The Advocates Association of Bangalore (AAB) urged Bangalore lawyers to boycott Karnataka high court (HC) judge BV Pinto. The AAB also resolved to request the President of India not to confirm his appointment as a judge of the high court and to ask the chief justice of the Karnataka HC not to assign...

Rajasthan’s high court (HC) chief justice of two years and former NLSIU Bangalore general council chairman Arun Mishra was appointed chief justice of the Calcutta HC. Kerala HC got three new permanent judges, and Karnataka HC got one new permanent judge also. 57-year-old Mishra practised as an advoc...

Karnataka HC’s justice Bhaktavatsala loses plate of family law matters listed before him, after outrage over some of his remarks made orally in a divorce matter . Other matters listed before him remain with him. The changes will come into effect from tomorrow. Bhaktavatsala had effectively told a de...

Karnataka high court’s “radically pro-family” judge K Bhaktavatsala told woman defending her husband’s divorce petition that she must “adjust” to domestic abuse meted out by her husband because such abuse was the norm, reported a number of newspapers . The 59-year-old judge has been serving in the h...