The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Bill 2014 was passed by the Rajya Sabha today, including a Lok Sabha amendment from yesterday by senior Congress politician and former law minister Veerappa Moily to restrict the government’s effective veto over new appointments. The upper house c...

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...

The Supreme Court rejected the government’s plea to undo its judgment asking for a special investigation team to probe black money stashed abroad in a PIL that was first filed and won by senior counsel Ram Jethmalani. Anil Divan represented Jethmalani, while Mohan Parasaran argued for the government...

A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice KS Radhakrishnan today rejected the appeal for the bail of jailed Sahara boss Subrata Roy, pending the next hearing on 25 March 2014.

Election Commission wants paid news to be crime : Election Commission said it has proposed to the law ministry to make “paid news” a criminal offence, estimating that Rs 500 crore was currently being spent on paid news [ NDTV ] RamJet accuses Kejriwal of demonic pact with Congress : Senior counsel a...

The Supreme Court has today issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Sahara chief Subrata Roy for not turning up in court, rejecting senior counsel Ram Jethamalani’s arguments that Roy was aiding his ill mother.

First female judge elevated from Goa : North Goa Principal and District and Sessions Judge Anuja Prabhudessai is set to become the first Goan judge who is a woman to be elevated to the Bombay high court. Once in her two-decade-long judicial career she was suspended for using her discretion in awardi...

AK Ganguly SC report private info : Rejecting a Right to Information (RTI) request for the Supreme Court’s report on its recent sexual harassment complaint proceedings against its former justice AK Ganguly, the SC said: “The disclosure of information and reports emanating out of a self-evolved mecha...

Lawyers boycott supporting boycott to force judicial transfer : The Allahabad High Court Bar Association boycotted work today in support of the boycott of work by the Awadh Bar Association of Lucknow. In fact Allahabad outdid Awadh and added an extra half-day of boycott after lunch yesterday. The bo...

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani has filed a defamation case against the BJP party’s parliamentary board for expelling him from the party in May 2013, claiming Rs 50 lakh from each of the 11-odd members of the board. (However, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and former prime minister Ata...

Senior counsel Ram Jethmalani talked to the Wall Street Journal in typically freewheeling and candid manner about his representation of godman Asaram Bapu, who was accused of sexual assault on a teenager. Excerpts: RamJet on reports that the alleged victim had a condition that attracted men towards ...

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani faced the ire of social groups and Twitter users after arguing that the girl who had charged his client Asaram Bapu with rape, was suffering from a chronic disease “which draws a woman to a man” and that her entire case, including her age, was fabricated, reported the ...

Political party BJP yesterday expelled India’s oldest active lawyer and former law minister Ram Jethmalani from its primary membership for six years, over alleged anti-party comments made by him. [ BS ] Jethmalani called the decision of the party “stupid” and analogous to “committing suicide”. BJP h...

Breaking: Alleged proclaimed offender and Andhra Pradesh high court (HC) judge NV Ramana will continue as a judge in that HC, after the Supreme Court (SC) today dismissed the petition challenging his appointment and imposed costs on each of the petitioners.

Silicon Valley-based Q&A site Quora, which is popular in the California tech community that includes many Indians, non-resident or otherwise, has voted Ram Jethmalani as the world’s “most badass lawyer”.

Senior advocate MN Krishnamani defeated senior advocate Rupinder Singh Suri by 136 votes to be elected the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) until May 2013 in yesterday’s first-of-its-kind SCBA members-only poll, in which 1340 advocates voted. 547 members voted with Krishnamani.

Breaking: Senior advocates Ram Jethmalani and PK Jain today withdrew their candidature for Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president just before today’s 4:30pm deadline by which nominations for the 2013 elections could be withdrawn. Their withdrawals from the race follow senior advocate Adish Aggarwala yesterday, reducing the race for the SCBA president’s office to one between only three candidates after the incumbent PH Parekh did not run again for the post.

Exclusive: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections for 2013 will be held on 13 December, months behind the conventional schedule of polling in May and with the compact voter list of 1372 bar members, after the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that those voting in other bar association elections cannot vote in the SCBA elections.

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...

Vodafone tax saga: Is Advocate Sharma “reasonable person” or “biased person”? Salve says CJI Kapadia is “honest person” [ Mint ] ASG Malhotra’s 4 hour slamming of immoral AIDS-spreading gay sex Vs. other govt law officer insisting govt has no stand except that Attorney Gen may assist other appellant...