Ramalinga Raju and six other accused in Satyam scam denied bail as plea of extended trial fails to impress judge [ HT ] Mulla & Mulla to appeal against Kerala High Court fixing compensation of Rs 75 lakh for Mangalore air crash victims, citing wrong interpretation of Montreal convention [ The N...

- 57,179 cases pending in SC as of 30 June; on 1 May 2011 only 54,547 cases were pending. [ Supreme Court / PIB ] - Law ministry to examine deal for Mukesh Ambani Mumbai residential tower, may get referred to CBI [ Mint ] (via @SonyBhatt ) - Bail denied to three company promoters in CWG scam [ ET ] ...

- Rabinder Singh of Matrix Chambers becomes England’s first Sikh High Court judge [ The Lawyer ] - SC finally lays down guidelines for grant of ex parte orders: only in “exceptional” cases and courts to be “very careful”. [ SpicyIP ] Will this also prevent speedy remedies for those who can afford ex...

- SEBI’s revised Takeover Code hikes public offer threshold to 25 per cent, raises minimum offer size from 20 to 26% but short of 100% [ Mint ] - Takeover Code commentary and disagreements: Khaitan’s Arindam Ghosh, Kotak’s Sourav Mallik, Finsec’s Sandeep Parekh and Amarchand’s Cyril Shroff [ Moneyco...

- Adarsh Society writ to defreeze accounts for paying favourite senior lawyers rejected by Bombay High Court: “Nowhere has the SC held that right to legal representation includes right to counsel of one’s choice…” [ TOI ] ( Adarsh has used Vidhii Partners in the past, for example ) - Pak foreign min...

- The epic Vodafone tax case to hit Supreme Court in two weeks, Voda AGM told [ totaltelecom ] - Tata Nano land judge recuses self after 15 hearings on personal grounds, Justice I P Mukherjee takes over [ TOI ] - SC rejects Dinakaran WP, allows Forum for Judicial Accountability to passively monitor ...

- A fake Patna High Court website has scammed Rs 7,000 from applicants for fake high court jobs; Police now investigating [ Times of India ] - Raja ups the stakes and drags PM, Chidambaram into heart of 2G case, says they were fully aware of sale of licence-holding companies to foreigners [ NDTV ] -...

Round up of the latest and most legal from around the web. - Supreme Court: Don’t open our judgments on flimsy grounds [ The Hindu ] - Deadline for Greater Noida ‘hi tech court’ with video conferencing and servers was March 2010, now slated to be done in two months [ Times of India ] - “A Challenge,...