Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay high court has expressed shock and displeasure after an unidentified person visited his chamber seeking copies of the evidence recorded in the ongoing dispute over the will of late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. Justice Patel is hearing a suit filed by Jaidev Thack...

Six new senior advocates were designated in the Jharkhand high court, including Jharkhand bar council chairman Rajiv Ranjan, on 29 April. The other five newly designated seniors in the high court are Birendra Kumar Poddar, Raj Nandan Sahay, Anil Kumar, Sanjiv Kumar and Ajit Kumar, according to a not...

The Bombay high court has designated the seven advocates as senior lawyers.

Staying his incarceration, a single Bombay high court bench of Justice Abhay Thipsay told actor Salman Khan to give up his passport, pay Rs 25,000 Rs 30,000 surety and seek fresh bail from the sessions court that convicted him two days ago for five years in prison, reported the Hindustan Times . “We...

The Mumbai trial court judgment that sentenced actor Salman Khan to five years in jail, just a few hours before a quick Bombay high court appeal by DSK Legal and senior counsel Harish Slave stayed the sentence until tomorrow , has been uploaded. Download PDF In the 240-page judgment and additional s...

Bombay high court advocate Ameya Gokhale, currently in the chambers of Pradeep Sancheti, is due to join the new Mumbai office of Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff as a partner, reported the Economic Times . Gokhale left Khaitan & Co as a principal associate in August 201...

The largest Indian law firm break-up ever is now official, after the Bombay high court today blessed the arbitral award arrived at after nearly six months of mediation between Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh A Shroff & Co managing partners and brothers, Cyril and Shardul Shroff.

The Bombay High Court today declined to suspend certain provisions of a recent Maharashtra law banning beef consumption, its possession or transportation even when slaughtered outside the state. A division bench of Justice V.M. Kanade and Justice M.S. Sonak felt no suspension could be granted till t...

Advocate Aditya Barthakur has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay high court challenging the criminalisation of cannabis under Indian law, based on the fact that none of six government organs he queried had any idea about how the herb is harmful to the human body.

The Indian Express reported that the Bar Council of India (BCI) had submitted its affidavit in the Supreme Court appeal against the AK Balaji case decided in the Madras high court against law foreign firms. The affidavit filed by BCI counsel Ardhendumauli K Prasad purports to rely on the 2009 Lawyer...

The strike called by the Bar Council of India (BCI) over the alleged killing of an Allahabad lawyer by a police officer , has resulted in severe delays and thousands of adjourned cases, according to press reports. Judicial work in the Delhi high court and six district courts was hampered and a major...

“The number of posts for judges in the Bombay high court has been increased from the current 75 to 94, announced chief minister Devendra Fadnavis in the legislative assembly on Friday. However, of the 75 existing posts, ten are vacant. So in effect there are only 65 judges,” reported the Times of In...

Justice Amitava Roy was Friday sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court. With the elevation of Roy, who was chief justice of the Orissa High Court, the strength of the apex court has gone up to 29 against a sanctioned strength of 31 judges. Justice Roy will have a tenure of three years. Coming from ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said the government has identified around 1,700 obselete and is working towards their repeal. Pointing out that the world is looking at India with great hopes, he said one of the reasons for this was the global investor community trusts the independence of the c...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a Permanent Judicial Museum at Bombay high court here Saturday, set up as part of its Sesquicentennial Celebrations depicting the rich judicial history of the city spanning three centuries. The first court held here was the Mayor’s Court (1726-1798), followed...

A Mumbai magistrates court Thursday ordered police to investigate and register an FIR against 14 celebrities involved in the controversial “AIB Roast” show performed in a stadium here on 20 January, a lawyer said. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate CS Baviskar of the fourth Girgaum Court direc...

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The government Wednesday decided not to contest a Bombay high court ruling that telecom major Vodafone was not liable to pay tax demand of Rs. 3,200 crore in a transfer pricing case, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said and hoped that the decision would boost foreign investors’ se...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi and Mumbai regions, managed by brothers Shardul and Cyril Shroff respectively, have agreed to split into two firms by 1 April 2015, confirmed three independent sources.

The Department of Justice in the law ministry has begun drafting a bill to rename the Bombay and Madras high courts to Mumbai and Chennai high courts, respectively, reported the PTI . The two high courts were established under the Indian High Court Act, 1861 alongside the Calcutta high court, and ha...