As first reported by Legally India on Wednesday, Calcutta high court Justice Aniruddha Bose made history as probably the first high court chamber to install a permanent video camera on the request of advocate Deepak Khosla.

A Delhi court on Friday allowed environmentalist R.K. Pachauri, accused in a sexual harassment case, to visit all but two offices of TERI, with the complainant working in one of the offices.

The Supreme Court on Thursday issued notice to the central government on a petition challenging the second re-promulgation of the land ordinance to amend the 2013 land acquisition law to ease the process of land acquisition. The bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel iss...

The union cabinet on Thursday approved the Repealing and Amending (Third) Bill, 2015, for repealing 187 obsolete acts. Download bill and full list (PDF) via PRS India . The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also approved introduction of Repealing and Amending (Fourth) Bill, 2...

The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred hearing on a petition by former high court judges who were appointed directly from among practising lawyers, seeking pension and other benefits on par with those judges who came through the judicial service. The apex court bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Just...

To mark the International Day of Justice on Friday, animal activists will come together in the national capital to demand that the Constitution recognise all animals as sentient beings. The two-week campaign titled “Demand Justice for Animals” was launched by the Federation of Indian Animal Protecti...

Four members of civil society, represented by Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay, have filed a writ petition in the Karnataka high court praying that a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) investigation be started against the Lokayukta of Karnataka, Y Bhaskar Rao and his son Ashwin Y Rao, who are being investigated for corruption charges by the Lokayukta’s internal police force.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment on a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) and extended its interim order protecting services of the additional judges till the verdict is pronounced A constitution bench of J...

Justice Aniruddha Bose created history today when Calcutta high court room 24, outfitted with a permanent video camera and microphone for the occasion, recorded the proceedings of advocate Deepak Khosla, which Khosla claims is the first time this has happened in a high court.

After Subramanian Swamy and PP Rao began arguing yesterday in the multi-petitioner challenge of sections 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Swamy, senior counsel Rao and Rajeev Dhavan today continued their arguments.

Thousands of lawyers in Bihar on Wednesday abstained from work, protesting against the lack of initiative by the Patna High Court on their demand to allow unrestricted entry of vigilance officials into the premises of subordinate courts. Their demand was in order to curb the prevailing corruption in...

Yakub Memon, convicted for his role in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, will be hanged on July 30, official sources said here early Wednesday. He is likely to be be hanged in the Nagpur Central Jail, where he is currently lodged, following the rejection of his mercy plea in April this year by ...

“)The process of appointing senior advocates is broken and no one has bothered to fix it, until now.

The hearings in the Subramaniam Swamy v Union of India case began today, with Swamy, alongside several other petitioners, seeking to get the Supreme Court to strike down section 499 and 500 of the Indian Penal Code. This is what happened.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has published on its website a list of 111 lawyers with between 0 and 30 years of experience, in a bid to encourage more senior lawyers who are looking for associates or junior lawyers to contact those job seekers directly.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals were on Tuesday suspended from the Indian Premier League (IPL) for two years by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee in the spot fixing and betting scandal that rocked the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament in 2013. Former CSK team official Gu...

Reliance Industries lawyer Janhavi Gadkar who, through senior advocate Amit Desai, had filed for bail in her drunken driving accident case will remain jailed at least until 24 July because the investigation was not yet complete, reported Times of India and the Hindustan Times but almost no other new...

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Nithari killings’ convict Surender Koli on an Uttar Pradesh government plea seeking restoration of death sentence in Rimpa Haldar case - one of the 14 cases of rape and killings in the village in Noida bordering Delhi. A bench of Chief Justice HL Dattu, J...

In a setback to liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the Supreme Court on Monday rejected his plea challenging criminal proceedings for wilfully disobeying an Enforcement Directorate summons seeking his presence relating to a $200,000 payment to a British company for displaying the Kingfisher logo during 1996...

Candidates for the controversial 2014 Delhi Judicial Service (DJS) exam have painstakingly cross-referenced a list of offspring and others close to Delhi high court judges against the 15 who passed the DJS exams, received a surprising RTI response, and established that 64 judges who had passed or topped judicial services exams in other states, failed in last year’s DJS exam outright.