70 out of the 100 Supreme Court judges, who retired as on 12 February 2016, took up post-retirement jobs with various permanent and ad hoc bodies and committees, with the greatest number taking up quasi-judicial posts, according to data collected by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy.

Former Chief Justice if India (CJI) SH Kapadia passed away last night in Mumbai aged 68.

The Supreme Court yesterday recommended that former Chief Justice of India SH Kapadia should mediate in a dispute of the Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) over two priests who were banned for allegedly performing allegedly unsanctioned ceremonies. The ban was quashed by the Bombay high court in 2011, and...

“After two wasted years, Sathasivam realizes that Kapadia was, after all, right about the Registry,” tweeted CourtWitness. Livelaw reported that Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sathasivam said at an AOR-hosted function yesterday that the registry was not listing matters correctly by allowing lawyers to...

Justice Bhabani Prasad Ray was transferred a week ago from the Kerala high court to become judge of the Odisha HC. [ Odisha Sun Times ] Ray was reportedly one of 11 high court judges transferred by former SC CJI Kapadia for “public interest” reasons in 2010 (then from Orissa to Karnataka) [ Legally ...

At precisely 10.30am on 28 September 2012, a packed courtroom rose in the Supreme Court of India’s Chief Justice’s Court, as chief-justice-designate Altamas Kabir and former chief justice of India (CJI) Sarosh Homi Kapadia – a little behind him - walked in to preside together in this court for the first and the last time.

A lot of the recent frictions between the judiciary and the media are little more than misunderstandings, argues Kian Ganz.

After he retires as Chief Justice of India (CJI) today, Sarosh Homi Kapadia will leave a legacy that will be both defined and shrouded by his circumstances.

Today, blogging live from 2pm on the presidential reference about Supreme Court Justice GS Singhvi’s 2 February judgment that cancelled all awarded 2G licences and said that all natural resources should be allocated by the government by auction.

The Supreme Court served the newspapers Indian Express and Daily Pioneer with a suo moto contempt notice for allegedly misreporting court proceedings in stories published in the papers today about sitting Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar’s recommended appointment to the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

After Forbes profiled CJI Kapadia’s career at its dusk, it is now time for The Telegraph to docket India’s future boss Altamas Kabir’s run-up of seven years and 21 days to the helm, and his days before and after. Sending a husband to jail for taunting his wife on her dark complexion, ruling for powe...

By Nikhil Kanekal: It’s going to be an incredibly tough future for the Subroto Roy-owned Sahara Group (also known as Sahara India Parivar) after today’s judgment by the Supreme Court of India. The court asked two group companies to return an unprecedented Rs 24,000 crores ($4.3bn) to their roughly 28 million investors, while setting the company and its directors up for possible criminal prosecution.

The judgment is a stinging indictment of the company’s practices. It is also probably the largest ever transaction ordered by an Indian court to date.

SH Kapadia: Dignified Forbes does a profile of Chief Justice of India (CJI) SH Kapadia, gathering a remarkable biography from eating Bombay Chana at Flora Fountain as a class IV employee at Bombay HC, to the breeze in BHC’s courtroom number 3 and his hard-working rise to judge, a special court judge...

Calcutta HC lawyers file, while SCBA and West Bengal bar association consider filing, a contempt petition in Cal HC against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee who said, “Why should many judgements today be delivered for money? Why?” in the West Bengal assembly on Tuesday. SCBA president Pravin Parekh sa...

When Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia started his term in May 2010 it was widely reported that he didn’t take the traditional May-June court vacation but worked through it, aiming to look at ways of reducing the time it takes to hear cases and making the Supreme Court administration more efficient.

SC Media Watch: CJI Kapadia wary of paid news, annoyed with RTIs and afraid of “pre-judging” [ Mint ] SC’s Aftab Alam and CK Prasad directed SEBI, through Vahanvati, to revise stock exchange ownership regulations, dismissing its appeal against MCX-SX represented by Salve [ Mint ] UK blanket ban on p...

Kapadia’s media-trial bench clubs 4 earlier cases, broadens scope of hearing from “regulation of coverage of court proceedings” to “regulation of media per se” [ Mint ] Ex-Noojie starts own food-tour biz in Delhi after six years in Amarchand Delhi’s dispute resolution team [ MyLaw ] Indian elections...

It’s four in the evening and shadows lengthen along the main corridor of the Supreme Court of India. It is Friday, a miscellaneous day, and all courts have completed their work in time to enjoy what passes for a busy lawyer’s weekend - Friday evening.

All except one court.

Indian Music Industry obtains Cal HC order blocking 104 Indian music websites for piracy Radioreloaded, songsPK, funmaza, and everything else on the list [ Medianama ] Economic Times’ take on law firms: The Amarchand ‘churan’ and AZB ‘sandwich stacks’ compared and contrasted [ ET ] CJI Kapadia sets ...

The Supreme Court will form a constitution bench of five judges to frame guidelines for media coverage of the court and its proceedings following a news report on Tuesday.