T he Karnataka high court has stayed NLSIU Bangalore ‘s 25% domicile reservation in the interim, according to LiveLaw and Bar & Bench . NLSIU should prepare a new seat matrix without the reservation and the Karnataka government should not notify the NLSIU amendment act, the court held. However,...

IndusLaw senior partner and head of litigation and dispute resolution, V Srinivasa Raghavan, has received the senior counsel nod from the Karnataka high court.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) Bangalore equity partner Murali Ananthasivan has gone independent to become an independent counsel again.

Data privacy is a burning issue, from the Aadhaar ID database to a series of recent government and judicial reports laying the groundwork for a much-overdue reform of Indian privacy regulations, which will affect a plethora of businesses.

The lawyers protesting against alleged ‘stepmotherly’ treatment of the Karnataka high court bench, and appointments to it, include “Advocates Generals of the state BV Acharya, Ravivarma Kumar, Udaya Holla and Ashok Haranahalli, co-chairman of Bar

The Supreme Court collegium has recommended to the Madras high court bench who would probably be the first of a modern Indian law firm’s partners, as well as the second-ever NLSIU Bangalore graduate.

Mason & Associates is defending Google in the Delhi high court against a writ claiming the “right to be forgotten” on the internet, in the second instance of such a claim before an Indian court.

Senior counsel Dushyant Dave, writing in The Wire, has criticised a number of recent decisions of the Supreme Court regarding judicial elevations and transfers, for having been as opaque (as ever) and having missed out on obvious candidates, suggesting that executive pressure scuppered the elevations of several judges who’d handed down decisions the government wouldn’t have liked.

Former Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju has begun blogging about the judiciary again, despite his run-in with the Supreme Court’s rather draconian contempt powers had left him on the ropes, giving a strategic unconditional apology (which the apex court accepted on 7 January, having asserted its dominance over its former brother judge).

The first female Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, Manjula Chellur, has been named the new Chief Justice of the Bombay high court.

The Supreme Court was told on Wednesday that liquor baron Vijay Mallya has offered to pay Rs 4,000 crore to settle outstanding dues against the grounded Kingfisher Airlines on account of loans extended by a consortium of 13 banks headed by the SBI The apex court bench of Justice Kurien Joseph and Ro...

New chief justices (CJ) were appointed at the Meghalaya, Karnataka and Orissa high courts by Presidential order, reported the Press Information Bureau . Allahabad HC judge Dinesh Maheshwari will assume the CJ’s office at Meghalaya HC, Karnataka HC judge Subhro Kamal Mukherjee will at Karnataka HC an...

Chief Justice Dhirendra Hiralal Waghela of the Orissa High Court on Monday was sworn-in as the new Chief Justice of the Bombay high court here, following the collegium’s recommendation last month. Governor CV Rao administered the oath of office to Chief Justice Waghela at Raj Bhavan. Present on the ...

Justice Ramayyagari Subhash Reddy of the Andhra Pradesh high court in Hyderabad has been appointed as chief justice of the Gujarat high court, according to the government’s PIB . Three judges have been transferred between high courts, according to the government’s PIB , while 12 additional judges of...

As Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice HL Dattu appeared to be a man in a hurry. However, despite having held the office for a near eternity compared to many other recent CJIs, what he has managed to achieve as a judge and administrator in that time is questionable.

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...

Justice TS Thakur, the seniormost judge after Supreme Court Chief Justice HL Dattu, will become the next Chief Justice of India and would be at the helm of the country’s judiciary till 4 January, 2017. Chief Justice Dattu has recommended the name of Justice Thakur, being the seniormost judge after h...

21 additional judges of three high courts were granted extension through notifications by the Ministry of Law and Justice after receiving the first set of recommendations from the collegium reported Business Standard . Additional judges from Calcutta high court granted extension for three months fro...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said a constitution bench will hear on 14 October a batch of applications, including one by the central government seeking “clarification/modification” of its 11 August order to permit the use of Aadhaar card for availing benefits under social welfare schemes including ...

In a setback to the central government, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to modify its 11 August order restricting the use of Aadhaar card for distribution of foodgrain under PDS, supply of kerosene oil and LPG, saying that plea for the clarification or modification of its order would be decid...