Lawyers in Ghaziabad did not attend courts today in response to a call by the lawyers’ action committee for a boycott in the light of their years-old objection to transferring of cases from Agra to Etawah. The Ghaziabad Bar Association president Ram Autar Gupta said that after the transfer of cases ...

Lawyers in Ghaziabad did not attend courts today in response to a call by the lawyers’ action committee for a boycott in the light of their years-old objection to transferring of cases from Agra to Etawah. The Ghaziabad Bar Association president Ram Autar Gupta said that after the transfer of cases ...

Lawyers agitating for setting up of a bench of Allahabad High Court in western Uttar Pradesh, decided to suspended their proposed Feb 5-7 boycott of the courts. The decision was taken at a meeting in Moradabad. “Keeping in mind the interests of the litigants, the lawyers decided to suspend the three...

After the Supreme Court had rejected all appeals against the convict in the Noida-based Nithari killings, Surinder Koli, the Allahabad high court commuted his death sentence in public interest litigation (PIL) of the People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR). Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justi...

The Allahabad high court today dismissed as premature, a writ challenging the Bar Council of India’s yet-to-be enforced Rule 7 that bars advocates with less than five years of lower court experience from practicing in the Supreme Court. RMLNLU Lucknow student Anubhav Verma was the lead petitioner in...

Lawyers here have burnt an effigy of union minister and retired general VK Singh for his reported claim that the Agra MP and his cabinet colleague Ram Shankar Katheria had agreed to set up an Allahabad High Court bench in Meerut instead of Agra. The lawyers Friday threatened to surround Prime Minist...

The Allahabad high court terminated 11 trainee judicial officers from the lower judicial service last week after a drunken brawl in Lucknow in which the 11 were involved, reported the Times of India . The 11 had visited a restaurant on 7 August to celebrate the completion of their training on 8 Augu...

The Allahabad high court on Tuesday directed GNLU Gandhinagar to allow two 21-year-old Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2014 aspirants to appear in the entrance exam.

Every HC bench strength to grow by 25% : The central government has decided to increase the judges’ strength of each high court in India by 25 per cent and has invited proposals from all chief justices on additional facilities concerning courtroom, quarters and support staff for the enhanced number ...

The Allahabad high court yesterday constituted a committee to deal with “unfair treatment of women counsels” and “complaints of eve teasing and molestation” of women working in the court

Tamilian judgmnents: The assurance that Tamil Nadu lower courts’ judgments will now only be written in Tamil, from Madras HC chief justice RK Agarwal, caused advocates there to end their three-day fast yesterday [ PTI ] Criminal politicians judgment: Disqualifying convicted politicians from contesti...

The Supreme Court will have two new judges in Allahabad high court chief justice (CJ) Shiva Kirti Singh and Orissa High Court CJ C Nagappan, reported the Hindu . Both will serve three-year tenures at the SC, taking its judges’ strength up to 30. Justice Singh is the third judge representing Bihar in...

Allahabad high court justice Yatindra Singh yesterday took oath as chief justice of Chhatisgarh high court after 13 years at the bench in Allahabad. Singh enrolled at the bar in 1973. [BS/Chhatisgarh high court]