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The Madras high court remarked that the legal profession was in "worst condition” as advocates who were not even secondary school graduates were contesting elections with the alleged support of retired judges and bureaucrats, reported Scroll and others.
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Female judges make up less than 28% of the lower judiciary, according to the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's study on gender diversity in the lower judiciary.
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Senior advocate JP Cama called for a mandamus to bulldoze the process of judicial appointments and prevent judicial vacancy of nearly 45% at the Supreme Court, which is expected in the next 11 months.
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After a Bar Council of India (BCI) committee decided 3 to 1 against banning legislators from practising as lawyers (which would have probably disproportionately affected the Congress party), BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said that the BCI would
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The lawyers protesting against alleged 'stepmotherly' treatment of the Karnataka high court bench, and appointments to it, include "Advocates Generals of the state BV Acharya, Ravivarma Kumar, Udaya Holla and Ashok Haranahalli, co-chairman of Bar
SCOI Reports
The Indian Express reported:
Supreme Court quashes all Goa iron ore mining leases, says can’t operate after March 15 | The Indian Express
The Supreme Court on Wednesday cancelled all iron ore mining leases in the
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The Bombay Lawyers Association, represented by Dushyant Dave before the Supreme Court in the hearing into the death of Judge BH Loya, has filed the following written statement today.
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The rather badly-scanned PDF contains a list of all matters that each judge handles, though that by itself is unlikely to remove the CJI's discretion from the process completely.
The Indian Express reported:
Supreme Cou
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Great write-up on what sounds like utterly harrowing scenes...
The Indian Express reported:
At hearing on savings ‘due to’ UID, Supreme Court judge fumes: Don’t call me Aadhaar judge | The Indian Express
01 February 2018
SCOI ReportsLive Law reported:
Exclusive: In-House Committee To Resume Inquiry Against Two Sitting Orissa HC Judges Tomorrow | Live Law
The three-member in-house committee headed by Justice S.J. Vazifdar, Chief Justice of Punja
01 February 2018
SCOI ReportsThe Indian Express reported:
Supreme Court crisis: No meeting held with CJI, judges propose roster reform panel | The Indian Express
A scheduled meeting between four senior judges of the Supreme Court, who went publ
31 January 2018
Bar, Bench & LitigationHowever, this is still lower than what judges had been paid in real terms in 1957, as we and Mint had reported in 2015.
29 January 2018
Bar, Bench & LitigationA Bar Council of India (BCI) sub committee consisting of Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) president Kirti Uppal and seven others opposed the Law Commission's recommendation that bar council elections should be replaced by nomination and called it an attempt similar to measures taken during India's 1975 constitutional emergency, reported Live Law.