Communications and Information Technology minister and lawyer Ravi Shankar Prasad has been made the law minister again in today’s cabinet reshuffle, replacing DV Sadananda Gowda, reported DNA and others.

In a two-day conference by the Bar Council of India (BCI) in Dehradun over the weekend, attended by Supreme Court justice Dipak Misra and law minister DV Sadananda Gowda, Professor Madhava Menon held a talk on the “need of continuing legal education to the lawyers”.

An American Bar Association (ABA) source told Legally India that the ABA president Paulette Brown had met with the law minister yesterday and talked about liberalisation.

The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed by a voice vote the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2015, which aims to make the country more investor-friendly. The bill, which seeks to amend the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996, was introduced in the Lok Sabha on 3 December by Law and Justi...

In a breather for union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda, the Supreme Court on Friday set aside a Karnataka high court direction to the Bangalore Development Authority to repossess a residential plot allotted to him. An apex court bench of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice SA Bobde also held that Gow...

The Delhi high court will soon transfer thousands of cases, mostly related to property disputes, to the district courts of the capital as the President has signed into law a bill which enhances the pecuniary jurisdiction of civil courts.

Pitching for the introduction of an animal rights subject to law schools’ syllabuses, the Indian Express reported that: Union Law Minister Sadananda Gowda has written to the Bar Council of India chairman to include books written by his cabinet colleague Maneka Gandhi on animal rights in the curricul...

DV Sadananda Gowda, commenting on the US Supreme Court’s national country-wide legalisation of gay marriage last week , said that the government could de-criminalise gay sex under section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and might even consider gay marriage as an option. “The mood appears to be in favou...

Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda has written a letter to the Delhi high court chief justice on 18 June after having received allegations of “corruption, favouritism and nepotism” in the long-controversial Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) exam, reported the Indian Express ’ Utkarsh Anand. As reported by ...

Union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said today that the independence of the judiciary was not undermined because it did not have primacy in the membership of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC). In an interview to India Today Television, the minister said the independence of the j...

and Abhijat Bal (r.)”)This week in Mint, Legally India dove into the complicated and fascinating politics of the Delhi bar.

The Law Commission yesterday said that it was not in the favour of introducing compulsory voting, terming it undemocratic, undesirable and not helping to improve political awareness and participation. ( Read 255th Law Commission report here (PDF) ) Coupled with this, it has also not favoured the oft...

The Rajya Sabha yesterday deferred passing the bill to increase the pecuniary jurisdiction of the Delhi high court, with some members saying that the reform should be clubbed with pending legislation to create commercial divisions in high courts (the Commercial Division of High Courts Bill 2009), wi...

The Narendra Modi-led government has initiated talks with the Bar Council of India (BCI) to open up the Indian legal market to foreign law firms, reported the PTI , because it would assist in the government’s policy to increase the “ease of doing business” in India. BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra s...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu and the apex court’s most senior judges have decided to continue holding collegium meetings to recommend new judges, reported the Indian Express , despite law minister DV Sadananda Gowda late last month warning that there would be no new judges until the Nationa...

Law minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that there would not be any appointment of new judges to the apex or high courts, unless the Supreme Court disposes of the public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the National Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), reported the Economic Times today. The N...

Abhijat, the secretary of the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) that passed a resolution to go on strike again tomorrow , told Legally India that the organisation was “deeply saddened” by the law minister’s “populist” response to the district court lawyers’ earlier strikes . Yesterday, law mi...

With the objective to reduce its dependency on courts and avoid unnecessary litigation involving its ministries and departments, the government was formulating the National Litigation Policy (NLP), Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said today. “The proposed policy has been sent to various ministries f...

Ex Karnataka chief minister and former railways minister DV Sadananda Gowda has become the latest minister of law and justice in the first major cabinet reshuffle of the new government, following telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who held the law portfolio from 26 May 2014, reported PTI . Gowda ...