Exclusive: Vidhii Partners and senior advocate Rafiq Dada are representing Adarsh Cooperative Society in its Bombay High Court writ petition against the revocation of its occupation certificate by the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) after the 31-storied building’s construction was declared illegal last year following the unearthing of the multi-crore housing scam last year.

Exclusive: Senior advocate Anil Divan, whose public interest litigation (PIL) with Ram Jethmalani and others over the problem of black money stashed abroad, has slammed the government for equating the problem to mere tax evasion while commenting on the future of the case concerning up to Rs 70 lakh crore ($1.4trn) of wealth that is believed to be parked by Indians in foreign banks and tax havens.

Chennai advocate Elizabeth Seshadri has condemned the endemic exchange of votes in Tamil Nadu bar council elections for promises of cash and called for the Bar Council of India (BCI) to intervene following a Times of India report alleging that a bar council candidate had offered Rs 19 lakh to a lawyers’ association in the state’s southern district in exchange for 800 votes.

The Law Commission of India led by Chairman P V Reddy has proposed a substantial hike of up to Rs 1 lakh as court fees on high-value Supreme Court litigation in order to increase the court fees paid by companies and corporates. The Law Commission proposal that is based on the recommendations of the ...

A Kerala court yesterday ordered police investigations into charges of amassing disproportionate wealth against former CJI (Chief Justice of India) K G Balakrishnan and family while the IT (Income Tax) department initiates probe in a related development. Kochi’s police commissioner as well as the ci...

The Delhi High Court has rejected the third bail application of Bar Council of India (BCI) member Rajinder Singh Rana, who with two other lawyers is accused of taking a bribe to accredit a law college.

The court held that bar council members were “public servants” and the Prevention of Corruption Act would apply, also agreeing with the CBI’s argument that Rana’s influential status would hamper investigations if released on bail.

Read on for the full allegations, evidence and chronology of events, according to court documents.

Senior advocate Fali Nariman has written to former justice V R Krishna Iyer supporting his call for a judicial probe into allegations of unaccounted wealth accumulated by ex-CJI (Chief Justice of India) Balakrishnan’s relatives as another such case is being brought to fore.

Senior advocate and BJP (Bhartiya Janta Party) leader Ram Jethmalani and senior congress leader Digvijay Singhhas have offered to defend activist medical doctor Binayak Sen who was recently convicted of sedition against the Chhattisgarh state and sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court there.

Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan and his family have been accused of amassing wealth exceeding their declared sources, according to a number of media organisations.

Following the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) detaining Bar Council of India (BCI) member Rajinder Singh Rana and another lawyer for allegedly taking a bribe to accredit a law college, Delhi lawyers have gone on strike against and allegedly intimidated the CBI while the BCI has suspended college inspections for three months.

The Supreme Court has stayed the Madras High Court suspension of the state bar council chairman R K Chandramohan while former CJI Balakrishnan denied that he suppressed allegations that a Madras High Court judge was influenced by Chandramohan and former telecoms minister A Raja.

A group of non-government organisations including the Centre for Public Interest Litigation and a number of public interest litigants have jointly moved the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of telecom licenses and 2G spectrum granted by tainted telecom minister by A Raja during his tenure.

The Supreme Court has demanded a one per cent commission on the Government’s withdrawal of the Rs 2,500 crore deposited earlier in the court by Vodafone as a prerequisite to hearing the appeals against the Bombay High Court’s verdict, reported the Times of India.

The Supreme Court today offered little relief by way of clarification while dismissing Allahabad High Court’s application to expunge the apex court’s earlier castigating remarks that “something was rotten” in the lower court amid a prevalence of “uncle judges syndrome”, while holding that there were “excellent and good judges too” and incorrigibles should be transferred.

Tamil Nadu Bar Council Chairman R K Chandramohan was expelled from his post and membership by a division bench following an allegation of attempts to influence a former Chennai High Court judge in an anticipatory bail matter nearly 18 months after the matter was first reported.

The Supreme Court denounced that a refusal to accept a brief of an accused by an advocates association or other representative body was “a disgrace to the legal community” and “null and void”.

A landmark order passed by a division bench of the Delhi High Court reiterating principles of natural justice has ordered the Delhi police to begin uploading all First Information Reports (FIRs) registered in the city to the world wide web within 24 hours of filing.

Karnataka Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar has promised to overhaul the dilapidated court infrastructure facilities in Bangalore’s lower courts following a surprise inspection undertaken on behest of the advocates association.

A forum for advocates of South India have petitioned the President and the Chief Justice of India to set up a Supreme Court Bench in the southern states dedicated to adjudication of disputes involving/originating from the areas to save litigant’s time and effort, reported The Hindu.

Watching obscene films at a private residence was not illegal “public exhibition”, ruled the Bombay High Court yesterday following a 2008 “rave party” in a Lonavala.