We did a brief report in the Law Society Gazette today on the Supreme Court liberalisation hearings… Law Society Gazette reported: End game nears for India liberalisation case | News | Law Society Gazette Nearly six years after the Madras high court writ petition against 31 international law firms w...

The petition has just under 500 signatures at this time, and states: “I am Indira Jaising, a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. I have filed a public interest petition in the Supreme Court to live stream and video record cases of national interest that impact each one of us. The Supreme ...

The petitioners’ alleged affiliations don’t bode well for the apex court inquiry into BH Loya’s death, which would affect other lower court petitions into the matter. The Caravan reported: The Backgrounds of the Loya Petitioners in the Supreme Court Raise Questions About the Legitimacy of Their Peti...

The reasassignment to a CJI-headed bench follows the recusal of the junior bench that had been assigned by Misra to look into the allegations of foulplay in Justice BH Loya’s death, which had led to the four-most senior apex court judges, other than the CJI, to hold a press conference about Misra’s ...

The senior counsel who successfully argued in the case faces ire of fringe outfit opposing film based on a true fictional character. NDTV.com reported: “Padmaavat” Row: Senior Lawyer Harish Salve Gets Threats Mr Salve’s office received calls threatening physical harm to him. The callers claimed they...

Farooqi had been convicted by the trial court of rape but acquitted by the Delhi high court.

The Karnataka bar council’s elections that are nearly four years overdue will see only up to 43,566 advocates voting, despite the number of enrolled advocates in the state having gone up by almost 15% since its last elections.

The final hearings in the challenges against the beleaguered Aadhaar scheme have begun before a five-judge Supreme Court constitution bench, with petitioners again commencing their attacks against the pseudo-compulsory ID card scheme. Attacks included charges that Aadhaar would “terrorise citizens”,...

Zerick Dastur Advocates & Solicitors has filed an appeal before the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) challenging the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) order of last week banning the Big 4 consultancy from auditing work in India.

The Maharashtra & Goa bar council has rejected 65,000 persons who had been advocates enrolled on its state rolls, with 17 days to go before closing its voter list in the run-up to long-overdue state bar council (SBC) elections.

Just yesterday, BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra and attorney general KK Venugopal claimed ‘all was well’ in the Supreme Court of India.

For what it’s worth, Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told media today that he and other BCI members met with junior judges and the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra in a “congenial atmosphere, everything will be sorted out. Bar council’s role is very limited, judges have assured it there will be no problem at all”.

SCBA president Vikas Singh on Sunday evening has met and sided with Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra, chastising the four next-senior-most judges for holding an “ill-planned” press conference that said “nothing substantial”.

The points raised by judges number 2-5 of the apex court on Friday were extremely important and were a threat to democracy, which should not be politicised by either party (which is presumably directed mostly at the non-BJP parties), said Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra.

The four most senior Supreme Court judges were, in an unprecedented move, “left with no other option” but to call a press conference after their private meeting with the Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra earlier today apparently failed to yield desired results for them.

Senior advocate Indu Malhotra and Uttrakhand High Court chief justice KM Joseph have been recommended as new judges of the Supreme Court.

Indian lawyers practising abroad would end up bearing the brunt of the Bar Council of India (BCI) potential regulation of foreign law firms under the current regulatory regime, argued London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) counsel Dushyant Dave before the Supreme Court yesterday.

The Supreme Court refused to entertain adjournment pleas by senior advocates in today’s hearing of the Bar Council of India (BCI) writ against the entry of foreign law firms into India, reported Bar & Bench.

Senior advocate Harish Salve helped the Delhi high court approve, but not yet notify, a set of new rules which would enable it to impose a staggering and unprecedented amount of costs on litigants filing frivolous cases before it, encourage video-conferencing trials and reduce litigation time in other ways.

The death penalty would stay on Indian statute books for at least another 50 years, predicted a former Chief Justice of India (CJI) in a wide-ranging study of opinions of former apex court judges conducted by NLU Delhi on the death penalty in India.