The Supreme Court today admitted that it made a mistake of law in September 2012 when it had directed that only sitting or retired High Court Chief Justices or an apex court judge could head the central and State information commissions, and recalled its 13 September 2012 judgment to that effect, re...

The Supreme Court will have two new judges in Allahabad high court chief justice (CJ) Shiva Kirti Singh and Orissa High Court CJ C Nagappan, reported the Hindu . Both will serve three-year tenures at the SC, taking its judges’ strength up to 30. Justice Singh is the third judge representing Bihar in...

At the apparent request of lawyers upset with overcrowding, the Supreme Court (SC) has prohibited law students and interns from entering the apex court on Mondays and Fridays.

Android friendly SCI: The Supreme Court of India has released an Android smartphone app to view a replica of the Supreme’s Court’s case display board. The display board in the SC indicates the item numbers of matters being heard across all courtrooms at any given point of time. It’s pretty basic, bu...

The former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir, who retired last week, has lashed out at the Times of India and the Indian Express for their critical reports of Kabir, purporting to explain in a six-page press release what actually went on behind the scenes.

Outgoing Chief Justice of India’s (CJI) Altamas Kabir’s tenure has undone much of the good that his predecessor, SH Kapadia, has wrought, argued Supreme Court advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan in a column today: There is really no polite way of putting this. The Kabir court has seen a return to the qu...

Altamas last goodbye : Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir retired today, giving a speech and usual shindig in the Supreme Court. He makes way for Justice P Sathasivam , who will serve until 26 April 2014 [ Hindu ] Kabir quashes NEET : The Supreme Court (CJI Kabir, on his last day, prevailing...

The Supreme Court yesterday framed guidelines to deal with sexual harassment on its premises, broadening the definition of sexual harassment to include “sending of undesirable sexually coloured text or voice messages or sexually explicit material to women advocates and also stalking”, reported the T...

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the Bombay high court’s decision to strike down the ban on dance bars in Maharashtra, holding that “the cure is worse than the disease” and that safety measures and improvement in working conditions of the dancers was the solution, reported the Hindustan Times . No...

The higher judiciary is revamping the system of appointment of senior advocates, to weed out incompetent advocates and appointment through ‘uncle judges’. In the Delhi high court, the full court will now have to consider the name of each applicant, while in the Supreme Court five sitting judges of t...

Have you heard about the senior advocate who “borrowed” paintings from a five-star suite and then got his client to pay for them?

Gujarat high court chief justice (CJ) Bhaskar Bhattacharya, whose elevation to the Supreme Court was rejected unanimously by the SC collegium , has accused chief justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir of bias spurred by Bhattacharya’s opposition of the CJI’s sister’s elevation to the bench, reported t...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices AK Patnaik and SJ Mukhopadhaya ruled that lawmakers can be disqualified if they have been convicted of a criminal offence. The bench struck down as ultra vires section 8(4) of the Representation of the People Act (RPA), which protected MPs, MLAs and other legislator...

Supreme Court justice GS Misra has responded to a Times of India column, in which senior court reporter Dhananjay Mahapatra had criticised how SC judges at times were late to their own courts during the summer vacations. Misra wrote in her letter, published in today’s Times , that judges’ time is no...

Ineffective BCI: SC justices BS Chauhan and Dipak Mishra today said: “Bar Council has become ineffective. No action is taken against erring lawyers and we have to suffer. We are actually the victim and lawyers are making money… Lawyers think that they are above law. We are facing such situation ever...

SC Maha lesson: Hoping to curb the trend of its directions been “taken lightly” by state governments, the Supreme Court imposes an exemplary cost of Rs 5 lakh on the Maharashtra government for a three-day delay in filing an affidavit related to police reforms. Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Andh...

The Supreme Court advocates-on-record (AOR) exam this year will be held on 3, 4, 5, and 6 June 2013. All advocates who have completed one-year’s continuous training under an AOR as of tomorrow will be eligible to write the exam. The last date to submit application forms is 6 May, according to the Su...

Kesavananda doctrine turns 40: India celebrates 40 years of “saving the democracy” on today’s anniversary of Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala where a 13-judge constitutional bench held that the parliament cannot amend the constitution to alter its “basic structure”. The Hindu narrates the full ...

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed its September 2012 order that made it compulsory to appoint retired judges to central and state information commissions under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005.

Historic apex sistren : Justices GS Misra and Ranjana Desai are set to be the first two female judges to sit together in the Supreme Court, ever, tomorrow [ @CourtWitness1 ] Your NRI Honour : Subject to confirmation, Sri Srinivasan could become first Indian-American federal judge and even rise to th...