Government sends legal notices to account holder on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook who allegedly posted on their webpage inflammatory messages and morphed images related to ethnic violence in Assam. Notices have been sent to “at least four” Twitter account holders, asking them to appear before a comm...

The Delhi high court dismissed a public interest litigation filed by a group of law students to quash the department of telecommunications’ notifications last month blocking hundreds of webpages , on Wednesday. The Supreme Court had also returned a petition challenging the block on 31 August, asking...

Bombay lawyer Sanjay Kothari wins Rs 9 refund from telephone service provider MTNL in the Supreme Court, 18 years after he first filed a suit against the company for wrongfully charging extra service tax in his phone bill. He then files a contempt petition against MTNL for failure to follow a Bombay...

The Ministry of Communications and IT, Department of Telecommunications on Saturday directed ISPs to block 76 webpages, including 10 handles on micro-blogging site Twitter, 12 pages on video-sharing site YouTube, 14 Facebook profiles, and blogs and other pages with religion-related content. The orde...

CUTS files formal complaint to CCI against Google under sections 3 and 4 of Competition Act 2002; Bases complaint on practices in Korea, Australia, EU [Medianama] SEBI tells SC that Sahara violated regulations by amassing Rs 27000 crore from 30 million investors in a private placement of optional fu...

The first writ against Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 should not have been dismissed by the Delhi high court, said a division bench of the court admitting a letters patent appeal against the dismissal today.

The fourth All India Bar Examination (AIBE) would be held in August 2012, said Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, although the planned AIBE board has not yet been constituted.

The Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) pledged its support for senior advocate Fali S Nariman to become president of India, in a press release yesterday.

NLU Delhi postponed its first day of recruitment activities from last Friday (18 May), which clashed with NUJS Kolkata’s “day zero” of fourth-year campus recruitment - to the first week of June.

NLS Bangalore 2007 batch, ex-Amarchand associate Gitanjali Brandon stands sixth in Civil Services 2011, looks to join the foreign services [ The Hindu ] Reliance internet provider has blocked most Bittorrent sites that also include legal content, as well as Vimeo, the video-sharing service widely us...

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SC’s Aftab Alam, Ranjana Desai dismiss Sharma’s “highly scandalous” PIL against Kapadia hearing Vodafone, with Rs 50,000 costs [ Mint ] SC’s HL Dattu, CK Prasad make unreasoned recusal from PIL questioning ONGC’s unreasoned excusal from Cairn-Vedanta deal [ Mint ] Kissing might be made illegal in In...

Linklaters wants rival Slaughters’ Aussie best-friend Allens Arthur Robinson while Herbert Smith looks to marry Freehills [ The Lawyer ] CJAR through Bhushan complains to CJI, Prez, PM and Law minister about Del HC’s Kait sending litigant to mental asylum for trying to record court proceedings [ TOI...

On the first anniversary of A Raja going to jail, the Supreme Court today quashed all 122 2G spectrum licenses granted by the former telecoms minister in 2008, although the apex court passed to the trial courts the decision on union home minister P Chidambaram involvement.

Two British-educated non-lawyer entrepreneurs and a team that includes two lawyers have launched a website offering legal advice and services online to the aam admi and companies, which the founding team maintain complies with Bar Council of India (BCI) restrictions on lawyers advertising.

Salman Khursheed has replaced Veerappa Moily as the new law minister with Moily taking on the corporate affairs portfolio in the second cabinet reshuffle just announced by prime minister Manmohan Singh-led UPA government this year.

The Government is reportedly re-examining the 2011 Finance Bill’s proposal to charge service tax on an accruals basis, which would force law firms to pay service tax as soon as they bill a client rather than when the cash is actually received.

The government yesterday passed the Banking Laws Amendment Bill 2011 as part of the financial reforms promised during this year’s budget in several key sectors, with a new amendment that is set to ban the Competition Commission of India (CCI) from having to approve mergers and amalgamations.

Breaking: The Union Budget has widened contentious law firm service tax to apply to court-based, tribunal and arbitration advice by lawyers and has been further expanded to include advice by law firms to individuals too.

An association of Indian women advocates, the Society of Women Lawyers (SOWL), will launch on 26 February in Delhi after two years of its conceptualisation aiming to further cause of women in the profession and in India.