The police had fired the policewoman after compelling her to take medical exams several years ago that determined she was transgender.

The Madras high court, relying on this week’s Supreme Court judgment, told the police to reinstate her in service [TOI]

A woman has allegedly been molested inside a Delhi high court room while she was accompanied by her father and lawyer. An unnamed man allegedly first stared at her in the court’s lobby, later stood beside her and put his hand on her shoulder, and then touched her inappropriately on 5 March. CCTV foo...

A Supreme Court bench of Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Vikramjit Sen modified a Delhi high court order giving the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) power to do a statutory or special audit of private telecom companies accounts. Instead, the bench decided that the CAG should have the right to scr...

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has alleged that Hyderabad-based firm Manshi Systems has been selling customers access to a subscription-only NSE service. The stock exchange has now started proceedings in the Bombay high court against the firm and, significantly, also against the Indian subsidiary...

The Supreme Court has ruled that all government departments must recognise a third gender, and not discriminate against transgender people in the provision of services.

Rajasthan bar council member Biri Singh Sinsinwar, is likely to be appointed as Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman following the expiry of the term of Manan Kumar Mishra on 17 April.

The Delhi high court has disposed of a writ petition seeking to get deities’ portraits removed from a building walls because men were urinating against them.

A few days ago the Financial Express did a long interview with senior advocate and former parliamentarian Fali Nariman. The chat covers a dozen topics, including Nariman’s fear of modern Hinduism’s intolerance, how a Narendra Modi prime minister would affect the courts and constitution, judicial ref...

They used to be one of the last resorts in law students’ career ambitions. But SC judicial clerkships have become fashionable.

NGO People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has won its nearly two-year legal battle to move an elephant, named Sunder, to a sanctuary in Bangalore, after shooting video footage of Sunder having been beaten, chained and abused by his keeper at a temple. Senior counsel Shiraz Rustomjee and...

Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said that he supported Narendra Modi’s bid to become India’s next PM.

The Supreme Court has uploaded the notification of the next AOR exam, which will be held on 3, 4, 5 and 6 June 2014. Details in ,%202014.pdf the [Notice]

India Today senior editor Gayatri Jayaraman has been live-tweeting diligently from the Mumbai sessions court in the Shakti Mills gang rape sentencing hearing today, at which the judge will decide whether the accused will get the death sentence.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has attempted to simplify the process of hiring chamber juniors for senior advocates, by maintaining a register in one of the SC’s libraries.

Supreme Court Justice SS Nijjar, who on Monday appointed a former Australian Supreme Court judge as the chief of three arbitrators to settle a $1.8bn dispute between Reliance Industries and the government, has withdrawn the suggestion. The problem, said Nijjar, agreeing with objections from the gove...

The Supreme Court has ordered septuagenarian Lee Kun-Hee, the billionaire chairman of Korean electronics giant Samsung, to surrender before a Ghaziabad court within six weeks to answer to charges in $1.4m cheating case relating to a supply of goods between Samsung Dubai and another company in 2002. ...

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has published a call for interns. Law clerks should be graduates from a recognised university and will be paid Rs 25,000 per month, while law interns will be students pursuing a law degree who “would not be paid any remuneration and shall be exposed to the learning ...

The Supreme Court has ordered a retrospective amendment in the High Court Judges Rules 1956, to standardise all retired higher judiciary judges’ pension. The SC has also directed those states which have not yet extended various post-retirement benefits to retired higher judiciary judges, to do so within six months.

An Indian Supreme Court bench headed up by Justice SS Nijjar has appointed ex-Australian SC judge James Spigelman to preside as arbitrator between Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and the oil ministry. At stake is who whether Reliance will be able to recover $1.8bn in its costs from the governmen...

A Supreme Court bench of CJI P Sathasivam, and Justices RM Lodha, HL Dattu and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya, commuted the death penalty of 1993 Delhi bomb blast convict Devender Pal Singh Bhullar to life imprisonment, citing its earlier Shatrughan Chauhan decision.