Internet censorship case: Google counsel Neeraj Kishan Kaul says govt. is “blaming the land lord for what a tenant does”; Delhi HC Justice Suresh Cait lashes out, says land lord liable if tenant performing illegal activity [ ET ] What motivated the case against Google and Facebook by a journalist? [...

Represented by KTS Tulsi, Delhi HC blesses Subramaniam Swamy with interim protection against arrest; Delhi Police accuses Swamy of fuelling communal passions through article; Swami says he will write no more [ Indian Express ] Chief Justice Kapadia with Justices Jain, Nijjar, Khehar and Desai to dec...

“Like China, we will block all such websites,” Justice Suresh Kait tells Facebook’s and Google’s counsel in the Delhi High Court [ Firstpost (via @courtwitness1 )] Ex-SG Gopal Subramanium points out challenges that have crippled the CBI to Tehelka, says Bureau should be given a facelift, modern equi...

Centre sensitive to judges’ predicament: to spend Rs 35 crore for five-year study on psychological impact of 2.77 crore pending cases; work to be taken up by National Mission For Justice Delivery and Legal Reforms [ TOI ] 10-member panel relieves Pune District Court of 45,000 ‘stale & ineffecti...

Log jam? Civil judge’s bigger value jurisdiction from 16 January will cause 50,000 property disputes to be transferred from Bombay High Court to district courts [ Indian Express ] Satyam’s Ramalinga Raju faces PwC’s suit in AP High Court for Rs 14,000 crore accounting fraud [ Business Today ] Lawyer...

Indian private banks must raise trillions of rupees of capital by April 2017, as per Basel III compliant RBI guidelines [ Mint ] SEBI welcomes ‘qualified foreign investors’ to Indian equity market [ Business Standard / Press Release ] Telecom operators: DoT scuffle over 3G licensing and TDSAT jurisd...

Shanti Bhushan gets fined Rs 27 lakh for evading Rs 1.35 crore worth of property stamp duty by Allahabad HC; Bhushan still denies [ Hindu ] TRAI today issued Telecom Consumers Protection Regulation, 2012, requiring operators to inform subscribers of amount deductible for each data usage session [ ET...

RTI on judicial appointments must be answered by Supreme Court, overrules CIC [ Indian Express ] Law ministry blames chief justices’ slacking in filling 285 vacant judiciary seats in high courts [ TOI ] Luthra & Luthra secures majority verdict in SAIL v Jindal Steel at Competition Commission, c...

14 HC, two apex court judges received land in Karnataka judicial housing society against rules since they are not ‘judicial employees’ [ Tehelka ] India Today homage to ‘crusading’ CJI Kapadia and his no-nonsense lordships [ India Today ] Is ‘bonafide opinion’ on corrupt judges contempt? SC to refer...

Press council chairman Katju clarifies, tempers controversial criticism of media: he is “well-wisher” not in favour of “harsh measures” against media [ Hindu ]. Katju adds that courts’ decision were incorrect against Times Now to deposit Rs 100 crore before allowing appeal against accidental defamat...

Supreme Court rejects Times Now TV channel petition argued by Harish Salve to pay Rs 100 crore deposit into court before being allowed to appeal against ‘accidental’ 15 second Justice Sawant defamation [ India Today ]; Editors Guild is upset [ TOI ] Andhra HC asks CBI to investigate assets of ex-CM ...

Madras HC judge CS Karnan complains to NCSC ostensibly for being victimised as dalit [ TOI ] via @mumbaicentral / @emkay456 Make frivolous litigants pay Rs 1 lakh rather than Rs 3,000, proposes Supreme Court [ TOI ] via @DKMahant Ex-SC Justice Katju wants greater powers on Press Council to make edit...

Ex-finance secretary Ashok Chawla becomes new Competition Commission of India (CCI) chairman [ HT ] Justice Katju, newly robed as Press Council chairman, slams irresponsible media reporting of non-issues [ Hindu ] via @ aarthi_rajan Allahabad HC orders Mayawati to give back Noida land to three villa...

SAT rules with SEBI against Sahara, asks to refund to investors [ Moneycontrol / Indian Corporate Law ] High Court judge’s daughter arrested for bribery granted Rs 50,000 bail [ TOI ] Jet-Sahara case heads to Supreme Court after Bombay HC declines to allow Sahara to recover higher Rs 2,000 crore pur...

Prashant Bhushan attacked and beaten in own chambers while interviewed by journalists; Bhushan files FIR against alleged Hindu extremist [Video: TOI / Write-up: DNA ] Kapadia starts pilot projects to restate & re-summarise laws of legislative privilege, contempt of court and public interest lit...

RBI issues circulars to liberalise external commercial borrowings (ECBs) [ Corporate Law Blog ] Rs 10,000 crore for 60 tribal-dominated districts affected by mining in new Mines and Minerals Act [ TOI ] Jindal Global Law School first year student dies in car crash [ Indian Express ] Court convicts 2...

SC decides that advocates can only vote in one bar association election each to curb opportunistic SCBA voting [ TOI / Spreadlaw ] Patents and other tribunals may not be independent enough of the ministries that fund them [ Mint ] Pakistan Supreme Court website hacked [ BBC ] Former aide of BJP lead...

SC surprised by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) CBI report giving zero loss assessment to exchequer in 2G spectrum allotment [ ET ] Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) president Lalit Bhasin moves Delhi High Court over inadequate security arrangements to tackle terrorist attacks; petit...

Five law firms in committee chaired by Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) ex-chairman Dahanendra Kumar, consult on new “national competition policy”: Amarchand’s Pallavi Shroff, P&A’s Pathak, JSA’s Amitabh Kumar, Luthra’s GR Bhatia, Khaitan & Co’s Manas Chadhuri [ PIB ] NUJS Kolkata, ...

State chapter of Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) organises seminar in Chennai on entry of foreign law firms, discusses pros and cons, trust deficit in the profession [ TOI ] Legal blog raises question marks over Zia Mody part-owned Delta Corp’s quest for FDI in gambling business [ Glaws ] SC issu...