TERI Pachauri : RK Pachauri, accused of sexual harassment by a former colleague, has returned to TERI in a new role created just for him - executive vice chairman - after a decision by the governing body. ( India Today ). Many decade-old cases pending in lower courts : More than 10 per cent of 2,00,...

Senior general counsel (GC) could earn Rs 80 - 300+ lakh per annum , revealed a recruiter, adding that generally pay in-house was still lower than in private practice. Meanwhile our feature in Mint revealed that GCs may not be the only ones holding the purse strings though when it comes to the bitte...

Neglected juveniles: Delhi HC directs that all Delhi jails will have a welfare officer, after noting that only 5 Delhi jails out of 11 have them. The absence of welfare officers and one social worker to work with each Special Juvenile Police Unit in the city has led to imprisonment of juvenile offen...

XXII HC: Arunachal Pradesh will soon get its own high court, in addition to the state’s prevalent “Kebang system” covering panchayat areas’ judicial needs [ ET ] Judge Academy VIIetc: Himachal Pradesh will set up a Rs 37 crore state judicial academy to “prepare well-trained and qualified managerial ...

A unified regulator – the Unified Financial Agency (UFA) - for markets, insurance, commodities, pensions, and eventually banking, also subsuming the SEBI, SAT, IRDA, PFRDA, and FMC and merging the RBI with it, was proposed on Friday [ BS ] US Supreme Court may partially strike down law denying legal...

Networking company Ericsson is suing Indian handset maker Micromax for Rs 100 crore in the Delhi high court over ‘standards-essential’ patents [ Economic Times ] Supreme Court to answer why it uses Yatodharma Stato Jaya tagline under the Lion Capital of Ashoka logo, rather than Satyamev Jayate natio...

Anti-rape law passed Rajya Sabha in only two hours with promises to remove loopholes later: Rape remains gender specific crime, age of consent remains 18, death sentences in some cases & more [ Hindu on bill’s passage / TOI on substance of law ] Italy has promised to return its two marines, who...

Advocate general of Kerala has admitted a criminal contempt petition against Mavelikkara Bar Association’s office bearers, for obstructing advocate Sam Varghese from attending court during the 11 and 12 July all-India strike called by the BCI [ TOI ] Subroto-Roy’s Sahara group is facing a writ petit...

The Gujarat high court (HC) has stayed the advocates association-suspension of the lone lawyer who defied the Bar Council of India (BCI) strike and was allegedly beaten by other advocates in court, and later suspended from the HC advocates association. His colleague’s PIL heard by chief justice Bhas...

MHRD notified the Copyright Rules 2013 corresponding to the Copyright (Amendment) Act 2012. Fee for registration of copyright has been increased under the new rules, among other things [ PIB ] US law professor appealing to Delhi HC for audio-visual recording of court proceedings, ends up misbehaving...

The Supreme Court has extended the travel ban on the Italian ambassador, who is now represented by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi in his fight to justify why the Italian marines were not returned to India to face charges of killing to Indian fishermen [ WSJ / Lawyer Satvik Varma ’s opinion column on ...

Supreme Court bench headed by CJI Kabir restrains Italian ambassador from leaving India to explain why broken undertaking and why accused marines won’t return to India [ BBC ] Eight students of Government Law College Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu arrested after burning effigies of Indian Prime Minis...

Rajya Sabha passes SEBI (Amendment) Bill allowing high court judges to be appointed to head the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT0. Presently SAT can only be headed by Supreme Court judges and high court chief justices [ New Indian Express ] Maharashtra lawyers “protest the baton charge on lawyers ...

Gujarat High Court Advocates Association (GHCAA) forwarded a resolution to the President of India protesting against the judges’ collegium decision to allegedly supersede Gujarat HC Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya in SC elevations [ Daily Pioneer ] Supreme Court advocate Rajeev Dhawan proposes fi...

Law min Ashwani Kumar warns that profession’s standards have been falling [ ET ] Bombay HC will now permit only women judicial officers to work on cases involving sex crimes, according to latest circular [ Mid Day ] Andhra Pradesh HC chief justice musical chairs: CJ PC Ghose officiated until yesterd...

Jaipur lawyers protest at Rajasthan HC for long-pending housing project and personal allowance demands, while Chandigarh lawyers protest at the Punjab & Haryana HC to support of 20 advocates against whom a case was registered for manhandling a cop [ Deccan Herald ] Over 3 crore cases pend acros...

Tehelka targets Goolam: Chidambaram and Vahanvati’s concurrence and lack of graft evidence may result in Raja going scot-free [ Tehelka ] A copy of the 2G judgment was being circulated two hours before the SC posted it – and there were small differences in the copy. Conspiracy theory, admin error, o...