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Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat launched the E-library at the Bombay High Court Goa Bench Complex. Speaking at the function, Mr Kamat congratulated Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa for its initiative to start the E- Library and said the government has taken several initiatives to develop IT sector in the state with a focus on common man. Bombay High Court judge Justice Satyaranjan Dhar..

Lawyer accepts nude dance as fee, suspended Sunday, 21 September , 2008, 19:47 Chicago: An attorney was suspended for more than a year for accepting nude dances from a stripper as partial payment for the legal fees she owed him. The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission said Scott Robert Erwin would begin serving a 15-month suspension for misconduct next month...

Mr Iyer said the Commission is very well aware of the fact that the Supreme Court ordered re-investigation of all those riot cases, including the Godhra riot by SIT, after it found the earlier reports defective. It also knows that SIT has carried out re-investigation and has been granted extension of time, he said. He said the case put forward by the State Government before Nanavati Commission i..

ANI Melbourne Thu, 18 Sep 2008: Melbourne, Sept 18 (ANI): A new survey has found that over 40 percent of law students suffer from depression, with little improvement in sight when they become barristers and solicitors. According to the study, almost a third of solicitors and one-in-five barristers suffer psychological distress associat with disability. Professor Ian Hickie, fro..

the state govt. appointed mr. p. k. prasad as the new AG on 18-09-08.Mr. prasad has been practising in the jharkhand high court since 1981...

Functioning of all the courts in Puducherry was affected as lawyers boycotted work to press their demands.They were demanding, among other things, amendment to the recruitment rule that law graduates not enrolled in the bar association could also participate in the appointment of civil judges and provision of Rs 2 lakhs to lawyers welfare fund as in Tamil Nadu...

Chennai: It was the turn of the country’s top judges on Sunday to bear the brunt of Tamil Nadu’s power woes. Four judges, including one from the Supreme Court, got trapped inside an elevator in the Madras High Court premises during a blackout. Justice Arijit Pasayat of the Supreme Court accompanied by his wife Subala Pasayat, Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, Justice A K Ganguly, Andhra P..

Raising the retirement age for university and college teachers to 65 years and taking up measures to break stagnation in their career growth are among a set of steps that the UGC-appointed pay-revision committee will recommend for making the profession attractive. The committee, headed by G K Chadha, met in New Delhi on Sunday and decided to suggest provision of additional incentives at..

Former Chief Justice of India J S Verma has said no action was taken by the Prime Minister’s Office on his recommendation for impeachment of a High Court Judge during his tenure as CJI from March 1997 to January 1998. Justice Verma in his interview to an English Daily Mail Today, has alleged that he has sent his recommendation to the PMO and no further action was taken. He had sent his rec..

Former CJI P N Bhagwati has blamed the judiciary for the present state of affair in which allegations of corruption against judges are being exposed. Justice Bhagwati in a recent TV interview has also backed the idea of setting up of National Judicial Commission to check the increasing incidents of corruption in the judiciary. Presently, 36 judges including sitting Supreme Court judge and 11..

The Supreme Court made it clear that if the behaviour of an advocate is contemptuous in a court, then he can be debarred from appearing in the court. A bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam, while refusing to stay the order of Jharkhand High Court debarring advocate K K Jha alias Kamal from appearing in any court in Jharkhand for a year, said, "Do you mean..

SC declines to stay HC order against R K Anand and I U Khan The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay a Delhi High Court order barring advocates R K Anand and I U Khan from practising for four months after they were "caught" in the BMW sting operation case. A bench of Justices B N Agrawal and G S Singhvi also refused to pass any direction on the High Court's verdict stripping them..

Lokayukta sleuths raided the office and residences of eight government officials, including two KAS officials, and unearthed property worth more than Rs 19.46 crore disproportionate to their known sources of income. Lokauytka Justice Santosh Hegde said the raids were conducted simultaneously in different districts. He said the exact value of the assets could be more after completion of pro..

Taking serious note of allegations made against judges by petitioners connected with Boss school of Music, Mumbai, the Supreme Court today issued contempt of court notices to four people. A bench comprising Justices Arijit Pasayat and Harjit Singh Bedi, issued contempt notices to Pavithra Murli, Sarita Parekh, Glenn Fernades and the Boss School of Music and directed them to respond to the s..

The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh said here today that his government recognises providing access to Justice in a country of India’s size raises many issues like values that must form basis of our justice system and the concern to make it accessible to the vulnerable and marginalised. In his address after releasing the book “Judicial Reflections of justice Bhagwati,” he said that the ..