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Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt: SC

In a hearing today (14th August), the Supreme Court has found two of Prashant Bhushan's tweets against the Chief Justice and the Supreme Court amounting to "serious contempt of the…

BCI to request for basic laptops or iPads for needy lawyers

14 Aug 202014 Aug 2020

The Bar Council of India has determined to form certain urgent and vital requests from the Centre and State governments. The BCI Chairman can write to the Prime Minister and…

Judicial Independence is a foundation for the Rule of Law and guarantee of fair proceedings: Madras High Court

Justice P. Pugalendhi while hearing the matter related to the acquittal of management officers of some granite firms accused of possessing and carrying business from illegal granite of worth of…

Bar Council Of India moves Karnataka High Court challenging 25% domicile reservation at NLSIU Bangalore

12 Aug 202012 Aug 2020

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has moved a petition before the Karnataka High Court challenging the 25% domicile reservation introduced at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU),…

Rajasthan High Court Upholds Death Sentence of Murder Accussed

Justice Sabina and Justice Chandra Kumar Songara of the Rajasthan High Court upheld the death sentence awarded to murder accussed Mohan Singh a.k.a Mahaveer. The Trial Court convicted him under…

Assisting loan to Advocates is violative of 6(2) of the Advocates Act, 1961.

The Government of India has released rupees Twenty-Five Crore out of Hundred Crore fund for the welfare of the advocates who are in need. A special committee was constituted under…

Associate professor of NLU Delhi demoted for 5 years

After a departmental inquiry found that charges of misconduct made against Professor Jeet Singh Mann were valid, he was demoted to the rank of Associate Professor for a 5-year period…

PIL in SC wants animal kingdom to be declared as ‘legal entities’ for their protection

A petition has been filed within the Supreme Court, wanting the whole animal kingdom, together with vertebrate and aquatic species, to be declared as “legal entities” having distinct persona and…

Emergency Parole application has been filed by G.N. Saibaba to attend Post-Funeral rites of Mother :

On Tuesday, a division bench comprising of Justice A.S. Chandurkar and Justice A.B. Borkar of Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court directed State Government to give reply to the emergency…

CLAT 2020 to be held on September 7th

The Consortium of National Law Universities met on 10th August and have decided to conduct the Common Law Aptitude Test (CLAT) 2020 on September 7th. The decision was taken after…