The Supreme Court refused to stay the rules regarding the Certification of Practice (CoP) of the Bar Council of India (BCI) reported webindia . A division bench of Justices Pinaki Chandra Ghosh and RK Agrawal were hearing transfer petition of BCI and declined to stay the CoP rules. The court had sta...

As Justice Khehar-led Constitution Bench reassembles today (3 November) to hear proposals for reforming the revived collegium to select judges of the higher judiciary, it cannot help listening to the echoes of its momentous decision to strike down the 99th Amendment Act and the NJAC Act in their entirety, even two weeks after it was delivered on 16 October.

The Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association (SCAORA) has suggested a consultative mechanism comprising judges outside the collegium and representatives of various lawyers bodies for selection of candidates for appointment as apex court and high court judges. The SCAORA in its suggestion for a ...

The Supreme Court today said it would appoint a retired judge of the apex court to re-evaluate the answer sheets of the Delhi Judicial Services (DJS) main exam of 2014 which have come under cloud for alleged “unreasonable and arbitrary” evaluation. The apex court bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Jus...

The Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act 2005 will not apply to women whose father died before the amendement came in force, ruled the Supreme Court, effectively withdrawing such women’s right to equal share in their fathers’ property, reported The Indian Express . The Supreme Court bench of justices An...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) is to continue functioning as per current procedure, as the BCI succeeded in its appeal against the Madras high court order that had suggested transferring its functions to an expert judicial body, reported The Hindu . The Madras high court on Friday stayed its justice...

The Supreme Court will look into a plea for a ban on websites with jokes on the Sikhs, as a lawyer-petitioner told the apex court on Friday that the community was projected as people of low intellect, stupid and foolish through such jokes. As petitioner Harvinder Chowdhary urged for directions to ba...

According to internet freedom watchdog Freedom House, “Internet freedom in India has improved in the past year” in its report of 65 countries, with India having seen “positive developments relating to ‘regulatory framework, declining detentions for online speech and burgeoning digital access’”, repo...

The Supreme Court has expressed concern over Muslim women facing arbitrary divorces and second marriages of their husbands even as their first marriages were subsisting, and has ordered separate hearings into the issue suo motu. Expressing concern on the issue of “gender discrimination… which concer...

No “fresh permission or renewal of permission” shall be granted by the RBI to foreign law firms seeking to open a liaison office in India “till the policy is reviewed based on final disposal of the matter by the Supreme Court”, the _Reserve Bank of India (RBI) _said yesterday in a notification repor...

The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the unaccounted money stashed away outside the country to tax havens and ways to bring it back, on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it had submitted its fourth report with its registry. After being informed about the submission of the latest repor...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to allow West Bengal and Assam to use photographs of their chief ministers and governors in government ads saying that it would hear in January the petitions including by the centre seeking the review of its verdict restricting use of photographs to those of the ...

The Diwali firecracker ban petition filed by three Delhi toddlers in the Supreme Court, is being opposed by various religious groups, reported The Hindu . The case is being heard at an urgent basis at the Supreme Court. In the previous hearing , the court had asked to issue notices to the concerned ...

Advocate Mathews J Nedumpara has filed a review petition against the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and the 99th constitutional amendment reported the Times of India . Nedumpara asserts in his petition that the law creating the NJAC d...

Karnataka government advocate general Ravivarma Kumar has submitted his resignation to the chief minister over appointment of two additional advocates general without his opinion reported The Newsminute . This is Ravivarma’s second resignation in two years. Ravivarma was reportedly miffed at appoint...

21 additional judges of three high courts were granted extension through notifications by the Ministry of Law and Justice after receiving the first set of recommendations from the collegium reported Business Standard . Additional judges from Calcutta high court granted extension for three months fro...

Justice Kurian Joseph’s historical counterfactual: If only the bench that heard the First Judges case in 1981 had not ignored Samsher Singh, there would not have been Second Judges, Third Judges, and Fourth Judges cases later.

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Long live the collegium and it’ll have to… If it continues at the same rates as for the last decade, it’ll take 33 years to fill high court vacancies.

1.5 lakh Below Poverty Line (BPL) family households in Haryana do not have toilets, while 7 lakh do have them, attorney general Mukul Rohatgi told the Supreme Court during arguments on the validity of the amendments to the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act 1994, reported the Indian Express . Rohatgi submit...

Justice J Chelameswar, who joined the Supreme Court on 10 October 2011, has so far given four dissenting judgments, including the NJAC verdict delivered on 16 October.