A Supreme Court bench told the residents of the society that had been built illegally that they would have to vacate the building by 31 May, despite an earlier order staying their eviction in the midst of a media circus seven months ago. [Hindustan Times]

The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition by ex-Maharashstra chief minister Ashok Chavan into whether the Election Commission can probe “paid news” allegations in cases where the expense was not accounted for in candidates’ election returns. The bench of justices Surinder Singh Nijjar and Justice F...

The Bombay Lawyers Association wrote to Chief Justice of India RM Lodha about an incident alleged by senior counsel Dushyant Dave in March about Supreme Court Justice CK Prasad hearing and deciding on a property matter listed before another bench himself: “We expected some response to our letter but...

“The temperature has soared up and the gentleman is not well,” senior advocate Rajiv Dhawan told justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar, appearing for the Sahara group and its boss Subrata Roy, who has been jailed for failing to turn up to Supreme Court hearings and not repaying amounts owed to inv...

Rights lawyer Monalisa argues that the former Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam introduced a seldom-seen sensitivity into the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence and culture, though one major opportunity was clearly missed.

The Supreme Court of India has appointed ex Australian high court judge Michael Hudson McHugh to preside over the $1.8bn arbitration between the government and Reliance Industries (RIL) relating to the KG basin. Supreme Court Justice SS Nijjar had originally picked ex-Australian Supreme Court judge ...

The Supreme Court has issued new guidelines for mentioning matters before it, according to a notice posted on the Supreme Court noticeboard.

Court Witness does former Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam and asks, was he great? Or merely safe?

The upcoming curative petition against the reversal of Naz has equally, if not more, dismal prospects of bringing a desired result as the review of that judgment which was dismissed unsurprisingly, argues Delhi advocate Chetan Gupta.

The Supreme Court has finally avenged social media’s June 2013 furore over Madras high court justice CS Karnan’s “ sex equals marriage” judgment , by holding that that judgment was only applicable one-off to the facts of the case it decided. Advocate Uday Gupta, through senior advocate MR Calla, had...

The Delhi high court has agreed to wait for a three-judge Supreme Court committee’s decision on review of its policy of selection of judicial clerks.

The founder director of NLSIU Bangalore, NR Madhavan Menon, ex Lok Sabha secretary general TK Vishwanathan and senior counsel Ranjit Kumar have been appointed by the Supreme Court to form a committee regulating government departments advertising with an “obvious political message”. Chief Justice of ...

The advocate who has been banned from the Supreme Court premises for six months by the court’s new sexual harassment committee and the CJI, said he would seek a review of the order.

The Supreme Court sexual harassment committee has banned an advocate from the Supreme Court premises for six months for an incident of sexual harassment.

A Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, and Justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu, and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya has agreed to orally hear the Naz Foundation’s curative petition to re-examine the apex court’s earlier re-criminalisation of homosexual and other sexual “intercou...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramjit Sen modified a Delhi high court order giving the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) power to do a statutory or special audit of private telecom companies accounts. Instead, the bench decided that the CAG should have the right to scr...

Nalsar Hyderabad student Anindita Mukherjee analyses today’s Supreme Court judgment recognising the “third gender” and points out what the apex court may have missed.

The Supreme Court has ruled that all government departments must recognise a third gender, and not discriminate against transgender people in the provision of services.

They used to be one of the last resorts in law students’ career ambitions. But SC judicial clerkships have become fashionable.

Supreme Court Justice SS Nijjar, who on Monday appointed a former Australian Supreme Court judge as the chief of three arbitrators to settle a $1.8bn dispute between Reliance Industries and the government, has withdrawn the suggestion. The problem, said Nijjar, agreeing with objections from the gove...