lawyer appointed as friend of the court in a litigation pending for nine ...

Open-air Tihar: Five- to 12-year term inmates in India’s central jail – Tihar – are now eligible for being housed in the open jail, while female inmates will be trained to be employed in beauty parlours after their release [ PTI ] Coal scam resignations: Competition Commission of India (CCI) member ...

Publicity interest litigation? SC judges GS Misra and Madan Lokur told Ranbaxy PIL petitioner advocate ML Sharma, who had prayed for cancellation of its licence for allegedly selling spurious drugs, this his allegations were “unfounded”. The judges told Sharma: “Do some serious research on it and on...

BCI v Tamil Nadu police: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has written to the chief justice of the Madras HC requesting action against cops who registered a case against 20 advocates in Tamil Nadu who had visited the state police headquarters to lodge a complaint against the Kanyakumari district police...

Late star : Rs 1,000 cr Operation Blue Star challenge over Golden Temple attack, mired for 29 years in Delhi high court over Rs 10 crore court deposit, lurches ahead again after Sikh shrine committee pays court fee [ The Hindu ] Bench pressed : North- and Hyderabad-Karnataka region circuit benches i...

Glivec dissected : Must-read (long) feature in the Caravan delving into the history, background and repercussions on the Novartis Supreme Court patent judgment and the future of IP laws in India and globally [ Caravan ] Public interest injections: Serial PIL lawyer ML Sharma filed in the SC yesterda...

Not sitting pretty: West Bengal advocate general Bimal Chatterjee sparked off courtroom drama in the Calcutta HC with his comments on state election commissioner Meera Pandey’s demand for extra security cover, which he called “arbitrary” and “whimsical”. He said: “Every day, new demands are being ma...

Neglected juveniles: Delhi HC directs that all Delhi jails will have a welfare officer, after noting that only 5 Delhi jails out of 11 have them. The absence of welfare officers and one social worker to work with each Special Juvenile Police Unit in the city has led to imprisonment of juvenile offen...