Supreme Court senior counsel Harish Salve and KK Venugopal are set to be awarded Padma awards, with Venugopal to receive a Padma Vibhushans, India’s second-highest civilian honour, reported Zee and others.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has published and gazetted its amended Certificate of Practice Rules, doing away with a minimum experience requirement before being allowed into higher courts, but retaining its earlier proposed system of requiring advocates to regularly renew their certificates of pra...

The Supreme Court will not be printing out additional hard copies of judgments anymore from 1 February to circulate internally and elsewhere, according to a notice dated today, as well as doing away with paper causelists. Normally 80 copies of all judgments were made automatically for the records of...

The Supreme Court today barred sidelined BCCI president N Srinivasan from contesting the election to the Indian cricket board’s governing body presidency as long as he is involved in a “conflict of interest” situation as an owner of IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings (CSK). [ Read judgment ] The apex...

As effigies burn, lawyers rail against Bedi, with ex-BJP and RSS members also complaining about not having been given BJP tickets in this election because of Bedi’s bias.

The Delhi high court today asked the city government whether websites of app-based taxis can be blocked, while hearing a PIL that alleged that despite their being banned these taxi services are still operating. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw asked city government st...

The Delhi high court today asked the central government to unblock around Rs. 1.87 crore of the environmental NGO Greenpeace India that had been frozen. Greenpeace was represented by advocates Sanjay Parikh, Mamta Saxena and Prachi Arya. The funds were blocked by the Reserve Bank of India following ...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has decided to not go ahead with its controversial new rules that would have banned advocates from the Supreme Court unless they had five years of lower court experience, reported Live Law.

The India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) has provided Supreme Court lawyers nearly 300 parking spaces across the road from the court complex to allay advocates’ parking troubles, after solicitor general Ranjit Kumar put the court-requested proposal to the Urban Development Ministry. Justice V G...

The Department of Justice in the law ministry has begun drafting a bill to rename the Bombay and Madras high courts to Mumbai and Chennai high courts, respectively, reported the PTI . The two high courts were established under the Indian High Court Act, 1861 alongside the Calcutta high court, and ha...

The Supreme Court today put on hold, for three weeks, the trial of Tehelka founder-editor Tarun Tejpal for alleged sexual assault on his junior colleague in Goa during an event organised by the magazine. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu suspended Tejpal’s trial by three weeks after senior co...

NLU Mumbai, the only one of three national law schools to be established in Maharashtra that previously appeared to be on schedule after appointing vice-chancellor Bhavani Prasad Panda , has been plagued by bureaucratic roadblocks, reported the DNA . The university would be unlikely to be able to of...

The woman who was allegedly raped in Delhi by a driver contracted by US-based cab booking service Uber, has instructed one of New York’s top litigators Douglas Wigdor in a potential negligence action, reported The Guardian . Wigdor told The Guardian that had met “extensively” with the alleged victim...

Last year the Bar Council of India (BCI) rejected a lawyer’s right to information (RTI) request and appeal on the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) by simply not answering the majority of queries.

A US court has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of failure to control the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying as a sitting head of government he was entitled to immunity. In dismissing the case filed by human rights group American Justice Centre (AJC) in New York in September , US Di...

Delhi high court Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva has banned advocate Deepak Khosla from filing matters or appearing in a number of Delhi courts by himself without another counsel.

The Delhi high court Wednesday issued notice to two district court judges over a plea seeking directions for installing air conditioners in the two court complexes. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw sought a response from the district judges of the Tis Hazari ...

The Supreme Court Wednesday asked if the Narendra Modi government intended to complete the task of cleaning the Ganga river in its present term or carry it to the next term and keep the issue alive. The court sought details on the status of various sewage treatment plants (STP) that were being set u...

The Supreme Court Wednesday extended by three months Italian marine chief master sergeant Massimilano Latorre’s stay in Italy for his recovery in the wake of a heart surgery that he underwent Jan 5. The apex court Bench, headed by Justice Anil Dave, extended the stay of Latorre after his senior coun...

In a setback to filmstar Salman Khan, the Supreme Court today set aside the Rajasthan High Court order putting on hold his conviction in the blackbuck hunting case, and asked the high court to consider the matter afresh. The high court Nov 12, 2013 had suspended the conviction of Salman Khan in the ...