The post colonial-era building with the red sandstone dome on Delhi’s Bhagwaan Dass Road is home to an elite class of lawyers, who are likely to be the most expensive in the world: they are typically paid between Rs 5 and 15 lakh per hearing.

Interviews by Legally India with more than 32 Delhi lawyers who brief seniors in the Supreme Court and Delhi high court reveal all…

Chief Justice of India HL Dattu and Justice Amitava Roy yesterday (31 August) granted a stay on the Rajasthan high court’s judgment delivered on August 10 criminalising the Jain community’s practice of Santhara – meaning abstinence from food and water by a person, who awaits death – and issued notice to the respondents in the case.

Yusuf Mohsin Nulwala, a convict in the 1993 Mumbai blast case, on Friday moved the Supreme Court with his writ petition (WP (CRL) 150/2015) seeking a reduction in his jail term of five to three years. His plea was that he was wrongly sentenced to five years imprisonment for possessing a prohibited automatic AK-56 assault rifle while he was shown in possession of a non-prohibited semi-automatic AK-56.

Arguments in the Kerala liquor case Kerala Bar Hotels Association vs State of Kerala came to an end yesterday (August 27) at 12:30 pm after the bench comprising justices Vikramajit Sen and Shiva Kirti Singh heard as many as five counsel and reserved their judgment, while asking them to give the court written submissions, if any, during next week.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the Gauhati High Court order directing a CBI probe against Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki for alleged corruption in awarding state contracts to his family members. An apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu also issued notice to the Arunac...

The Supreme Court yesterday (20 August) declined the CBI’s plea to put forward its arguments on the period of sentence for Ansal brothers - Sushil and Gopal - following their conviction for negligence in 1997 Uphaar fire tragedy which claimed 59 lives.

Arguments continued by the appellants in the Kerala liquor ban case Kerala Bar Hotels Association vs State of Kerala for the second day on August 18 in the Supreme Court’s Court No. 11, with senior advocates, Harish Salve and N Venkataraman making a determined attempt to expose the State Government’s “discriminatory” liquor policy.

PTI and others reported that a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu and justices PC Ghose and Abhay Manohar Sapre has stayed yesterday’s Gujarat high court order serving notice on 27 of its current and former judges over land allotted to them by the state government in 2008. ...

The Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association (SCAORA) Friday opposed the government’s plea for referring to a larger bench the challenge to the NJAC contending that the issue before the court was whether it was in conformity with the basic structure of the constitution or not. The SCAORA told th...

Barely hours after he was sentenced to five years jail in the 2002 accident case, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was granted two days interim bail on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court today. Rushing post-haste to secure bail, Salman’s defence team led by Supreme Court counsel Harish Salve me...

The Business Standard today wrote a longer article with a number of law firm lawyers’ views about the entry of foreign law firms and prime minister [https://www.legallyindia.com/Law-firms/narendra-modi-speaks-for-foreign-lawyers-entry-fears-of-foreign-domination-unfounded Narendra Modi’s recent rema...

Harish Salve tweeted today at @hsalve on the issue of the foreign law firms, which prime minister Narendra Modi had recently come out in support of , saying: Entry of foreign law firms will result in young Indian lawyers being hired and trained to global standards. No foreign lawyer can or will prac...

Harish Salve tweeted today at @hsalve on the issue of the foreign law firms, which prime minister Narendra Modi had recently come out in support of , saying: Entry of foreign law firms will result in young Indian lawyers being hired and trained to global standards. No foreign lawyer can or will prac...

The Supreme Court will from April 27 start hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the NJAC Act, 2014, and the constitution amendment backing it. The court on Wednesday rejected the plea that Justice JS Khehar should withdraw from hearing the matter as he is a member ...

The Supreme Court today did not hear a batch of petitions challenging the National Judicial Appointment Commission replacing the collegium system for appointing judges as it will first decide whether Justice JS Khehar, who is presiding over a five-judge constitution bench, can hear the challenge. Th...

The Supreme Court today did not hear a batch of petitions challenging the National Judicial Appointment Commission replacing the collegium system for appointing judges as it will first decide whether Justice JS Khehar, who is presiding over a five-judge constitution bench, can hear the challenge. Th...

Senior advocate Harish Salve was celebrated by the Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf) at a dinner earlier this evening, for having received the Padma Bhushan.

Senior advocate Harish Salve was celebrated by the Society of Indian Law Firms (Silf) at a dinner earlier this evening, for having received the Padma Bhushan.

Senior advocate Harish Salve is assisting the 50-lawyer strong society of Indian lawyers fighting the Bar Council of India (BCI) in the Supreme Court, for liberalisation in Indian legal services.

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that suppression or non-disclosure of information about serious crimes by a candidate at the time of filing nomination interferes with the voters’ right to make an informed choice and the election of such a candidate is liable to be set aside. [ Download judgment: K...