SEBI on Adani exports’ insider trading: synchronized trading is illegal when done with an intent to manipulate stock prices [ Indian Corporate Law , Order ] Bloggers are authors not intermediaries, provisions go hand in hand with processes, taking-down content is wiser than being sorry and there are...

Linklaters wants rival Slaughters’ Aussie best-friend Allens Arthur Robinson while Herbert Smith looks to marry Freehills [ The Lawyer ] CJAR through Bhushan complains to CJI, Prez, PM and Law minister about Del HC’s Kait sending litigant to mental asylum for trying to record court proceedings [ TOI...

PIL in SC challenging ONGC letting Rs 1 lakh crore Cairn equity go to Vedanta [ ET ] Salve on Palkivala, laughing aloud in court on baseless matter, arguing for arushi’s parents, Kasab deserving execution and team Jaitley-Salve [ The Week ] US FTC sues Californian LLC for ingenuous cyberfraud by its...

CCI adds 40-times expense, confusion, stringency to, and subtracts shortest form filing from, last year’s new merger control guidelines; no stakeholder consultation [ Money Control , Corporate Law Blog ] Chidambaram, SC refuse to see ‘acquisition’ in speculative spectrum trading through offloading o...

Vodafone tax saga: Is Advocate Sharma “reasonable person” or “biased person”? Salve says CJI Kapadia is “honest person” [ Mint ] ASG Malhotra’s 4 hour slamming of immoral AIDS-spreading gay sex Vs. other govt law officer insisting govt has no stand except that Attorney Gen may assist other appellant...

Govt doesn’t advocate advocate’s stand: ‘Bring back S.377’, said ASG PP Malhotra in SC, arguing for central govt, uninstructed by govt. [ TOI ] SC to Baba Ramdev and Police: Pay up for Baba supporters’ Ramlila Maidan death and injuries. Disciplinary action follows against all police ranks involved [...

Ground for Vodafone Review: Kapadia didn’t recuse himself, relied on his son’s employer’s due diligence report to rule in favor of Vodafone [ ET ] PCI chairman Katju tells discourteous journo-attacking Maharashtra govt to count its days in power [ Outlook India ] SC deals with delay, wants all state...

London law firm debuts at the concept of court processes via Social media. Fraudster served over Facebook [ The Lawyer ] German Bayer will have to bare-all at Controller General of Patents office hearing, setting precedent for other foreign drug manufacturers to follow suit in revealing pricing stra...

Review filed before SC’s Kapadia: Taxmen on Vodafone’s trail [ ET ] Clifford Chance first to put foot in recently opened South Korean door [ The Lawyer ] Internet Democracy India to conduct workshop on interaction of Indian IT law with blogspace in Delhi on 25 February 2012. Trainers shall be law an...

The JSA story: From 68% to 13.5%. How Jyoti Sagar with Berjis Desai created an institution that will survive its founding partners. JSA’s second partner band owns only 0.75 per cent less equity than founding partners. Also, JSA is perhaps the only Indian law firm giving the “geographical split” syst...

IT-dept sprung into action on SC order yesterday, submits probe report on KGB to CBDT today [ Outlook India ] (via @courtwitness1) Coal ministry consults law ministry instead of central vigilance commission, protects corrupt official who was not “caught red-handed” by CBI [ DNA ] Google, Facebook as...

Tamil Nadu’s Rs 100 crore National Law School foundation stone laid [ The Hindu ] SC’s S.H Kapadia asks Vahanvati to show action taken against K.G Balakrishnan on NGO Common Cause’s PIL seeking probe into Rs 40 crore properties amassed by the ex-CJI [ ET ] Teesta Seetalvad not getting any closer to ...

Modi absolved: SC Special Investigation team smells rat in Sanjiv Bhatt’s story of Modi’s law-and-disorder meeting [ Deccan Herald ] Enforcement directorate set to FEMA Google India, with a little help from RBI [ ET (objectionable content even when Yahoo is not same as 20 other accused social-networ...

Pakistan Supreme Court summons Pakistani PM Gilani over giving immunity to Prez Zardari in graft cases; Bench to slap Gilani with contempt charges, directs PM to appear in person on Feb 13; Gilani’s lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan says he will appeal [ Times of India ] SC erases law; Division bench of justices ...

Massive day in SC tomorrow: 2G scam judgment on Chidambaram will be out at 10:30am, according to causelists [via @courtwitness1 ] Mumbai special TADA court says Abu Salem’s trial to continue; rejects Salem’s application seeking closure of case based on Portuguese SC ruling [ Hindustan Times ] Who bu...

SC rules in favour of Swamy as Justice AK Ganguly holds three months sufficient for sanctioning prosecution against government, upholding citizens’ constitutional right to invoke POCA [ Mint ] Ex-IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt’s criminal proceedings stayed by Gujarat HC in Modi-affidavit case [ Indian Exp...

Black-coat-disguised non-advocates get Delhi Bar Association polls cancelled for bogus-voting. Voting now on Feb 1 [ TOI ] VP Sarathi: former advocate general of Sikkim, faculty at Nalsar Hyderabad and authority on interpretation of statutes, passed away yesterday at his Hyderabad residence [ Law an...

Earlier: journalists thick. Now: Rushdie glorified ‘sub-standard’ writer in Justice Markandey Katju’s opinion [ Hindu ] How to ban a book: Excellent and sound legal analysis, finally [ Indian Express ] Star Group and ABP joint venture slaps legal notice on Facebook, gets allegedly defamatory content...

2G case update: DB Realty MD Vinod Goel hopes HC will come to rescue, joins bandwagon of other ten accused. Submits plea in HC challenging charges framed by trial court as Justice ML Mehta directs CBI to reply by March 13 [ Hindu Business Line ] Mahendra Nath Das’s fate hangs in balance on death row...

SC judge Justice Dalveer Bhandari tipped to represent India at ICJ, The Hague [ TOI ] Hari Kunzru & friends stopped from reading from Satanic Verses. But was it lawful, since only Satanic Verses import banned under Customs Act? [ Outlook ] Five new judges join Bombay HC team; Three other member...