The ongoing row over the allotment of Andhra-origin judges to subordinate courts in Telangana took an even more serious turn today with the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad suspending eight more state judges.

>Madras high court Advocates Association today [27 June] decided to abstain indefinitely from all courts and tribunals from tomorrow [28 June] demanding unconditional withdrawal of recently amended rules to the Advocates Act, which among others provided for disciplinary action against erring lawyers.

Taking serious note of the protest by Telangana state judges, the High Court of Judicature at Hyderabad on Monday suspended two judges.

NLU Assam students demanded more than Rs 60 lakhs from the law school, in refund of fees for various facilities which they claimed the administration had failed to provide to them. After their request was ignored since September 2014, the students on Friday (13 May) launched an indefinite boycott of classes.

NLU Assam students demanded more than Rs 60 lakhs from the law school, in refund of fees for various facilities which they claimed the administration had failed to provide to them. After their request was ignored since September 2014, the students on Friday (13 May) launched an indefinite boycott of classes.

Lawyers across Uttar Pradesh are set to go on a strike on Monday demanding for further investigation into recent attacks. The strike follows the recent attacks and the murder of two lawyers - Shrawan Kumar Verma from Lucknow and Ashok Kumar Ahirvar from Hamirpur last week. Ajay Kumar Shukla, a membe...

The Delhi high court began transferring all cases of value lesser than Rs 1 crore, and all non-commercial disputes of value between Rs 1 crore to Rs 2 crore, to Delhi’s lower courts, yesterday onward. Cases in which judgment has already been reserved by the high court will remain with the high court...

The old aphorism that managing lawyers is like herding cats was applied originally to managing partners of law firms trying to control their partnership.

On certain days, the Indian litigant knows better than to hold the courts to their official calendar of working days: at least 100 days have already been lost this year across various Indian courts to strikes by advocates.

The notice has reportedly being sent by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to the seven sitting Tamil Nadu and Puducherry state bar council members for opposing the BCI’s earlier purported disqualification of 15 local advocates for alleged violence . BCI sources in New Delhi told TOI on Wednesday that t...

Unprecedented scenes; caused by fear of the bar.

Madras-based Additional solicitor general (ASG) G Rajagopalan today approached the Madras high court to order the Bar Council of India (BCI), to dissolve the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry bar council, which had not effectively disciplined its members, reported The Hindu , following the BCI having suspen...

As Common Cause vs Abhijat & Others came up before Justices Kurian Joseph and Arun Mishra at court No.13 on Friday (September 11) morning, Justice Arun Mishra tried to persuade Prashant Bhushan, counsel for Common Cause, not to go ahead with the contempt petition, as it would not serve any purpose. Justice Mishra said the onus is on the bar, which has to control the striking lawyers. “You have to discipline yourself”, he told Bhushan.

“Owing to misbehaviour and insult meted out to advocates for a pretty long time, we took a resolution to abstain and refrain from attending the court of Justice Girish Gupta,” Calcutta high court Bar Association outgoing secretary Rana Mukherjee told PTI about the reason for lawyers have boycotted G...

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, who is also the Bihar State Bar Council’s (BSBC) representative at BCI, apologised to the Patna high court for the “mistakes” of the BSBC as the court admonished the BSBC for calling a state-wide lawyer strike on July 15, reported the Times of ...

Lawyers of Delhi’s district courts on Tuesday began an indefinite strike against the delay in passage of an amended bill in parliament on enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts. Advocate RK Wadhwa, chairman of the coordination committee of all district courts bar associations, said la...

Thousands of lawyers in Bihar on Wednesday abstained from work, protesting against the lack of initiative by the Patna High Court on their demand to allow unrestricted entry of vigilance officials into the premises of subordinate courts. Their demand was in order to curb the prevailing corruption in...

Politics are in full swing at the SCBA again after yesterday’s meeting.

Calcutta high court advocates, following the local high court bar association’s majority resolution, have gone on strike for three days from today due to the heat, reported the PTI , with judges waiting in vain in chambers to handle cases without lawyers present despite relaxing lawyers’ dress code ...

Lawyers throughout Jammu abstained from the courts on Monday to press their demand for setting up an AIIMS-like medical institute in the region. Abhinav Sharma, president of the Jammu Bar Association (JBA), called for a boycott of the courts in the region by lawyers to press for JBA’s demand to esta...