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16 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

The Bar Council of India (BCI) will visit Jammu almost 10 days after bar associations in the state announced lawyers strikes and impeded the filing of a charge sheet in the case of the alleged rape and murder of a minor girl, the brutality of which caused nationwide shock.

14 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

When Jammu lawyers on strike to impede the filing of a charge sheet in the rape and murder case of a minor girl in Jammu, Bar Council of India (BCI) chairman Manan Kumar Mishra appeared not sure what to make of it.

12 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

As India looks to regulate Internet content, some issues to consider

12 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

The 25 winners of the Delhi bar council election have been announced, with an unprecedented two law firm lawyers making the cut.

10 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

He had been sentenced to 5 years in jail only 48 hours earlier.

06 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

Mallikarjun Kharge (Congress) makes it official: No impeachment of CJI Dipak Misra

05 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

The last conviction of Khan in the drunk-drive-killing case was of course stayed extraordinarily quickly by the Bombay high court...

04 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

So, there’s been another press release by the Bar Council of India (BCI), in which chairman and senior counsel Manan Kumar Mishra shares several pearls of wisdom, criticising senior advocate Indira Jaising, which has been widely covered in the media (full release below).

02 April 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

As if the case around judge BH Loya’s death wasn’t exciting and troubling enough, the Caravan’s Nikita Saxena has spoken to more than a dozen staff at the hospital where his post-mortem was carried out, and the picture that’s getting painted continues to cast serious doubt about whether Loya died of natural causes, suggesting that a head injury was deliberately covered up by a doctor with medical connections.

31 March 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

On 27 March 2018 Times Now had exclusively that Congress and other opposition parties were drafting an impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Mishra.

27 March 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

In an unprecedented development, an impeachment motion against the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Misra, is being readied by opposition parties, including the Congress. Times Now has learned that regional parties have approached the Congress for support on the move. In fact, the impeachment draft is ready and the Congress as well as the Nationalist Congress Party led by Sharad Pawar have already signed it, Majeed Memon confirmed. Memon is a leader of the NCP and a criminal lawyer by profession.

26 March 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

Amnesty International India executive director Aakar Patel writes in Asian Age:

26 March 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

“Legal system collapsing under Pending Cases: Supreme Court 55,000+, High Court 37 Lakh+, Lower Courts 2.6 Crore+. Yet, a staggering 400 High Court and 6,000 Lower Court judges not appointed, while Law Minister preoccupied peddling fake news,” tweeted Congress president Rahul Gandhi over the weekend, according to India Today.

23 March 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

Bhatia has long led a campaign, the facts of which are hard to substantiate, against a former RAW chief for sexual harassment, regularly alleging the complicity of a series of judicial members and many others.

16 March 2018
Bar, Bench & Litigation

A fascinating analysis on France's anomalous position with respect to the age of consent for sex.

The Atlantic reported:

On April 24, 2017, a 28-year-old-man met an 11-year-old girl in a park in Montmagny, just north of Pa