This Friday, 12 October, Legally Social is hitting Delhi again with TC Cafe on Aurobindo Marg.

This Friday, 18th May, it’s Lawyer’s Night at TC Cafe with a very special line-up for all lawyers who are fans of heavy metal.

This Friday, 4th May, it’s Lawyer’s Night and Legally Social again at TC Cafe.

It’s time to be legal and social again. In association with the brand-new and amazing TC Cafe, we are hosting Legally Social in Delhi again.

The Indian Association of People’s Lawyers called for the unconditional release of advocates Chikkudu Prabhakar and Balla Ravindranath from Telangana and A Murugan from Tamil Nadu, and to end the harassment of lawyers from the JagLag (Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group) . It also released a statement that “t...

The Indian Legal Aid And Awareness Network (ILAAN), a group of more than 20 law school legal aid clinics set up by NLSIU Bangalore in collaboration with NLU Delhi, has released a statement “condemning the repression of Jagdalpur Legal Aid Group”, which fights for the rights of tribals in the area and has continued to face harassment by the authorities as first reported in October of last year.

How two psychologists teamed up with the CIA to devise a torture programme and experiment on human beings.

The government is seeking to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act passed during the Congress-led UPA regime by introducing 10 categories of exemptions. The amendment Bill has already been passed by Lok Sabha in the Budget session and faced the ire of opposition parties for introducing exemptions, ...

All central ministries and departments will mandatorily upload on their website their replies to Right to Information (RTI) requests from 31 October, to comply with yesterday’s directive issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DPT), reported the Economic Times and others. Currently the g...

NGO workers attacked by a violent mob, saved by police, then arrested by them.

The Press Council of India (PCI) has answered a Right to Information (RTI) that matrimonial advertisements showcasing race, caste and religion, are not allowed by it, while conceding that it has no powers to force compliance. In an RTI filed by advocate Kush Kalra, the PCI answered “no” in response ...

Human rights organisations from different parts of the northeast states have yet again reiterated that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), giving special powers to the armed forces, should be withdrawn. A few NGOs met in a convention against the AFSPA in Guwahati Thursday and passed a resol...

Legal assistance NGO i-Probono and human rights organisation Amnesty International India recommended changes in defamation and contempt laws to the Law Commission of India to meet international standards on freedom of speech and expression and protect journalists and civil society from the looming t...

A project aims to build a network of lawyers interested in fighting so-called SLAPP suits against activists and publishers, and to lobby for changes in freedom of speech laws.

The Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) initiative, which seeks to encourage law students from non-traditional backgrounds to join national law schools, is looking to move into a next growth phase.

Former Luthra & Luthra capital markets head Madhurima Mukherjee has been assisting the Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access (IDIA) legal education NGO in formalising and scaling up operations, since she quit the law firm five months ago.

Fascinating read by Max Bearak in the New York Times ’ India Ink blog, which describes a new law passed a month ago banning unhygienic “dry toilets”, which require manual cleaning mostly by poor Dalit women who are often forced to do the demeaning work by societal pressure and face significant discr...

Pro bono appetites growing.

Shireen Irani – executive director of online network for pro bono legal assistance i-Probono , tells the Hindu that the “push for volunteering” at the Indian legal workplace in the last three years has evened out the number of male and female lawyers registering on her website, to volunteer. The sit...

The Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011 (The Rules) continue to breathe after the statutory motion to annul them moved by member of parliament (MP) from Kerala P Rajeeve was defeated by voice vote in the Rajya Sabha yesterday.

Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal was heard on Rajya Sabha TV saying: “We are more liberal than US and Europe but let’s not cut our arms.”