Judicial progeny fail selections: The six out of eight advocates rejected for judgeship at the Punjab & Haryana HC include Manisha Gandhi, the daughter of former Chief Justice of India AS Anand, and Girish Agnihotri, the son of retired P&H HC judge MR Agnihotri. B S Rana, Gurminder Singh K...

8th alleged NLS rapist caught: The eighth accused in the rape of an NLSIU Bangalore student in October 2012, who was absconding till the sentencing of six convicts in the case three days ago, has been caught [TOI]

Judicial rejig: Bombay HC’s justice DY Chandrachud is being shifted to the Allahabad HC and may soon take over as its Chief Justice (CJ), Himachal Pradesh HC’s CJ AM Khanwilkar is getting transferred to the Madhya Pradesh HC and be replaced by J&K HC’s justice Mansoor Ahmed [ TOI ] Hey KGB: The...

Lording it : Bombay HC justice Anoop V Mohta has taken objection to being addressed as AV Mohta and warned advocates and litigants that their cases will not be accepted by his court if they do not address him by his full name in the praecipe [ Notification ] NLSIU rape case: The six convicts guilty ...

Madras HC top 3: After Madras HC’s second-most senior judge R Banumathi gets elevated soon as chief justice (CJ) of Jharkhand HC, Chhatisgarh HC’s third most senior judge will be transferred to replace Banumathi at Madras. The third-most senior Madras HC judge Chitra Venkataraman soon stands to be e...

Western UP bench in RS: Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi has raised the demand for a Western UP bench of the Allahabad high court in the Rajya Sabha, citing creation of Telangana in support: “earlier the people of Telangana had also demanded a bench of High Court… You did not give a high court be...

Elusive SC appointment: Calcutta high court chief justice Arun Mishra has missed a Supreme Court seat for the second time since June last year despite hailing from Madhya Pradesh, which has been left unrepresented at the SC since Justice Deepak Verma’s retirement [ Telegraph India ] BCI fails 28: 28...

SC solves mystery of missing coalgate files: criminality and an attempt to tamper with evidence. Has set a two week deadline for unearthing documents [TOI]

Scanning Google’s fair use: Final arguments this week of Google’s eight-year-long battle with US authors’ guild, which alleged copyright infringement by the search engine in scanning 20 million library books and and making them available online [ Gigaom ] New IPAB chairman: Former Madras High Court ...

Prof chair-snatching: Academicians and students sign online protests against the arbitrary removal of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) chair professors NS Gopalakrishnan and Yogesh Pai from their positions at CUSAT and NLU Jodhpur respectively, assigning no reasons [ Spicy IP / Live Law...

Food bill secured: The Food Security Bill - opposed in part over the alleged cost of providing food to 82 crore Indians - was yesterday passed in the Lok Sabha by voice vote [ Zee News / India Today ] Eminent BCI members? Bar councils stood a “good chance” of being nominated under the ‘eminent perso...

PCSOA rape redefined: Delhi high court attracts social activists’ ire by ruling that consensual sex with minors is not rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act [ TOI / BS ] NLSIU rape quick trial: Judgement reserved in the case of the rape of an NLSIU Bangalore student in Octob...

TN NLS: The Rs 100 crore Tamil Nadu National Law School Srirangam was yesterday inaugurated and has only five students from Tamil Nadu in its first batch of 71 CLAT-admitted students [ News Today / TNNLS Website ] Black gold: 16 files containing details of illegitimate allocations in the Coal scam t...

File RTI online : Gov launches online portal for filing Right to Information (RTI) requests with 82 ministries at www.rtionline.gov.in [ Firstpost ] Delhi gang-rape closings : The closing arguments in the so-called Delhi gang-rape trial will be heard today. WSJ summarises case so far. Wikileaker sen...

Bar unrest: Madras high court bar experiences heartburn and resentment at the selection of two out of eight newly appointed judges from neighbouring state Kerala, while western UP lawyers are gearing up to Gherao the Taj Mahal to mark their discontent over government inaction for a permanent western...

Chennai Express: 22 district judges were selected in Tamil Nadu within three months of advertising the direct recruitment, and one month after 2,668 candidates appeared for the preliminary examination. Legally India had earlier reported that the Delhi district judge recruitment process took six time...

Pendency down in Delhi trial courts: Delhi trial courts have managed to reduce pendency from 30 per cent in the last one-and-a-half years, with the number of pending cases coming down from 7 lakh to 5 lakh – including all civil and criminal cases before magisterial, district and sessions courts. Cas...

30% HC Vacancy: 280 judges’ posts were vacant across 24 Indian high courts on 8 August, constituting vacancy of 31 per cent. The number would rise to 306 by the end of 2013 after the retirement of 26 more judges in the next four months [ TOI ] Gallows halted: Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasiva...

Flashy HNLU: HNLU Raipur students organised a flash mob at a Raipur mall to support women’s empowerment yesterday. A flash mob “combines the appeal of a dance performance, seemingly un-choreographed, spreading across the crowd, creating a spontaneous public spectacle of unified musical expression to...

Android friendly SCI: The Supreme Court of India has released an Android smartphone app to view a replica of the Supreme’s Court’s case display board. The display board in the SC indicates the item numbers of matters being heard across all courtrooms at any given point of time. It’s pretty basic, bu...