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Wired: Karnataka govt pleader overhaul | India net freedoms decline most | Juvenile justice | Judges’ retirement age writ dismissed | Lawyer protest | Lawyers stage walk-out

Karnataka govt pleader overhaul: The Karnataka government is on a warpath with its state legal team after it prepared a list of replacements for 61 out of its 73 law officers. While 36 officers resigned without putting up a fight, the rest of them is daring the state government to dismiss them [Bangalore Mirror]

India net freedoms decline most: India was the country with the greatest drop in a ‘freedom on the net’ index compiled by NGO Freedom House, though India is still ranked as “partly free” [The Register / Report via Freedom House]

Juvenile justice: Asserting that it is nearly impossible to reform juvenile repeat offenders since they know their way around legal provisions, juvenile home chief demands treating repeat offenders as adults [TOI]

Judges’ retirement age writ dismissed: The Madras high court has ruled out the possibility of a mandamus directing the government to amend the law to increase the retirement age of higher judiciary judges to 68. It dismissed the PIL seeking the writ [New Indian Express]

Lawyer protest: Kallakurichi lawyers in Tamil Nadu are going on a protest against the stalled completion of a court building in their district [New Indian Express]

Lawyers stage walk-out: The Madras Bar Association threatened to walk out of a Judicial Appointments Bill discussion with the parliamentary standing committee ‘on the advice of a member’ of the committee, after the bar association protested that it was called for the discussion on only a day’s notice [TOI]

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