Delhi high court Justice GS Sistani yesterday banned pubs and restaurants in Delhi and other cities from ‘exhibiting’ Star India TV coverage of the T20 cricket world cup without the broadcaster’s licence, in an interim ex parte stay order in a copyright claim brought by Star and others. [PTI]

Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik, who was presiding over the bail plea of a man accused of the daylight murder of a developer in Navi Mumbai, has transferred the case to a bench of Justice CK Prasad. This follows the late developer’s son sending CJI P Sathasivam a USB stick containing a purported re...

The paper talks to Zulfiquar Memon, Essaji Vahanvati, Tahira Karanjawala, and Rishabh Shroff and asks if they are chips of the same blocks as their illustrious legal parents. Also, did you know, that Memon’s firm MZM has been representing Tarun Tejpal in Goa? [Economic Times] via @superselector5

10 students of Guru Gobind Singh Law College in Indore were not allowed to sit exams after the college turned out not to have been affiliated to a university. The college authorities claimed it was recognised by the Bar Council of India (BCI) in June 2013, then applied for affiliation to its varsity...

The AIIMS hospital denied treatment to a rickshaw puller’s son suffering from a rare disease, because it was too costly. Senior counsel AS Chandhiok, appearing for the Delhi High Court Bar Association, said lawyers had raised Rs 7.8 lakh for the treatment, with the Delhi high court ordering AIIMS to...

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia (whose smartphone business is in the process of being sold to Microsoft though held up by a Rs 3,500 crore guarantee imposed by the Supreme Court in another transfer tax case) has filed a writ in the Madras high court to contest a claim by the Tamil Nadu VAT departme...

The TOI interviews an apparently very down-to-earth Prashant R Deshpande, son of Tourism Minister RV Deshpande and NLSIU Bangalore and Harvard Law School alumnus, following the 36-year-old’s Congress Lok Sabha nomination yesterday [TOI]

Around 20 advocates protested in the Madras high court room of the acting chief justice, Satish K Agnihotri, who was hearing a case. The lawyers were protesting with placards and black ribbons tied around their mouths to make Tamil the official court language [PTI]

Allahabad high court advocates, led by the local HC bar association boycotted work to demand “abolition” of the Lucknow bench and restore it as a revenue court, transferring pending cases to Allahabad [PTI]

“Mumbai cops cite s66A language, seek to block articles against police Chief,” tweets @karunanundy [‘Offending’ article] [Notice via @svaradarajan]

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ legal services head Leon Flavell said that the consultancy firm would become a $1bn global legal services player, aiming to grow from the $500m it generated from legal services in 2013. In the UK the firm has won a licence to operate as an Alternative Business Structure (ABS)...

The expected good news belies the difficulty with which it will have been achieved, involving over $1bn of investments and management patience; a feat that its domestic competitors in the retail space have apparently been unable to duplicate so far. It is also something that few foreign investors in...

Principal sessions judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi finds total of 5 men guilty of over two gang-rapes (of photo-journalist in a Mumbai mill last August and of telephone operator in July), two minors tried under juvenile act. Sentencing tomorrow [Hindustan Times]

The police had objected to bail for Munnetra Kazhagam because of his history of rowdiness and political affiliation; Justice RS Ramanathan said the risks of jumping bail were thin because he was a politician [The Hindu]

Law minister Kapil Sibal has written to all chief justices to get recommended names on how to increase each HC’s bench strength by 25%, taking the total size of India’s higher judiciary to 1,112 from 906. Nevertheless, there are already 250 vacancies, even without the new plan [The Hindu]

The Navalur Kuttapattu-based centre, on the campus of the new NLS in Trichy, which is set to begin taking admissions this year, will operate two hours per week and is apparently the 13th such clinic established in the district by the local legal services authority [The Hindu]

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) filed criminal defamation notice against Congress Party chief campaigner Rahul Gandhi, who had said at a rally on 6 March that “RSS people killed Gandhiji”. The RSS objected that it had not killed Mahatma Gandhi at all, and that the remarks by Rahul had “harmed ...

Justice Bhabani Prasad Ray was transferred a week ago from the Kerala high court to become judge of the Odisha HC. [ Odisha Sun Times ] Ray was reportedly one of 11 high court judges transferred by former SC CJI Kapadia for “public interest” reasons in 2010 (then from Orissa to Karnataka) [ Legally ...

Edelweiss Research was a smaller company unaffiliated to Financial, which has applied for banking licences [Economic Times]

Madras HC Justice CT Selvam gets whistleblower website Savukku blocked, which allegedly damaged the “reputation and status of not less than half a dozen judges, very many advocates, IAS and IPS officers” and also allegedly contains articles about the judge himself. After a PIL filed by a journalist,...