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Wired: HC revenue norms for senior counsel | Madras bar opposes JAC | Research better, says judge | JR for admin tribunals? Pizza Hut under DTAA lens | Jayalalithaa graft case judge | CC’s presentation tips for women

Madras HC revenue norms on designating senior advocates: An advocate should have at least 15 years of experience arguing cases, some of them should be landmark judgements and should have earned at least Rs 7 lakh annually from lawyering for three years immediately before being considered to be elevated [The Hindu]

Madras bar opposes JAC: The Madras Bar Association (MBA) in a memorandum to the president of India has opposed the constitutional amendment that establishes the Judicial Appointments Committee. The MBA has likened the amendment to the British Rowlatt Act 1919 – which delimited all civil liberties [TOI]

Research better, says judge: Lawyers should do better research before arguing a case in court, in order to help the judges do their job better said a Madras HC judge [The Hindu]

JR for admin tribunals? Administrative tribunals should also have the power of judicial review, like the judiciary does [Zee News]

Pizza Hut under DTAA lens: The Delhi High Court is set to rule whether a US company can simultaneously avail of the benefit of a lower tax rate under the Indo-US Double Tax Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) and exemptions on payments of royalty under the Income Tax (I-T) Act [Financial Express]

SC slams IR flip-flop litigation: Revenue shouldn't "be allowed to flip-flop on the issue and it ought to let the matter rest, rather than spend the tax payers' money in pursuing litigation of its own sake... There was no need for it to continue this litigation when it was quite clear that not only was it fruitless but also that it may not have added anything to the public coffers", says SC [Business Standard]

Jayalalithaa asks SC to extend judge tenure to hear graft case: TN CM Jayalalithaa and others faces disproportionate assets probe in Karnataka HC, write SC asking for new judge's appointments to be quashed in order for old judge's tenure to be extended to hear the case [NDTV]

Photographic defaults: Banks' practice of publicising defaulters' pictures could be on thin ice, legally, lawyers tell TOI [TOI]

CC’s presentation tips for women: UK legal giant Clifford Chance issued a memo to its women retainers with advice such as: “Don’t giggle; Don’t squirm; Don’t tilt your head; No one heard Hillary the day she showed cleavage” [Above The Law/Think Progress]

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