The Mafatlal family, frequently featured in the Mumbai tabloids, has been dragged to court yet again, this time by the Tata-owned group company of Mumbai’s Taj Mahal Palace hotel for allegedly not settling Atulya and Sheetal Mafatlal’s 14-year-old unpaid wedding party bill. Atulya, once one of the h...

The deadline for filing the Bombay high court counter affidavit by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff to rebut his brother Shardul’s case has been extended for the second time to 20 February 2015. The court-sanctioned mediation between the brothers has been extended too from it...

Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi, led by the region’s managing partner Shardul Shroff, has been in acquisition talks with lawyers and at least one law firm in cities falling under the management of Mumbai-based managing partner Cyril, as the two brothers have been embroiled in a protracted mediation that i...

Mumbai advocate PC Joshi argued before the Bombay high court that advocates should be exempted from service tax because the tax is levied on “value addition which is made as a result of rendition of service” and “representation [of litigant clients] before a court does not result in any value additi...

The deadline for the affidavit that was due to be filed by Amarchand Mangaldas Mumbai managing partner Cyril Shroff in the Bombay high court dispute with his brother over their late mother’s equity in the firm, has been extended by the court to 31 December 2014, coinciding with the deadline set for ...

The Congress’ Maharashtra unit Wednesday moved Bombay high court challenging the constitutional validity of the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP government and seeking its dismissal. Former minister M Naseem Khan filed a writ petition before the court questioning the constitutional validity of the nearly m...

The Supreme Court Wednesday upheld the death sentence of Vasanta Sampat Dupare who was convicted for raping a four-year-old minor girl child and then battering her to death. Dismissing Dupare’s appeal, a bench of Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit said: “...

The Bombay high court Tuesday ruled in favour of the Indian arm of Royal Dutch Shell on two transfer-pricing adjustments made by the income tax department - of Rs 15,000 crore and Rs 3,000 crore for 2007-08 and 2008-09, respectively - to the taxable income of Shell India Markets Pvt Ltd (SIMPL). BMR...

Senior counsel Iqbal Chagla told the Bombay high court in his closing remarks that his client Cyril Shroff would be filing an affidavit showing the “deep involvement” of his brother in the will.

Live from Bombay high court court room number 10 today, before Justice RD Dhanuka.

Several months ago a born-and-bred Mumbaikar advocate returned all of his Bombay high court briefs and literally drove his BMW to make Delhi and the Supreme Court his new home. Why?

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The Bombay high court has served a show cause contempt notice on the Mumbai Mirror for reporting a litigant’s allegation made in court earlier this year that a judge hearing was corrupt.

Bombay high court chief justice Mohit Shah and Justice MS Sanklecha ruled in favour Vodafone India Services in its Rs 3,200 crore transfer pricing tax case, deciding that there was no taxable income on share premium received on the issue of shares to their parent companies, reported Mint and others....

The Bombay high court has ordered costs of Rs 40 lakh against 10 petitioners who filed a property matter that Justice Gautam Patel called a “sponsored” petition “without the faintest glimmer of merit. It is precisely the kind of litigation — speculative, lacking in bonafides, sponsored, an abuse of ...

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar have been dragged into a defamation suit filed by Sunburn music festival promoters against a local opposition politician. The respondent, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) state vice president Trajano D’mello, in his reply with ...

The Bombay high court has designated 11 new senior counsel, including three outside Mumbai, Economic Laws Practice (ELP) partner Vikram Nankani, and one woman.

Khaitan & Co won a copyright infringement suit in the Bombay high court for once-$7.6bn King.com, the creator of the hugely popular mobile device game Candy Crush Saga .

The Advocates’ Association of Western India (AAWI) has asked chief minister Prithviraj Chavan that an extension to the Bombay high court should be built in the Bandra Kurla Complex in the Mumbai suburbs, to allow for more courts, chambers and storage of documents DNA

Sessions court judge MT Gaikwad has been suspended in South Mumbai after a preliminary inquiry about a complaint from a female member of the court staff complained of his “inappropriate behaviour” - in particular, by staring at her in an offensive manner, reported the PTI . The preliminary inquiry w...