A Supreme Court constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha and four other judges yesterday dropped the contempt of court proceedings started by Subramanian Swamy against then- Indian Express editor Arun Shourie, wrote the Times of India in a detailed report including the case...

Mulla & Mulla, acting for its client Anil Ambani, has served a legal notice on Google and Pranav Sachdeva, a junior of advocate Prashant Bushan, for a blog post on Ambani entitled “Black money of Anil Ambani (Prashant Bhushan’s Complaint SIT)”, allegedly posted by Sachdeva on Google’s blogging ...

The Calcutta high court is set to get its first female chief justice, as Kerala high court chief justice Manjula Chellur gets trasnferred to Calcutta after its CJ Arun Mishra was elevated as a Supreme Court judge, reported the New Indian Express . Justice Chellur became a Karnataka HC judge in 2000 ...

Apart from capping the upper limit of summer vacations, the Supreme Court’s new Supreme Court Rules 2013 include at least two other major procedural changes (see below). No newbies First, the Supreme Court rules now state that advocates enrolled for less than one year can not address the court “for ...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has notified the Supreme Court Rules, 2013 that have received the president’s assent and will reduce the maximum time of the apex court’s summer vacations from 10 to 7 weeks, reported the Indian Express , though the total annual holidays will remain capped at 10...

KG Balakrishnan, ex-Chief Justice of India (CJI) and currently chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, told The Hindu that, contrary to ex-SC Justice Markandey Katju’s blog post alleging he appointed a judge known to be corrupt to the Madras high court, there were no adverse reports agains...

A blog by former Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju, who is now Press Council of India (PCI) chairman, has caused a “ruckus” in both houses of parliament, according to the DNA and the PTI . Katju had written in his blog that the tenure of an additional judge in the Madras high court had been exte...

Supreme Court advocate Vineet Dhanda, who was booked in March for an alleged altercation with the police, has hit back at the cops by reportedly exonerating himself with CCTV and video footage of his interaction with the police that he obtained via a right to information (RTI) request for the police...

“Daring” the government to do away with laws requiring tribunals to be headed by judicial members chief justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha said that it is these laws that create a public perception that retired judges are “running and running and running after tribunals”, reported the Economic Times . ...

The Supreme Court collegiums turned down the government’s advice to “reconsider” its recommendation to elevate Karnataka high court justice Manjunath to chief justice at Punjab & Haryana, reported NDTV . The Chief Justice of India, R M Lodha had criticized the government, two weeks ago, for dro...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has warned Supreme Court interns that if they use the court’s main canteen between 12:30pm and 2:30pm, they may face “the embarrassment of being asked to leave”, as those hours at the canteen are reserved for the exclusive use of SCBA members. In a notice pub...

The Rajasthan high court issued criminal contempt notice to the president of the Bar association and other lawyers, for giving a boycott call demanding the transfer of a judge, reported the PTI . Bar Association president Gopeah Kumbhaj, former general secretary Rajesh Choudhary, lawyer Bharat Bhush...

The Centre asked the collegium to reconsider its recommendation of Karnataka high court justice Manjunath for elevation to chief justice at Punjab & Haryana high court after, according to “highly placed sources in the law ministry”, the Centre received complaints against him, reported The Hindu...

“For the first time in the history of judiciary, the Bar Council of India has decided to address the woes of new entrants in the Bar by providing `5,000 as stipend, per month, for a period of five years,” reported the New Indian Express . The BCI’s members and various state bar council chairmen and ...

The Supreme Court’s secretary general advised Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) advocates to use their smart phones to access its cause lists and case status information , after the SCBA complained that the SC website was practically non-functional with respect to viewing of cause lists. The SCBA...

Crest Law Partners co-founding partner and 1998 ULC Bangalore graduate Dhyan Chinappa was designated a senior advocate, alongside lawyers BM Shyam Prasad, DL Jagadish, G Krishna Murthy, M B Nargand, M N Sheshadri, M V Seshachala, R L Patil, V Lakshminarayana, Vivek Subba Reddy and YR Sadashiva Reddy...

Senior Advocate UU Lalit was cleared for Supreme Court judgeship by the collegium, alongside Meghalaya chief justice Prafull Chandra Pant, Gauhati chief justice Abhay Manohar Sapre and Jharkhand chief justice R Banumathi, reported The Hindu . Lalit will be elevated in place of former solicitor gener...

Senior advocate and BJP spokesperson Pinky Anand was appointed Additional Solicitor General (ASG) in the Supreme Court and she assumed office yesterday, reported The Hindu . The former Additional Advocate General of Uttarakhand is only the second woman ever to be appointed ASG. The first – Indira Ja...

Karnataka high court Justice Ashok B Hinchigeri has struck down the part of Rule-11(1) of the Karnataka Excise Licences (General Conditions) Rules 1967 banning dance as a form of entertainment in error petition filed by a restaurant in Domlur and two professional female dancers, reported the Times o...

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused the SCBA of “crass commercialisation and periodic auctioning and re-auctioning”, on its decision to rename the Supreme Court’s “Dr LM Singhvi library” to “Dr Awadh Behari Rohatgi library” after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, instead of Singhvi, ended up ...