Judicial progeny fail selections: The six out of eight advocates rejected for judgeship at the Punjab & Haryana HC include Manisha Gandhi, the daughter of former Chief Justice of India AS Anand, and Girish Agnihotri, the son of retired P&H HC judge MR Agnihotri. B S Rana, Gurminder Singh K...

The Supreme Court will have two new judges in Allahabad high court chief justice (CJ) Shiva Kirti Singh and Orissa High Court CJ C Nagappan, reported the Hindu . Both will serve three-year tenures at the SC, taking its judges’ strength up to 30. Justice Singh is the third judge representing Bihar in...

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...

The Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) claimed that the Intelligence Bureau (IB) gave a negative report on three judicial candidates.

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...

A group of 46 lawyers and civil society activists have asked Chennai’s and the country’s most senior judges to withdraw a list of names recommended for elevation to the Madras high court (HC), because it would lead to “undeserving persons of questionable competence, experience and integrity get appo...

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.

Outgoing Chief Justice of India’s (CJI) Altamas Kabir’s tenure has undone much of the good that his predecessor, SH Kapadia, has wrought, argued Supreme Court advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan in a column today: There is really no polite way of putting this. The Kabir court has seen a return to the qu...

Gujarat high court chief justice (CJ) Bhaskar Bhattacharya, whose elevation to the Supreme Court was rejected unanimously by the SC collegium , has accused chief justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir of bias spurred by Bhattacharya’s opposition of the CJI’s sister’s elevation to the bench, reported t...

Monday’s Madras high court judgment by Justice Karnan caused debate, outrage and counter-outrage in and between traditional, new and social media, which unfortunately missed the wood for the trees, argues Prachi Shrivastava.

The Delhi subordinate judiciary recruited at 18.4 per cent of its actual requirement this year, despite getting the nod of the Delhi government to recruit according to requirement.

Time for a raise? HC judges request the CJI to increase their Rs 80,000 per month salary to an amount greater than what state chief secretaries get. They also want double the free electricity units at their residences, and to increase their retirement age from 62 to 65 [ TOI ] Sibal for conciliation...

JAC of all trades: The union law ministry proposes a Judicial Appointments Committee comprising of the Chief Justice of India, two sitting SC judges, two presidentially appointed eminent jurists, the union law minister, and secretary department of law and justice [ NDTV ] ‘Peculiar’ extension: Supre...

Former Supreme Court Justice O Chinappa Reddy died at his Hyderabad residence on Saturday, 16 years after retiring from the apex court. Reddy graduated from Madras Law College and enrolled with the Madras Bar in 1944, practicing at the Andhra Pradesh High Court (HC) for 23 years until his appointmen...

Nalsar fights media: Nalsar Hyderabad students launch online campaign and vow to sue for slander over local television channels that allegedly forcefully filmed them and edited telecast to show them as drunk and topless outside a city pub where they were celebrating their farewell [ Hindu / TOI ] Fa...

The Delhi High Court is slated to welcome Delhi Tis Hazari district judge Sunita Gupta and Delhi HC registrar general VP Vaish as additional judges after at least four senior advocates and one advocate are due to take seat at the bench.

The law ministry approved Rs 80 crore for recruitment of 2,000 new subordinate judges across the country, to be deployed in fast track courts. The ministry had discontinued the fast-track courts scheme in March 2011 after running it for 11 years. On 9 January the law ministry wrote to all state gove...

A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir, justices SS Nijjar and J Chelameswar stayed a May 2012 Delhi high court order that suspended a government rule requiring Supreme Court and high court judges to inform the home and external affairs of their foreign trips. After the SC accepted th...

The Punjab and Haryana Bar Association (PHBA) has resolved to dispense with the practice of addressing judges as “my lord” or “your lordship” because of the terms’ colonial associations, substituting the more liberal American title “your honour”.

The Rajya Sabha-appointed committee has finally chargesheeted Sikkim Chief Justice P D Dinakaran on 16 charges of corruption and financial irregularities thirteen months after impeachment proceedings were first admitted against him with further debate slated for next Parliamentary session.