Retired Supreme Court judges justices Gyan Sudha Mishra, CK Prasad and Balbir Singh Chauhan, were nominated by the apex court to head the proposed Lokpal ombudsman. Also in the running is retired Jharkhand high court chief justice and current Appellate Tribunal for Electricity chairman M Karpaga Vinayagam

Senior advocate Shanti Bhushan and advocate Prashant Bhushan have dubbed the proposed draft Jan Lokpal Bill 2015 as the “Jokepal Bill”, and have alleged that it is a ‘maliciously’ weakened draft of the original Lokpal Bill of 2011 by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). If at all the centre passes the bill it will be an instrument in the hands of the Delhi government to save its own legislative assembly members, allege the Bhushans.

The Supreme Court told the government that it should explain within four weeks how the “leader of opposition” post should be interpreted under the Lokpal Act, since the Congress party lost to the BJP so badly that it can’t muster enough members in the Lok Sabha to count as an opposition. 55 MPs was ...

The government has conceded a major criticism against its Lokpal that resulted in several lawyers declining appointment to its search committee, and changed the rules for the search committee allowing it to select anyone qualified for the post of Lokpal, rather than waiting for applications from des...

A few days ago the Financial Express did a long interview with senior advocate and former parliamentarian Fali Nariman. The chat covers a dozen topics, including Nariman’s fear of modern Hinduism’s intolerance, how a Narendra Modi prime minister would affect the courts and constitution, judicial ref...

The fact that a Lokpal bill did get passed at all, should give pause for thought.

Just a week after senior advocate Fali Nariman declined to be part of the Lokpal search committee, former Supreme Court judge KT Thomas has also told the government he didn’t want to head the search committee that would find candidates to head the anti-corruption ombudsman body.

Delhi HC pecuniary enhancement clears another hurdle : The Delhi High Court (Amendment) Bill, 2014 which seeks enhance the Delhi HC’s pecuniary jurisdiction from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 2 crore, and which was a cause of Delhi HC bar protests , is now in the Rajya Sabha [ PTI ] PIL vs anti-activist NGT bar ...

After the Supreme Court’s second-most senior judge and next Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said he would be the last person to accept appointment to the Lokpal selection panel, Chief justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam reportedly nominated the SC’s third-most senior judge HL Dattu to the pane...

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...

- Adarsh Society writ to defreeze accounts for paying favourite senior lawyers rejected by Bombay High Court: “Nowhere has the SC held that right to legal representation includes right to counsel of one’s choice…” [ TOI ] ( Adarsh has used Vidhii Partners in the past, for example ) - Pak foreign min...

A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of the Lokpal Bill Drafting Committee for having included civil society members.