New rules prohibit an advocate from starting to practise in the Supreme Court unless they have practiced for at least two years in a trial court and three years in a HC.

The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the provision that prohibited female make-up artists and hairdressers from becoming the members of film industry professional association, the Mumbai-based Cine Costume and Make-up Artist Association, as the bench had threatened last week it would do . A bench...

Senior advocate Vikas Singh alleged before a Supreme Court bench of justices SJ Mukhopadhaya and NV Ramana that an ex-Supreme Court judge made a ruling on 11 February, which helped the judge’s sister in a similar case under the Bombay Rent Act, in which she allegedly cited her brother’s judgment, re...

The Supreme Court on Friday said it was not the job of the courts to examine the contours of a government policy and whether there could have been a better version of a particular policy followed by the government. “… it is clear as noon day that it is not within the domain of the courts to embark u...

The Supreme Court Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to approach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu asked the petitioner to first make an appropriate representation before an author...

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would strike down a 59-year-old gender discriminating rule of the Cine Costume Make-up Artists and Hair Dressers Association (CCMAA), which made women ineligible to be make-up artists in the Indian film industry, classifying them as hairdressers, reported the Indi...

“The judges are serious about rendering speedy justice to litigants. In most cases, the law has already been succinctly laid down and does not require further arguments to delay a verdict. Those cases need to be decided fast with crisp judgments focusing only on facts in the backdrop of the already ...

The Supreme Court Thursday suspended defamation proceedings in five cases initiated by the Tamil Nadu government against BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for making critical observations against former chief minister J Jayalalithaa. A bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice UU Lalit, while suspending t...

The proposal for legalising prostitution in India will be placed before the Supreme Court constituted panel Nov 8, National Commission for Women (NCW) chief Lalitha Kumaramangalam said Wednesday. “The proposal for legalising prostitution will be put forth in the National Consultation scheduled to be...

The Supreme Court has increase the monthly stipend it pays to its law clerks / research assistants from Rs 25,000 to Rs 30,000, with a hike to Rs 32,000 for clerks who stay for longer than a year. The stipend was last hiked to Rs 25,000 in 2010, as reported by Legally India at the time. The notice d...

The central government Wednesday submitted to the Supreme Court names of the 627 people who are holding accounts in foreign banks revealed to it by the French government. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi handed over two sealed envelopes to the apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu. Rohatgi...

A Bangalore employee of Infosys has been arrested under section 377 of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly having sex with another man, which was recorded by his arranged-marriage-wife of six months on a hidden camera, reported the Bangalore Mirror . The Supreme Court reinstated the colonial-era sec...

The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected the plea by Nithari killer Surinder Koli seeking recall of the judgment upholding his death sentence in Rimpa Haldar murder case. The apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Anil R Dave and Justice SA Bobde, in the first open court hearing of the review...

“At Supreme Court for three years under a kind senior but he’s still paying me peanuts and not giving me any great work. At a loss…”

Even as the Centre today told the Supreme Court that the President has given consent to invite the BJP to form the government in Delhi, the court expressed its displeasure and frowned upon the delaying tactics being adopted by the government. Just before every date of the hearing, some statement is ...

The Supreme Court Monday dismissed a plea by S Nalini Srikaran, undergoing life imprisonment in the Rajiv Gandhi killing, who had challenged a provision in the law that mandates the state government take prior consent of the centre before remitting the sentence of a convict whose offence was investi...

Amid opposition attack of being soft on money laundering, the Indian government Monday furnished the names two individuals, including a promoter of the Dabur consumer goods company, and a mining company and its five directors to the Supreme Court, alleging they had funds in bank accounts abroad over...

A Bangalore-based businessman was arrested and jailed by police for 21 days in April under section 66A of the IT Act for “spreading canards” about another on online forums, reported The Hindu (via Pranesh Prakash ). The businessman has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHR...

The All India Bar Association (AIBA) has has requested the Supreme Court’s secretary general to issue contempt proceedings against Tamil TV news channel, Thanthi, for apparently having broadcast live the arguments of Fali Nariman successfully arguing for J Jayalalithaa’s bail in the Supreme Court, r...

Delhi litigation firm Karanjawala & Co has withdrawn as advocate-on-record (AoR) in senior advocate Ram Jethmalani’s Supreme Court case to get black money held by Indian nationals abroad returned to the country, reported the Times of India . Managing partner Raian Karanjawala told the TOI: “Whe...