Delhi HC pecuniary enhancement clears another hurdle : The Delhi High Court (Amendment) Bill, 2014 which seeks enhance the Delhi HC’s pecuniary jurisdiction from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 2 crore, and which was a cause of Delhi HC bar protests , is now in the Rajya Sabha [ PTI ] PIL vs anti-activist NGT bar ...

SC Judge slams Gov for “scaring away all foreign investors” : “We are sorry to say that lawmakers are not keeping pace with the changing times, especially fast-changing technology. Then you will legislate with retrospective effect, scaring away all foreign investors,” said Justice KS Radhakrishnan t...

Madras HC chief Agrawal talks candidly on local turmoil : Recently elevated Madras HC chief justice RK Agrawal, at his farewell, made reference to HC justice CS Karnan barging into his chamber hurling abuse. Agrawal said that while nobody had “ever raised their voice” to him in his 37 year career, K...

Journalists wage hike coming up : The Supreme Court last week upheld recommendations made by the Justice Majithia wage board hiking salaries for journalists and non-journalists in print media on Friday and dismissed challenges filed by the managements of various newspapers, reported the [ Mint ] Kar...

Amarchand team wins relay race : Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai general corporate partner Indranath Bishnu, principal associate Himanshu Dodeja, senior associate Aditya Sabharwal and staff member Vasant Ravande were up to a “stampede” last weekend, according to an Amarchand press release. They completed...

Amit Sibal defamation suit vs Kejriwal : The Supreme Court today issued notice on union telecom and law minister Kapil Sibal’s son, and newly designated senior advocate, Amit Sibal’s challenge to a Delhi high court order that had discharged Delhi chief minister Kejriwal and advocate Prashant Bhushan...

Madras HC pendency down 50K! Madras high court case pendency has reduced by 50,000 cases to 5.57 lakh cases since 2012 year-end [ Hindu ] Six out of 12 clear Kerala DJS : Six candidates cleared the Kerala district judicial service exam, still leaving 50 per cent judges vacancy at the service in the ...

Every HC bench strength to grow by 25% : The central government has decided to increase the judges’ strength of each high court in India by 25 per cent and has invited proposals from all chief justices on additional facilities concerning courtroom, quarters and support staff for the enhanced number ...

AK Ganguly SC report private info : Rejecting a Right to Information (RTI) request for the Supreme Court’s report on its recent sexual harassment complaint proceedings against its former justice AK Ganguly, the SC said: “The disclosure of information and reports emanating out of a self-evolved mecha...

Del, Mad HC CJs for SC elevation : The names of Madras HC chief justice RK Agrawal and Delhi HC chief justice MV Ramana have been cleared for elevation to the Supreme Court. Agrawal will be the seventh judge in the SC “having a strong and direct Chennai link” reported [ TOI ] Definition of “Juvenile...

GNLU gets Microsoft IPR chair : GNLU Gandhinagar will soon become the sixth national law university with an intellectual property rights (IPR) chair after NLSIU Bangalore, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLU Jodhpur, NLIU Bhopal and NUJS Kolkata. While each of its five predecessors have IPR chairs set up by the M...

Madurai opposes MHAA protest : The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) is opposed to the MHAA’s protest for recall of the list of 12 names recommended for judgeships at the Madras HC, because four names in the list were from Madurai – giving the Madurai bench “a prope...

2,648 new legal aid clinics : CJI P Sathasivam has inaugurated 2,648 legal aid clinics, each to be manned by two volunteers and a lawyer, in villages across India to assist villagers in getting BPL card, Election ID, Aadhaar Card, Gas connection and government welfare schemes [ IBNLive ] Lowly paid ...

Lawyers boycott supporting boycott to force judicial transfer : The Allahabad High Court Bar Association boycotted work today in support of the boycott of work by the Awadh Bar Association of Lucknow. In fact Allahabad outdid Awadh and added an extra half-day of boycott after lunch yesterday. The bo...

Karnan opposes own transfer : Madras HC justice CS Karnan, who had complained against the HC’s chief justice and the Chief Justice of India for collegium interference and caste bias, opposed his transfer to another high court on the ground that his presence was needed in the Madras HC until he had p...

Why HC judges decline SC judgeship : Abhinav Chandrachud, Stanford Law doctoral student and son of the current Allahabad HC chief justice, illustrates that an obsession with hierarchy and seniority weren’t always the defining characteristics of India’s judiciary, and perhaps shouldn’t be, in a perci...

NLU Nagpur almost done : The National Law University Nagpur cleared another hurdle with the Maharashtra government taking the ordinance route to set it up and the cabinet approving the ordinance. Once the draft of the ordinance is sent to the governor for promulgation, the way would be clear to appo...

Delhi law min under bar council lens: The Delhi Bar Council decided to meet today to discuss disciplinary action against Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti against whom reports of “tampering with evidence” as an advocate last year, emerged last week. Bharti meanwhile also faces an FIR relating to an ...

Swatanter wins media blackout : The Delhi HC has provided former SC judge Swatanter Kumar interim relief in the defamation suit he had filed against three media houses. The HC prohibited the media from publishing anything beyond the court’s orders in his ex-intern’s sexual harassment PIL against him...

Publicity shy CJI : The Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam refused permission to publish his photograph in a September advertisement for the release of India’s first customised PIN code for the apex court, an RTI has revealed [ PTI ] Lower court jurisdiction enhancement : The Delhi government is gi...