A judge of the Punjab & Haryana high court stayed the result of the Haryana Judicial Services (HJS) Exam after allegations of cheating against the topper of the exam. Immediately after his order the case was taken away from him, for unexplained reasons, at the request of the recruitment committee of the high court, reported Live Law.

The composite scheme of arrangement among the four OP Jindal group companies - Jindal Stainless Ltd and Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Ltd and Jindal United Steel Ltd and Jindal Coke Ltd - got the Punjab & Haryana High Court’s sanction on Monday, the company said. In a statement issued here, Jindal S...

Tight security measures were in place at the Punjab and Haryana High Court complex following an anonymous letter on Tuesday which threatened that blasts would rock the premises today. Scores of Chandigarh Police personnel and para-military forces were seen around the high-security complex since the ...

Akshay Bhan, who is the first NLSIU Bangalore alumnus advocate designated as a senior counsel, recounts how being a former Supreme Court judge’s son helps, the importance of seniors and how he thinks other NLS alumni are likely to be elevated soon too.

NLSIU Bangalore alumnus Akshay Bhan, who is practising in the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in Chandigarh, has been designated as a senior counsel.

Telegram revival PILs: Two public interest petitions in the Madras HC have asked for restoration of the recently discontinued telegram service in India, for the benefit of the “rural masses, lawyers, litigants, armed force and police” [ Hindu ] Separation of vision: The judiciary has the wisdom but ...

The Supreme Court (SC) collegium has approved the nomination of chief justice (CJ) of Punjab and Haryana High Court (HC) and former Delhi HC judge Arjan Kumar Sikri for elevation to the SC. Sikri was sworn in as the HC’s 31st CJ on 22 September 2012, after serving as the Delhi HC’s judge for 13 year...

A social activist called for the Punjab & Haryana HC to prevent lawyers from “browbeating the system”, and “forceful imposition of their collective bargaining power”, as “an impression that lawyers are above the law […] has been created”. Activist Hemant Goswami filed an intervention applicatio...

The now more than one-year old Punjab government-formulated policy for the protection of whistle blowers in the state was notified on the state government’s website last week after the Punjab and Haryana high court reportedly directed the government to make the policy public. The policy notified on ...