Current Press Council of India (PCI) chairman and former Supreme Court and high court judge Markandey Katju, has written another blog post about judicial corruption, attacking the system of judicial transfers and the conspiracy of silence on judicial corruption within the bench. He argued that: “Mos...

The Karnataka high court will introduce wireless internet in six to seven months, reported the Deccan Herald . The advocates association had made the request for a court-based wireless internet network to the registrar general, who have now started the tendering process to find a provider of the int...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) executive commitee is “prima facie of the view” that a female additional district judge in Gwalior was sexually harassed by a more senior judge, and that this complaint should be dealt with immediately by the CJI. The SCBA also urged the CJI to file an FIR an...

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and Anil R Dave asked Gopal Subramanium to reconsider his recusal as the amicus curiae in the Padmanabhaswamy temple treasure case, because he had already put significant work into the case, reported The Hindu . Subramanium had announced, as reported on 5 August , th...

Senior counsel and ex-law minister Kapil Sibal, won a Delhi high court stay for the Gandhis and other Congress politicians over a summons obtained by BJP politician Subramanian Swamy in a magistrate’s court in June. In the case revolving around an alleged loan by the Congress party, which Swamy clai...

A letter of complaint was sent on 1 August to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha and the rest of the Supreme Court collegium by a female additional district and sessions judge in Gwalior, who resigned on 15 July, allegeging that she was sexually harassed by a more senior male judge of the Mad...

The Bar Council of Delhi (DBC) has elected advocate KK Manan as chairman and advocate Amit Sharma as vice chairman, both uncontested, to respectively replace advocates Ram Singh Chauhan and Rakesh Sherawat on Wednesday. Newly and controversially appointed DBC secretary and former DBC vice chairman V...

According to the Times of India , Senior counsel Harish Salve has been the latest lawyer to have been instructed to appear for Sahara boss Subrata Roy, who continues to be locked up in Tihar Jail for contempt of court . Salve’s first act as counsel was to accept the offer of a bigger cell for Roy - ...

The Law Commission chairman Justice AP Shah has recommended that the tenure of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) should be fixed to at least two years, and that the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) should consist of at least four judges, including the CJI as chairperson, reported The Hindu and ...

Yesterday’s high-powered law ministry meeting with a who’s who of the legal profession , reportedly resulted in a consensus from most present about the need to abolish the existing collegium system of judicial appointments, with the government now producing a draft. The three hour meeting, according...

The central government and its law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad are set to meet in Delhi with a number of advocates today, to discuss the shape of a constitutional amendment on judicial appointments, reported the Times of India . The panel to give feedback on a possible change to the collegium syste...

Justice Markandey Katju has continued his indictment of the collegium system on his blog, now alleging that then-Chief Justice of India (CJI) KG Balakrishnan pushed hard for the elevation of Justice PD Dinakaran to the Supreme Court, despite strong evidence of corruption against the latter. While no...

Markandey Katju, former Supreme Court judge and current Press Council chairman, has tweeted that the situation has worsened in the judiciary since former Chief Justice of India (CJI) SP Bharucha implied in 2001 that as many as 20 per cent of judges might be corrupt . Katju tweeted about the topic af...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has stated that under Rule III of the BCI rules “wearing of advocate’s gown shall be optional except when appearing in the Supreme Court or in High courts”, reported the Times of India , and under Rule IV, “wearing of black coat is not mandatory” during summer. The rel...

Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul was today sworn-in as chief justice of the Madras high court. The 55-year-old Delhi University law graduate and former senior counsel replaces Justice RK Agrawal, who was elevated to the Supreme Court, and acting chief justice Satish K A...

The force feeding of a fasting Muslim by a Shiv Sena politician was termed “ very regrettable and unfortunate ” by the home minister in Parliament; an NGO meanwhile took legal action: Advocate Imran Ali alleged that the act of Sena MP Vichare was a “deliberate act” to “grab public attention” and “hu...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has proposed changing its articles, with its general body due to vote on 12 August between 10am and 4pm, primarily amending who can stand for elections to become office bearers and executive committee members. The proposals, digested: 1. You can’t hold a sing...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday passed a resolution unanimously to request the Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha to delay the implementation of the Supreme Court Rules 2013 and seek feedback from its members for the next 10 days. The rules, which were notified earlier this wee...

The Supreme Court has appointed senior advocate RS Cheema as the special public prosecutor (SPP) in the Coalgate scam special court trial, reported the PTI , presided over by additional sessions judge Bharat Parashar. A week ago the bench of Chief Justice RM Lodha, Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice ...

Karnataka high court advocate TN Raghupathy has filed a writ challenging the designation of 15 new senior advocates at the HC this year , tweeted BurgerrB and reported Bar & Bench . Raghupathy, who has impleaded the 15 senior advocates in the PIL, has argued that the HC’s senior designation pro...