The Madras high court ordered Nokia to deposit Rs 240 crore as a deposit against the tax department’s claim of Rs 2,400 crore against the Finnish mobile phone maker. Its sales from a Chennai factory are subject to a tax demand, which it claims is without merit, and that it won’t be able to make the ...

“The temperature has soared up and the gentleman is not well,” senior advocate Rajiv Dhawan told justices KS Radhakrishnan and JS Khehar, appearing for the Sahara group and its boss Subrata Roy, who has been jailed for failing to turn up to Supreme Court hearings and not repaying amounts owed to inv...

The Andhra Pradesh high court has ordered the $3.2bn takeover to be stayed as “interim status quo” in a writ petition alleging insider trading, reported Bloomberg . The writ petition was filed by a number of investors, seeking to force an insider trading investigation by the Securities and Exchange ...

Khaitan & Co and Mulla & Mulla have served defamation notices on behalf of members of the Reliance family on authors of the book Gas Wars, who are defended by Amicus Juris.

Foreign lawyers should be allowed to work on arbitrations in India to make domestic arbitration more attractive and to unburden the courts said Supreme Court justices SS Nijjar and PC Ghose and retired judge AK Ganguly, reported Kolkata paper The Telegraph . Nijjar said at the seminar by the Indian ...

The Supreme Court has issued new guidelines for mentioning matters before it, according to a notice posted on the Supreme Court noticeboard.

The culpable homicide retrial of Bollywood megastar Salman Khan began today in a Mumbai sessions court over his allegedly running over several pavement dwellers while drunk, killing one, in 2002. The prosecution might call up to 64 witnesses, of whom the first appeared today. A magistrate in an earl...

The new Chief Justice of India RM Lodha and a bench of two others stayed the death penalty of 2000 Red Fort shootout convict because he had already served 14 years [Times of India]

The Hindu ’s senior court reporter J Venkatesan has interviewed Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow from his post. In the hour-long interview, excerpts of which were published by the paper, Sathasivam recounted how he rose to the highest judicial office in the country fro...

The embattled Sahara Group has withdrawn a defamation case in the Calcutta high court, which had granted a stay order, against Mint journalist Tamal Bandhyopadhyay’s book Sahara: The Untold Story . As part of the settlement, the book will now include a disclaimer by Sahara stating: “The book at best...

A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, who retires tomorrow to make way for Justice RM Lodha as CJI, said that a constitution bench will look into whether the commuted death sentence of the seven conspiring assassins of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, should m...

The Supreme Court has finally avenged social media’s June 2013 furore over Madras high court justice CS Karnan’s “ sex equals marriage” judgment , by holding that that judgment was only applicable one-off to the facts of the case it decided. Advocate Uday Gupta, through senior advocate MR Calla, had...

The Delhi high court has agreed to wait for a three-judge Supreme Court committee’s decision on review of its policy of selection of judicial clerks.

The founder director of NLSIU Bangalore, NR Madhavan Menon, ex Lok Sabha secretary general TK Vishwanathan and senior counsel Ranjit Kumar have been appointed by the Supreme Court to form a committee regulating government departments advertising with an “obvious political message”. Chief Justice of ...

The advocate who has been banned from the Supreme Court premises for six months by the court’s new sexual harassment committee and the CJI, said he would seek a review of the order.

The Supreme Court sexual harassment committee has banned an advocate from the Supreme Court premises for six months for an incident of sexual harassment.

A Supreme Court bench of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam, and Justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu, and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya has agreed to orally hear the Naz Foundation’s curative petition to re-examine the apex court’s earlier re-criminalisation of homosexual and other sexual “intercou...

A detailed report in the Eco Times on the long-running legal scuffle between McDonald’s and its local JV partner Vikram Bakshi. McDonald’s has accused Bakshi in the Delhi high court of forum shopping by launching Company Law Board (CLB) and Delhi high court challenges to a London Court of Internatio...

Sahara, which is on a money-collecting drive from employees to gather Rs 5,000 crore to pay for its boss’ bail, has sent a defamation notice to milk maker Amul’s owner, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation. The famous Amul girl marketing campaign regularly makes fun of current affairs ...

Advocate and Christian nun Sister Jasmine, who has been enrolled since 2000 with the Delhi bar council and is currently working with the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), said she would file a complaint about other lawyers having objected to her wearing her nun’s habit with with the advocates’ band. ...