AP HC Judges: Andhra Pradesh high court advocates Asapu Ramalingeswara Rao and Dama Seshadri Naidu were appointed as additional judges of the high court last week [ Deccan Chronicle ] AAWI for Bom HC new bench: India’s oldest bar association - the Advocates Association of Western India (AAWI) - yest...

SCBA threatens JAC strike: SCBA threatened to go on a day-long “token strike” if the Judicial Appointments Bill is not scrapped, since lawyers’ bodies were allegedly not consulted with when formulating the bill [ Outlook ] Maha NLS in Nagpur? National Law School Nagpur’s proposal will be discussed i...

Tea cuffs: “One might take tea in a variety of ways, not all of them always elegant or delicate, some of them perhaps even noisy. But we know of no way to drink tea ‘suspiciously’,” observed a Bombay HC bench while chastising the police for arresting a man for suspicious conduct u/s 151 after they t...

Tamilian judgmnents: The assurance that Tamil Nadu lower courts’ judgments will now only be written in Tamil, from Madras HC chief justice RK Agarwal, caused advocates there to end their three-day fast yesterday [ PTI ] Criminal politicians judgment: Disqualifying convicted politicians from contesti...

11 Supreme Court judges to retire in next 12 months , starting with justice GS Singhvi on 11 December. He will be followed out by Justice H L Gokhale (March 9), Justice Sathasivam (April 26), Justice Misra (April 27), Justice K S Radhakrishnan (May 14), Justice A K Patnaik (June 2), Justice S S Nijj...

New Guwahati CJ Goel : Guwahati HC Chief Justice AK Goel will replace Orissa HC chief justice C Nagappan after Nagappan is being elevated to the Supreme Court this week [ Orissa Diary ] NUJS sexual harassment : NUJS Kolkata’s Internal Complaints Committee has belatedly submitted an interim report to...

Happy 90th RamJet : Ram Jethmalani, at his birthday party yesterday, tried to broker peace between BJP’s NaMo and LKA, speculated NDTV and others Anti-rape education : SC advocate Karuna Nundy argues that only solution to rape pandemic are structured government-led education efforts [ CNN ] NGT to g...

Kerala govt pleaders not smart: Dismissing an appeal filed by state government pleaders to get remarks on their lack of “vigilance” expunged, the Kerala high court asked the advocate general to stop appointing “inappropriate hands”. Justice Harun Rashid said that under-qualified government pleaders ...

Judicial progeny fail selections: The six out of eight advocates rejected for judgeship at the Punjab & Haryana HC include Manisha Gandhi, the daughter of former Chief Justice of India AS Anand, and Girish Agnihotri, the son of retired P&H HC judge MR Agnihotri. B S Rana, Gurminder Singh K...

8th alleged NLS rapist caught: The eighth accused in the rape of an NLSIU Bangalore student in October 2012, who was absconding till the sentencing of six convicts in the case three days ago, has been caught [TOI]

Judicial rejig: Bombay HC’s justice DY Chandrachud is being shifted to the Allahabad HC and may soon take over as its Chief Justice (CJ), Himachal Pradesh HC’s CJ AM Khanwilkar is getting transferred to the Madhya Pradesh HC and be replaced by J&K HC’s justice Mansoor Ahmed [ TOI ] Hey KGB: The...

Lording it : Bombay HC justice Anoop V Mohta has taken objection to being addressed as AV Mohta and warned advocates and litigants that their cases will not be accepted by his court if they do not address him by his full name in the praecipe [ Notification ] NLSIU rape case: The six convicts guilty ...

Madras HC top 3: After Madras HC’s second-most senior judge R Banumathi gets elevated soon as chief justice (CJ) of Jharkhand HC, Chhatisgarh HC’s third most senior judge will be transferred to replace Banumathi at Madras. The third-most senior Madras HC judge Chitra Venkataraman soon stands to be e...

Western UP bench in RS: Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi has raised the demand for a Western UP bench of the Allahabad high court in the Rajya Sabha, citing creation of Telangana in support: “earlier the people of Telangana had also demanded a bench of High Court… You did not give a high court be...

Elusive SC appointment: Calcutta high court chief justice Arun Mishra has missed a Supreme Court seat for the second time since June last year despite hailing from Madhya Pradesh, which has been left unrepresented at the SC since Justice Deepak Verma’s retirement [ Telegraph India ] BCI fails 28: 28...

SC solves mystery of missing coalgate files: criminality and an attempt to tamper with evidence. Has set a two week deadline for unearthing documents [TOI]

Scanning Google’s fair use: Final arguments this week of Google’s eight-year-long battle with US authors’ guild, which alleged copyright infringement by the search engine in scanning 20 million library books and and making them available online [ Gigaom ] New IPAB chairman: Former Madras High Court ...

Prof chair-snatching: Academicians and students sign online protests against the arbitrary removal of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) chair professors NS Gopalakrishnan and Yogesh Pai from their positions at CUSAT and NLU Jodhpur respectively, assigning no reasons [ Spicy IP / Live Law...

Food bill secured: The Food Security Bill - opposed in part over the alleged cost of providing food to 82 crore Indians - was yesterday passed in the Lok Sabha by voice vote [ Zee News / India Today ] Eminent BCI members? Bar councils stood a “good chance” of being nominated under the ‘eminent perso...

PCSOA rape redefined: Delhi high court attracts social activists’ ire by ruling that consensual sex with minors is not rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act [ TOI / BS ] NLSIU rape quick trial: Judgement reserved in the case of the rape of an NLSIU Bangalore student in Octob...