The Bench and the Bar

Two publications, Livelaw, which caters to lawyers, and The Hoot, which primarily has journalists as an audience, have written about Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra’s legal notice against Legally India.

In last and previous years, there was only a one week miscellaneous week on either side of the apex court’s summer vacations.

The hearing between advocate Deepak Khosla and Khaitan & Co in Kolkata on Thursday (18 June) will be video recorded, in what may be a first in any of the country’s high courts.

A 42-year-old Bandra resident was booked for drunk driving allegedly, after having locked herself in her car for two hours, chain smoking, allegedly in order to avoid taking a breathalyser test by Mumbai police, who have stepped up their controls of drunk drivers, focusing in particular on women, after lawyer Janhavi Gadkar allegedly killed two when driving drunk last week, reported DNA.

The stalemate was eventually broken, according to an officer, who said: “There was a lot of smoke inside the car and anything could have happened due to extreme suffocation. So we had to break the glass and rescue her.”

She was charged with section 185 of the Motor Vehicles Act (driving under the influence) and section 110 of the Bombay Police Act (indecent behaviour in public.

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that any invalidation of the NJAC for the appointment of judges to the higher judiciary would not result in the automatic resurrection of the collegium system of appointment.

The Supreme Court has cancelled the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) after the paper was leaked but technological challenges remain on how to prevent the same debacle from happening again.

The story of corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar allegedly killing two men in a taxi while she was driving her Audi drunkenly down the wrong side of a Mumbai highway is deeply tragic and troubling, in many ways.

India’s top undergraduate medical entrance exam the CBSE AIPMT 2015 may be cancelled on Monday after today’s observation from Supreme Court justice Amitava Roy that the sanctity of the exam had been compromised this year. Justice Roy was hearing three writs that had asked for the 3 May exam to be cancelled.