Patiala House Delhi family court offers children of litigating families snacks, sweets, juice, playground, swings, kindergarten books, Barbie dolls, toys, and a carom board, and counselors to litigants; takes away witness boxes [Deccan Herald]

Allen & Overy hires Linklaters partner to reopen in Germany through an IP Practice in Dusseldorf, after Quinn Emanuel earlier poached its IP team to open own Hamburg office [The Lawyer]

Rajeev Dhavan acting for Editors Guild in the SC media guidelines case boycotts the hearings stating the SC constitutional bench has no jurisdiction to hear the matter since the legal issue under consideration is not one that has arisen in an already pending case [Telegraph India]

CCI approves merger of IT and ITeS companies Tech Mahindra and Satyam Computer Services and their subsidiaries to form $2.4bn annual revenue entity Mahindra Satyam which has an insignificant market share with its 75000 workforce and 350 clients [ET][Order]

SC gives eight week deadline to army to choose between court martial or regular criminal proceedings of army officers responsible for fake encounter killings in Kashmir in 2000; upholds Armed Forces Special Powers Act provision requiring govt sanction for criminal court proceedings [NDTV]