NLSIU Bangalore alumnus Akshay Bhan, who is practising in the High Court of Punjab & Haryana in Chandigarh, has been designated as a senior counsel.

The Supreme Court has ordered prosecution of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha for not filing income tax (IT) returns between 1991 and 1994 for the company which she co-owned at the time. Jayalalitha and the company’s other co-owner had appealed to the apex court for discharge from the crimina...

The Supreme Court today asked all high court chief justices to nominate a retired district judge each, to serve for two years on State Committees overseeing the implementation of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Rules 2000. The serving judges will be paid Rs 20,000 per month for their work on th...

The names of senior advocates Fali S Nariman, K K Venugopal, Harish Salve and attorney general Goolam Vahanvati have been forwarded in the category of “eminent jurist” to the Lokpal selection panel, alongside former attorney generals Soli Sorabjee and K Parasaran. They will be discussed in a meeting...

Supreme Court justices HL Dattu and Sidhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya have rejected a number of review petitions of its late 2013 judgment that effectively re-criminalised homosexual intercourse. The bench said in its order: “We have gone through the Review Petitions and the connected papers. We see no re...

Former Himachal Pradesh high court chief justice, Delhi high court justice and law commission member Leila Seth, who is also mother to a son who is homosexual, writes condemning the Supreme Court judgement re-criminalising homosexual intercourse in the Times of India . The original Delhi high court ...

After sending a takedown request for a photograph last Thursday, Karanjawala & Co, representing ex-SC judge Swatanter Kumar in a defamation case, declined to specify which parts of Legally India’s coverage relating to the case should be removed.

Madras high court (HC) senior advocate R Gandhi has asked to withdraw his petition to recall the controversial 12 names recommended for judgeships at the HC, reported the Times of India . Advocates who had been boycotting work intermittently at the HC since December to protest against the judgeship ...

The Supreme Court has postponed its national Lok Adalat to Saturday 12 April 2014 from 29 March, requesting all advocates to submit their consent and parties details by 14 March [SC notice]

The Madras high court has admitted a petition asking the Bar Council of India (BCI) to look into recommendations to “eradicate malpractices” in India’s legal education system and those to “prevent dishonest candidates entering the Bar Council or other judicial appointments”.

The Supreme Court and the West Bengal Commission for Women today took suo motu cognisance of Monday’s alleged gang-rape of a 20-year-old tribal woman in the state’s Birbhum district, reported Zee News and IANS respectively. However the state human rights commission failed to act because it is missin...

Karanjawala & Co, the law firm representing Swatanter Kumar in his Rs 5 crore defamation suit, has sent Legally India a legal notice for the removal of an anonyised photograph of the ex-judge.

A delegation of Madras High Court Advocates Association president, Paul Kanagaraj and others met with CJI Sathasivam and SC justices Ibrahim Kalifulla and C Nagappan yesterday about their problems with the list of 12 names proposed for judgeship at the high court, reported The Hindu . The delegation...

Dowry case filed against AP HC judge : The daughter in law of an Andhra Pradesh high court judge has filed a case of dowry harassment against him. The judge, who has not been named in the report, allegedly made persistent demands for dowry from Kavya Rao’s family after his son lost his job in 2008 [...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam and Justices Ranjan Gogoi and Shiva Kirti Singh argued that the right to seek mercy is a constitutional right not at the “discretion or whims of the executive”.

Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) president Paul Kanagaraj, with an MHAA “delegation”, met Tamil Nadu governor K Rosaiah seeking his intervention in recalling a list of 12 names recommended for judgeship at the HC, and taking exception to the fact that the recommended advocates were “sh...

The Delhi high court yesterday restrained anyone from publishing or broadcasting the detailed sexual harassment allegations against Swatanter Kumar, without stating prominently that they are “mere allegations”, as a battery of counsel appeared for the former Supreme Court judge in the court yesterday.

Former Supreme Court Justice Swatanter Kumar, who is the second former apex court judge standing accused of sexual harassment, filed a Rs 5 crore defamation claim in the Delhi high court against two English language TV channels and a national daily, reported the PTI . Justice GS Sistani presided in ...

Swatanter Kumar ex-intern PIL admitted : Former SC judge Swatanter Kumar’s ex-intern from NUJS Kolkata who had made sexual harassment allegations against him yesterday moved a petition in the SC for inquiry against him. The intern challenged the SC’s 5 December 2013 full court resolution that it cou...

Another graduate of NUJS Kolkata has alleged that she was sexually harassed by a then-sitting Supreme Court judge in 2011, reported the Indian Express today. The story follows in the wake of West Bengal Human Rights Commission (WBHRC) chairman AK Ganguly’s resignation after claims that he had harass...