Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has set in motion the transfer of up to nine senior high court judges, reported the Economic Times . According to senior high court officials four judges had received ‘consent-seeking letters’ - Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul coul...

Responding to the incarceration of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, who refused to pay Rs 10,000 bail in a criminal defamation case filed by BJP politician Nitin Gadkari before a magistrate, advocate and AAP leader Prashant Bhushan said that it was a travesty of law that “an honest man [...

The Delhi high court adjourned its hearing in the Swatanter Kumar defamation case to 28 August, after the Supreme Court transfer petition was filed with the court in sealed cover.

The Supreme Court is for the second time in its history attempting to create its own dedicated intellectual and institutional research unit with the appointment of NLU Delhi assistant professor Anup Surendranath to the post of deputy registrar (research).

The Kerala high court has appointed practising lawyers at the court, PV Asha and PB Suresh Kumar, as high court judges, taking the bench strength to 34 [PTI]

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal has been jailed in judicial lock-up after refusing to pay Rs 10,000 bail in a criminal defamation case over having called another politician a thief in January and including him in a list of “India’s most corrupt”. Kejriwal said he would not pay the bail in the ...

The Bar Council of (DBC), which yesterday appointed former vice chairman Vijay Sondhi as secretary, will meet on Monday to reconstitute its election committee, which will select a new chairman, vice chairman and secretary. The committee’s term expired on 22 March, confirmed Sondhi, adding that DBC c...

The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) will meet the law ministry and Delhi high court judges after court reopens post summer vacations, to push for rules allowing video recording of court proceedings in Delhi. DHCBA president Rajiv Khosla said: “We will pick up this issue with the high court ...

The Lahore high court today told the country’s prime minister Nawaz Sharif and 15 other politicians they’d have to give an account to the court of the assets they hold domestically and abroad, in a petition relating to the return of politicians’ overseas assets. [IANS]

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and AK Sikri told the Sahara Group after a two hour hearing that they would have to pay Rs 10,000 crore to get its boss Subrata Roy and two directors released from jail. The judges, who replaced the previous bench of justices KS Radharkrishnan and JS Khehar amid unpr...

Senior advocate UU Lalit, with Abhimanyu Bhandari as counsel, acting independently of Axon Partners where he is a partner, and Karanjawala & Co partner and advocate-on-record Sandeep Kapur acted for jailed Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal, getting him bail to attend the funeral of his mother...

Retired Supreme Court judge Justice KS Radhakrishnan, in a brief interview in the Indian Express, talked about some of his landmark cases and challenges facing the judiciary. [Indian Express]

Supreme Court justices TS Thakur and AK Sikri will be hearing the controversial Sahara case on 19 May after Justice KS Radhakrishnan retired and Justice JS Khehar recused himself and said he wanted nothing to do with any Sahara matters in future. Radhakrishnan had professed to have faced “unimaginab...

The Mail Today , said that “sources” have told it that the BJP government’s favourites for the job of attorney general would be senior advocates Harish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi (of course, the paper had made the same prediction already a month ago , when it also added that Ranjit Kumar was in the run...

The Delhi high court hearing former Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar’s defamation case, would wait until the Supreme Court had decided on the transfer petition by an former law student intern who alleged she was sexually harassed by him.

Supreme Court Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar told the Supreme Court registry on 6 May, the evening after passing its scathing judgment against Sahara chief Subrata Roy and his lawyers, that he did not want to be on the new bench that would hear the Sahara matter after the bench headed by retiring Just...

The brother of a man who died when his car allegedly slammed into senior advocate Harish Salve’s Bentley, driven by his chauffeur , told the DNA that the family was cosidering filing a case against Salve and his driver for “rash driving” [see correction below]. Salve told DNA that on his advice, his...

A former intern, who had alleged that ex-Supreme Court judge Swatanter Kumar has sexually harassed her in 2011, has applied to the Supreme Court to transfer Kumar’s defamation case.

Facing a long string of retirements during his term, Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha has recommended the elevation of two former solicitor generals to the apex court.

New Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha asked, somewhat rhetorically, at a function yesterday why law could not be available 365 days per year, just like medical and health services: “Some of the adjournments of the hearing in the courts are necessary but some of them are altogether needless and c...