Elusive SC appointment: Calcutta high court chief justice Arun Mishra has missed a Supreme Court seat for the second time since June last year despite hailing from Madhya Pradesh, which has been left unrepresented at the SC since Justice Deepak Verma’s retirement [Telegraph India]
BCI fails 28: 28 Indian law schools received notices from the BCI for failing to meet its prescribed norms. Twelve are located in Maharashtra, four in Gujarat and three each in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. [B&B / List of colleges]
NLSIU senior: The oldest person to post-graduate from NLSIU Bangalore is 66-year-old former Karnataka Administrative Services officer SG Birader from the Mastes in Business Laws Program of the law school this year [Deccan Herald]
Caravan collegium: Advocate Suhrith Parthasarthy writes about how there is no easy alternative to the collegium system of judges’ appointments, yet the extra-constitutional method of giving primacy to the CJI’s opinion is as flawed as letting the executive appoint judges [The Caravan]