SC cases, broken up : Over 300 cases of sexual harassment are pending before the Supreme Court, revealed an RTI reply to activist Vihar Dhurve. Also outstanding: “472 cases related to corruption, 588 road accident cases related to permanent disability, 45 road accident for other injuries, 418 divorc...

SC Juvenile home committee: The CJI has asked all high court CJs to appoint a judge each to inspect the functioning of state juvenile homes. At the Supreme Court level, the CJI has nominated Justice Madan Lokur as Chairperson of the Juvenile Committee for effective implementation of the Juvenile Jus...

Nagpur wins NLS Maharashtra clearance: The proposal for **“**Maharashtra National Law University” (as it will be called) to be based in Nagpur was cleared yesterday by the Maharasthra state cabinet. The government has earmarked a reduced capital grant of Rs 125 crore (from Rs 204 crore) for the NLS,...

Delhi rape lawyer withdraws: Delhi rape convicts’ defence lawyer VK Anand withdrew from his role as counsel citing interference by the clients and their families ahead of Delhi HC’s decision on confirmation of the district court’s death sentence [ DNA India ] Madras bar election litter: Ahead of the...

UID unimportant: The Supreme Court has stuck to its stand that the Unique Identification Number is not mandatory for availing certain essential services [ NDTV ] Sex harassment RTI exemption to babus: The Ministry of Personnel has declined an RTI request for details of sexual harassment cases agains...

Karnataka govt pleader overhaul: The Karnataka government is on a warpath with its state legal team after it prepared a list of replacements for 61 out of its 73 law officers. While 36 officers resigned without putting up a fight, the rest of them is daring the state government to dismiss them [ Ban...

Ex-NLUO VC arbitrary at Pondi: Former NLUO Cuttack VC Chandra Krishnamoorthy - who left the law school months after her appointment to assume VC-ship at Pondicherry University – stands to lose her position. Her appointment has been challenged in the Madras HC for being arbitrary and without due proc...

Derogatory advocate fined : Madras HC fined him Rs 10,000 and dismissed his petition seeking restriction on relatives of politicians from contesting polls, because, according to the court, he had used derogatory language in his petition against a sitting member of parliament [ PTI ] Lalu jailed: For...

Justice on wheels: WSJ does an account of Pakistan’s mobile courts - $90,000 buses with courts set up inside them, which travel to remote areas to resolve disputes IT freezes Nokia: Indian taxmen freeze Finnish mobile giant Nokia’s Indian bank accounts, days ahead of its $7.2bn sale deal with Micros...

Judge’s litigation debut: 88-year-old ex-judge-turned-litigant KS Puttaswamy, who obtained the SC’s restraining order recently against the linking of state benefits to the UID scheme, chats to the Hindu on why for the first time in his 50-year legal career he felt the need to petition a court [ Hind...

SC 110201 : The Supreme Court gets a new dedicated pin code enabling faster mail service, as the postal department’s celebration of 41 years of introducing the pin code system for its bulk mail recipients [ PTI ] 8 new Madras judges: Justice T Mathivanan, Justice Ardhanariswamy Arumughaswamy, Justic...

Advocates can’t be prosecuted for legal opinion unless fraud proven, held the Bombay high court. The CBI had charged Mumbai lawyer Mohana Nair with forgery and fraud over a housing loan case opinion, but the court forcefully rejected the case as vexatious and having been “riddled with more holes tha...

AP HC Judges: Andhra Pradesh high court advocates Asapu Ramalingeswara Rao and Dama Seshadri Naidu were appointed as additional judges of the high court last week [ Deccan Chronicle ] AAWI for Bom HC new bench: India’s oldest bar association - the Advocates Association of Western India (AAWI) - yest...

SCBA threatens JAC strike: SCBA threatened to go on a day-long “token strike” if the Judicial Appointments Bill is not scrapped, since lawyers’ bodies were allegedly not consulted with when formulating the bill [ Outlook ] Maha NLS in Nagpur? National Law School Nagpur’s proposal will be discussed i...

Tea cuffs: “One might take tea in a variety of ways, not all of them always elegant or delicate, some of them perhaps even noisy. But we know of no way to drink tea ‘suspiciously’,” observed a Bombay HC bench while chastising the police for arresting a man for suspicious conduct u/s 151 after they t...

Tamilian judgmnents: The assurance that Tamil Nadu lower courts’ judgments will now only be written in Tamil, from Madras HC chief justice RK Agarwal, caused advocates there to end their three-day fast yesterday [ PTI ] Criminal politicians judgment: Disqualifying convicted politicians from contesti...

11 Supreme Court judges to retire in next 12 months , starting with justice GS Singhvi on 11 December. He will be followed out by Justice H L Gokhale (March 9), Justice Sathasivam (April 26), Justice Misra (April 27), Justice K S Radhakrishnan (May 14), Justice A K Patnaik (June 2), Justice S S Nijj...

New Guwahati CJ Goel : Guwahati HC Chief Justice AK Goel will replace Orissa HC chief justice C Nagappan after Nagappan is being elevated to the Supreme Court this week [ Orissa Diary ] NUJS sexual harassment : NUJS Kolkata’s Internal Complaints Committee has belatedly submitted an interim report to...

Happy 90th RamJet : Ram Jethmalani, at his birthday party yesterday, tried to broker peace between BJP’s NaMo and LKA, speculated NDTV and others Anti-rape education : SC advocate Karuna Nundy argues that only solution to rape pandemic are structured government-led education efforts [ CNN ] NGT to g...

Kerala govt pleaders not smart: Dismissing an appeal filed by state government pleaders to get remarks on their lack of “vigilance” expunged, the Kerala high court asked the advocate general to stop appointing “inappropriate hands”. Justice Harun Rashid said that under-qualified government pleaders ...