SEBI vs Sahara: The Sahara Group has been ordered by the Supreme Court to hand over title deeds of properties worth Rs.20,000 crore to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) after hearing three contempt of court petitions filed by SEBI against the group’s owner Subrata Roy [ ANI ] Fearles...

Madras HC revenue norms on designating senior advocates : An advocate should have at least 15 years of experience arguing cases, some of them should be landmark judgements and should have earned at least Rs 7 lakh annually from lawyering for three years immediately before being considered to be elev...

Jaising slams progress on sexual violence : ASG Indira Jaising, in a personal capacity, writes how women remain as vulnerable under the system as they were before December 2012, despite protests and promises of reform in the Delhi gang rape: “Bias is embedded in the practice and procedure of trials…...

Orissa circuit bench hopes recede: The prospects for southern and western circuit benches of the Orissa HC have become bleak, after union law minister Kapil Sibal told the state chief minister that his recommendation means nothing in the absence of the HC’s chief justice’s consent [ New Indian Expre...

Community radio PIL: The Supreme Court, hearing a PIL by NGO Common Cause, will examine the rules that bar private FM radio channels and community radios from broadcasting news and current affairs [ DNA ] Eggplant on official’s face in prelim BT Brinjal ruling : The Karnataka HC has ruled that prima...

AP HC 9 new judges: The SC collegium has approved the names of nine district judges who are to be elevated to the Andhra Pradesh HC, increasing its strength to 35, including the chief justice. The sanctioned strength of the AP HC is 49 [ Deccan Chronicle ] Manipur HC CJ: Former Allahabad HC justice ...

Lily Thomas scalp : Lily Thomas claims its first scalp with convicted Congress leader Rashid Masood. Lok Sabha MPs Lalu Prasad Yadav and Jagdish Sharma are likely to follow suit [ PTI ] AC for HC: The Karnataka government has finally cleared the Rs 8 crore proposal to install air conditioners and no...

Happy bday NGT: To celebrate its third day of founding, the National green Tribunal (NGT) is finally getting its own Delhi office in Faridkot house, moving from is current makeshift homes. It is also getting a third bench to share the caseload of its two current benches [ PTI ] SC to listen to sadhu...

SC sees Radia criminal leads : After analysing the Radia tapes the Supreme Court told the CBI to inquire into at least six possibly criminal issues raised by the infamous leaked phone conversations between lobbyist Niira Radia and others. “Radia’s conversations reveal deep-rooted malice by private e...

Court bars advocate from filing, orders psych: Delhi high court advocate Uma Shankar Pandey was barred from filing petitions in the court and was ordered to undertake psychiatric treatment, by justices Pradeep Nandrajog and V Kameswar Rao after hearing his six-hour-long arguments for three days. The...

SC Juvenile home committee: The CJI has asked all high court CJs to appoint a judge each to inspect the functioning of state juvenile homes. At the Supreme Court level, the CJI has nominated Justice Madan Lokur as Chairperson of the Juvenile Committee for effective implementation of the Juvenile Jus...

Nagpur wins NLS Maharashtra clearance: The proposal for **“**Maharashtra National Law University” (as it will be called) to be based in Nagpur was cleared yesterday by the Maharasthra state cabinet. The government has earmarked a reduced capital grant of Rs 125 crore (from Rs 204 crore) for the NLS,...

Delhi rape lawyer withdraws: Delhi rape convicts’ defence lawyer VK Anand withdrew from his role as counsel citing interference by the clients and their families ahead of Delhi HC’s decision on confirmation of the district court’s death sentence [ DNA India ] Madras bar election litter: Ahead of the...

UID unimportant: The Supreme Court has stuck to its stand that the Unique Identification Number is not mandatory for availing certain essential services [ NDTV ] Sex harassment RTI exemption to babus: The Ministry of Personnel has declined an RTI request for details of sexual harassment cases agains...

Karnataka govt pleader overhaul: The Karnataka government is on a warpath with its state legal team after it prepared a list of replacements for 61 out of its 73 law officers. While 36 officers resigned without putting up a fight, the rest of them is daring the state government to dismiss them [ Ban...

Ex-NLUO VC arbitrary at Pondi: Former NLUO Cuttack VC Chandra Krishnamoorthy - who left the law school months after her appointment to assume VC-ship at Pondicherry University – stands to lose her position. Her appointment has been challenged in the Madras HC for being arbitrary and without due proc...

Derogatory advocate fined : Madras HC fined him Rs 10,000 and dismissed his petition seeking restriction on relatives of politicians from contesting polls, because, according to the court, he had used derogatory language in his petition against a sitting member of parliament [ PTI ] Lalu jailed: For...

Justice on wheels: WSJ does an account of Pakistan’s mobile courts - $90,000 buses with courts set up inside them, which travel to remote areas to resolve disputes IT freezes Nokia: Indian taxmen freeze Finnish mobile giant Nokia’s Indian bank accounts, days ahead of its $7.2bn sale deal with Micros...

Judge’s litigation debut: 88-year-old ex-judge-turned-litigant KS Puttaswamy, who obtained the SC’s restraining order recently against the linking of state benefits to the UID scheme, chats to the Hindu on why for the first time in his 50-year legal career he felt the need to petition a court [ Hind...

SC 110201 : The Supreme Court gets a new dedicated pin code enabling faster mail service, as the postal department’s celebration of 41 years of introducing the pin code system for its bulk mail recipients [ PTI ] 8 new Madras judges: Justice T Mathivanan, Justice Ardhanariswamy Arumughaswamy, Justic...