The previous government’s attorney general Goolam Essaji Vahanvati passed away earlier today after a “massive cardiac arrest”, reported the Times of India , aged 65 years. Vahanvati was the first Muslim to become attorney general of India, when he became the Congress-led government’s most senior law...

Senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, the “King of Miscellaneous Days” according to this profile by Court Witness , has formally been confirmed to be the recently elected BJP government’s Attorney General of India, reported the PTI . Rohatgi told NDTV : “My priority would be to streamline the litigation pro...

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati and Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran have tendered their resignations as is customary on change of government, reported the PTI . The AG’s and the SG’s tenures are conventionally co-terminus with the term of the existing government. According to speculation senior ...

The names of senior advocates Fali S Nariman, K K Venugopal, Harish Salve and attorney general Goolam Vahanvati have been forwarded in the category of “eminent jurist” to the Lokpal selection panel, alongside former attorney generals Soli Sorabjee and K Parasaran. They will be discussed in a meeting...

The way will soon be clear for the President to ask for an inquiry into sex harassment allegations against the ex-judge. Question is, how, if at all, would it stick under law?

As Goolam Vahanvati will submit a legal opinion by tomorrow on the presidential reference to remove AK Ganguly from the WBHRC, Legally India has seen a copy of the inquiry’s report, which is not confidential anymore.

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati apologises to SC bench headed by Justice RM Lodha for apparent annoyance when unable to respond properly to Coalgate grilling (“It’s very difficult. It is a tremendous strain. I cannot carry everything in my head. Once I argue on one aspect, another question arises ...

No Reliance on reportage: Anil Ambani’s ADAG threatened legal action against monthly magazine Caravan while they were reporting their 11,000-word profile on attorney general Goolam Vahanvati. Delhi law firm Agarwal & Associates acted for ADAG, The Hoot published the deets. Feel me once, shame o...

Over 250 Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) members signed a petition calling for action against attorney general (AG) Goolam Vahanvati for allegedly interfering with the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) report on the coal blocks allocation scam, according to a report in the Times of India ...

Snoopers without charter: The government’s “central monitoring system” is set to allow the National Investigation Agency, tax authorities and possibly others to eavesdrop on “every byte of communication” in India, including online chats, phone calls, SMSes and presumably more, reports [ Times of Ind...

Additional solicitor general (ASG) Harin Raval has been asked to resign after he accused attorney general (AG) Goolam Vahanvati of trying to influence the CBI report on the coal blocks allocation scam and of misleading the Supreme Court, in a letter addressed to Vahanvati and marked to law minister ...

Is Goolam Vahanvati, the Union Government’s top lawyer as attorney general, succumbing to pressures from the top and India Inc. in this increasingly politicised role, asked The Caravan in a typically thoroughly-reported feature.

Proclaimed offender and Andhra Pradesh High Court (AP HC) judge N Venkata Ramana may continue as judge even after his recommended removal by the Chief Justice of India, if the Parliament does not initiate his removal, attorney general GE Vahanvati told the Supreme Court. An arson case was filed agai...

Central government prepares to file for review of the Supreme Court’s 13 September judgment that said that each RTI information commission should also be staffed by an HC or SC judge [ BS ] CIC, none of whose commissioners have a judicial background, had stopped functioning after the judgment and ha...

Naz rap in SC: Vahanvati concludes blaming 377 on Brit Raj in sexually advanced land evidenced by imaginative heritage sculptures [ Express Buzz ] Karnataka HC CJ Vikramjit Sen questions Katju’s support to journos in Bangalore lawyers V journos [ The Hindu ] Clifford Chance axes 13 out of 1000 Londo...

Vodafone refunded Rs 2500 crore with four per cent interest by SC; S.E Dastur opines on second review, CBDT on forgoing billion dollar tax [ Mint , ITAT Online , Business Standard ] Naz finally buried as Vahanvati and co “enlightened”; govt argument goof-up also blamed on miscommunication [ Mint ] N...

India’s first compulsory licencing order comes in as “Bullet” Kurian goes out [ Spicy IP India ] Katju: It is sordid that journos are proceeded against instead of being commended for filming porn-watching MLAs [ NDTV ] [ Download a copy of Katju’s letter to the Speaker ] Vahanvati submits ex-CJI KGB...

Attorney General of India Goolam Vahanvati was conflicted out of providing the government with a legal opinion on the Vedanta-Cairns deal because his son AZB & Partners Mumbai partner Essaji Vahanvati had worked on the deal, according to a report in the Daily Pioneer today.

Former Solicitor General Goolam Vahanvati was appointed Attorney-General of India on Monday (8 June), giving AZB & Partners the second close family connection in that post.