TN NLS: The Rs 100 crore Tamil Nadu National Law School Srirangam was yesterday inaugurated and has only five students from Tamil Nadu in its first batch of 71 CLAT-admitted students [ News Today / TNNLS Website ] Black gold: 16 files containing details of illegitimate allocations in the Coal scam t...

File RTI online : Gov launches online portal for filing Right to Information (RTI) requests with 82 ministries at www.rtionline.gov.in [ Firstpost ] Delhi gang-rape closings : The closing arguments in the so-called Delhi gang-rape trial will be heard today. WSJ summarises case so far. Wikileaker sen...

Bar unrest: Madras high court bar experiences heartburn and resentment at the selection of two out of eight newly appointed judges from neighbouring state Kerala, while western UP lawyers are gearing up to Gherao the Taj Mahal to mark their discontent over government inaction for a permanent western...

Chennai Express: 22 district judges were selected in Tamil Nadu within three months of advertising the direct recruitment, and one month after 2,668 candidates appeared for the preliminary examination. Legally India had earlier reported that the Delhi district judge recruitment process took six time...

Pendency down in Delhi trial courts: Delhi trial courts have managed to reduce pendency from 30 per cent in the last one-and-a-half years, with the number of pending cases coming down from 7 lakh to 5 lakh – including all civil and criminal cases before magisterial, district and sessions courts. Cas...

30% HC Vacancy: 280 judges’ posts were vacant across 24 Indian high courts on 8 August, constituting vacancy of 31 per cent. The number would rise to 306 by the end of 2013 after the retirement of 26 more judges in the next four months [ TOI ] Gallows halted: Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasiva...

Flashy HNLU: HNLU Raipur students organised a flash mob at a Raipur mall to support women’s empowerment yesterday. A flash mob “combines the appeal of a dance performance, seemingly un-choreographed, spreading across the crowd, creating a spontaneous public spectacle of unified musical expression to...

Android friendly SCI: The Supreme Court of India has released an Android smartphone app to view a replica of the Supreme’s Court’s case display board. The display board in the SC indicates the item numbers of matters being heard across all courtrooms at any given point of time. It’s pretty basic, bu...

NGT bans sand mining: The National Green Tribunal banned the practice of sand mining from riverbeds without the environment ministry’s clearance, complying with a 2012 order of the Supreme Court and responding to the suspension of young IAS officer Durga Shakti Nagpal who had conducted a drive again...

Pending (yet) another look: Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam has promised that immediately after disposal of the Mullaperiyar dam case a constitutional bench would be constituted to look into the problem of the Supreme Court’s pending cases [ PTI ] Ragging cured yet? “Ragging on the campuse...

CCI vegetates fair markets: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) will examine agriculture markets to ensure that there is no cartelisation or unfair play in the determination of vegetable prices, since prices are soaring despite their tendency to ease during the monsoon season. In 2011, the CCI...

Armed Forces Tribunal: Jharkhand high court Chief Justice Prakash Tatia’s name has been proposed for heading the Armed Forces Tribunal to succeed former Supreme Court justice AK Mathur who retires as the tribunal’s head next week [ PTI ] Intelligent safeguards: The Intelligence Bureau (IB), the RAW,...

SJ Berwin-King Woods exchange $1bn rings : UK firm SJ Berwin’s merger with Asia-Pacific giant King & Wood Mallesons - the first ever merger between a major UK and Asia-Pacific firm - has now been finalised after first speculation in November 2012. The merged firm will operate under separate fin...

Lover’s tiff ends: The Delhi government settled the squabble between the Delhi bar and the bench by accepting the proposal to raise the district court’s pecuniary jurisdiction to Rs 2 crore from Rs 20 lakh [ Indlaw ] Notarised demands : The Notaries Association of India met the law minister to ask f...

CJI slams ex-CJI stay : Chief Justice of India (CJI) P Sathasivam said about an order of his predecessor Altmas Kabir, who had stayed a lower court’s Rs 100 crore penalty against builders Jaiprakash Associates. “We do not approve of the manner in which the interim orders came to be passed. We do not...

Media friendlier new CJI? New CJI P Sathasivam said in a speech that he was in favour of self-regulation of the media rather than strict controls [ Hindu ] His remarks follow both his predecessors’ significant fall-outs with the media – SH Kapadia constituted a constitutional bench into media conduc...

Delhi HC e-payments : Delhi HC introduces e-payment of court fees of up to Rs 20,000 at a time, less Rs 26 tax and charges [ Moneycontrol ] CJI NEET exam : New CJI P Sathasivam would stop short of an investigation but “we have to inquire” whether the NEET judgment under his predecessor Altamas Kabir...

Altamas Kabir blasts collegium ‘gang’: Justice Altamas Kabir, who retired as the chief justice of India (CJI) yesterday, on 2 July requisitioned a meeting of the SC collegium – himself and justices P Sathasivam, GS Singhvi, RM Lodha and HL Dattu – to propose that they recommend the elevation of an u...

Altamas last goodbye : Chief Justice of India (CJI) Altamas Kabir retired today, giving a speech and usual shindig in the Supreme Court. He makes way for Justice P Sathasivam , who will serve until 26 April 2014 [ Hindu ] Kabir quashes NEET : The Supreme Court (CJI Kabir, on his last day, prevailing...

Young Face(book) ban: The Delhi high court has asked Facebook to ban children below 13 years of age from creating an account. Facebook must now upload a disclaimer stating the age requirement [ Hill Post ] Live-in domestic violence: The Domestic Violence Act is not only applicable to married women b...