The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed the bill amending the Juvenile Justice Act, paving the way for children in the 16-18 age group to be tried as adults if they commit heinous crimes such as rape and murder. The bill is now likely to be taken up in the Rajya Sabha on Monday. The amended Juvenile Justic...

Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi attacked the collegium system during his arguments in the Supreme Court yesterday defending the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), using the example of allegations of bias and nepotism in 2013 judicial appointments, reported the Indian Express ....

The Supreme Court on Tuesday gave lawyer ML Sharma, who appeared for the December 16, 2012 Delhi gangrape accused, another two weeks to respond to a petition by an apex court body of female lawyers seeking action against him and another advocate AP Singh for allegedly making derogatory remarks again...

The NDA government today questioned the primacy of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and the judiciary in appointments to the higher courts’ judiciary but the Supreme Court said that having accepted the collegium system in 1998, the government couldn’t go back on it now. “If the primacy of CJI in jud...

The Supreme Court process to apply for judicial clerkships has moved online, according to a notification on the Supreme Court website today.

Candidates can apply for clerkships here.

Hat-tip @mohitsingh8 on Twitter.

The Supreme Court today asked how the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) mechanism would make judicial functioning “meaningful” and in what way would its members be “accountable” and to whom. A constitution bench of Justice JS Khehar, Justice J Chelameswar, Justice Madan B Lokur, Justi...

The challenge to the constitutional validity of the act setting up the National Judicial Appointment Commission and the supporting constitutional amendment must be heard by a larger bench of nine or 11 judges, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told the Supreme Court today. Addressing the constitution b...

The Delhi lower judicial service (DJS) exam is once again on a schedule delayed by several months after the release date for of final result in its June 2014 round remains uncertain.

Chief Justice of India HL Dattu has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he would not take part in the NJAC while the court’s constitution bench was hearing the challenge to the validity of the NJAC Act and the supporting constitutional amendment act, the apex court was told today. Informing the c...

The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014, passed by the Rajya Sabha on Friday is the first private member’s bill to get the ujpper house’s approval in the past 45 years. Members of parliament other than ministers are called private members and bills presented by them are known as private member’...

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Centre and the state governments, including union territories, on a PIL seeking that country should be named as ‘Bharat’. The PIL petition has sought direction to the Centre and the state governments including union territories to use to Bharat for al...

The second half of the Budget Session began this week. Here are the highlights.

Five lawyers, including two women, were designated as senior advocates by the Supreme Court today - Rana Muhkerjee, Subramonium Prasad, Mahalakshmi Pavani, V Mohana and Sanjay Hegde - reported Bar & Bench . Hegde is one of the most active Indian advocates on the social network Twitter, where he...

The central government today informed the Supreme Court that during the pendency of the appeal against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) and the constitutional amendment backing it, the commission would only deal with cases of additional judges whose terms would be coming to an en...

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the government to spell out whether it has cleared the army’s promotion policy to have a combat unit commanded by a colonel at the age of 37 years who will exit after commanding the unit for two and a half years. The bench of Justice TS Thakur and Justice R Banumath...

The Supreme Court will from April 27 start hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the NJAC Act, 2014, and the constitution amendment backing it. The court on Wednesday rejected the plea that Justice JS Khehar should withdraw from hearing the matter as he is a member ...

Karnataka high court justice KL Manjunath retired on Monday accusing, in his farewell speech, a Supreme Court judge for damaging his prospects of “climbing higher in the judiciary”, reported the Indian Express and others. Justice Manjunath, who was a judge at the Karnataka high court since December ...

The Supreme Court (SC) today asked the Special Investigation Team to submit by May 12 for its consideration the status report on its work on bringing back unaccounted money stashed away in tax havens abroad. The directive follows jurist Ram Jethmalani telling the apex court today that there were det...

The Supreme Court today did not hear a batch of petitions challenging the National Judicial Appointment Commission replacing the collegium system for appointing judges as it will first decide whether Justice JS Khehar, who is presiding over a five-judge constitution bench, can hear the challenge. Th...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would hold hearing on April 30 on the CBI’s plea seeking registration of a fresh FIR against some of the 2G accused on the basis of fresh material that it had come across in the course of its investigations into the scam. As senior counsel KK Venugopal, appearing ...