The Gujarat high court (HC) has stayed the advocates association-suspension of the lone lawyer who defied the Bar Council of India (BCI) strike and was allegedly beaten by other advocates in court, and later suspended from the HC advocates association. His colleague's PIL heard by chief justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya asserted that the lawyers’ strike was illegal [TOI]

Indian IP lawyer Kalyan Kankanala has authored legal-fiction thriller Road Humps and Sidewalks. The NLSIU Bangalore PhD-holder follows in legal-thriller-novelist and NLS-grad Aditya Sudarshan’s footsteps with this Grisham-esque attempt [Spicy IP/Book review on IP Kat/Plot on YouTube]

SC’s landmark Gowde v Chandrashekhar decision may be reversed, benefitting politician Ashok Chavan - infamous from the ‘paid news scandal’ - if the Union law ministry’s argument is accepted that the Election Commission cannot disqualify a person for failure to lodge correct accounts of election expenses [Hindu]

A Patiala House Delhi district court advocate allegedly gang-raped the 25-year-old wife of his divorce case client in his chamber with his client, the client’s brother and the advocate’s clerk [Firstpost]