Mumbai advocate PC Joshi argued before the Bombay high court that advocates should be exempted from service tax because the tax is levied on “value addition which is made as a result of rendition of service” and “representation [of litigant clients] before a court does not result in any value additi...

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley reached a consensus with the Empowered Committee (EC) of State Finance Ministers on the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) in a meeting here late Monday. A senior finance ministry source told IANS Tuesday that the details of the agreement are being fine-tuned so as t...

Abhijat, the secretary of the Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) that passed a resolution to go on strike again tomorrow , told Legally India that the organisation was “deeply saddened” by the law minister’s “populist” response to the district court lawyers’ earlier strikes . Yesterday, law mi...

yx4rny0f The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) has passed a resolution condemning the law minister for “succumbing to political pressure” of district court lawyers demanding an increase to lower court’s pecuniary jurisdiction. The resolution that was passed by the DHCBA executive committee to...

The Supreme Court Monday permitted newly-appointed CBI Director Anil Sinha to take over the probe into 2G cases. A bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu passed the order on an application by the probe agency seeking clarification on its earlier order removing then Central Bureau of Investigation (C...

A special court hearing the coal block case involving industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla and others here Tuesday asked CBI to record the statement of former prime minister Manmohan Singh who was then holding coal ministry portfolio. Special Judge Bharat Parashar asked Central Bureau of Investigation...

Protesting lawyers of the six district courts in the national capital Monday called off their indefinite strike after assurances from Law Minister DV. Sadananda Gowda that the amendment bill for enhancing the district courts’ pecuniary jurisdiction would be tabled in parliament in the current sessio...

This is a short story and video of how LI tried and failed getting the BCI chairman to be more transparent.

The recently constituted social justice bench of the Supreme Court, to be presided over by Justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit, will sit today at 2pm for the first time. Today will kick off what is intended as a weekly session, reported India TV News According to a statement from the Supreme Court: ...

Proceedings in six district courts here were paralysed yesterday as the indefinite strike by city lawyers entered its third day, and the Delhi high court Bar Association (DHCBA) held a hunger strike opposing the cause by the district court lawyers. The district court lawyers are protesting against t...

A Delhi court today sent Uber cab driver Shiv Kumar Yadav accused of raping a 25-year-old woman 5 December to 14 days judicial custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Ravindra Kumar Pandey sent Yadav to judicial custody until 24 December after police told court that he is not required for further custodial...

Reliance Industries has replaced its ex-CJI SP Bharucha, who resigned last week as its arbitrator, with former UK appeals judge Bernard Rix as the third arbitrator in its dispute with the government over the KG-D6 basin, reported PTI . Bharucha had reportedly recused himself after the government had...

SpicyIP reported that the Delhi high court yesterday banned the import of mobile phones by Chinese company Xiaomi, for infringing Ericsson’s patents, after Xiaomi did not respond to six communications from Ericsson. Justice GP Mittal directed the customs authorities to ban the import of the phones a...

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday approved the creation of five new posts of additional solicitors general, one in each of the high courts of Punjab and Haryana, Patna, Jharkhand, Karnataka and Gujarat. According to an official release, the decision will strengthen ...

The Indian government today said it has decided to decriminalise “attempt to suicide” by deleting the provision holding it an offence and providing for punishment from the statute book. The move won support from several parliamentarians and activists. Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parathibhai ...

The Supreme Court today allowed the Indian cricket board to postpone its Annual General Meeting (AGM) and elections of the office-bearers till Jan 31, 2015, as the hearing into the allegations of betting and conflict of interest is continuing. The apex court bench headed by Justice T S Thakur allowe...

While a case of cheating and violating lawful orders was yesterday lodged against global cab company Uber after one of its drivers was arrested for raping a woman, a plea was filed in the Delhi high court alleging that the company was doing business in the country without accountability to Indian la...

A high stakes case was part-argued today by government and petitioners on the constitutional validity of certain sections of the Information Technology Act 2000.

A Delhi advocate, after encountering a number of allegedly unruly Delhi lawyers striking over the enhancement of Delhi district court’s pecuniary jurisdiction , sent Legally India an email earlier today. This is it: So this morning I was physically prevented by [officials] of the Saket Bar Associati...

Judicial work in the Delhi courts was paralysed due to indefinite strike of city lawyers protesting the delay in tabling amended bill regarding enhancement of pecuniary jurisdiction of district courts. The co-ordination committee of bar associations of all the district courts in Delhi said that desp...