Nalsar Hyderabad professor Madabhushi Sridhar questions extension of legal aid to public servants, on moral and legal grounds [ The Hans India ] The oldest of 376 freshly enrolled Kerala HC advocates is 74 years of age. 30 out of 376 are over age 60, while a South Indian actor who graduated from LLB...

Jobs move: Amity Delhi 2005 grad Mohit Jolly has joined Trilegal in Delhi as a senior associate in litigation, after having practiced independently at the Supreme Court and the Delhi high court for two years, following two years at J Sagar Associates in infrastructure and litigation. If you would li...

Malhotra: CA/Lawyer Ex-KPMG, PwC partner Krishnan Malhotra has joined Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi as its new tax head, after partner Aseem Chawla quit to set up his own firm [ Taxsutra ] Amarchand said in a press release that Malhotra, a qualified lawyer and chartered accountant, was a senior partner ...

Competition Commission of India (CCI) hopes to give more leniency to those volunteering information about cartels [ Business Standard ] COMPAT grants United Phosphorus stay against CCI cartel fine of Rs 252 crore [ Hindu Business Line ] Bangalore: IP lawyer Priyale Prasad joins 2009-established, fou...

Madras HC Chief Justice M Yusuf Eqbal hits out at conditional fee arrangements (CFAs) being entered into by lawyers representing motor accident victims. “It is a great sin to the legal profession that lawyers are taking a percentage of the compensation awarded to accident victims. In MCOP cases, leg...

A fine legal mess: Times Group and the UK’s Financial Times trademark dispute turns 18 years old, as UK FT takes out ads to clarify it has nothing to do with TOI and Bennett & Coleman. The case over TOI’s supplement “Financial Times” using the UK financial newspaper’s trademark is still pending...

Delhi Bar Council vice chairman and Luthra partner Vijay Sondhi explains why BCI should prevail over HRD in HER dispute: letter to Delhi bar council and bar association members on why it would be “ridiculous to make any other authority as a forum superior in any manner and on any decision of the Leg...

DH Law offices moves to a bigger, 3500 sq feet office space with “superior facilities” in Free Press House (FPH) Nariman Point from it’s earlier smaller Nariman Point space, said managing partner Nusrat Hassan. The firm launched formally in Delhi and Patna on 1 July 2012 SC attacks violent conduct o...

Amarchand formally inaugurates Chennai office over weekend, four months after opening in the city [ Asia Legal Business / Bar & Bench ] Nalsar follows Symbiosis law school and NLSIU to hold its first ever film festival [ Nalsar Film Festival ] SC rebukes central gov’t for not filing response on...

MSM bastion Outlook translates foreign law firm debate for Janta, gets views of BCI, SILF, Lawyers Collective and LI [ Outlook ] Activist files PIL in Bombay HC against lawyers seeking adjournments that court accepts without giving reasons under CPC. She had earlier filed RTI applications in small c...

BCI chairman “thankful to the entire legal fraternity as well as the people of this country for showing their solidarity with the Lawyers’ Bodies” [ Press Release ] Environmental activist Vandana Shiva challenges Walmart for retailing to end consumers via Bharti Retail, in a petition filed in Delhi ...

Advocate with career ambitions (via @alokpi) ”) SCBA avoids BCI’s two-day boycott of courts but observes protest against HER bill by wearing white band on gown [ Law et al News ] Maintainability of 2G presidential reference gets challenged on first day of hearing in SC by CPIL. Soli Sorabjee, acting...

Maharashtra and Goa state bar councils and advocates association of western India support BCI’s two-day lawyers’ strike call to oppose higher education bill. 5000 Bombay lawyers meet Bombay HC chief justice Mohit Shah to inform him of tomorrow and day after’s strike [ TOI ] India demands ‘data secur...

DoT seeks ASG Chandhiok’s opinion on the validity of TDSAT’s split verdict on legality of agreements by which mobile phone operators offer 3G services beyond their licenced areas, under roaming pacts [ Firstpost ] Shailesh Gandhi retires as chief information commissioner after 45 months. His scoreca...

Del HC gets new ASG – Rajiv Mehra, as AS Chandhioke moves to SC as ASG. Mohan Parasaran, P P Malhotra, Indira Jaising, Harin P Raval and Gourab Banerjee get reappointed as SC ASGs [ Indian Express ] Katju’s journey from calling journalists stupid to the PCI journalism awards: National awards for exc...

Debut Indian ‘patent trolls’ ‘weak-patent’ infringement applications get dismissed by IPAB. Instead of filing civil suits for patent infringement, both patentees complained to customs commissioners at various entry ports, requesting seizing imports. The first patent was for a ‘laser marking and engr...

SEBI investigations reveal scam where seven global depository receipts (GDR) were issued between 2003 and 2009, without bringing back any foreign exchange into India against them; RBI may decide penalty on account of possible FEMA violation [ Mint ] CCI plans to start posting case details of pending...

Telecom companies cannot legally enter into an agreement to provide 3G roaming services if they do not have a licence, rules telecom tribunal in split-verdict between TDSAT chairman and another adjudicator. Verdict split over sending fresh notices to the concerned telcos or terminating their pacts i...

Pendency reduction drive: Salman Khurshid launches second phase from 1 July to 31 December 2012, after first phase in 2010 reduced 50 lakh pending cases in Maharashtra courts; 30.49 lakh cases were pending in the state on 30 June 2012 [HT] Proposed new SEBI regulations allow listed companies to use ...

US SC upholds 5:4, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010 enacted by Obama administration; Act makes insurance mandatory for more than 30 million uninsured Americans, makes cover prices affordable; Court modifies extent of state-run Medicaid program open to 17 million Americans: says fe...