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• UK Supreme Court rules that mandatory retirement policy is not age-discrimination

  Apr 30 2012 The UK Supreme Court has determined that law firm Clarkson Wright and James was within its legal rights when it told a partner to resign when he turned 65. The... more

• FoxMandal and Little & Co Make De-merger Settlement

  Feb 14 2012 Indian firms FoxMandal and Little have ended their five-year old alliance, de-merging with a settlement agreement after internal conflicts between the partners led to... more

• The right to challenge witnesses is tested in the US Supreme Court

  Dec 06 2011 Conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who regularly rules against criminals, is leading the pro-defendant charge in reversing convictions for murderers, drug dealers,... more

• Conversations with young lawyers on Jan Lokpal Bill

  Apr 12 2011 Bar & Bench spoke to young Indian lawyers Jayant Mehta practicing in the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court and Abhishek Sharma at Link Legal on the Lokpal Bill.... more

• Wal Mart pushes for greater diversity in outside counsel

  Mar 24 2011 It is the eve of one of the biggest class actions in US history, with the Supreme Court due next week to consider whether hundreds of thousands of women can band... more

• India: Supreme Court rejects bail plea of BCI member Dhanapal

  Feb 15 2011 The Supreme Court has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Bar Council of India (BCI) Vice Chairman, R. Dhanapal Raj. A Bench comprising of Justices B. Sudershan... more

• India: GNLU Law Review call for papers

  Jan 25 2011 The GNLU Law Review (TGLR) is the flagship of the Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, India. The Review is a general student edited law review published... more

• Regulation of lawyer ads relaxes in New York

  Dec 15 2010 Lawyer advertising is heavily regulated in the United States by state bar associations, but New York attorneys may have more room to move after the Supreme Court... more

• AIBE: SC allows Transfer Petitions to be clubbed together but sets no next date

  Dec 14 2010 The Supreme Court has allowed the Transfer Petition of all the writs in the various High Courts pertaining to the AIBE (All India Bar Examination) to be clubbed... more

• Indian Supreme Court admits its error: Death penalty avoided

  Dec 08 2010 The Supreme Court of India, in a rare admission, has accepted that two earlier judgments upholding the death sentence were a mistake and violation of human rights of... more

• Bayer goes down the wrong road on Indian patent protection litigation

  Dec 06 2010 The Supreme Court has dismissed German drug-maker Bayer’s appeal against the Delhi High Court’s decision to dismiss their suit Mumbai based Cipla, whom Bayer claims is... more

• Indian Supreme Court rejects claim for transparency in judicial appointments and transfers

  Nov 23 2010 The issue of information relating to the appointment and transfer of judges being made public is one again in the news. A plea filed by a RTI applicant seeking... more

• Shanti Bhushan unapologetic about corruption charges against judiciary

  Nov 11 2010 The former Law Minister, Shanti Bhushan is in the news again saying, he would rather face imprisonment than apologise for leveling corruption charges against the... more

• Salve to take disqualified BJP MLAs fight to the SC

  Nov 09 2010 Not letting the Karnataka High Court’s verdict deter them, the 11 disqualified BJP MLAs have approached the Supreme Court against the High Court’s decision and have... more

• SC cancels Ramalinga Raju’s bail: Mukul Rohatgi and a battery of counsels represent Raju and his brother

  Oct 27 2010 In a surprising development, the Supreme Court on Tuesday cancelled the bail of chief perpetrator of the Satyam scandal Ramalinga Raju (Raju) and five others including... more

• Supreme Court adjourns Bar Exam petition yet again: Time running out for students

  Oct 21 2010 The petitions against the implementation of the All India Bar Exam (AIBE) will have to wait for a few more days as the Supreme Court has once again adjourned the... more

• SC: Basic Computer skills must for judges

  Oct 18 2010 A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices Mukundakam Sharma and A.R. Dave said: “Judges should have basic computer knowledge at the time of appointment and a... more

• Justice Aftab Alam replaces Sirpurkar in Dinakaran probe panel

  Sep 29 2010 The Dinakaran probe panel has got itself a new head after Justice V.S. Sirpurkar recused himself following pressure from the Forum of Judicial Accountability. The 3... more

• Supreme Court rejects deferment plea in Ayodhya suit

  Sep 28 2010 The Supreme Court has rejected the deferment plea in the Ayodhya title suit. A three member bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, S.H. Kapadia and consisting of... more

• Supreme Court of India refuses to stay probe into alliance between Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways

  Sep 28 2010 The Supreme Court Bench comprising of the Chief Justice of India Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan along with Swatanter Kumar, has refused to... more

• Bar Exam: 9 petitions to be transferred to the Delhi High Court; Conversation with CEO of Rainmaker and BCI Spokesperson

  Aug 03 2010 The Supreme Court today heard the transfer petitions of writ petitions filed against the implementation of the All India Bar Exam (AIBE). 9 petitions have been filed... more

• ELP gets SC to admit CCI’s appeal

  Jul 08 2010 The Supreme Court on Wednesday admitted the Competition Commission of India’s appeal against the Competition Appellate Tribunal in the Jindal Steel vs. SAIL matter.... more

• Supreme Court says live-in relationships are fine but don’t expect ancestral property

  Jun 01 2010 The Supreme Court held that a child born out of a live-in relationship is not entitled to claim inheritance in Hindu ancestral coparcenary property (in the undivided... more

• Qualifying a reference to arbitrate - N. Radhakrishnan v. Maestro Engineers and Ors. reviewed

  May 26 2010 In this feature, authors Ruchi Mahajan and Jai Mohan of Amarchand Mangaldas discuss the implications of the judgment of the Supreme Court in N. Radhakrishnan v.... more

• ELP advise HAL on tax dispute in SC

  May 14 2010 The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Sales Tax and Value Added Tax departments of the Government of Karnataka in response to a Special Leave Petition... more

• Indian Supreme Court provides respite for Reddy brothers

  May 11 2010 A Special Bench comprising outgoing Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice Deepak Verma and Justice B.S. Chauhan, today allowed the Reddy quartet’s mining company,... more

• Woman Power in US SC: Former Harvard Law School Dean nominated as Judge; Preeta Bansal may be next Solicitor General

  May 10 2010 Former Dean of Harvard Law School and Solicitor General Elena Kagan has been nominated as the 112th Judge of the Supreme Court of United States reported New York... more

• Breather for RIL, Victory for Government; Window of hope for Anil Ambani

  May 10 2010 After 7 months of reaching the Supreme Court, it has finally delivered a judgment that may favour Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), the elder brother, Mukesh Ambani's... more

• Supreme Court of India: Narco Analysis and Brain mapping unconstitutional

  May 07 2010 The Supreme Court today declared today that forced narco-analysis, brain-mapping tests and polygraph tests are violative of Article 20(3) of the Constitution of India. more

• Conflict of interest - Ram Jethmalani and Kamini Jaiswal spat

  May 03 2010 "If two senior advocates fight like this in the Supreme Court, I wonder what would be the plight in the lower courts," remarked a three-judge bench headed by Justice... more

• Chaos at India's Supreme Court Bar Association: AoRs and Non AoRs clash

  Apr 23 2010 Chaos and mayhem reigned at the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) when Senior Counsel Ram Jethmalani was first declared as the President of SCBA and later had to... more

• Law firm co-founder Scott Rothstein officially disbarred

  Nov 27 2009 Fort Lauderdale attorney Scott Rothstein, co-founder of the 70 attorney-firm Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, has been disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court. Scott is... more

• Dispute of the day: Scrabble, Snake & Ladder, Monopoly are games - Supreme Court

  Nov 18 2009 An excise duty dispute has resulted in the classification of 'Scrabble' as a game, as against an educational toy or a puzzle. more

• Clifford Chance heads for Indian High Court showdown

  Nov 12 2009 The Supreme Court of India has requested Clifford Chance to provide details of its India-billings of more than a decade ago in its long-running dispute against the... more

• Ambani vs. Ambani: All eyes and ears on the Supreme Court as legal heavyweights begin the battle

  Oct 22 2009 News reports indicate that the value of the dispute is between $17 Billion (Rs. 81,600 Crores) to $75 Billion (Rs. 3,60,000 Crores). Numerically, the value of the... more

• Sotomayor avoids answers on abortion, guns in grilling

  Jul 16 2009 Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor sidestepped Republican questions on abortion and gun rights, keeping her demeanor cool and her opinions mostly private as she... more

• Judge Bork on Sotomayor: The ‘wise Latina’ is not qualified.

  Jul 15 2009 In the three-minute interview on on Campbell Brown’s CNN program, former Supreme Court Robert Bork said Sonia Sotomayor's “wise Latina” comment could disqualify her.... more

• Chrysler Fiat sale delayed by U.S. Justice Ginsburg

  Jun 09 2009 Chrysler's planned asset sale to a group led by Italy’s Fiat was delayed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who granted a request for a delay sought by state pension funds. more

• Pressure on Obama to name first hispanic Supreme Court Justice

  Nov 30 2008 For eight years of Clinton, then eight years of Bush, Carlos Ortiz has waited. With the election of Obama, Ortiz hopes he will have to wait no more to become the first... more