There is a need to look into anti-dumping duty being conducive or non-conducive to competition, said Ajay Kumar Chauhan, the director general (DG) of the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Citing the ongoing investigation by the office of the director general against the man-made fibre manufactu...

25 year-old in-house lawyer and ILS Pune grad Pallavi Purkayastha found murdered in her Mumbai flat, stabbed and with her throat slit. Her body was discovered by her live-in boyfriend, an associate at JSA [ PTI ] Litigation start-up: Former Luthra & Luthra Delhi indirect tax associate and NLU J...

American Bar Association votes 15-0 against accrediting law schools outside the US, holding that “it would prove difficult to translate the culture, value and ethics of the American legal system to foreign law school students”, rejecting a 2008 application of a Chinese law school in the process. The...

RMLNLU Lucknow student Satnam Singh Mann dies three days into judicial custody after he was arrested from a religious mutt in Kerala on 2 August 2012. Mann was charged with attempt to murder after a police official allegedly suffered injuries while trying to block Mann from “creating panic” at the M...

15 NLSIU girls pluck 27 out of 30 gold medals in 2012 convocation, reports TOI [correction: There appears to be an error in these figures in the Times of India story. Please provide clarification in the comments since NLSIU campus is closed due to chickenpox, we have not been able to get independent...

Drug manufacturer Natco tells Delhi HC that it was pursuing marketing licence for cancer drug in 2009 when it had stated on oath that it didn’t mean to manufacture generic version of that drug. Arguably, reports SpicyIP, company indirectly admits lying on oath, though maintains that a patent infring...

Senior advocate Indu Malhotra prays for setting up sexual harassment complaint committees in courts, to SC justices Gyan Sudha Mishra and TS Thakur. Points out that SC guidelines in the 1997 Visakha judgement need to be implemented in courts because harassment of women is a ‘serious issue’. The benc...

Inebriating DJs ‘DJ Parties’ get banned on Nalsar Hyderabad Campus, after a 30 July emergency meeting of the college’s proctoral board where it ‘expressed anguish and disapproval of students indulging in mass intoxication’ during the fresher’s party this year. The board also decided that the college...

Nalsar Hyderabad professor Madabhushi Sridhar questions extension of legal aid to public servants, on moral and legal grounds [ The Hans India ] The oldest of 376 freshly enrolled Kerala HC advocates is 74 years of age. 30 out of 376 are over age 60, while a South Indian actor who graduated from LLB...

Jobs move: Amity Delhi 2005 grad Mohit Jolly has joined Trilegal in Delhi as a senior associate in litigation, after having practiced independently at the Supreme Court and the Delhi high court for two years, following two years at J Sagar Associates in infrastructure and litigation. If you would li...

Competition Commission of India (CCI) hopes to give more leniency to those volunteering information about cartels [ Business Standard ] COMPAT grants United Phosphorus stay against CCI cartel fine of Rs 252 crore [ Hindu Business Line ] Bangalore: IP lawyer Priyale Prasad joins 2009-established, fou...

Madras HC Chief Justice M Yusuf Eqbal hits out at conditional fee arrangements (CFAs) being entered into by lawyers representing motor accident victims. “It is a great sin to the legal profession that lawyers are taking a percentage of the compensation awarded to accident victims. In MCOP cases, leg...

A fine legal mess: Times Group and the UK’s Financial Times trademark dispute turns 18 years old, as UK FT takes out ads to clarify it has nothing to do with TOI and Bennett & Coleman. The case over TOI’s supplement “Financial Times” using the UK financial newspaper’s trademark is still pending...

Delhi Bar Council vice chairman and Luthra partner Vijay Sondhi explains why BCI should prevail over HRD in HER dispute: letter to Delhi bar council and bar association members on why it would be “ridiculous to make any other authority as a forum superior in any manner and on any decision of the Leg...

DH Law offices moves to a bigger, 3500 sq feet office space with “superior facilities” in Free Press House (FPH) Nariman Point from it’s earlier smaller Nariman Point space, said managing partner Nusrat Hassan. The firm launched formally in Delhi and Patna on 1 July 2012 SC attacks violent conduct o...

MSM bastion Outlook translates foreign law firm debate for Janta, gets views of BCI, SILF, Lawyers Collective and LI [ Outlook ] Activist files PIL in Bombay HC against lawyers seeking adjournments that court accepts without giving reasons under CPC. She had earlier filed RTI applications in small c...

BCI chairman “thankful to the entire legal fraternity as well as the people of this country for showing their solidarity with the Lawyers’ Bodies” [ Press Release ] Environmental activist Vandana Shiva challenges Walmart for retailing to end consumers via Bharti Retail, in a petition filed in Delhi ...

Advocate with career ambitions (via @alokpi) ”) SCBA avoids BCI’s two-day boycott of courts but observes protest against HER bill by wearing white band on gown [ Law et al News ] Maintainability of 2G presidential reference gets challenged on first day of hearing in SC by CPIL. Soli Sorabjee, acting...

Maharashtra and Goa state bar councils and advocates association of western India support BCI’s two-day lawyers’ strike call to oppose higher education bill. 5000 Bombay lawyers meet Bombay HC chief justice Mohit Shah to inform him of tomorrow and day after’s strike [ TOI ] India demands ‘data secur...

DoT seeks ASG Chandhiok’s opinion on the validity of TDSAT’s split verdict on legality of agreements by which mobile phone operators offer 3G services beyond their licenced areas, under roaming pacts [ Firstpost ] Shailesh Gandhi retires as chief information commissioner after 45 months. His scoreca...