LiveLaw reported that the Kerala high court stayed the operation of the Bar Council of India’s (BCI) Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules 2015 that it first proposed in January of this year , which requires advocates to register for a practising certificate by 13 June 2015, which m...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that the rejection of an aspirant for appointment as a judge on the grounds of doubtful credentials could be disastrous with the NJAC coming within the ambit of the defamation law. The court expressed its misgiving saying that it would be difficult to give an “hone...

The NHRC on Thursday reiterated that the Delhi government should pay Rs.1 lakh as compensation to a minor sexually assaulted by an employee of a government hospital in 2013. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) had in January 2015 directed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government to compensate th...

The government is working on an umbrella policy for transgenders and a bill on their rights would be introduced in parliament in the coming monsoon session, Social Justice and Empowerment Minister Thaawar Chand Gehlot said on Thursday. Two bills on the rights of disabled people and atrocities on Dal...

A Delhi court refused to grant interim relief to former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar, accused of having a fake degree, and deferred the hearing on his bail plea till June 16. Additional Sessions Judge Sanjeev Jain deferred the bail hearing while observing that the investigating officer of...

Ex-UPA law minister Veerappa Moily allegedly plagiarised portions of an article published under his name in The Hindu on 11 June 2015, which emerged had been in-part copy-pasted from a 26 May article published in the same paper as an op-ed by G Sampath, reported the News Minute . The article has bee...

Union Law Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said today that the independence of the judiciary was not undermined because it did not have primacy in the membership of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC). In an interview to India Today Television, the minister said the independence of the j...

The government today told the Supreme Court that the collegium recommended and reiterated the appointments of people as judges despite adverse Intelligence Bureau reports and “severe” comments by its own judges questioning their ability and integrity in some cases. Attorney General (AG) Mukul Rohatg...

Court reporter Avantika Mehta’s Biting Friends personal blog tells the story of Kishan Bahadur and other Nepali staff working in Delhi’s Patiala House district court, who have lost property (and often more), in the 25 April earthquake that levelled 90 per cent of buildings in places such as his home...

Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay high court has expressed shock and displeasure after an unidentified person visited his chamber seeking copies of the evidence recorded in the ongoing dispute over the will of late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray. Justice Patel is hearing a suit filed by Jaidev Thack...

Former Delhi law minister Jitender Singh Tomar today moved his bail application in a Delhi sessions court, alleging that Delhi Police did not comply with the requisite legal formalities before arresting him. Seeking bail, Tomar told the court that he has been falsely implicated in the case. “The que...

Calcutta high court advocates, following the local high court bar association’s majority resolution, have gone on strike for three days from today due to the heat, reported the PTI , with judges waiting in vain in chambers to handle cases without lawyers present despite relaxing lawyers’ dress code ...

A court here on Tuesday sent Delhi Law Minister Jitender Singh Tomar into four-day police custody following his arrest in an alleged fake degree case. Delhi Police had sought five-day police custody of Tomar after he was presented before the court. Metropolitan Magistrate Navjeet Budhiraja allowed D...

The Narendra Modi government today told the Supreme Court that the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) for appointments to higher judiciary had a component of a “hit and trial” experiment for finding the best people for the posts. Contending that there was an element of uncertainty in ev...

NDTV reported that vice president (legal) of Reliance Industries and former Talwar Thakore Associates managing associate Janhavi Gadkar had allegedly killed two persons in a taxi while driving her Audi Q3 drunk in Mumbai last night on the wrong side of a major freeway. The 35 year old lawyer has bee...

IANS reported: Delhi Law Minister was detained on Tuesday in a case relating to an alleged law degree, police said. An AAP leader, however, said the minister was arrested. “Tomar has been detained and not arrested. This is in regard to the complaint by the Bar Council of Delhi in connection to the a...

The Supreme Court on Monday extended, till June 12, the stay of declaration of the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) results, over-riding its earlier order restraining the Central Board of Secondary Education to hold back the results till June 9. The court had June 3 asked the CBSE not to ...

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it was the will of the people to have transparent, accountable and criteria-based appointment of judges through the National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) instead of the collegium system whose working was shrouded in mystery. Cont...

Prashant Bhushan today termed the government’s decision to appoint former Central Board of Direct Taxation chief KV Chowdary as the new chief vigilance commissioner (CVC) as “shameful and unfortunate”, as senior counsel and BJP politician Ram Jethmalani penned a public break up letter to the Prime M...

Senior counsel Ram Jethmalani tweeted, “My breakup with the Prime Minister”, attaching a letter slamming Narendra Modi’s choice of KV Chowdary central vigilance commissioner (CVC).