A blog by former Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju, who is now Press Council of India (PCI) chairman, has caused a “ruckus” in both houses of parliament, according to the DNA and the PTI . Katju had written in his blog that the tenure of an additional judge in the Madras high court had been exte...

The Supreme Court collegiums turned down the government’s advice to “reconsider” its recommendation to elevate Karnataka high court justice Manjunath to chief justice at Punjab & Haryana, reported NDTV . The Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha had criticized the government, two weeks ago, for dro...

The Rajasthan high court issued criminal contempt notice to the president of the Bar association and other lawyers, for giving a boycott call demanding the transfer of a judge, reported the PTI . Bar Association president Gopeah Kumbhaj, former general secretary Rajesh Choudhary, lawyer Bharat Bhush...

The Centre asked the collegium to reconsider its recommendation of Karnataka high court justice Manjunath for elevation to chief justice at Punjab & Haryana high court after, according to “highly placed sources in the law ministry”, the Centre received complaints against him, reported The Hindu...

Senior Advocate UU Lalit was cleared for Supreme Court judgeship by the collegium, alongside Meghalaya chief justice Prafull Chandra Pant, Gauhati chief justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Jharkhand chief justice R Banumathi, reported The Hindu . Lalit will be elevated in place of former solicitor gener...

Senior advocate Arvind Datar is being considered by the Supreme Court collegium, the Times of India first reported yesterday, after Legally India reported last week that senior counsel Uday Lalit too was in the process of being elevated to the Supreme Court.

During the retirement function of Justice BS Chauhan, Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that he had requested Gopal Subramanium to withdraw his resignation from the Supreme Court bench elevation process, reported the Hindustan Times . However, the senior counsel wrote a “30-word regret lett...

Supreme Court senior advocate Uday U Lalit will be elevated to the apex court’s roster, it has been confirmed, as former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium withdrew his candidature facing controversy over his elevation.

Senior counsel and Supreme Court judge candidate Gopal Subramanium has sent a rather candid letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) withdrawing his candidature.

A judge on the Supreme Court’s collegium, talking on condition of anonymity to the Economic Times , has come out in support of elevating senior counsel Gopal Subramanium to the Supreme Court, despite the government’s attempts to veto his earlier nomination . The judge said that Subramanium’s “credib...

The law ministry has returned the file to elevate senior counsel Gopal Subramanium to the Supreme Court bench to the collegium, which will again have to reconsider whether it wants to elevate the advocate, though the ministry cleared the elevation of senior counsel Rohinton Nariman and high court ch...

According to the Economic Times , citing an unnamed “senior law ministry official”, senior counsel and former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium’s nomination to the Supreme Court bench, which was announced by the collegium and then-new Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha last month , is currently...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has set in motion the transfer of up to nine senior high court judges, reported the Economic Times . According to senior high court officials four judges had received ‘consent-seeking letters’ - Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul coul...

Facing a long string of retirements during his term, Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has recommended the elevation of two former solicitor generals to the apex court.

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...

The Madras HC held, deciding on maintainability, that a lawyer could not file a writ petition to have his name recommended to the judicial collegium for elevation to the bench, even if his CV has all the necessary points. [PTI]

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.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved judgement in the challenge to the controversial 12 names that were recommended for judgeship at the Madras high court.

The Supreme Court (SC) collegium withdrew the 12 names recommended for judgeship at the Madras high court, which had been opposed vehemently by a section of the HC’s bar and bench since December, reported the Times of India . The collegium said that the withdrawal wasn’t based on an opinion of the m...

Madras high court (HC) senior advocate R Gandhi has asked to withdraw his petition to recall the controversial 12 names recommended for judgeships at the HC, reported the Times of India . Advocates who had been boycotting work intermittently at the HC since December to protest against the judgeship ...