The Supreme Court summer vacation bench, sitting from 12 May until 29 June 2014 will hear regular matters during those holidays from Tuesday to Friday, the Supreme Court announced. [Circular]

Now professor of law, social policy and women’s studies in the US, Hill says despite her critics working to destroy her for accusing Thomas of sexual harassment and the ensuing senate hearings, she has survived and “created a vocabulary around sex harassment where none existed before”, reports the N...

The Supreme Court has published its interim order in the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) and Indian Premier League (IPL) case. Six senior counsel, including Harish Salve, CA Sundaram and Mukul Rohatgi, are listed as appearing for the parties amongst a raft of other advocates appearing for t...

A circular by the Supreme Court of India has declared that the week before and after the upcoming court summer vacations from 10 May 2014 to 27 June 2014 will be miscellaneous weeks (i.e., all days from 5 May - 9 May 2014, and from 30 June to 4 July 2014, will be miscellaneous days). Further details...

The Supreme Court has said that the police should take action in the gang-rape of a woman in a village, which was allegedly ordered by a village panchayat as punishment for her affair. The bench led by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam was apparently able to do little substantively in th...

A Supreme Court three-judge bench headed by Justice BS Chauhan told the government to report on what it had done to investigate the Rs 6,500 crore investment into four Indian Indian Reliance Industries companies by what is allegedly a Singaporean shell company called Biometrix used for money launder...

A Delhi high court bench of Justice S Ravindra Bhat and Justice RV Easwar, in a writ petition filed by lawyer Nishant S Diwan, decided to reserve one post for disabled applicants to the Delhi higher judicial service, bringing the court in line with the 3 per cent disability reservation for civil jud...

Sahara has said it can’t afford paying the Rs 5,000 crore in cash to the court, and Rs 5,000 crore in bank guarantees to SEBI, which the Supreme Court yesterday stipulated the amounts for Sahara chief to get out of jail on conditional bail. The next hearing will be on 3 April and Roy will be expecte...

A Karnataka high court division bench, headed by DH Waghela, said after wasting 30 minutes in court trying to decipher an illegible document filed by the under secretary: “There are many lousy practices in this court. Statements are filed with errors related to typing, spelling drafting, translation...

Supreme Court Justice AK Patnaik said today: “In the place of Srinivasan, we propose to appoint an experienced cricket player like Sunil Gavaskar to replace him and function as BCCI president.” Yesterday the court said that N Srinivasan’s continuing to stick on as the current BCCI board chairman was...

Legally India Supreme Court postcard writer and tweeting advocate Court Witness’ column on Subrata Roy: “The Supreme Court dragon has woken and it is annoyed.” [Mumbai Mirror]

Gujarat High Court Justice Anant Dave ordered Nandiad sessions judge B B Pathak to go back to the judicial academy for a “training session is to be scheduled with regard to powers to be exercised under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure” (anticipatory bail), which the judge had flubbed in...

The Supreme Court rejected the government’s plea to undo its judgment asking for a special investigation team to probe black money stashed abroad in a PIL that was first filed and won by senior counsel Ram Jethmalani. Anil Divan represented Jethmalani, while Mohan Parasaran argued for the government...

The Supreme Court and its registry will be closed on Thursday 10 April and Monday 14 April 2014 because of the general elections and Dr BR Ambedkar’s birthday respectively, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) has announced in notices on the SC website Ambedkar birthday notice [ General elections notice...

The Delhi High Court’s acting Chief Justice BD Ahmed and Justice Sidharth Mridul were told by the National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) that pharma companies sold condoms at “100 percent more than the ceiling price of Rs6.56 per condom even after its inclusion in the” Drug Price Control ...

The Supreme Court has set interim bail for Sahara chief Subrata Roy at Rs 5,000 crore in cash, and Rs 5,000 crore in guarantees to the Securites and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in bank guarantees.

Fali Nariman and PP Rao have completed their recommendations to the Supreme Court in what procedure to follow in case of sex harassment allegations against sitting and former judges.

The Supreme Court has slammed the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to prevent the Muzaffarnagar riots in September 2013.

The Supreme Court said that the Uttar Pradesh government failed to protect the fundamental rights of Muzaffarnagar residents, of whom 60 died in communal riots last year. While the apex court said all those responsible, irrespective of political affiliation, should be arrested, the bench stopped sho...

“After two wasted years, Sathasivam realizes that Kapadia was, after all, right about the Registry,” tweeted CourtWitness. Livelaw reported that Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sathasivam said at an AOR-hosted function yesterday that the registry was not listing matters correctly by allowing lawyers to...