The coal ministry has sought the advice of the government’s chief legal official on issues arising from the Supreme Court’s decision to de-allocate coal mines like forfeiture of bank guarantees and title deeds of mines purchased by the companies. The attorney general Mukul Rohatgi’s opinion is being...

The Supreme Court Wednesday constituted a five-member committee that will make a comprehensive assessment of the situation in the flood-ravaged areas of Jammu and Kashmir, and report to the court. An apex court bench of Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice Rohinton Fali Narima...

Kingfisher Airlines, advised by Agarwal Law Associates, lost in the Supreme Court yesterday after its special leave petition against last week’s Calcutta high court order , as reported by Legally India , was dismissed in the beleaguered operator’s wilful default battle with the United Bank of India ...

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 ...

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused the SCBA of “crass commercialisation and periodic auctioning and re-auctioning”, on its decision to rename the Supreme Court’s “Dr LM Singhvi library” to “Dr Awadh Behari Rohatgi library” after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, instead of Singhvi, ended up ...

The BJP government’s law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad signed off on senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi becoming Attorney General of India yesterday, reported the Times of India and other papers citing ministry sources, which is set to be approved by the president in a day or two. Although Rohatgi’s appoi...

The appointment of Mukul Rohatgi, who was considered a shoo-in to become the next Attorney General of India , appears to have been put on hold following a critical letter by senior counsel and former BJP member Ram Jethmalani to the BJP leadership. Jethmalani told the Indian Express : “Yes, I have w...

Senior counsel Mukul Rohatgi, the “King of Miscellaneous Days” according to this profile by Court Witness , has formally been confirmed to be the recently elected BJP government’s Attorney General of India, reported the PTI . Rohatgi told NDTV : “My priority would be to streamline the litigation pro...

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati and Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran have tendered their resignations as is customary on change of government, reported the PTI . The AG’s and the SG’s tenures are conventionally co-terminus with the term of the existing government. According to speculation senior ...

The Mail Today , said that “sources” have told it that the BJP government’s favourites for the job of attorney general would be senior advocates Harish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi (of course, the paper had made the same prediction already a month ago , when it also added that Ranjit Kumar was in the run...

A detailed report in the Eco Times on the long-running legal scuffle between McDonald’s and its local JV partner Vikram Bakshi. McDonald’s has accused Bakshi in the Delhi high court of forum shopping by launching Company Law Board (CLB) and Delhi high court challenges to a London Court of Internatio...

The Delhi high court yesterday restrained anyone from publishing or broadcasting the detailed sexual harassment allegations against Swatanter Kumar, without stating prominently that they are “mere allegations”, as a battery of counsel appeared for the former Supreme Court judge in the court yesterday.

India Today dockets the lives and times of India’s top eight senior advocates. All of them keep expensive hobbies and none of them bill below Rs 5 lakh – per appearance. The oldest active lawyer in India, Ram Jethmalani : Aged 90, and enrolled at the bar as the youngest member at age 18, he maintain...

Court Witness: To experience firsthand what exactly happens when all hell breaks loose, visit the Supreme Court of India on a miscellaneous day.

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...