The Delhi high court today asked the city government to see if there was any possibility of lawyers being exempted from the odd-even traffic scheme now in place in the national capital. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath said: “Consider if there is any possibility to ...

The city government has informed the Delhi high court that it was taking strict action against app-based taxi aggregators, including Ola and Uber, for allegedly overcharging and arbitrarily applying surge rates during the odd-even traffic scheme. Filing an affidavit before Justice JR Midha, the Delh...

AZB & Partners Delhi partner Nanju Ganpathy has been designated as senior advocate of the Delhi high court, and talks to Legally India about his career and plans.

The Delhi high court has elevated 12 lawyers to senior counsel.

Item 9 before the bench of Supreme Court Justices JS Khehar and C Nagappan turned out to be an interesting hearing yesterday (13 April) when counsel for Tata Motors, Sidharth Luthra, persisted that there was a case of defamation against the Sunday Indian magazine, edited by the appellant IIPM-Supremo Arindam Chaudhuri, who has been no stranger to strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) against publishers.

The Supreme Court today said that the plea for SIT probe into the assault on JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar and others by some lawyers at Patiala House court complex on 15 February and 17 was “justified”. “That is the efficiency of the police in such a situation… they (petitioner) are j...

The Supreme Court on Friday appointed two senior counsel as amicus curiae to assist the court in the hearing of the appeals by the four convicts sentenced to death in the 16 December Delhi gang rape case, saying the matter was serious. Noting the gravity of the whole issue, the bench of Justice Dipa...

Even as the two rival national political parties played April Fool of their actual political rivalries on 1 April by appealing together in the Supreme Court, a common judgment passed against them by the Delhi high court, The Wire has exposed a little-known fact, which promises to excel the incredible phenomenon of these two rival parties coming together on a common platform to fight a common enemy.

The BJP and the Congress today both found defending themselves as appellants in a case before the Supreme Court, which is likely to hear it in detail after the summer vacation.

The Supreme Court collegium is learnt to have stood by its decision to transfer Delhi HC judge Rajiv Shakdher after the law ministry sent back his case for reconsideration, said several persons aware of the outcome. The law ministry had asked for a review after lawyers protested against Shakdher’s t...

The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the CBI to file response to former union minister PK Thungon’s bail application and an appeal against his three and a half years’ sentence in a corruption case. Justice Siddharth Mridul issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thungon’s bail...

If you are attacked by a bull while walking on a street, what are the chances of your making a successful claim for compensation from the municipal authorities, who have a responsibility to keep stray cattle away from the public streets?

In the history of political parties in India, the rise and fall of Janata Party must form an important chapter.

The Delhi high court today declined to cancel the interim bail granted to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student union president Kanhaiya Kumar for now. Justice Suresh Kait adjourned the hearing to 28 April after Delhi Police said it was verifying whether Kanhaiya violated interim bail conditions...

The Delhi high court today refused to entertain a plea that sought action against JNU Students Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on sedition charge. Action was sought against Kanhaiya on the charge that he had said that the Indian Army was responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir, as reported earlier ...

A petition was filed in the Delhi high court on Tuesday seeking action against JNU Students’ Union president Kanhaiya Kumar on a sedition charge for saying that the Indian Army is responsible for rapes of women in Kashmir. Justice Pratibha Rani would hear the case post-lunch on Tuesday. “Indian Army...

After a suspenseful countdown to delivery of order in the JNU students union leader, Kanhaiya Kumar’s bail application, Delhi high court justice Pratibha Rani, gave the key accused in the JNU sedition case conditional bail for six months in a 23 page order.

The Delhi high court took serious exception to its two-judge bench being called a “Dedh Bench (one-and-a-half bench) by advocate Deepak Khosla and ruled, last week, that he was in criminal contempt of the court.

The Delhi high court said it will pass an order on Wednesday on the bail plea of JNU student union chief Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on sedition charges. Justice Pratibha Rani on Monday reserved the order on the bail plea and asked Delhi Police about the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students Union...

The Delhi high court would no longer charge five times the cost under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005, for supplying information under an RTI filed to the court. However the court will still get to reject RTI requests which club unrelated questions in one single application.