A Delhi high court bench headed by Justice Pradeep Nandrajog said “99% of the existing NGOs are fraud and simply moneymaking devices. Only one out of every hundred NGOs serve the purpose they are set up for” [ Hindustan Times ] Sonepat in Haryana, which is also home to Jindal Global Law School (JGLS...

SEBI, UPSC appealed more CIC orders than they answered RTIs. UPSC hides civil service mains papers most, while SEBI doesn’t like disclosing insider trading orders and chairman’s assets and liabilities [ Express ] Punjab and Haryana HC gives back government job benefit of Leave Travel Concession (LTC...

Amity University Noida’s law school lecturer allegedly gets abused and assaulted by student Abhinav Gupta - the son of a Samajwadi party MLA – after allegedly attendance-related grudge [ Express ] Madras HC admonishes bureaucracy for “remarkable unwillingness and apathy” in implementing court orders...

PIL filed in Delhi HC against Facebook India, Google India about alleged compliance failure in tax and RBI regulation, data security, and user-agreement [ DNA India ] Maharashtra NLU in limbo after as ministers fight over location: Aurangabad campus in addition to Mumbai? [ TOI ] CBI calls on two It...

Eight UP RTI information commissioners’ appointments were stalled after last week’s SC judgment mandating the presence of judicial members in benches of two at the information commissions. The panel of names for the UP commission was already finalised last month but will now be scrutinised by the go...

Many Indian lawyers may not find favour with the LPO-career-trajectory for lack of “professional satisfaction”, but fast easy money it sure does make, believe most. Here’s the money-myth dispelling tale of an Indian family lawyer who ended up billing only 10 per cent less working on standardised fam...

ASG Siddharth Luthra produces a letter on behalf of the ministry of chemicals in Supreme Court, and invites the wrath of justices Singhvi and Mukhopadhyay. The bench rebuked the department of pharmaceuticals for its slow action in preparing a national list of essential medicines. “ Was it a silent m...

Delhi gov’t objects to ASG Chandhiok appearing for Delhi lawyers in his capacity as DHCBA president , in their Delhi HC challenge to the recent court fee amendment act by which court fee was hiked tenfold. Gov’t counsel argues that the ASG was appointed by the president and the matter involves a con...

Karnataka HC’s justice Bhaktavatsala loses plate of family law matters listed before him, after outrage over some of his remarks made orally in a divorce matter . Other matters listed before him remain with him. The changes will come into effect from tomorrow. Bhaktavatsala had effectively told a de...

Madras HC gets more than one ASG for the first time as senior advocates G Masilamani, 72 and P Wilson, 45 get appointed as ASGs to succeed senior advocate M Ravindran. Masilamani was South India’s first appointed ASG in 1997-98, while Wilson is the youngest ASG of south India [ TOI ] Bombay HC raise...

Calcutta HC lawyers file, while SCBA and West Bengal bar association consider filing, a contempt petition in Cal HC against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee who said, “Why should many judgements today be delivered for money? Why?” in the West Bengal assembly on Tuesday. SCBA president Pravin Parekh sa...

Bombay lawyers must plan in advance the filing of matters with court fees in excess of Rs 10,000, which is the per-day cap on the amount of fee stamps available to the lawyers in Bombay courts. Bombay courts are apparently experiencing a shortage in court fee stamps, learnt a solicitor when he appro...

There is a need to look into anti-dumping duty being conducive or non-conducive to competition, said Ajay Kumar Chauhan, the director general (DG) of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Citing the ongoing investigation by the office of the director general against the man-made fibre manufactu...

25 year-old in-house lawyer and ILS Pune grad Pallavi Purkayastha found murdered in her Mumbai flat, stabbed and with her throat slit. Her body was discovered by her live-in boyfriend, an associate at JSA [ PTI ] Litigation start-up: Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi indirect tax associate and NLU J...

American Bar Association votes 15-0 against accrediting law schools outside the US, holding that “it would prove difficult to translate the culture, value and ethics of the American legal system to foreign law school students”, rejecting a 2008 application of a Chinese law school in the process. The...

RMLNLU Lucknow student Satnam Singh Mann dies three days into judicial custody after he was arrested from a religious mutt in Kerala on 2 August 2012. Mann was charged with attempt to murder after a police official allegedly suffered injuries while trying to block Mann from “creating panic” at the M...

15 NLSIU girls pluck 27 out of 30 gold medals in 2012 convocation, reports TOI [correction: There appears to be an error in these figures in the Times of India story. Please provide clarification in the comments since NLSIU campus is closed due to chickenpox, we have not been able to get independent...

Drug manufacturer Natco tells Delhi HC that it was pursuing marketing licence for cancer drug in 2009 when it had stated on oath that it didn’t mean to manufacture generic version of that drug. Arguably, reports SpicyIP, company indirectly admits lying on oath, though maintains that a patent infring...

Senior advocate Indu Malhotra prays for setting up sexual harassment complaint committees in courts, to SC justices Gyan Sudha Mishra and TS Thakur. Points out that SC guidelines in the 1997 Visakha judgement need to be implemented in courts because harassment of women is a ‘serious issue’. The benc...

Inebriating DJs ‘DJ Parties’ get banned on Nalsar Hyderabad Campus, after a 30 July emergency meeting of the college’s proctoral board where it ‘expressed anguish and disapproval of students indulging in mass intoxication’ during the fresher’s party this year. The board also decided that the college...