Articles tagged with: bench

The farce (and free publicity) of the Jolly LLB 2 lawsuits: Bombay HC orders 4 cuts that made lawyers look bad

Poor Jolly-LLB 2, albeit getting lots of free but priceless publicity from spending time in court defending cases by lawyers, of all people, will now have to make four cuts in order to satisfy a bench of the Bombay high court.

'Old' LLB grads hit SC over TN bar council's age-limit disbarments

The Supreme Court will hear a petition against the Tamil Nadu bar council, which allegedly issued show cause notices to 400 lawyers and began removing graduates who completed their LLB degrees after they were 30 years old. The petition by a group of graduates calling themselves the TN LLB Advocates ...

Delhi HC judges’ exam results nullified by Delhi HC in successful candidate writ

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The result of the Delhi Judicial Service (preliminary) exam 2011 was rescinded for 6974 candidates who did not qualify for the main exam after a Delhi high court division bench ruled against the Delhi high court registrar general in a writ petition by aggrieved examinees.

Judges volunteer to disclose assets

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The higher echelons of the judiciary voluntarily agreed to disclose their assets after a full court room meeting of Supreme Court judges yesterday. The move will allow the public to view the movable and immovable property of judges and dependants on the official website of the Supreme Court.

BCI chairman SNP Sinha replies to Legally India readers' comments

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Bar Council of India chairman Suraj Narain Prasad Sinha has responded to Legally India readers’ comments to our interview with him of two weeks ago. He argues that top law students are depriving the bar and bench of talent by joining law firms and pleads that all lawyers should aim high in their careers.