Tamil lawyers want a break from 7-day week: Tamil Nadu lawyers fed up with the seven-day week imposed on them by setting up India’s first weekend family courts in the state in 2010, are of the view that lawyers and judges shouldn’t be made to slog extra without statutory sanction [TOI]

CCI tamed by COMPAT: The COMPAT’s order on guiding principles to be applied by the CCI before imposing penalties, offers hope that the CCI’s arbitrary imposition of humongous penalties may be a thing of the past, law firm competition law experts tell Money Control

“Wired for crime” is good defence: US criminal defence counsel are increasingly relying on brain scans and genetic evidence to use inherent defects in the brain of those accused of crimes, as a defence. The number of neurolaw cases rose from 100 to 250 a year between 2005 and 2012 [The Guardian]

Dec 16 rape trial: The Delhi December 16 rape convicts’ defence counsel are on the verge of losing their roles to amicus curiae after the Delhi HC expressed frustration with their repeated absence from the death sentence confirmation hearings [Zee News]

Sathasivam for speed in women cases: Women, corruption, arbitration and environment should be high priority subjects in disposing off cases, said CJI Sathasivam while speaking at the 99th birth anniversary of former SC justice VR Krishna Iyer [PTI]