Vodafone tax saga: Is Advocate Sharma “reasonable person” or “biased person”? Salve says CJI Kapadia is “honest person” [Mint]

ASG Malhotra’s 4 hour slamming of immoral AIDS-spreading gay sex Vs. other govt law officer insisting govt has no stand except that Attorney Gen may assist other appellants party to same case - No place for latter in SC’s records [Mint]

Jethmalani: “To my mind Ramdev has won the case”. Defends Baba, tells SC its all chidambaram’s fault [Deccan Herald]

UK top 20 law firm trainee-retention rates revealed; Evershed’s - 100%, Slaughter - 90%, Simmons & Simmons - 25%[The Lawyer]

SEBI gears up to take portfolio management schemes away from retail investors, differentiate between compulsory and optionally convertible securities, and identify market abuses [Business Standard]

Del HC wants to stay out of TDSAT-DoT tussle. Mobile operators allowed appeal to TDSAT against DoT’s ban on 3G roaming pacts [ET]

SC to Modi: We, not you, will say who’ll chair Godhra-investigation monitoring authority [The Hindu]