Bar Council of India chairman Suraj Narain Prasad Sinha has responded to Legally India readers’ comments to our interview with him of two weeks ago. He argues that top law students are depriving the bar and bench of talent by joining law firms and pleads that all lawyers should aim high in their careers.

The bench has called an extraordinary meeting to deal with lawyers’ growing violence against judges, after a group of lawyers allegedly assaulted a District Court judge on Wednesday. Delhi lawyers Vikas Gupta and Rekha Sharma allegedly slapped Additional District Judge Pankaj Gupta on Wednesday. Gup...

Lawyers have threatened legal action over the Government’s new service tax as Delhi litigators are going on strike over the issue today.