Trilegal partner promotions down to one as Ashwyn Mishra promoted to head corporate M&A practice [Bar and Bench] Luthra and Luthra to represent foreign hedge fund investor and 1 per cent stakeholder in CIL – TCI which alleges mismanagement by CIL board and violation of BIT by Indian govt [ Mint...

Mad HC passes its first ever John-Doe order on Release day of Kolaveri-di-movie “3”; Ex-parte ad interim injunction operating against future defendants will ensure proactive prevention of 3’s copyright infringement by ISPs [ Spicy IP ] E-petition portal Change launches petition to support annulment ...

ITAT Bar seeks SC judge appointment to save face of mother of all Indian tribunals [ ITAT Online ] North-east and J&K make their way to SC as Punjab-Haryana HC’s Assamese CJ Gogoi, and Kashmir’s Kalifulla appointments cleared. Gogoi likely to make CI 2018 [ The Hindu ] TRAI disconnects nearly 2...

Information Technology Act convictions rise by 64 per cent as cyber crime convictions fall [ Medianama ] SEBI lifts March 2010 securities trading ban on Bank of Rajasthan’s former promoters – the Tayal family - who still face proceedings to determine monetary penalty for violating RBI norms on owner...

Chandigarh sessions court set to hang Punjab CM assassin who hasn’t asked mercy, initiates contempt against non-complying executioner [ First Post ] SEBI exempts IDBI bank from Takeover Code’s mandatory minority shareholder public-offer in bond to equity conversion, in the interest of capital adequa...

In Caesar V taxpayer, lawyers and accountants win as GAAR litigation beckons [ The Hindu ] World class govt walks the walk of global monopoly capital, phases out local cable operators by making CAS mandatory [ Kafila ] UK trainee solicitors to be paid less than minimum wage in their first year [ Law...

Naz rap in SC: Vahanvati concludes blaming 377 on Brit Raj in sexually advanced land evidenced by imaginative heritage sculptures [ Express Buzz ] Karnataka HC CJ Vikramjit Sen questions Katju’s support to journos in Bangalore lawyers V journos [ The Hindu ] Clifford Chance axes 13 out of 1000 Londo...

“Courageous” Pakistani media sees new fan in Katju [ IBN Live ] Del HC reinvents show cause notice procedure, asks Kalmadi to ‘gracefully’ quit else be served with notice [ TOI ] Goodies for property-less married women, separating couples and adopted kids in Marriage Laws (amendment) Bill [ India Lo...

Vodafone refunded Rs 2500 crore with four per cent interest by SC; S.E Dastur opines on second review, CBDT on forgoing billion dollar tax [ Mint , ITAT Online , Business Standard ] Naz finally buried as Vahanvati and co “enlightened”; govt argument goof-up also blamed on miscommunication [ Mint ] N...

SC dismisses last month’s review petition by taxmen against Vodafone [ Indian Express ] [ order ] Vodafone refund IA listed for Friday Inadequate existing rules on ownership of exchanges stand to gain from 16 month old Jalan committee recommendations [ Mint ] SEBI may allow listing of loss-makers, m...

NAMFED and others may prove useful precedents to save Vodafone ; finality of decision unaffected by curative legislation [ First Post ] Mad HC invokes Visaka and Sakshi , holds women employees being called ‘bitch’ is sexual harassment, child witnesses must be separated by screen from accused [ TOI ]...

Indian Music Industry obtains Cal HC order blocking 104 Indian music websites for piracy Radioreloaded, songsPK, funmaza, and everything else on the list [ Medianama ] Economic Times’ take on law firms: The Amarchand ‘churan’ and AZB ‘sandwich stacks’ compared and contrasted [ ET ] CJI Kapadia sets ...

Latest in Naz resurrected: SC is told 4 lakh men who have sex with men are AIDS infected; Fali Nariman holds 377 too stringent for husband-wife relations [ TOI ] Activist booked for defamation for publishing pre-published info against Sharad Pawar’s brother [ Mid-Day ] ITAT Special Bench lets Revenu...

Read the first judgment that follows SC’s Vodafone, by Bom HC’s Chandrachud J [ ITAT Online , Corporate Law Blog ] SEBI targets Veritas in garb of clamping down independent research analysts for prejudicial share trading [ Money Life ] CIC’s review of its own order, RBI’s disclosure of inspection re...

India’s first compulsory licencing order comes in as “Bullet” Kurian goes out [ Spicy IP India ] Katju: It is sordid that journos are proceeded against instead of being commended for filming porn-watching MLAs [ NDTV ] [ Download a copy of Katju’s letter to the Speaker ] Vahanvati submits ex-CJI KGB...

There exists a Mad HC judgment on copyright infringement by Nani palkiwala of Sampath Iyengar’s book “The Law of Income Tax” [ Tax Titans ] The tax bill that will go easy on individuals, tough on corporations – summarized [ PRS India ] [ Standing Committee Report’ ] SEBI doesn’t want the risk of wha...

Former SC justice MB Shah Commission’s report on illegal mining in Goa to be out by May 18; May recommend iron ore export ban, amendments to mineral concessions rules et al [ Mint ] US goes to WTO complaining about India’s unjustified poultry import restriction disguised under the pretext of bird fl...

Size of violator, habitual violation, and minimum consent amount to form part of consent order rules amended by SEBI to check insider trading et al [ ET ] What tweeting from court entails for journalists and, in other news, for jurors and convicts [ Press Gazette , Wall Street Journal ] US Attorney ...

Prashant Bhushan rues SC’s “welcoming wink” and tax authorities’ “benign attitude” to “blatant evasion” of tax; hopes India is not a “banana republic” for “post box companies” et al [ ITAT Online ] Karnataka State Bar Council swears off representing media houses in litigation; lawyers bleed [ Deccan...

SC’s Aftab Alam, Ranjana Desai dismiss Sharma’s “highly scandalous” PIL against Kapadia hearing Vodafone, with Rs 50,000 costs [ Mint ] SC’s HL Dattu, CK Prasad make unreasoned recusal from PIL questioning ONGC’s unreasoned excusal from Cairn-Vedanta deal [ Mint ] Kissing might be made illegal in In...