Lawyers in Tamil Nadu will boycott court proceedings on February 19 to protest "failure" of the state government in taking action against police officers held responsible for the violence in the Madras high court premises a year ago. The d ..
The Supreme Court has ruled that social and economic backwardness is one of the mitigating circumstances while commuting the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment. The convicts Mulla and Guddu along with others had abducted five villa ..
The outgoing Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice A P Shah has said the 17-year-old system of appointment of judges through a collegium should be changed and not left to a single body, but to be transparent and broad based. The selection of ju ..
Retired Supreme Court Judge P V Reddy is going to be the new chairman of the Law Commission of India. According to reliable sources, the Law Ministry has cleared his name to head the Law Commission, which is without chairman since July 2009, when t ..
Delhi High Court is to decide whether retired Judges holding constitutional posts on various Commissions can take up private work like Arbitration, opine on matters etc. In the PIL, Prashant Bhushan appearing for Common Cause, argued yesterday befo ..
President Pratibha Patil has had a busy few days with the transfers of High Court Judges. Justice Anil Ramesh Dave, Chief Justice of the Andhra Pradesh High Court, has been transferred to the Bombay High Court. Justice Dave has been asked to assume ..
The Government of Punjab has recently imposed Entry Tax on 12 new items under section 3A of Punjab Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2000 (Punjab Act No.9 of 2000). The List of which has already been provided in the articles published earl ..
In exercise of the powers conferred by Clause (2) of Article 124 of the Constitution of India, the President is pleased to appoint Shri Justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court, to be a Judge of the Supreme Court ..
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Delhi High Court Bar Association for checks and balances in collegium system Staff Reporter To make judges’ elevation process more transparent and non-controversial NEW DELHI: Sharing the opinion of the retiring Delhi High Court ..