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*Even as an association of female lawyers in the Supreme Court has petitioned the court to ban gang rape lawyers ML Sharma and AP Singh, they might end up getting away with allegedly inciting murder. But why not redraw the boundaries of adversarial litigation while we’re at it, asks Saurav Datta.

The government has notified the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act 2014 and accompanying constitutional amendment, which will radically overhaul judicial appointments. According to a press release from the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB): The Government today notified t...

According to a resolution passed yesterday by the Jharkhand state bar council, advocates in the state were called to go on strike today to protest attacks against advocates and “demand adequate security” from the police.

PTI reported that Supreme Court justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant rejected a PIL filed by Prashant Bhushan with his father, senior counsel Shanti Bhushan, appearing: seeking registration of an FIR against former apex court judge and Press Council of India Chairman Justice C K Prasad for alleg...

Agencies reported that Satyam founder B Ramalina Raju, his two brothers and seven others were sentenced to seven years in jail by a special CBI court in Hyderabad today for their role in the Rs 7,000 crore Satyam accounting fraud. Raju and his brother B Rama Raju were also fined Rs 5 crore, with fin...

PTI reported that a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice AR Dave rejected the review of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon’s death penalty, after having stayed his execution on 2 June 2014 and upholding the sentence on 21 March 2013. Memon had planted explosives in cars in Mumbai, with 10 of his accomplices h...

Karnataka high court senior advocate Prabhuling Navadgi yesterday accepted his appointment to become additional solicitor general (ASG), taking up a post created for the first time ever in the state.

The Supreme Court yesterday began hearing former Bharatiya Janata Dal (BJP) party president Subramanian Swamy’s challenge of India’s criminal defamation laws in the Supreme Court yesterday, reported// Outlook and others. Swamy, for whom senior advocates GS Mani and Sushil Kumar Jain appeared in cour...

The proposed National Judicial Appointments Commission’s (NJAC) validity will now be examined by a Constitution bench in the Supreme Court after a three judge bench referred petitions challenging it to a five judge bench, reported// Mint . The Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association, the Bar A...

PTI reported that: The incident took place on March 30 when Justice M Jeyapaul, 60, of the Punjab and Haryana High Court dived into the Lake to save the 15-year-old girl after he noticed her drowning while he was on his routine morning walk, Sukhna Lake Police Post In-charge Mini Bhardwaj told PTI t...

The Supreme Court has announced that its next advocate-on-record (AOR) examination will take place from 26 to 29 May 2015: Read SC notification and guidelines here (PDF).

Despite all the legal firepower involved, it was far from certain that the case would go the way it did.

The Supreme Court has started a “health care centre” which will be operational from 1 April to “take care of the medical emergency and other health related problems of the Lawyers, Litigants and others visiting Supreme Court”, stated a notice from the apex court’s secretary general. By contrast, Del...

After last week’s anthropological exploration of The Living Room Lawyer and the Eternal Junior, Delhi Barfly finds Mister Information and the Curious Onlooker.

Hot on the heels of the government getting ready to create special fast-track commercial divisions of all high courts , Delhi high court chief justice G Rohini has decided to redesignate four benches of the Delhi high court to exclusively handle commercial disputes, of which around 20,000 are curren...

PTI reported: The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from two advocates, representing the 16 December gangrape convicts, against whom a women lawyers body has sought action for allegedly making derogatory remarks against women in a BBC documentary on the case. “We have heard the argument, plea...

The Delhi high court yesterday stayed until April 27 a decision of its single judge to bring the Attorney General of India’s (AGI) office under the RTI Act. The Times of India reported that “a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice R S Endlaw said that the single judge’s findings “require consi...

A Supreme Court bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi and NV Ramana today stayed the 20 March Delhi high court order that restrained generic drug maker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals from manufacturing an anti-diabetes drug over which Merck allegedly held a patent, reported Mint . Senior counsel Abhishek Manu Si...

“New Delhi authorities on Wednesday asked India’s federal information technology ministry to block the taxi-hailing apps of US -based Uber and its local rival Ola in the city in a bid to enforce a ban on the companies’ services,” reported Reuters . However, QZ reported last year that blocking of ser...

A seven-judge Allahabad high court bench led by chief justice DY Chandrachud served notices on the Bar Council of India (BCI), the Uttar Pradesh bar council and district bar associations about the strike by the local bar against the alleged murder of an advocate by a policeman on district court prem...