To borrow the words of one anonymous tipster, we’ve not been living under a rock for the past weeks.

The Law Commission has extended the time to seek submissions to its questionnaire and consultation on possible reform of the Uniform Civil Code by 30 days to 21 December 2016:

If you have an interest in the US judicial system, this story by GQ has a great and sad longread about why a Grand Jury failed, against all odds, to indict two cops who shot dead from near point-blank-range a 12-year-old black kid who was playing with a toy gun.

The Narendra Modi government’s push for the Goods and Services Tax (GST) bill and other legislation - including potential reforms of the legal services sector - could see another roadblock in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament with the Congress getting set to attack the Centre on the Supreme Court verdict to restore the ousted Congress government in Arunachal Pradesh.

The new Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that “comprehensive consultations” were required before taking steps towards a Uniform Civil Code (UCC).

Communications and Information Technology minister and lawyer Ravi Shankar Prasad has been made the law minister again in today’s cabinet reshuffle, replacing DV Sadananda Gowda, reported DNA and others.

London media law firm Mishcon de Reya announced on its blog that it would bring a legal challenge on behalf of several clients to challenge whether the British executive can unilaterally invoke Article 50 of the Treaty of European Union (EU) beginning its EU withdrawal process, or whether Parliament needs to be consulted.

The Guardian has a good explainer on how exactly a UK exit from the European Union (EU) could look:

Former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, who had in January sort-of announced he would leave Facebook and its ‘stupid and arrogant’ abusing masses behind, came back again in earnest this month with a flood of Facebook and blog posts.

A now-deceased underworld don, a politician, industrialists and an ex-cricketer are among those with alleged off-shore links, even as the agency that helped them set up the entities stonewalled New Delhi’s probe efforts, the Indian Express reported today. Amid these fresh reports, Reserve Bank of In...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today ordered a multi-agency probe team on the global expose by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), dubbed the Panama Papers, which found over 500 Indians also had alleged offshore links. “A multi-agency group is being formed to monitor the blac...

In a bid to prove that lawyers are not just smart, but also good looking, Legally India is pleased to announced that we’ll be seeking nominations for our new annual India’s sexiest lawyer competition.

A third woman has made a public statement accusing RK Pachauri of having sexually harassed her while she was working at Teri, aged 19, in 2008, saying that the current allegations against him are “right in line with his character, and not a case of his computer being hacked”, as Pachauri claimed in an interview published by The Guardian newspaper.

The Bihar government on Wednesday announced reservation in jobs to the third gender and set up a welfare board for them. “The third gender will be provided reservation in government jobs and Bihar Rajya Kalyan Board will be set up soon,” Bihar Social Welfare Minister Manju Verma made the announcemen...

The Haryana assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill to provide reservation to Jat and other communities. There was immediate opposition to the bill from other communities. The Haryana Backward Classes (Reservation in Services and Admission in Educational Institutions) Bill, 2016, was passed by...

Despite tougher sexual violence laws enacted after the gruesome gang-rape some three years ago, women in Delhi hardly feel safe, says a study that found 40 percent of the women surveyed in the national capital reporting _sexual harassment _in the past year. About 40 percent of women surveyed in Delh...

The union budget for 2016-17 has earmarked Rs 900 crore for the development of judicial infrastructure in the states, merely Rs 93.35 crore higher from Rs 806.65 crores allocated in 2015-16. The allocation also includes budgetary provision for the National Mission for Justice Delivery and Legal Refo...

The Union Budget has withdrawn the service tax exemption of senior advocates providing services to other advocates or law firms, effectively increasing the cost of instructing senior counsel by 14 per cent.

The Budget Session began yesterday and is scheduled to meet till 13 May, 2016.

The government will keep a watch on the narrative in all such threads. Every time a negative narrative surfaces, a possible counter would be initiated - through press releases, briefings or press conferences, depending on the intensity or standing of the post. The software would also help recall the...