Arguments continued by the appellants in the Kerala liquor ban case Kerala Bar Hotels Association vs State of Kerala for the second day on August 18 in the Supreme Court’s Court No. 11, with senior advocates, Harish Salve and N Venkataraman making a determined attempt to expose the State Government’s “discriminatory” liquor policy.

The PTI reported the law ministry releasing data that: according to the latest data compiled by the Law Ministry, as on [1 August], the high courts were facing a shortage of 384 judges as against the approved strength of 1017. Thus, the 24 high courts are functioning with a working strength of 633 j...

In the wake of the bar’s stand-off with the Supreme Court bench, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) of the “committee to oversee implementation of suggestions by SCBA” and a letter by SCBA president Dushyant Dave.

After in August 2013 banning interns from its premises on Mondays and Fridays - miscellaneous days - in order to fight overcrowding, the Supreme Court now plans to ban interns from entering the “high security” zone inside the court for security reasons.

Ex-Medical Council of India (MCI) president Dr Ketan Desai is facing a Supreme Court probe into all manner of allegations into the future of the profession’s regulator.

The Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of the son of Uttar Pradesh politician DP Yadav, Vikas Yadav, his cousin Vishal Yadav and accomplice Sukhdev Pehlwan in the Nitish Katara murder case but issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on the quantum of sentence. Upholding the conviction o...

The apex consumer court on Monday served a notice on Nestle India over the government’s Rs.640-crore unfair trade practice class action suit related to Maggi noodles and fixed 30 September as the next date of hearing.

The Delhi high court will soon transfer thousands of cases, mostly related to property disputes, to the district courts of the capital as the President has signed into law a bill which enhances the pecuniary jurisdiction of civil courts.

Arguments in The Kerala Bar Hotels Association vs State of Kerala began with a lot of excitement on both sides last week before the bench of justices Viramajit Sen and Shiva Kirti Singh.

[ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/surveillance-philosopher-nsa The Intercept wrote a compelling investigation in *What Happens When a Failed Writer Becomes a Loyal Spy?*, based on the Edward Snowden NSA leaks, about modern-day privacy and its implications told through the lens of findi...

Two weeks after Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra had said at an event that 30 per cent of lawyers were “fake”, held “fraudulent degrees” or were “non-practising” but still on the rolls, the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) reported yesterday that the BCI told the government that “the number of fake lawyers cannot be exactly ascertained by now”.

Rail travel will be more accessible for people with disabilities, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu said here on Friday. India has over 8,000 stations, and around three crore people travel every day by train. Though the country’s population has increased, the railway infrastructure has not risen propor...

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas acted as legal counsel to the US’ LyondellBasell Group in its acquisition of the chemical business of Aurangabad-based company SJS Plastiblends, which was advised by Economic Laws Practice (ELP). The acquisition signed on 7 August involves transfer of the whole business of ...

Parliament faced record-low levels of productivity this session, with mainly the Delhi pecuniary jurisdiction bill and cheque bouncing bill squeezing through.

The hearing on the the Rs.640-crore class action suit filed by the Indian government against Nestle India , alleging unfair trade practices with regard to Maggi noodles was not heard at the apex consumer disputes forum on Friday. No reasons were assigned. Officials at the National Consumer Disputes ...

Erstwhile Amarchand Mangaldas, the law firm that split in May into Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, is the only Indian law firm that made it into a top 20 index of Asia Pacific law firm brands published this year.

Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has moved to a new office in New Delhi, near Connaught Place.

The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its verdict on a batch of petitions including by Congress vice -president Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy challenging the constitutional validity of Indian Penal Code’s provisions on criminal defamation. A ben...

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the central government on a petition by NGO Common Cause seeking quashing of the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) KV Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner (VC) TM Bhasin as it breached the principle of “institutional integrity”. The no...

As the oral submissions in the Union of India vs V Sriharan @ Murugan matter concluded on Wednesday (August 12) in the Supreme Court, it became obvious that the Rajasthan government chose to adopt the submissions of other State Governments who have, by and large, opposed the Union of India’s plea for restricting the state governments’ power under the Code of Criminal Procedure (Cr.PC ) to remit life sentences.