Pre-nuptial agreements, entitling women to maintenance through contractual clauses, will be legal in India soon as per plans of the Women and Child Development ministry, reported The Indian Express . Woman and Child Development (WCD) Minister Maneka Gandhi said that the ministry is currently draftin...

The central government on Monday said that 26 November would henceforth be marked as Constitution Day. On this day in 1949, the Indian Constitution was adopted, and came into force on 26 January, 1950. The ministry of social justice and empowerment would be the nodal ministry for organising the Cons...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has decided it wants lawyers to have lower court experience before they are allowed to practice in the Supreme Court or in the high courts, reported the Times of India . BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told the Supreme Court collegium headed by justice JS Khehar that, ...

Counting the Rs 40.4 lakh of fees paid to 10 lawyers for 151 cases, Ignoring the higher fees paid to the two highest paid lawyers, that works out to a mathematical average of only Rs 2,675 per case.

The Odisha government is setting up a law commission to receive advice in carrying out legal reforms and drafting of new laws. “We are in the process of constituting a law commission to aid and advice (the government) in the matters of legal reform and qualitative legislation relevant to the present...

Counting the Rs 40.4 lakh of fees paid to 10 lawyers for 151 cases, Ignoring the higher fees paid to the two highest paid lawyers, that works out to a mathematical average of only Rs 2,675 per case.

The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav on a plea seeking his removal for his alleged involvement in forest guard recruitment scam - one of the cases in the Vyapam scam. The apex court bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justic...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has issued a show-cause notice to private broadcaster NDTV about alleged violations of Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). The company, in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange, said it had on Thursday (November 19) received a show-cause notice in the name of Exe...

Flipkart and Snapdeal, not Amazon but its subsidiary Junglee, and 18 other e-commerce websites will face investigation for possibly violating Indian foreign direct investment (FDI) laws, as per yesterday’s Delhi high court order, reported Mint . Advocate Rishi Agarwala, acting for the All India Foot...

A new law for the protection of cows which also imposes a ban on cow slaughter — the Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act — came into force in the state from Thursday. Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said the Act became effective from Thursday after getting approval from President Pr...

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked its collegium to go ahead with the appointment of judges to the high courts and the apex court which have been put on hold ever since the government notification setting up the NJAC was challenged. The constitution bench headed by Justice JS Khehar said “it is nee...

The Madras high court used online messenger and video conferencing service Skype to conduct the legal proceedings in a case asking for police protection at a church wedding, reported The Firstpost . Justice S Vaidyanathan of the Madras HC’s Madurai bench heard the Ramanathapuram district case at his...

Nestle Maggi’s comeback was challenged in the Supreme Court yesterday by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), reported The Economic Times . The FSSAI has filed an appreal against the Bombay high court order that had lifted the ban that was imposed over five months ago on the pop...

India Law won a gag order for the Tata Group in the Bombay high court against Tata’s ex employee Nityanand Sinha whom the court has ordered to remove all libelous material and forbade him from making any disparaging remarks about a wide section of Tata employees reported [ Times of India]. India Law...

Bar Council of India (BCI) member Rajinder Singh Rana and former BCI vice chairman Raju Dhanpal Raj were charged for corruption by a special CBI court, for taking bribes in exchange for a favourable inspection report to a law college

A court in Belgium has ordered Facebook to stop tracking internet users who are not members of the social network, BBC reported on Monday. The court concluded that before collecting information, Facebook needed to obtain the consent of these users. “The judge ruled that this is personal data, which ...

India has been reelected by the General Assembly to a six year term on the UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). After the election Monday, India’s Mission to the UN said in a statement that “it would continue to play a constructive role in the UNCITRAL which is recognized as the core...

Madras high court’s controversial Justice C S Karnan has filed long-leave application with the Madras high court to protest the allocation of “insignificant and dummy portfolio” of cases to him by Madras HC Chief Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, reported Business Standard . In a letter to the Chief Justi...

The anti-graft Jan Lokpal bill, which the AAP government has promised to table prior to every assembly session so far, may not see the light of the day even during the winter session beginning on 18 November. Unlike in its earlier 49-day tenure in 2013-14, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government wants ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday expanded his government’s ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ motto to include ‘Sabka Nyay’, assuring free legal aid for the vulnerable sections of the society. “I believe in ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ and with that there must be ‘Sabka Nyay’,” Modi said urging that the...