The judges of the subordinate courts in Telangana, who were on mass leave since last week, resumed work on Wednesday.

The ongoing row over the allotment of Andhra-origin judges to subordinate courts in Telangana took an even more serious turn today with the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad suspending eight more state judges.

Taking serious note of the protest by Telangana state judges, the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad on Monday suspended two judges.

The Hyderabad High Court on Friday ruled that it will continue to as common high court for both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh till the central government sets up a separate court for the latter state. Pronouncing its orders on the matter, a division bench of Chief Justice Kalyan Jyoti Sengupta and Ju...

The Andhra Pradesh High Court, which from today will be called the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad for the state of Telangana and the state of Andhra Pradesh, has enforced new rules for entry of litigants and advocates not practicing in it, reported the New Indian Express . All outsiders can o...

The Andhra Pradesh high court has ordered the $3.2bn takeover to be stayed as “interim status quo” in a writ petition alleging insider trading, reported Bloomberg . The writ petition was filed by a number of investors, seeking to force an insider trading investigation by the Securities and Exchange ...

Dowry case filed against AP HC judge : The daughter in law of an Andhra Pradesh high court judge has filed a case of dowry harassment against him. The judge, who has not been named in the report, allegedly made persistent demands for dowry from Kavya Rao’s family after his son lost his job in 2008 [...

Bombay, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh high and subordinate courts will in real time upload their case pendency statistics and case progress reports online, with litigants slated to have access to some of the data via phone text messages. The deadline for these three states’ courts to implement the up...

New Andhra CJ: Andhra Pradesh HC gets a new chief justice in Uttarakhand HC justice KJ Sengupta. Sengupta, who practised as a lawyer in the Calcutta high court and became acting chief justice there on 5 October 2012 [ New Indian Express ] Paid Rs 61 lakh: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer emerges as th...

The Supreme Court’s vacancies are set to come down to three again, as the names of Andhra Pradesh high court (HC) chief justice PC Ghose and Himachal Pradesh HC chief justice Kurien Joseph have been cleared for elevation to the SC roster by the collegium, a month after three new judges were sworn in...

Breaking: Alleged proclaimed offender and Andhra Pradesh high court (HC) judge NV Ramana will continue as a judge in that HC, after the Supreme Court (SC) today dismissed the petition challenging his appointment and imposed costs on each of the petitioners.

Proclaimed offender and Andhra Pradesh High Court (AP HC) judge N Venkata Ramana may continue as judge even after his recommended removal by the Chief Justice of India, if the Parliament does not initiate his removal, attorney general GE Vahanvati told the Supreme Court. An arson case was filed agai...

Telangana Andhra Pradesh lawyers boycotted lower courts in Telangana to protest prosecution of 24 lawyers who had led an agitation in the High Court of Andhra Pradesh. The 24 lawyers were agitating for a 42 per cent quota for Telangana advocates in the posts of government pleader, public prosecutor,...

”) The Andhra Pradesh High Court has become the third high court after the Delhi and Gauhati High Courts to stay the imposition of service tax on lawyers practicing in courts made applicable during this year’s budget under the Finance Act 2011.