Since 2011 the Supreme Court of India seems to have got the message that relying on Wikipedia too much is simply not a good idea; India’s high courts? Not so much…

Read more of Alok Prasanna Kumar’s research on Livemint, in association with Legally India.

Since 2011 the Supreme Court of India seems to have got the message that relying on Wikipedia too much is simply not a good idea; India’s high courts? Not so much…

Read more of Alok Prasanna Kumar’s research on Livemint, in association with Legally India.

Ex-Supreme Court judge and high court chief justice Markandey Katju wrote on his blog that he had once spiked his own recommendation of a high court lawyer for judgeship, because that “male lawyer was having a live in relationship with a lady lawyer to whom he was not married. They were often seen o...

Law minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that there would not be any appointment of new judges to the apex or high courts, unless the Supreme Court disposes of the public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the National Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), reported the Economic Times today. The N...

The Supreme Court Friday upheld the conviction of Kerala CPM leader MV Jayarajan for calling state high court judges “idiots”, but reduced the sentence from six months to four weeks. An apex court bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen upheld Jayarajan’s conviction holding that he has no remorse for...

After the Supreme Court had rejected all appeals against the convict in the Noida-based Nithari killings, Surinder Koli, the Allahabad high court commuted his death sentence in public interest litigation (PIL) of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR). Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justi...

The Supreme Court Wednesday directed search engines Google, Microsoft and Yahoo not to advertise, or sponsor any advertisement, on India-centric sex determination tests that are in breach of statutory provisions. “As an interim measure, it is directed, the respondents, namely, Google, Yahoo and Micr...

The government Wednesday decided not to contest a Bombay high court ruling that telecom major Vodafone was not liable to pay tax demand of Rs. 3,200 crore in a transfer pricing case, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said and hoped that the decision would boost foreign investors’ se...

The Supreme Court Tuesday declined BJP leader Subramanian Swamy’s plea for an early hearing of the plea of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and others, challenging their summoning by a trial court in alleged irregularities in acquisition of now defunct National Herald daily, and asked him to approach...

Supreme Court senior counsel Harish Salve and KK Venugopal are set to be awarded Padma awards, with Venugopal to receive a Padma Vibhushans, India’s second-highest civilian honour, reported Zee and others.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published and gazetted its amended Certificate of Practice Rules, doing away with a minimum experience requirement before being allowed into higher courts, but retaining its earlier proposed system of requiring advocates to regularly renew their certificates of pra...

The Supreme Court will not be printing out additional hard copies of judgments anymore from 1 February to circulate internally and elsewhere, according to a notice dated today, as well as doing away with paper causelists. Normally 80 copies of all judgments were made automatically for the records of...

The Supreme Court today barred sidelined BCCI president N Srinivasan from contesting the election to the Indian cricket board’s governing body presidency as long as he is involved in a “conflict of interest” situation as an owner of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK). [ Read judgment ] The apex...

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.

The India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) has provided Supreme Court lawyers nearly 300 parking spaces across the road from the court complex to allay advocates’ parking troubles, after solicitor general Ranjit Kumar put the court-requested proposal to the Urban Development Ministry. Justice V G...

The Supreme Court today put on hold, for three weeks, the trial of Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal for alleged sexual assault on his junior colleague in Goa during an event organised by the magazine. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu suspended Tejpal’s trial by three weeks after senior co...

The Supreme Court Wednesday asked if the Narendra Modi government intended to complete the task of cleaning the Ganga river in its present term or carry it to the next term and keep the issue alive. The court sought details on the status of various sewage treatment plants (STP) that were being set u...

The Supreme Court Wednesday extended by three months Italian marine chief master sergeant Massimilano Latorre’s stay in Italy for his recovery in the wake of a heart surgery that he underwent Jan 5. The apex court Bench, headed by Justice Anil Dave, extended the stay of Latorre after his senior coun...

In a setback to filmstar Salman Khan, the Supreme Court today set aside the Rajasthan High Court order putting on hold his conviction in the blackbuck hunting case, and asked the high court to consider the matter afresh. The high court Nov 12, 2013 had suspended the conviction of Salman Khan in the ...

The Supreme Court Monday asked Gujarat’s chief secretary to explain as to why cooperation was not being extended to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) by providing the investigating agency with the documents relating to Naini and Morga-II coal blocks. A bench of Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice...