The Civil Services Board (CSB) ordered to be set up by the Supreme Court on Thursday, will now replace ministers’ power to manage bureaucrats via transfers, postings, inquiries, promotions, reward, punishment and disciplinary matters, reported The Hindu . The SC also suggested a fixed tenure for civ...

The Supreme Court has, for the third time, upheld the appointment of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) chairman UK Sinha, Mint reported. Dismissing a September 2012 petition filed by a Bangalore-based financial expert alleging irregularities in the process of his appointment, a bench of ...

Senior counsel Gopal Subramanium has joined English barristers’ chamber 3 Verulam Buildings as an associate member and arbitrator.

The Delhi government today asked the Supreme Court to revive the ten-fold hike in court fees under last year’s Court Fee (Delhi Amendment) Act 2012 which was struck down by the Delhi HC on 9 October, reported the PTI . Justice GS Singhvi’s bench will hear the matter on Monday on a priority basis. Th...

Advocate’s wheelchair stolen, police indifferent: A differently-abled Madras HC advocate’s Rs 20,000 wheelchair was stolen inside the Madras HC premises three weeks ago but the police refused to even register an FIR for his complaint and a senior official asked him to get a new wheelchair, alleged t...

The Delhi high court will take a further step to going paperless after the inauguration of its e-filing facility at 5pm today, in its company and tax jurisdictions. “Thereafter in both jurisdictions the e-filing of appeals, petitions, counter affidavits, rejoinder affidavits, applications and all do...

The Supreme Court has passed a landmark award in Indian medical negligence against a Kolkata hospital for the negligent death of Anuradha Saha in 1998.

Maha lawyers’ strike winds down after 54th-day CJ meet : Lawyers from six districts in Maharashtra who were demanding a Bombay HC circuit bench in Kolhapur yesterday ended their 55-day boycott of courts, “respecting the judiciary” after an hour-long meeting with Bombay HC chief justice Mohit Shah wh...

The Supreme Court’s guidelines to deal with sexual harassment complaints within the court corridors are now up on its website, reported PTI . The Gender Sensitisation and Sexual Harassment of Women at the Supreme Court of India (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal), Regulations 2013 [ link via Gaz...

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani has filed a defamation case against the BJP party’s parliamentary board for expelling him from the party in May 2013, claiming Rs 50 lakh from each of the 11-odd members of the board. (However, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and former prime minister Ata...

Senior counsel Ram Jethmalani talked to the Wall Street Journal in typically freewheeling and candid manner about his representation of godman Asaram Bapu, who was accused of sexual assault on a teenager. Excerpts: RamJet on reports that the alleged victim had a condition that attracted men towards ...

The Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) today succeeded in its challenge to the Delhi government’s tenfold court fee hike of August 2012.

The Delhi bar council complaint against the December 16 rape convicts’ lawyer AP Singh was transferred to the BCI, which on Saturday issued a show-cause notice to Singh, reported the Hindu . Singh had made sexist remarks to the media outside the Saket trial court that had convicted his clients, clai...

A CBI court today found Rashtriya Janta Dal chief and former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav guilty in the “food for fodder” scam, reported the Business Standard . Yadav has been booked for criminal conspiracy, corruption and cheating. The case was lodged by the Bihar government in 1996 again...

Today’s landmark judgment by the Supreme Court on the petition of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has for the first time given the Indian voter the right to reject all candidates contesting an election, reported the PTI . The voter can now mark the “None of the Above” (NOTA) option tha...

Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati apologises to SC bench headed by Justice RM Lodha for apparent annoyance when unable to respond properly to Coalgate grilling (“It’s very difficult. It is a tremendous strain. I cannot carry everything in my head. Once I argue on one aspect, another question arises ...

The Bar Council of India (BCI) wants chartered accountants and auditors banned from advising on income tax matters of values below Rs 60 lakh, therefore leaving the domain exclusively to advocates, reported the New Indian Express . The regulator has sent a communication dated 11 September to the Cen...

Senior advocate Ram Jethmalani faced the ire of social groups and Twitter users after arguing that the girl who had charged his client Asaram Bapu with rape, was suffering from a chronic disease “which draws a woman to a man” and that her entire case, including her age, was fabricated, reported the ...

Advocate AP Singh, who represented two of the four gang rapists who were sentenced to death last week for the December 2012 murder of a student, said that he was pressured by an “anti-social element” to say that he would burn his daughter alive if he caught her out late at night with a boyfriend or ...

Around 1200 Tamil Nadu advocates await enrolment with the state bar council (SBC) which has not issued any enrolment certificates in four months.