Allahabad advocate Nabi Ahmad was allegedly shot dead by a police sub-inspector resulting in local riots and a call by the Bar Council of India (BCI) for a national strike by lawyers.

The BCI has called for a national strike on Monday, 16 March, to protest the “ghastly and brutal killing of a lawyer by the police officials in court premises” at Allahabad yesterday.

The Rajya Sabha yesterday deferred passing the bill to increase the pecuniary jurisdiction of the Delhi high court, with some members saying that the reform should be clubbed with pending legislation to create commercial divisions in high courts (the Commercial Division of High Courts Bill 2009), wi...

Lawyers in Ghaziabad did not attend courts today in response to a call by the lawyers’ action committee for a boycott in the light of their years-old objection to transferring of cases from Agra to Etawah. The Ghaziabad Bar Association president Ram Autar Gupta said that after the transfer of cases ...

Lawyers agitating for setting up of a bench of Allahabad High Court in western Uttar Pradesh, decided to suspended their proposed Feb 5-7 boycott of the courts. The decision was taken at a meeting in Moradabad. “Keeping in mind the interests of the litigants, the lawyers decided to suspend the three...

As effigies burn, lawyers rail against Bedi, with ex-BJP and RSS members also complaining about not having been given BJP tickets in this election because of Bedi’s bias.

Abhijat, the secretary of the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) that passed a resolution to go on strike again tomorrow , told Legally India that the organisation was “deeply saddened” by the law minister’s “populist” response to the district court lawyers’ earlier strikes . Yesterday, law mi...

yx4rny0f The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) has passed a resolution condemning the law minister for “succumbing to political pressure” of district court lawyers demanding an increase to lower court’s pecuniary jurisdiction. The resolution that was passed by the DHCBA executive committee to...

Protesting lawyers of the six district courts in the national capital Monday called off their indefinite strike after assurances from Law Minister DV. Sadananda Gowda that the amendment bill for enhancing the district courts’ pecuniary jurisdiction would be tabled in parliament in the current sessio...

Proceedings in six district courts here were paralysed yesterday as the indefinite strike by city lawyers entered its third day, and the Delhi high court Bar Association (DHCBA) held a hunger strike opposing the cause by the district court lawyers. The district court lawyers are protesting against t...

A Delhi court today sent Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav accused of raping a 25-year-old woman 5 December to 14 days judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey sent Yadav to judicial custody until 24 December after police told court that he is not required for further custodial...

A Delhi advocate, after encountering a number of allegedly unruly Delhi lawyers striking over the enhancement of Delhi district court’s pecuniary jurisdiction , sent Legally India an email earlier today. This is it: So this morning I was physically prevented by [officials] of the Saket Bar Associati...

Judicial work in the Delhi courts was paralysed due to indefinite strike of city lawyers protesting the delay in tabling amended bill regarding enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of district courts. The co-ordination committee of bar associations of all the district courts in Delhi said that desp...

Organisers claimed that more than 10,000 Patna high court lawyers went on strike on Friday to protest the lack of seating arrangements for them in court, reported The Hindu : lawyers who have to keep standing or moving throughout the day in thecourt because they do not have a chair and table to sit ...

Lawyers here have burnt an effigy of union minister and retired general VK Singh for his reported claim that the Agra MP and his cabinet colleague Ram Shankar Katheria had agreed to set up an Allahabad High Court bench in Meerut instead of Agra. The lawyers Friday threatened to surround Prime Minist...

Ashok Parija suggests 5 simple ideas that would go some way to curing the Indian legal profession and regulation of many troubles.

Proceedings in six Delhi district courts were paralysed Monday following a strike by lawyers against the “delay in enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts despite a Delhi high court recommendation” in this regard. The co-ordination committee of all district court bar associations said ...

The Advocates Association Bangalore called for a strike to defend “prominent Judges of Karnataka”.

Government Law College Coimbatore declared “indefinite closure” after 50 students allegedly locked principal and 12 staff in the college’s main building for several hours while other students attended classes, reported The Hindu . Students were protesting the administration’s decision to transfer th...

The Rajasthan high court issued criminal contempt notice to the president of the Bar association and other lawyers, for giving a boycott call demanding the transfer of a judge, reported the PTI . Bar Association president Gopeah Kumbhaj, former general secretary Rajesh Choudhary, lawyer Bharat Bhush...