Although many expected Dushyant Dave to be reelected as the President, the scale of his victory has been surprising. Many believed that it would be a close contest between him and Shivaji Munjajirao Jadhav. According to sources, Jadhav had spent a lot in bringing many outstation voters to Delhi to vote for him today, in order to neutralize the popularity of Dave among the voters.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) held the debate for the candidates for the post of President and the Hony. Secretary between 4.30 and 6.30 p.m. today at the Supreme Court Lawns.

In the wake of the bar’s stand-off with the Supreme Court bench, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) of the “committee to oversee implementation of suggestions by SCBA” and a letter by SCBA president Dushyant Dave.

After in August 2013 banning interns from its premises on Mondays and Fridays - miscellaneous days - in order to fight overcrowding, the Supreme Court now plans to ban interns from entering the “high security” zone inside the court for security reasons.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has published on its website a list of 111 lawyers with between 0 and 30 years of experience, in a bid to encourage more senior lawyers who are looking for associates or junior lawyers to contact those job seekers directly.

Politics are in full swing at the SCBA again after yesterday’s meeting.

LiveLaw reported that Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Dushyant Dave said at the general body meeting today, in which he had threatened to vote on a boycott of official functions at the Supreme Court attended by judges, that the bench had apparently listened to his demands, including f...

Update: Several senior Supreme Court advocates have criticised Dave’s proposal of following “Mahatma Gandhi’s principle of Non-Cooperation” for Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) members to boycott official functions that include Supreme Court judges.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has decided to boycott all official functions with Supreme Court judges, including references, judges’ farewell functions and the Law Day and Independence Day celebrations, reported Live Law . The SCBA would continue this boycott until 2 December 2015, or unt...

The Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association (SCAORA) on Wednesday questioned in the apex court the central government’s claim that junking the collegium system for National Judicial Appointment Commission was “the will of the nation”. Assailing the government’s contention that the “nation wants...

The Supreme Court restored its practice of “listed mentioning” of matters before the registry, less than 10 days after issuing a circular discontinuing the practice. The SC had on 14 May issued a circular stating that from 1 July 2015 all urgent matters could only be orally mentioned before the chie...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) announced it would lodge its protest against last week’s alleged killing of a lawyer by wearing white ribbons, but would not be going on the national strike called by the BCI.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will remove the table tennis table from the CK Daphtary chambers block, because it has been disturbing those trying to have conferences with clients in the building. The SCBA will now look for an “appropriate place for installation of Table Tennis Table, alon...

Senior advocate Dushyant Dave has won the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) 2014 elections, with V Shekhar winning the vice-president race.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), on 24 September, proposed six amendments to its rules and allowed temporary SCBA members with proximity cards to gain 60 entries to the Supreme Court’s high security zone. The association proposed to: impose restrictions on the number of times a member can h...

SCBA tea at 4 on SC Rules : The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) will meet at 4:10pm today to discuss the new Supreme Court Rules and some of the minor tweaks regarding A4 paper and other concessions made by the Chief Justice of India (CJI), including putting “in abeyance” two examples of AoR mi...

Governor files petition against NaMo for pushing out governors : Uttarakhand Governor Aziz Qureshi has filed a writ under Articles 155 and 156(1) of the Constitution against Narendra Modi and his government for pushing him (and other governors) out of their constitutional positions. He will be argui...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has proposed changing its articles, with its general body due to vote on 12 August between 10am and 4pm, primarily amending who can stand for elections to become office bearers and executive committee members. The proposals, digested: 1. You can’t hold a sing...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday passed a resolution unanimously to request the Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha to delay the implementation of the Supreme Court Rules 2013 and seek feedback from its members for the next 10 days. The rules, which were notified earlier this wee...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has warned Supreme Court interns that if they use the court’s main canteen between 12:30pm and 2:30pm, they may face “the embarrassment of being asked to leave”, as those hours at the canteen are reserved for the exclusive use of SCBA members. In a notice pub...