Three part-time members of the Law Commission of India (LC) - GNLU Gandhinagar director Dr Bimal Patel , Satya Pal Jain and advocate Abhay Bhardwaj - are being taken for granted and treated as “second class citizens” by the 21st LC chairman BS Chauhan , according to allegations leveled against Chauh...

Lawyer strikes are fuelled by lawyers who hardly have court work and also by bar councils who guard their vote bank and disregard the interests of justice, as even elite law schools have failed in their mission, said Law Commission (LC) chairman and former Supreme Court judge Justice BS Chauhan in an interview with Outlook magazine, demonstrating a pretty decent understanding of the legal profession and some of the problems that beset it.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has vowed to lead a massive law and order breakdown if the law ministry does not reject the latest recommendations of the Law Commission (LC), it decided this weekend in a meeting, at which it also demanded the immediate removal of former Supreme Court justice BS Chauhan as the LC’s chairman.

Mohit Singh ( @mohitsingh8) tweeted: “Law Commission of India denies media reports of hiring a law firm, terms reports as incorrect and baseless.…” Law Commission denies hiring of Law Firms The Law Commission of India has noted that certain newspapers and e-magazines are carrying news items which su...

Reliance Industries, BP and Niko Resources on Saturday served the Indian government with an arbitration notice in order to allow them to increase the price of natural gas that was shelved by the Election Commission until the elections finish on 16 May. Senior counsel Harish Salve, who has been repre...

The Supreme Court has finally avenged social media’s June 2013 furore over Madras high court justice CS Karnan’s “ sex equals marriage” judgment , by holding that that judgment was only applicable one-off to the facts of the case it decided. Advocate Uday Gupta, through senior advocate MR Calla, had...

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice Justice BS Chauhan reiterated that the government must not imply that Aadhar cards are mandatory to take advantage of any government services. “I received lot of letters which say Aadhar card is mandatory despite court orders. One letter said his marriage is n...

The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition by lawyers challenging the recommendation of 12 names for the Madras high court bench by its chief justice, saying it could only review for eligibility but not suitability.

Neglected juveniles: Delhi HC directs that all Delhi jails will have a welfare officer, after noting that only 5 Delhi jails out of 11 have them. The absence of welfare officers and one social worker to work with each Special Juvenile Police Unit in the city has led to imprisonment of juvenile offen...