The post colonial-era building with the red sandstone dome on Delhi’s Bhagwaan Dass Road is home to an elite class of lawyers, who are likely to be the most expensive in the world: they are typically paid between Rs 5 and 15 lakh per hearing.

Interviews by Legally India with more than 32 Delhi lawyers who brief seniors in the Supreme Court and Delhi high court reveal all…

Chief Justice of India HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy yesterday (31 August) granted a stay on the Rajasthan high court’s judgment delivered on August 10 criminalising the Jain community’s practice of Santhara – meaning abstinence from food and water by a person, who awaits death – and issued notice to the respondents in the case.

The Supreme Court Thursday dismissed a plea challenging the ordinance on coal blocks, providing for retrospective recovery of a levy of Rs 295 per metric tonne of extracted coal and linking its payment as a qualification to participate in the cancelled coal blocks’ auction. The Coal Mines (Special P...

The Supreme Court yesterday declined senior counsel Gopal Subramanium’s offer to step aside as amicus curiae in the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple case after members of Travancore royal family who are the temple’s trustees assailed him for interfering with temple rituals and trying to oust them. Declini...

Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium will again be amicus curiae in the Padmanabha Swamy temple case, reported The Hindu , with the Times of India reporting that he would be visiting the temple in Kerala this weekend. The former solicitor general had withdrawn from the case in August despite the Supreme...

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and Anil R Dave asked Gopal Subramanium to reconsider his recusal as the amicus curiae in the Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure case, because he had already put significant work into the case, reported The Hindu . Subramanium had announced, as reported on 5 August , th...

The Supreme Court has appointed senior advocate RS Cheema as the special public prosecutor (SPP) in the Coalgate scam special court trial, reported the PTI , presided over by additional sessions judge Bharat Parashar. A week ago the bench of Chief Justice RM Lodha, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice ...

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...

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...

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...

Legally India Supreme Court postcard writer Court Witness ’s latest column in the Mumbai Mirror on l’affaire Gopal Subramanium: Make no mistake about it. The underlying reasons for the rejection (or the “separation”) of the recommendation of the five senior most judges of the Supreme Court (better k...

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...

Former solicitor general (SG) Gopal Subramanium had written a letter to former law minister Kapil Sibal during the 2G scam, denying allegations of having “interacted with any lawyer” – allegations on the basis of which the new government has tried to veto his name for elevation to the SC as judge , ...

Former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium’s name has not been cleared for elevation as a Supreme Court judge by the government which cleared the names of senior advocate Rohinton Nariman, Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Arun Mishra and Orissa High Court Chief Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel for the ele...

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...

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.

Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium has joined English barristers’ chamber 3 Verulam Buildings as an associate member and arbitrator.