The Times of India’s (TOI) report on an anonymous “tormented” litigant’s complaint to the Chief Justice of India (CJI), about Delhi high court justice Gita Mittal’s “tardy disposal” of cases, has earned flak from 34 Delhi senior advocates who have written a letter to the newspaper demanding an “unconditional apology”.

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...

Law minister Veerappa Moily has weighed into the debate over who should regulate legal education, opposing Human Resources Development (HRD) minister Kapil Sibal’s wide-ranging plans to take control of the sector. The Times of India reported yesterday that Moily said: “So far as introducing an acade...