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Lawyers' tax nil July on; Planning commission not amused by “toilet-humour”; V Mallya’s lawyer-parallel; UK BigLaw’s partner patterns; Del HC for Muslim early-marriage, against frivolous PIL…

Notification exempting individual advocates from service tax when providing services to a business entity, will be effective from 1 July 2012; Notification shifts entire tax burden on business entity [ITAT Online]

Planning Commission clarifies that it did not spend Rs 30 lakh on only two private toilets for ministers and senior officials; The amount was spent on entire toilet blocks comprising several toilets in YojnaBhawan [Press Release]

36-years old Delhi University law graduate Aditya Ghosh, who became InterGlobe group’s general counsel at age 28 and Indigo airlines’ president at age 32, reticently speaks about himself to the Economic Times [ET]

Top 20 UK law firms’ women partner promotions ratio rose from 27.7 per cent for the last five years to 32.8 per cent this year; Eight out of nine Freshfields corporate partners started as trainees at the firm; Slaughters is the only firm with 100 per cent trainee-to-partner figure [The Lawyer]

Del HC holds that Muslim girls may wilfully marry at the age of 15 years if they attain puberty, and may declare their own marriage void at the age of 18 if they choose to [Hindustan Times]

Del HC dismisses PIL seeking stay on release of satirical Hindi film song “Bharat Mata ki Jai”; PIL asserted that lyrics were “insulting and outraging”, HC holds that they merely express opinion [Deccan Herald]

SC asks SEBI to produce a list of other unlisted companies given similar reimbursement instruction by SEBI as was given to Sahara [Firstpost]

Anand & Anand managing associates Neeti Wilson, Vaishali Mittal, and Vidhisha Garg were promoted to partnership, which will be effective from 1 April 2012 [Bar & Bench]

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