Bar, Bench & Litigation
Khaitan, Shook Lin help Eveready batteries do JV with Indonesia’s Universal Wellbeing
About time: SC, HC judges salaries up more than 100% to Rs 2.25-2.8 L
However, this is still lower than what judges had been paid in real terms in 1957, as we and Mint had reported in 2015.
BCI sub-committee, on behalf of 17 lakh (!) lawyers, likens LC report on profession’s reform to 1975 Emergency
A Bar Council of India (BCI) sub committee consisting of Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) president Kirti Uppal and seven others opposed the Law Commission’s recommendation that bar council elections should be replaced by nomination and called it an attempt similar to measures taken during India’s 1975 constitutional emergency, reported Live Law.
BCI cancels today’s press meet about unruly advocates due to Republic Day
The Bar Council of India (BCI) cancelled the sudden press conference that it had called unexpectedly to announce its action against advocates who “create ugly scenes in courts”.
This article explains well why successful CJI impeachment is less likely than a snowflake in hell
Following calls by a CPM party leader to impeach Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra, Kumar Shakti Shekhar explains that procedures are stacked against the impeachment of apex court judges, the lack of historical precedent in successful impea
Delhi lawyers on strike because cops not investigating hard enough who attacked advocates houses & cars
NDTV.com reported:
Delhi High Court Advocates Protesting Attack Over Colleagues Abstain From Work
The executive committee of the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning t
Andhra bar council: Even if the SC forced us we couldn’t hold elections here - lawyers would riot after bifurcation of state
No bar council elections will be held in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, predicted Bar Council of India (BCI) member from Andhra Pradesh N Ramchander Rao, because of the political climate in the states since the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
What timing! BCI’s MK Mishra: ‘3 to 4 advocate’ intervenors ‘make mockery' of legal profession, will hold press conference, tackle menace
At a time when the judiciary is arguably facing its greatest internal crisis in decades, Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra has struck again, noting in a letter that “the entire institution is becoming a mockery at the hands of only 3-4 such Advocates” (yes advocates!) who create “ugly scenes in the courts every day”.
BCI finally calls mid-March elections for 15 states • Assam reports no ‘fake lawyers’ found in verification • Guj counts 50k lawyers
15 state bar councils (SBCs) will go to polls between 15 March and 28 March, starting with Jharkhand and ending with eight other SBCs, according to the election schedule announced yesterday by the Bar Council of India (BCI), as reported by Live Law and by the Times of India.
20 AAP legislators challenge dubious 'office of profit' disqualification in Delhi HC
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The Wire reported:
Understanding the Ratio of Malice to Legality in the AAP MLAs Disqualification Case
Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. Credit: PTI/Files
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Possibly final leg of liberalisation case to continue tomorrow (23 Jan) in SC
Stating the obvious: SC Justice Rao tells students that frankly, 'image of lawyers not very good' in country
Harish Salve office gets threatening phone calls over his Padmaavat victory
Uttar Pradesh deletes 1.3 lakh advocates, shrinks voter list by 55% in run up to super late SBC elections
The Uttar Pradesh bar council deleted more than half of the state’s enrolled advocate strength from its provisional electoral roll, which now consists of around 1.6 lakh advocates who will be eligible to vote in its upcoming bar elections.
Nearly 50% of Karnataka lawyers struck off voter rolls, as 4-year-late bar council elections now on schedule, hopefully
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.
BCI gives 4 weeks to take 13th foreign qualifier bar exam, again hides shamefully exorbitant application fee
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has yet again hidden the exorbitant application fees of at least $2,000 for the February 2018-scheduled 13th qualifying exam for Indians holding foreign law degrees, from its notification announcing the exam.
Super-late bar council elections may now finally happen: Maha bar council deletes 65k “fake” lawyers as Feb deadline for election voter list approaches
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.
Rajiv Shakdher J back to Delhi from Madras HC after controversial transfer
20 months after Justice Rajiv Shakdher had been transferred from the Delhi high court to the Madras high court despite protests from senior counsel at losing Shakdher, he is now coming back to Delhi.
Human Rights Watch vs Aadhaar: Ensure Access to essential services, investigate security lapse
SCBA prez Vikas Singh speaks to CJI, who promises ‘collegiality’ in apex court
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”.