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• Bar Council of India to appeal fly-in-fly-out ruling

  May 15 2012 International law firms have looked longingly at the booming legal services market in India for decades, but the country remains largely off limits for foreign... more

• 31% of judicial posts in India's high courts remain vacant

  Jan 23 2012 New reports show that 31 per cent of the sanctioned posts in India's high courts remain vacant - a whopping 285 vacant posts at the end of 2011. According to the... more

• Merger of Indian law firms ends up in court

  Dec 18 2011 Merger negotiations between two of India’s oldest law firms, FoxMandal and Co and Little & Co, have fallen in a heap after four years, precipitating a legal battle in... more

• Bombay High Court elevates 15 lawyers to senior counsel, none of them women

  Sep 09 2011 The Bombay High Court has elevated 15 lawyers to the status of senior counsel. None of the 15 are women, and the process has come under fire on this and other bases.... more

• Criminal Contempt for misconduct: Lawyer sentenced to 4 months of jail

  Apr 13 2011 Advocate N.B. Deshmukh has been held guilty of criminal contempt of the Court and sentenced to four months of simple imprisonment for hurling abuses at the judge... more

• Bombay High Court gets six Additional Judges

  Apr 06 2011 The President appoints six new additional judges to the Bombay High Court (BHC) taking the total strength to 61. The judges are likely to be sworn in by the Chief... more

• Vodafone: Indian Surpreme Court asks for 1% share in booty

  Dec 20 2010 The Indian Supreme Court has asked for 1 percent or Rs. 25 crore (approximately $6 million), to handle the Vodafone tax battle relating to a deposit of Rs. 2,500 crore... more

• Rajasthan Royals take Board of Control for Cricket in India to Bombay HC

  Oct 26 2010 Even before the upcoming season of IPL can take off, it is seeing a lot of action in the courts. After Kings XI Punjab, it is now the turn of Rajasthan Royals to file... more

• Vodafone files another petition in the Bombay HC against new move by IT dept

  Oct 18 2010 There seems to be no end to the troubles that are facing Vodafone. After its petition was rejected by the Bombay High Court in September questioning the jurisdiction... more

• Kings XI Punjab makes a move from the cricket field to the Court to protest expulsion from the IPL

  Oct 18 2010 The Kings XI Punjab team has been ousted from the Indian premier League (IPL), the most coveted cricket tournament ever displayed, played and sponsored for. The... more

• 20th Century Fox takes a swipe at Indian film in Bombay HC

  Oct 12 2010 The upcoming film 'Knock Out' has run into legal troubles with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation approaching the Bombay High Court seeking an injunction to stop... more

• Bombay High Court rules on Vodafone’s petition

  Oct 05 2010 This article summarizes a recent decision of the Bombay High Court (BHC) in the case of Vodafone International Holdings B.V. The issue before the BHC was whether the... more

• Madras High Court: Foreign Law Firms get time till August 19 to file objections

  Aug 05 2010 The Foreign Law Firms case was listed before the Madras High Court today and after being delayed for several weeks the matter was taken up in Court Hall 2 of the... more

• Delhi and Bombay High Courts favor in-laws under Domestic Violence Act

  Aug 05 2010 Justice Shiv Narayan Dhingra of the Delhi High Court recently held that a daughter in-law cannot book her in-laws under the Domestic Violence Act, if the parents are... more

• D.H. Law helps world’s largest aluminium company protect its trademark

  Aug 03 2010 The Bombay High Court has granted an ex-parte injunction restraining a local manufacturer from infringing Hindalco’s trademark ‘Freshwrap’ and copyright in respect of... more

• Vodafone’s call to Bombay High Court gets them relief from the IT Department - Dutt Menon Dunmorrsett appear for the telecom giant

  Jun 09 2010 The British mobile services giant had purchased 52 percent of Hutchison's stake in Hutchison Essar for $10.9 billion (Rs. 52,320 crores) in 2007. One of the biggest... more

• Dinakaran problem continues: probe panel reconstituted

  May 26 2010 The probe panel set up by Vice President Hamid Ansari to probe allegations of corruption and land grabbing against the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court,... more

• Ashurst pulls out of India after court ruling against foreign firms

  Feb 20 2010 Ashurst has is closing its New Delhi liaison office, which was set up in 1994 to advise for clients on the ground. Ashurst's decision to pull out of India comes... more

• UK asks Indian governement to intervene for foreign law firms

  Jan 02 2010 Just a few days after a Bombay High Court order declared any practice by foreign firms in India illegal, Britain's Justice Department has asked the Indian law ministry... more

• Looking past the hype: Lawyers Collective v. Chadbourne, Ashurst and White & Case

  Dec 18 2009 Contrary to the hype about closing the doors of India's legal market to foreign firms, and declaring the practice of all law by foreign firms in India "illegal", the... more

• 14-year epic battle draws to a close as Bombay High court rules against liaison offices for foreign firms

  Dec 18 2009 Fourteen years ago, Lawyers Collective filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against the opening of liaison offices by foreign law firms in India. Ashurst,... more