Former CJI P Sathasivam was today sworn in as governor of Kerala, as the first ex-CJI to have been appointed to a state’s governorship.

Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju has apparently set his crosshairs on the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), HL Dattu, in a column published by the Times of India and re-published on his own blog. Katju argued in his post that the CJI post should not be awarded automatically on ...

On Monday a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha would hear four petitions challenging the government’s freshly passed National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and accompanying constitutional amendment as unconstitutional. Petitions have been filed by ex-ad...

Update 15:12: The bill has been passed. @CourtWitness1 commented on Twitter: The INS JAC has left the dry docks. Without right armaments it’s woefully exposed to destruction by judicial torpedoes. If the RS doesn’t amend the veto power given to Law minister in the NJAC, it’s pretty much dead in the ...

A letter of complaint was sent on 1 August to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha and the rest of the Supreme Court collegium by a female additional district and sessions judge in Gwalior, who resigned on 15 July, allegeging that she was sexually harassed by a more senior male judge of the Mad...

The Law Commission chairman Justice AP Shah has recommended that the tenure of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) should be fixed to at least two years, and that the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) should consist of at least four judges, including the CJI as chairperson, reported The Hindu and ...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has notified the Supreme Court Rules, 2013 that have received the president’s assent and will reduce the maximum time of the apex court’s summer vacations from 10 to 7 weeks, reported the Indian Express , though the total annual holidays will remain capped at 10...

KG Balakrishnan, ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) and currently chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, told The Hindu that, contrary to ex-SC Justice Markandey Katju’s blog post alleging he appointed a judge known to be corrupt to the Madras high court, there were no adverse reports agains...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that senior counsel Gopal Subramanium, who recently withdrew from the process to become a Supreme Court judge after government leaks about his suitability, should be the special public prosecutor in the Coalgate scam cases, reported the PTI . Lodha, who had...

“Daring” the government to do away with laws requiring tribunals to be headed by judicial members chief justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that it is these laws that create a public perception that retired judges are “running and running and running after tribunals”, reported the Economic Times . ...

Rights lawyer Monalisa argues that the former Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam introduced a seldom-seen sensitivity into the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence and culture, though one major opportunity was clearly missed.

The Supreme Court has issued new guidelines for mentioning matters before it, according to a notice posted on the Supreme Court noticeboard.

Court Witness does former Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam and asks, was he great? Or merely safe?

The Hindu ’s senior court reporter J Venkatesan has interviewed Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow from his post. In the hour-long interview, excerpts of which were published by the paper, Sathasivam recounted how he rose to the highest judicial office in the country fro...

After the Supreme Court’s second-most senior judge and next Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said he would be the last person to accept appointment to the Lokpal selection panel, Chief justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam reportedly nominated the SC’s third-most senior judge HL Dattu to the pane...

Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) president Paul Kanagaraj, with an MHAA “delegation”, met Tamil Nadu governor K Rosaiah seeking his intervention in recalling a list of 12 names recommended for judgeship at the HC, and taking exception to the fact that the recommended advocates were “sh...

Advocate Prashant Bhushan alleged in an interview that the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) judgment was leaked from the chambers of ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir to private medical colleges. In response to a question about how Kabir had called Bhushan one of his enemies...

Ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir denied any knowledge of an alleged leak of the NEET judgment presided over by Kabir in a CNN-IBN interview with a typically combative Karan Thapar. On 18 July, several hours before the Supreme Court’s judgment in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Tes...

CJI slams ex-CJI stay : Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam said about an order of his predecessor Altmas Kabir, who had stayed a lower court’s Rs 100 crore penalty against builders Jaiprakash Associates. “We do not approve of the manner in which the interim orders came to be passed. We do not...

The former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir, who retired last week, has lashed out at the Times of India and the Indian Express for their critical reports of Kabir, purporting to explain in a six-page press release what actually went on behind the scenes.