Del HC gets new ASG – Rajiv Mehra, as AS Chandhioke moves to SC as ASG. Mohan Parasaran, P P Malhotra, Indira Jaising, Harin P Raval and Gourab Banerjee get reappointed as SC ASGs [ Indian Express ] Katju’s journey from calling journalists stupid to the PCI journalism awards: National awards for exc...

Debut Indian ‘patent trolls’ ‘weak-patent’ infringement applications get dismissed by IPAB. Instead of filing civil suits for patent infringement, both patentees complained to customs commissioners at various entry ports, requesting seizing imports. The first patent was for a ‘laser marking and engr...

SEBI investigations reveal scam where seven global depository receipts (GDR) were issued between 2003 and 2009, without bringing back any foreign exchange into India against them; RBI may decide penalty on account of possible FEMA violation [ Mint ] CCI plans to start posting case details of pending...

Telecom companies cannot legally enter into an agreement to provide 3G roaming services if they do not have a licence, rules telecom tribunal in split-verdict between TDSAT chairman and another adjudicator. Verdict split over sending fresh notices to the concerned telcos or terminating their pacts i...

Pendency reduction drive: Salman Khurshid launches second phase from 1 July to 31 December 2012, after first phase in 2010 reduced 50 lakh pending cases in Maharashtra courts; 30.49 lakh cases were pending in the state on 30 June 2012 [HT] Proposed new SEBI regulations allow listed companies to use ...

US SC upholds 5:4, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010 enacted by Obama administration; Act makes insurance mandatory for more than 30 million uninsured Americans, makes cover prices affordable; Court modifies extent of state-run Medicaid program open to 17 million Americans: says fe...

96 per cent of 301 respondents in Allen & Overy’s liberalisation survey, want liberalisation; 33 per cent feel Indian law firms provide “very good” services to large corporations, while 56 per cent feel they provide “good” services; More than 90 per cent want access to international legal exper...

SC empowers landowners to ask for dropping of land-acquisition proceedings on any of six grounds – land in green belt area, totally built-up land, land housing construction by religious, educational or charitable institutions, nursery lands, lands with factories, or similarity to adjoining lands not...

SEBI makes it mandatory for top 500 listed Indian companies, by market capitalisation, to provide electronic voting facilities to shareholders; Plans to create Qualified Audit Report review committee to enhance the quality of financial reporting done by listed entities; Plans to amend SEBI (ICDR) Re...

CCI imposes final order in 200 out of 267 investigations for alleged anti-competitive practices in sectors including insurance, automobiles, real estate, financial services and entertainment industry; Initiates suo motu inquiry against milk retailers for price rise [ Business Standard ] SC refuses t...

Calcutta HC holds Singur Land Rehabilitation and Development Act 2011 unconstitutional and void without presidential assent in its passage; Division bench sets aside order of the single bench holding it to be constitutional [The Hindu] CCI imposes Rs 6000 crore fine on cartelising cement manufacture...

Mad HC clarifies that interim injunction that was used to block websites such as Piratebay, Vimeo was directed at only URLs with infringing content, instead of being a John Doe order that could block the entire website [Medianama] CCI holds top cement companies guilty of cartelisation; Looks to fine...

SEBI’s last three fiscals: 282 investigations out of which 57 were for insider trading, while 181 were for price rigging and manipulation in the market. 28 insider trading cases and 112 price-rigging cases were solved, warnings were issued in 63, suspensions and cancellations in a couple more, some ...

CUTS files formal complaint to CCI against Google under sections 3 and 4 of Competition Act 2002; Bases complaint on practices in Korea, Australia, EU [Medianama] SEBI tells SC that Sahara violated regulations by amassing Rs 27000 crore from 30 million investors in a private placement of optional fu...

CUTS files formal complaint to CCI against Google under sections 3 and 4 of Competition Act 2002; Bases complaint on practices in Korea, Australia, EU [Medianama] SEBI tells SC that Sahara violated regulations by amassing Rs 27000 crore from 30 million investors in a private placement of optional fu...

CLAT 2012 candidate Donnie Ashok’s writ against GNLU Gandhinagar for denial of admission in the university, enters second day of hearing. Gujarat HC addresses GNLU’s counsel Rawal: “A practical application of Law should be made in this man’s case, this man being from such a poor background has score...

GNLU Gandhinagar allegedly violates own admission regulations: denies admission to successful CLAT 2012 candidate Donnie Ashok, on the ground that Ashok cleared his senior secondary school board examination in the second attempt. Ashok petitions to Ahmedabad HC, through educational trust IDIA. Court...

New SEBI norms tweak definition of QFI to include six gulf countries, all EC countries, and NRIs; Previously only Financial Action Task Force (FATF) members were QFIs [Business Standard] [ Circular] Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan tax partner Puneet Bansal leaves to become director at BMR Advisors, ...

Del HC justices Sidharth Mridul and Pradeep Nandarajog partially strike down new law ministry guidelines on judges’ foreign visits; Hold the guidelines as “lowering the dignity of constitutional posts” held by SC and HC judges [ Indian Express ] Addressing north-east-Indians by the popularly used de...

Notification exempting individual advocates from service tax when providing services to a business entity, will be effective from 1 July 2012; Notification shifts entire tax burden on business entity [ ITAT Online ] Planning Commission clarifies that it did not spend Rs 30 lakh on only two private t...