The law and commerce ministries, including law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, met with a number of stakeholders of the Indian legal profession today, paving the way for the first stage of allowing foreign law firms to set up shop in India.

Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said today that the government had not yet taken a decision on the Law Commission proposals to overhaul the regulation of the legal profession, which included the banning of lawyer strikes and induction of non-elected, non-lawyer members into bar councils.

The new Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday that “comprehensive consultations” were required before taking steps towards a Uniform Civil Code (UCC).

Communications and Information Technology minister and lawyer Ravi Shankar Prasad has been made the law minister again in today’s cabinet reshuffle, replacing DV Sadananda Gowda, reported DNA and others.

Two senior MPs were paid several crore Rupees in undisclosed legal retainer contracts over several years by Reliance Industries, raising questions of transparency and potential for conflict despite being completely legal, reported the UK’s Financial Times on its frontpage this morning. [ Full FT art...

Ex Karnataka chief minister and former railways minister DV Sadananda Gowda has become the latest minister of law and justice in the first major cabinet reshuffle of the new government, following telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who held the law portfolio from 26 May 2014, reported PTI . Gowda ...

In a bold move the Supreme Court today tried begin solving the national undertrial prisoner crisis, by ordering the release of all those in jail for more than half their charged sentence who’ve yet to see a trial. The bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha ordered all districts’ judic...

UK law minister Shailesh Vara, who is of Gujarati origins, has lobbied for the entry of foreign law firms to practise non-Indian transactional law here during his ongoing visit to India. Vara said at a press conference in Ahmedabad, according to the PTI : “I had met Indian Law Minister Ravi Shankar ...

NLSIU Bangalore and NLU Delhi held their convocations over the last week, with 14 other current and former judges invited to descend on Bangalore on Sunday, as Nalsar’s convocation earlier this month saw Indian president Pranab Mukherjee as chief guest . Law, communications and IT minister Ravi Shan...

Update 15:12: The bill has been passed. @CourtWitness1 commented on Twitter: The INS JAC has left the dry docks. Without right armaments it’s woefully exposed to destruction by judicial torpedoes. If the RS doesn’t amend the veto power given to Law minister in the NJAC, it’s pretty much dead in the ...

The Law Commission chairman Justice AP Shah has recommended that the tenure of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) should be fixed to at least two years, and that the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) should consist of at least four judges, including the CJI as chairperson, reported The Hindu and ...

Yesterday’s high-powered law ministry meeting with a who’s who of the legal profession , reportedly resulted in a consensus from most present about the need to abolish the existing collegium system of judicial appointments, with the government now producing a draft. The three hour meeting, according...

The central government and its law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad are set to meet in Delhi with a number of advocates today, to discuss the shape of a constitutional amendment on judicial appointments, reported the Times of India . The panel to give feedback on a possible change to the collegium syste...

During the retirement function of Justice BS Chauhan, Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that he had requested Gopal Subramanium to withdraw his resignation from the Supreme Court bench elevation process, reported the Hindustan Times . However, the senior counsel wrote a “30-word regret lett...

BJP veteran, senior advocate Ravi Shankar Prasad has been assigned the union law ministry, tweeted journalist Ashok Bagariya . Prasad was designated a senior at the Patna high court in 1999 and at the Supreme Court in 2000, the same year as he also became a member of parliament. He became the Minist...