The Supreme Court’s secretary general advised Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) advocates to use their smart phones to access its cause lists and case status information , after the SCBA complained that the SC website was practically non-functional with respect to viewing of cause lists. The SCBA...

Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi accused the SCBA of “crass commercialisation and periodic auctioning and re-auctioning”, on its decision to rename the Supreme Court’s “Dr LM Singhvi library” to “Dr Awadh Behari Rohatgi library” after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, instead of Singhvi, ended up ...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has resolved to strip the Supreme Court’s library II of its title – Dr LM Singhvi library. The association was apparently upset after the late senior advocate’s son, senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, wrote a letter to the SCBA underscoring his previous R...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), through president Pravin Parekh, wrote to Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha suggesting that in his proposed scheme of 365-days working courtrooms, lawyers be consulted before listing their matters on what would otherwise be non-working days. Asking for “...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has ordered all Supreme Court advocates’ clerks to wear a uniform of “sky-blue shirt and navy blue trousers” while also being coached to keep out of the aisles in the court room and clear the space as soon as possible after court appearances. In the notificat...

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has attempted to simplify the process of hiring chamber juniors for senior advocates, by maintaining a register in one of the SC’s libraries.

Senior advocate Pravin Parekh has won the election for president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) for the sixth time last night, after he did not run last year.

Six presidential candidates, including one female advocate, filed their candidature for the 16 December Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) executive committee 2013-14 elections before nominations closed yesterday.

SCBA threatens JAC strike: SCBA threatened to go on a day-long “token strike” if the Judicial Appointments Bill is not scrapped, since lawyers’ bodies were allegedly not consulted with when formulating the bill [ Outlook ] Maha NLS in Nagpur? National Law School Nagpur’s proposal will be discussed i...

At the apparent request of lawyers upset with overcrowding, the Supreme Court (SC) has prohibited law students and interns from entering the apex court on Mondays and Fridays.

Over 250 Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) members signed a petition calling for action against attorney general (AG) Goolam Vahanvati for allegedly interfering with the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) report on the coal blocks allocation scam, according to a report in the Times of India ...

Recently-elected Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president and senior advocate MN Krishnamani has vowed to file cases for his digital-artist son Anirudh Krishnamani against the Karnataka state government and a Bangalore art gallery, which withdrew the son’s exhibited paintings on the direction ...

Senior advocate MN Krishnamani defeated senior advocate Rupinder Singh Suri by 136 votes to be elected the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) until May 2013 in yesterday’s first-of-its-kind SCBA members-only poll, in which 1340 advocates voted. 547 members voted with Krishnamani.

Breaking: Senior advocates Ram Jethmalani and PK Jain today withdrew their candidature for Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president just before today’s 4:30pm deadline by which nominations for the 2013 elections could be withdrawn. Their withdrawals from the race follow senior advocate Adish Aggarwala yesterday, reducing the race for the SCBA president’s office to one between only three candidates after the incumbent PH Parekh did not run again for the post.

Exclusive: Senior advocate Adish Aggarwala, who was contesting for the office of the Supreme Court Bar Assocation’s (SCBA) president in the SCBA elections next Thursday, withdrew his candidature yesterday. He cited the removal of his name from the SCBA’s voter list, blaming SCBA president PH Parekh.

Exclusive: The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) elections for 2013 will be held on 13 December, months behind the conventional schedule of polling in May and with the compact voter list of 1372 bar members, after the Supreme Court (SC) ruled that those voting in other bar association elections cannot vote in the SCBA elections.

A heated exchange between Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president PH Parekh and suspended secretary KC Kaushik at the SC’s Law Day celebrations yesterday caused dignitaries including law minister Ashwini Kumar and chief justice of India Altamas Kabir to temporarily leave the venue. Kaushik an...

Exclusive: Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) secretary KC Kaushik, who was censured by the body for allegedly advertising his son’s practice in the SCBA member directories, has accused additional solicitor general and SCBA vice president Rakesh Khanna and SCBA president PH Parekh of using their SCBA executive offices for personal gains.

Malhotra: CA/Lawyer Ex-KPMG, PwC partner Krishnan Malhotra has joined Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi as its new tax head, after partner Aseem Chawla quit to set up his own firm [ Taxsutra ] Amarchand said in a press release that Malhotra, a qualified lawyer and chartered accountant, was a senior partner ...

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