A permanent office for the 11 year old IPAB (Intellectual Property Appellate Board) is now finally in the works in Kovalam, near Chennai, as the state has also invited applications to fill up its vacancies – after pressure from advocates pointing out its mounting workload [ Business Standard ] Judge...

Tejpal still bail less: Tehelka founding editor Tarun Tejpal’s bail hearing has been postponed till Friday – until then the Goa police could arrest him. [ Bail arguments summary NDTV / Deccan Chronicle ]. The Goa police was represented by senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, as senior KTS Tulsi was on for...

Lawyer myths: NLSIU Bangalore grad and Singapore’s Nanyang Tech B-school lecturer Krishna Udayasankar has penned down a mythological trilogy – the Aryavarta Chronicles. Interview by [ Bangalore Mirror ] TOI didn’t defame: The Times of India is off the hook for criminal defamation after the Madras HC...

A Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 examinee lost out on a Nalsar Hyderabad seat due to a mistake in last year’s question paper, the Delhi high court has held.

India sides with Obama : Salman Khursheed, former law minister, defends US spies’ electronic snooping , saying it’s not “snooping” and “only computer analysis of patterns of calls and e-mails sent”. Minister gets slammed by rivals [ Hindu ] Niche education : Law colleges have increasingly started of...

Ramlu wants moolah: RMLNLU Lucknow on Saturday decided to raise its fees from the current Rs 80,000 per year to an, as yet, undecided amount, which “will be at par with other national law schools”. However, “the university will consider the financial status of students who come from UP before finali...

Nalsar tops India Today: Nalsar Hyderabad displaced NLSIU Bangalore at first place in India’s top 25 law colleges this year according to India Today . NLSIU, Delhi University, NUJS Kolkata, NLIU Bhopal, GNLU Gandhinanar, Symbiosis Pune, NLU Jodhpur, ILS Pune, AMU Aligarh, BHU Varanai and Amity Law S...

At least 50 CLAT 2013 candidates were reshuffled to different colleges two weeks after the first results were first released.

Nalsar Hyderabad hired 14 full-timers & 16 non-permanent faculty members for ‘academic ambience’.

Nalsar Hyderabad relaxed its attendance requirement from 95 per cent to 75 per cent semester and reduced the number of academic research papers to be written by students per semester from five to one, according to The Hindu . The law school has also introduced the “restorative justice system” on cam...

Nuals Kochi drops behind RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna but seven oldest national law schools stay top.

Five out of ten Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) exam 2011 toppers collecting their appointment letters at the Delhi high court today are Delhi University (DU) law graduates.

New Andhra CJ: Andhra Pradesh HC gets a new chief justice in Uttarakhand HC justice KJ Sengupta. Sengupta, who practised as a lawyer in the Calcutta high court and became acting chief justice there on 5 October 2012 [ New Indian Express ] Paid Rs 61 lakh: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer emerges as th...

Nalsar Hyderabad touts India’s first ever MBA in court management.

Amarchand has emerged as the most aggressive Indian early recruiter hiring 36 fourth-year law students across 10 colleges.

25 Nalsarites accept jobs at six firms.

NLU Jodhpur performed strongly in The Hague and at the Commonwealth moot for 35 MPL points.

Nalsar Hyderabad RCC “confident” it will continue 100% recruitment record.

Four female Nalsar Hyderabad students were filmed outside a pub with the footage later edited by local television media into allegedly defamatory broadcasts. A week on, the girls have launched online protest campaigns against voyeuristic journalism, and garnered mainstream media support. Newslaundry...

Nalsar voyeur action: Nalsar Hyderabad executive council has vowed to set up a committee to take short and long term action against the victimisation of women by voyeuristic media. This follows Friday’s incident where TV channels aired and uploaded distorted news segments of an altercation involving...