The Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi has instituted a special bench this morning, at 10:30am in Court Number 1, headed by himself alongside justices Arun Mishra and Sanjeev Khanna, to vociferously refute sexual harassment allegations made against him by a complainant in a letter sent to all Supreme Court judges.

The Supreme Court told KK Venugopal, the senior counsel for former Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar, who is currently chairman of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), that Kumar should respond to an apex court transfer petition within four weeks, which was filed by one of his former interns who a...

Kian Ganz explains on Newslaundry how over the last week the papers have been happily running with a news story about how AK Ganguly, the former Supreme Court judge who had allegedly harassed one of his interns after retirement, with headlines such as “Ganguly gets Centre’s clean chit in intern case...

The Delhi high court adjourned its hearing in the Swatanter Kumar defamation case to 28 August, after the Supreme Court transfer petition was filed with the court in sealed cover.

The Delhi high court hearing former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar’s defamation case, would wait until the Supreme Court had decided on the transfer petition by an former law student intern who alleged she was sexually harassed by him.

A former intern, who had alleged that ex-Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar has sexually harassed her in 2011, has applied to the Supreme Court to transfer Kumar’s defamation case.

The Hindu ’s senior court reporter J Venkatesan has interviewed Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow from his post. In the hour-long interview, excerpts of which were published by the paper, Sathasivam recounted how he rose to the highest judicial office in the country fro...

The advocate who has been banned from the Supreme Court premises for six months by the court’s new sexual harassment committee and the CJI, said he would seek a review of the order.

The Supreme Court sexual harassment committee has banned an advocate from the Supreme Court premises for six months for an incident of sexual harassment.

Now professor of law, social policy and women’s studies in the US, Hill says despite her critics working to destroy her for accusing Thomas of sexual harassment and the ensuing senate hearings, she has survived and “created a vocabulary around sex harassment where none existed before”, reports the N...

Fali Nariman and PP Rao have completed their recommendations to the Supreme Court in what procedure to follow in case of sex harassment allegations against sitting and former judges.

Bombay HC mandates cinemas to offer free online booking : Bombay HC asked the state government to issue a circular asking all movie theatres and multiplexes to set up their own websites for online booking of movie tickets without a convenience charge. A government resolution had already asked all th...

NUJS Kolkata vice chancellor Ishwara Bhatt announced at the law school’s convocation that its guidelines to protect of interns from sexual harassment would be published on its website soon, reported the Telegraph . The report added that Bhatt promised that if an intern’s employer does not take actio...

The next hearing will be on 19 May in the Delhi high court case filed by Swatanter Kumar against three media companies and an NUJS Kolkata graduate who alleged the former Supreme Court judge had sexually harrassed her while she interned with him, reported the PTI.

The Supreme Court’s sexual harassment committee has explained how sexual harassment complaints against practising lawyers and court staff should be made in future.

The Supreme Court has adjourned its hearing in the public interest litigation (PIL) against Swatanter Kumar until 26 March, as two more interveners attempted to join the PIL.

Legally India has obtained a copy of the public interest litigation filed by anonymous lawyer X, a former intern of ex-Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar, whose case will again get heard by the Supreme Court tomorrow (14 February).

The chilling effect of the Delhi high court’s gag order it the Swatanter Kumar case is only the latest in a long line of examples of the media losing out in its fight to report on the judiciary, argues advocate Prashant Reddy.

For all intents and purposes, a lot of credit should go to Karanjawala & Co, for they have proven what difference a lawyer can make (or a team of six or more, judging by the number cc’d to my recent email correspondence with the firm).

The Supreme Court Gender Sensitisation and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) has received two complaints of sexual harassment since it was set up on 26 November 2013, reported the PTI , citing the GSICC Annual Report (PDF): In the First Meeting of the GSICC held on 9/12/2013, an Internal Sub-Com...