AK Ganguly SC report private info : Rejecting a Right to Information (RTI) request for the Supreme Court’s report on its recent sexual harassment complaint proceedings against its former justice AK Ganguly, the SC said: “The disclosure of information and reports emanating out of a self-evolved mecha...

Del, Mad HC CJs for SC elevation : The names of Madras HC chief justice RK Agrawal and Delhi HC chief justice MV Ramana have been cleared for elevation to the Supreme Court. Agrawal will be the seventh judge in the SC “having a strong and direct Chennai link” reported [ TOI ] Definition of “Juvenile...

GNLU gets Microsoft IPR chair : GNLU Gandhinagar will soon become the sixth national law university with an intellectual property rights (IPR) chair after NLSIU Bangalore, Nalsar Hyderabad, NLU Jodhpur, NLIU Bhopal and NUJS Kolkata. While each of its five predecessors have IPR chairs set up by the M...

Madurai opposes MHAA protest : The Madurai bench of the Madras High Court Advocates Association (MHAA) is opposed to the MHAA’s protest for recall of the list of 12 names recommended for judgeships at the Madras HC, because four names in the list were from Madurai – giving the Madurai bench “a prope...

2,648 new legal aid clinics : CJI P Sathasivam has inaugurated 2,648 legal aid clinics, each to be manned by two volunteers and a lawyer, in villages across India to assist villagers in getting BPL card, Election ID, Aadhaar Card, Gas connection and government welfare schemes [ IBNLive ] Lowly paid ...

Lawyers boycott supporting boycott to force judicial transfer : The Allahabad High Court Bar Association boycotted work today in support of the boycott of work by the Awadh Bar Association of Lucknow. In fact Allahabad outdid Awadh and added an extra half-day of boycott after lunch yesterday. The bo...

Karnan opposes own transfer : Madras HC justice CS Karnan, who had complained against the HC’s chief justice and the Chief Justice of India for collegium interference and caste bias, opposed his transfer to another high court on the ground that his presence was needed in the Madras HC until he had p...

Why HC judges decline SC judgeship : Abhinav Chandrachud, Stanford Law doctoral student and son of the current Allahabad HC chief justice, illustrates that an obsession with hierarchy and seniority weren’t always the defining characteristics of India’s judiciary, and perhaps shouldn’t be, in a perci...

NLU Nagpur almost done : The National Law University Nagpur cleared another hurdle with the Maharashtra government taking the ordinance route to set it up and the cabinet approving the ordinance. Once the draft of the ordinance is sent to the governor for promulgation, the way would be clear to appo...

Delhi law min under bar council lens: The Delhi Bar Council decided to meet today to discuss disciplinary action against Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti against whom reports of “tampering with evidence” as an advocate last year, emerged last week. Bharti meanwhile also faces an FIR relating to an ...

Publicity shy CJI : The Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam refused permission to publish his photograph in a September advertisement for the release of India’s first customised PIN code for the apex court, an RTI has revealed [ PTI ] Lower court jurisdiction enhancement : The Delhi government is gi...

Delhi law min tarnished personal record : Delhi law minister Somnath Bharti has, to his name, observations by a former CBI special judge in August for tampering with evidence during a trial. The judge observed in her order: “The conduct of accused Pawan Kumar and his advocate (Bharti) is not only hi...

Swatanter Kumar lashes back : Former SC judge and National Green Tribunal head Swatanter Kumar – who was accused of sexual harassment by an ex-intern from NUJS Kolkata according to Friday’s media reports – sent a legal notice to three media houses demanding an apology from them within 24 hours for p...

Madras HC 12-judge-names appeal : The Madras HC through its registrar general will move the SC against its own division bench decision that had stayed the appointment of the 12 recommended Madras HC advocates as judges whose recommendations has courted controversy at the HC [ TOI ] Madras HC advocat...

SC introduces online visitor sign-in : The Supreme Court has introduced an online system to sign in clients and other guests to the apex court via the so-called Supreme Court Visitor Management System (SCVMS). After signing in with details including the name of the court, case and advocate, visitors...

AAP law minister calls for judicial reforms opposed : Somnath Bharti called for a meeting of Delhi’s district judges to encourage reforms but he was faced with opposition in the house and a letter to Delhi HC chief justice NV Ramana from Delhi principal law secretary AS Yadav, who said he saw it as ...

Dismissing a 75-year-old’s petition seeking a ban on the “your lordship” address of judges – which he asserted was a “relic of the colonial era” – the Supreme Court yesterday said: “Don’t address us as lordship. We don’t say anything. We only say address us respectfully.” [ PTI ] Madras HC senior R ...

**Bombay HC new judges The Bombay HC got five new additional judges today in lawyers Vinay Manohar Deshpande, Ajey Gadkari, Nitin Sambre, Girish Kulkarni and B S Colabawalla [ PTI ] **NGT not HC-enough for suo motu The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has no power to take cognisance of cases on its own...

Nokia assets unfrozen in Delhi HC: The Delhi HC has come to the rescue of Nokia by revoking the Tax Department order freezing its assets. Nokia can now complete its deal with Microsoft to transfer its India assets, including its biggest phone-making factory, to the global software giant [ The Hindu ...

Gujarat gets fourth Lokayukta after decade Gujarat finally has a Lokayukta in retired Gujarat HC judge DP Buch after 10 years of the seat lying vacant and three years of a feud over the issue between state chief minister Narendra Modi and the governor [ PTI ] Constitutional status for JAC The Judici...