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Colin Gonsalves

15 February 2018

The JGLS Sonepat student rape survivor may finally see an end to her five-year ordeal as the Supreme Court has now ordered the Punjab & Haryana high court to dispose of her appeal within five months, as reported by IANS.

08 February 2018

The former JGLS Sonepat students, who were convicted of raping and blackmailing a fellow student had until now refused to share the password of an iCloud online storage account in which they had allegedly stored the victim's nude photos, but the Supreme Court has now finally ordered them to disclose it, reported the Indian Express and others.

07 November 2017

The three JGLS Sonepat students who were convicted for rape of a fellow student of the law school, will be sent back to custody as the Supreme Court yesterday stayed the suspension of their sentences that was granted to them by the Punjab & Haryana high court in September, as first reported by Live Law.

28 February 2017

For the first time, NLU Delhi’s Centre on the Death Penalty has analysed death penalties across lower courts and released a report, which suggests a picture in which the judiciary ordering a convict killed seems more subject to randomness than an evolving jurisprudence or overarching policy.

22 February 2017

For the last one-and-a-half-odd years, Nalsar Hyderabad has been avidly uploading mostly student-organised guest lectures to its YouTube channel, available to freely watch by all.

06 October 2015

In the Extra-Judicial Execution of Victim Families Association vs Union of India, which came up before the bench of justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit at Court 9 on Monday at 2.30 p.m., the amicus curiae, Menaka Guruswamy, proposed the setting up of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the six fake encounters involving seven victims in Manipur, as a result of action by the security forces.

10 September 2015

A Supreme Court bench comprising of justices MY Eqbal and C Nagappan on Wednesday (9 September) turned its ire in court No 10 on four states for not filing their counter affidavits in the case of Parivartan Kendra vs Union of India dealing with the PIL seeking rehabilitation scheme for acid attack survivors.

07 September 2015

Despite suffering from adjournments and not having been able to close a single case since starting nearly a year ago, as reported last week by SCOI Reports, on Friday (September 4) the social justice bench continued its work with justices Madan B Lokur and UU Lalit hearing six cases in 40 minutes after 2 pm.

15 July 2015

Legally India research (Graphic by Subrata Jana / Livemint)The process of appointing senior advocates is broken and no one has bothered to fix it, until now.

19 June 2015

Hanging high, but not quite dry (Photo by Patrick Feller)Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu is not far from matching a new record: since he became CJI on 28 September 2014, he has confirmed the death sentences of 10 persons in five cases.

28 March 2014

A Supreme Court three-judge bench headed by Justice BS Chauhan told the government to report on what it had done to investigate the Rs 6,500 crore investment into four Indian Indian Reliance Industries companies by what is allegedly a Singaporean shell company called Biometrix used for money laundering.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan and senior counsel Colin Gonsalves, who are appearing for the two petitioners in the case querying the gas price increase from Reliance's KG-D6 basis concession, alleged that Biometrix had no assets or equity and did not file tax returns in Singapore claiming a small-company exemption, but nevertheless made the single largest FDI into India from Singapore. Solicitor general Mohan Parasaran is appearing for the government. [Business Standard] [Economic Times]

12 August 2013

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 Sathasivam stayed the execution of a man held for beheading five of his daughters, in an order passed at 12:30am on Friday, after Supreme Court human rights lawyer Colin Gonsalves rushed to the CJI’s home with the plea that the convict had been denied fair legal opportunities to approach the apex court after President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his mercy petition last month [Telegraph India]

BCI to de-affialiate Kar Uni: After finding that the Karnataka University’s law college had only two faculty members to teach the non-law subjects of the five year integrated law course, the Bar Council of India (BCI) issued a show-cause notice to the college asking why they should not be suspended from awarding law degrees [Deccan Herald]

Security conscious Bangalore courts: The security precautions after the Delhi high court bomb blast have now percolated down to Bangalore’s lower courts from Karnataka’s high court, with the state government deciding to install CCTV cameras at the City Civil and Sessions Court and to deploy more police officials there [NIE]

Juvenile injustice: Over 160 juveniles to date have been incarcerated in adult prisons by the Delhi police, according to the Delhi State Legal Services Authority’s (DSLSA) report to the Delhi high court. A division bench of acting Chief Justice B D Ahmed and Justice Vibhu Bakhru has directed police commissioners to inquire and take action against the investigating officer responsible in each of the 162 cases where the police purposely showed juveniles as adults instead of presenting them before the Juvenile Justice Board [TOI]

Youngest ever UK barrister: Gabrielle Turnquest, age 18, is the youngest person to be admitted to the bar in the history of the 600-year-old English legal system. She now plans to work as a lawyer in the fashion industry – she will start an apparel industry management course in the autumn, while studying for the multistate bar exams [The Guardian]

Pakistan lawyer solidarity: A lawyer group in Pakistan opposed the removal of three Supreme Court judges of the country who had decided to change the date of the presidential election. The lawyers asked the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) to withdraw a resolution demanding a reference against the three judges [Pakistan Guardian]