Rajya Sabha passes SEBI (Amendment) Bill allowing high court judges to be appointed to head the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT0. Presently SAT can only be headed by Supreme Court judges and high court chief justices [New Indian Express]

Maharashtra lawyers “protest the baton charge on lawyers in Jaipur and Chandigarh” by abstaining from work. 70 per cent advocates in the Bombay HC and 90 per cent in trial courts did not show up yesterday. “Work was paralysed’ in Delhi HC due to Delhi lawyers’ strike [BS/Daily Bhaskar]

Just before the release of their upcoming Bollywood legal dramedy Jolly LLB, film leads Arshad Warsi and Boman Irani visit Mumbai law colleges to hear lawyers’ grievances. To solve lawyers’ minimum wage, credit card and amenity woes they submitted a “three-point memorandum” to the law minister who called it “a great service to the problem that we have been trying to solve” [Indian Express]

Law ministry considers proposing replacement for the collegium system of appointment of judges, details of new system not known yet [PTI]