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• Qatar should adopt legal education standards, says expert

  Mar 20 2012 Qatar and other Gulf states must adopt standards for legal and judicial education to support the influx of foreign investment in the region, Robert Musgrove, chief... more

• Russian oligarchs head to London

  Feb 27 2012 Here is an interesting article about the increasing presence of Russian oligarchs in London Courts. According to the article, London has become the preferred... more

• NY court system suffers from budget cuts

  Feb 02 2012 The New York court system is suffering the effects of the $170 million in budget cuts made in the 2011-12 period, with widespread court delays, shortages of... 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

• Dubai International Financial Centre Courts open for business

  Jan 13 2012 The Dubai International Financial Centre Courts have ruled upon the first case to involve litigants outside of the Centre – opening the way for other international... more

• Third-party litigation funding changes the game in the UK

  Dec 29 2011 Here is an interesting article in The Guardian about third party funding of litigation, where a disinterested third party takes on the financial risk of another's... more

• Dubai to operate common law courts in English language

  Nov 09 2011 Dubai has expanded the jurisdiction of the financial free-zone courts to allow foreign companies doing business in Dubai the option of using English-speaking courts to... more

• An anatomy of the Indian legal profession by Kian Ganz

  Oct 31 2011 Kian Ganz, the publishing editor of www.LegallyIndia.com, here gives a brief anatomy of the legal services industry in India. The scale of the industry in India is... more

• Indian firm J. Sagar Associates hires Herbert Smith attorney

  Oct 10 2011 Indian firm J. Sagar Associates has hired Promod Nair as a Partner in the Bangalore office. Nair previously working as a Senior Associate with Herbert Smith’s... more

• Baker & McKenzie boosts Singapore disputes practice with Ang & Partners hire

  Oct 06 2011 Baker & McKenzie’s Singapore member firm Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow has hired senior counsel Chan Leng Sun from Singapore firm Ang & Partners, and appointed him as... more

• Cuts to legal aid in the UK eliminate an important 'reality check' for litigants

  Aug 11 2011 An interesting article here from The Guardian about the effect that cuts in legal aid may have upon the British court system and those that use it to try and get... more

• NY Attorney General argues against opening law firms to outside investment

  Jul 26 2011 US law firm Jacoby & Meyers has brought a case seeking to overturn New York Court Rule 5.4, which prohibits law firms from accepting outside investment. The firm... more

• Poor security at Bombay Sessions courts

  Jul 13 2011 It should not have taken the incident of armed men entering the sessions court premises in month of May 2011, to raise an alarm regarding the lax security at one of... more

• Young lawyers training programme kicks off at NLU Delhi

  Jun 27 2011 The Union Law Ministry has launched the Rajiv Gandhi Advocates Training Programme to train young advocates practicing in Magistrate and Munsif courts. Announcing... more

• Government of India approves infrastructure funding for lower courts

  Jun 27 2011 Good news for the lower courts of India - the Government has decided to invest in adequate infrastructure to reduce the backlog of cases. The decision follows the... more

• The Indian legal market - problems and prospects

  May 12 2011 The Lawyer has hosted a series of discussions on issues arising from the Indian legal market. The panel was chaired by Law Society chief executive Des Hudson, and... more

• India to reform court processes for IP disputes

  May 09 2011 In a move designed to encourage greater business investment in India, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily is set to introduce a bill to establish specialised commercial... 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

• UK to shake up civil litigation rules

  Apr 04 2011 The UK government is considering changes to civil litigation rules in an attempt to ensure that the administration of justice is quicker and cheaper. One of the... more

• Funding cuts are destroying access to justice, says ABA president

  Feb 16 2011 Underfunding of the US justice system is threatening the principle of equal justice under law, according to American Bar Association President Stephen N. Zack. In... more

• The demise of the trial lawyer

  Feb 14 2011 Court statistics show a trend away from jury trials, with disputes increasingly being settled by alternative means outside the courtroom. U.S. District courts had... more

• HC vs. SC: Indian Supreme Court stands by comment that “something is rotten” in Allahabad HC

  Dec 10 2010 The Supreme Court has upheld its remarks that “something is rotten in the Allahabad High Court and the High Court really needs some house cleaning”. A Supreme Court... more

• Allahabad Supreme Court accuses High Court judges of corruption

  Dec 06 2010 The Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra had come down on the Allahabad High Court and had said, “something is rotten in... 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

• UK defamation cases reach ten year high

  Oct 13 2010 The UK saw more defamation claims last year than in any year since 1998, according to London law firm Reynolds Porter Chamberlain. A total of 298 claims were issued... more

• Re-upped: Centre to formulate uniform sentencing policy by courts;Justice SU Khan says order to unlock Ayodhya site was given in 'undue haste'

  Oct 12 2010 In the wake of negative reactions being expressed by various members of the public regarding different sentences being handed down for similar cases, the Centre is... more

• Judicial Accountability Bill gets cabinet nod: Charges against judges to be taken more seriously?

  Oct 12 2010 With the instances of judicial corruption increasing in recent times, the Union Cabinet has given its nod to the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill, 2010... more

• Saket Courts Complex opens in Delhi amidst Judges testing positive for Dengue

  Aug 30 2010 The Saket Court Complex is finally opening its doors. The much awaited Courts Complex was to open in December 2009, last year. more

• UK government slashes justice funding

  Aug 17 2010 Access to justice is under threat in the UK following a series of budget cuts. The Ministry of Justice plans to cut £2 billion from it £9 billion budget, while a... more

• India: 14,008 courts need nearly $2 billion for infrastructure

  Jul 22 2010 The Law Minister at a press conference today announced a Rs. 14,000 crore package to be rolled out over the next five years to tackle the backlog of 2.71 crore pending... more

• Chief Justice takes the initiative, sets up a second Bench

  Jul 19 2010 The Chief Justice of India (CJI) is in no mood to listen to the excuses of the government. CJI S.H. Kapadia announced last week that the work of the apex court Forest... more

• Negligence proceedings against lawyers on the rise

  Jul 16 2010 Lawyers are facing more negligence suits than ever before, according to a report released by Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, which indicates that legal proceedings... more

• US courts clogged with debt recovery litigation

  Jul 14 2010 Processes for recovery of consumer debt are in need of urgent reform according to critics who point to the flood of lawsuits clogging US courts. The Federal Trade... more

• Trademark Registry to recruit 40 Joint Registrars to beat the backlog

  Jul 13 2010 As per the recent data published by The Trade Marks Registry, Mumbai and its branch offices at Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have a backlog of about one lakh... more

• India plans to reduce pendency of cases from 15 to 3 years

  Jun 25 2010 Indian Minister of Law and Justice, Veerappa Moily announced the ‘National Litigation Policy’ (NLP) to reduce the average time of pending cases in India from 15 years... more

• Judiciary crisis in Pakistan

  Feb 15 2010 Justice Sharif, Justice Nisar reject govt decision Updated at: 1913 PST, Saturday, February 13, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice Lahore High Court Justice Khwaja... more