In a blow to CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court Thursday directed him not to interfere with the 2G spectrum case and recuse himself from its investigation and prosecution. An apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice AK Sikri said that the senior-most of...

In a blow to CBI Director Ranjit Sinha, the Supreme Court Thursday directed him not to interfere with the 2G spectrum case and recuse himself from its investigation and prosecution. An apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice AK Sikri said that the senior-most of...

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...

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...

The Supreme Court Wednesday declined a plea by mobile phone service providers and other corporate honchos to stay the trial of 2G cases before the Special CBI Court which is hearing the matter on a day-to-day basis. “What we have not done earlier we won’t do now,” said the bench of Justice HL Dattu ...

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 told KK Venugopal, the senior counsel for former Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar, who is currently chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), that Kumar should respond to an apex court transfer petition within four weeks, which was filed by one of his former interns who a...

The Supreme Court has adjourned its hearing in the public interest litigation (PIL) against Swatanter Kumar until 26 March, as two more interveners attempted to join the PIL.

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...

Constitutional law expert and senior counsel KK Venugopal has represented the Travancore royal family in the Supreme Court, submitting that they did not intend to claim possession over the contents of the “public temple” that may be worth up to $22bn.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has agreed to postpone the planned bar exam to December, BCI counsel KK Venugopal told the Supreme Court today in the case BCI v Bonnie FOI Law College & Ors, admitting the logistical challenge of holding the exam before September in a surprise U-turn.

Either the Times of India thinks that only advocates are lawyers or that law firm lawyers are just not so very top. While I certainly would not dare disagree with the calibre and legal genius of each of these individuals, could not at least one law firmite have made it to the list? Here’s TOI’s full...