Bar, Bench & Firm News Law Firm ‘Khaitan Legal Associates’ has been started by Sakate Khaitan and three Clasis senior associates. August 30, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Law Firm ‘Khaitan Legal Associates’ has been started by Sakate Khaitan (a Clasis Law co-founding partner ) and three other Clasis senior associates. Offices will be located both in Mumbai and London. Other co-founding partners in the firm will be Radhika Iyer, Sangeeta Jhunjhunwala and Satyendra Shrivastava with a headcount of 11 fee-earners. Work has been divided among […] Read more » Law Firm 'Khaitan Legal Associates' has been started by Sakate Khaitan
Bar, Bench & Firm News Vedanta GC Ajit Yadav sets up own law firm Lexaya Partners. August 30, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Vedanta GC Ajit Yadav sets up own law firm Lexaya Partners. Ajit Yadav, the has started up the law firm Lexaya Partners four months ago. It is a corporate and business law advisory firm which will focus on corporate law, power, infrastructure, ports, natural resources, indirect tax, IP and litigation. General Counsel Ajit Yadav has experience of working with Fox Mandal ,Patni Computer Systems, PepsiCo India, Ranbaxy Laboratories and […] Read more » ajit yadav Ajit Yadav sets up own law firm Lexaya Partners Lexaya Partners Vedanta Group’s former general counsel
Bar, Bench & Firm News SIAC deputy registrar Vivekananda Neelakantan will join top Singaporean firm Allen & Gledhill August 27, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment SIAC deputy registrar Vivekananda Neelakantan will join top Singaporean firm Allen & Gledhillas international counsel, as Singapore-bound arbitration volumes have boomed upto 300% in recent years. In October 2014 he would be joining Allen’s arbitration team, which had poached a team from rival Rajah & Tann a year ago. 2013 saw a record 259 cases […] Read more » SIAC deputy registrar Vivekananda Neelakantan will join firm Allen & Gledhill SIAC deputy registrar Vivekananda Neelakantan will join top Singaporean firm Allen & Gledhill Vivekananda Neelakantan will join firm Allen & Gledhill
Bar, Bench & Firm News J Sivanandaraaj (Kochhar & Co Chennai litigation head and senior equity-sharing partner) is going independent. August 27, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment J Sivanandaraaj (Kochhar & Co Chennai litigation head and senior equity-sharing partner) is going independent with his team of 15 lawyers. As per him, all the major law firms like Amarchand, AZB [and other big firms] were sending their work to him but because of this arrangement with Kochhar & Co, they had stopped sending […] Read more » J Sivanandaraaj going independent to work Kochhar & Co Chennai litigation head
Consumer Law News Top Law News DJB told to collect cess from water-packaging companies August 24, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal has directed the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) to collect a water cess of Rs.50,000 per year from all water-packaging industries in Bawana and Narela here for extracting groundwater from its inception till December 31, 2012. The order was passed by the Tribunal after noting that these industries had failed to pay […] Read more » cess from water-packaging companies
Media & Entertainment News Top Law News PK row: Court asks Aamir Khan to reply to suit against nude pose August 24, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A civil court has asked Bollywood actor Aamir Khan to file a reply to a civil suit filed against him seeking a ban on the poster and release of film ‘PK’, where he is seen in the buff standing on railway tracks with a radio. The direction was given by Civil Judge M S Sharma […] Read more » Aamir Khan to reply to suit against nude pose PK row
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News HC dismisses plea challenging recovery proceedings August 24, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras High Court has dismissed a plea challenging recovery proceedings initiated by a bank under Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act against a borrower but gave liberty to the latter to avail remedy provided under the Act before concerned debt recovery tribunal within two weeks. (Source:PTI) Read more » plea challenging recovery proceedings Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets
Family Law News Top Law News Madras HC orders police protection to Rajasthan girl who fears honour killing August 24, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Madras high court on Friday ordered police protection, if necessary, to a Rajasthan girl who apprehended honour killing at the hands of her own family members. Manju, 19, married a Tamil youth from Coimbatore in April this year and she was taken to Rajasthan by her parents by force later. A division bench of […] Read more » honour killing inter-caste marriage Justice P N Prakash Justice S Rajeswaran police protection to Rajasthan girl who fears honour killing
Top Law News SC to pronounce verdict on Coal block allocation on Monday August 24, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce on Monday its judgement on a batch of petitions seeking quashing of coal blocks allocation during the previous UPA regime. A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha has examined the allegations about alleged irregularities in the allocation of around 194 coal blocks without following proper guidelines. […] Read more » Chief Justice R M Lodha justices M B Lokur Kurian Joseph verdict on Coal block allocation
Bar, Bench & Firm News Khaitan & Co added three new partners August 23, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Khaitan & Co (leading Law Firm of India) has inducted three new associate partners Mr. Deepto Roy, Mr. Mohit Abraham and Mr. GT Thomas Phillippe, these three are co-founders of New Delhi based law firm ‘PXV Law Partners’. In the year 2008 Mr. Rohit Das and Mr. Pingal Khan founded a law firm in the name RDA […] Read more » Khaitan & Co law firm law firm Khaitan & Co law firm PXV PXV
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News SC to hear petitions against scrapping of collegium system August 21, 2014 / August 31, 2014 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on SC to hear petitions against scrapping of collegium system Four PILs have been filed in the Supreme Court for declaring the NJAC move as unconstitutional The Supreme Court will hear on Monday a batch of petitions challenging the 121st constitutional amendment by which collegium system for appointment of judges in higher judiciary was scrapped and a new mechanism under National Judicial Appointment Commission (NJAC) […] Read more » Bar Council of India Chief Justice Appointment collegium system judges appointment panel judicial appointments Judicial Appointments Commission petitions against scrapping of collegium system Ravi Shankar Prasad Union Cabinet
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Top Law News Parliament approval to bill to end collegium system August 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Parliamentary approval was accorded to two bills seeking to end the collegium system for appointment of judges with the Rajya Sabha Thursday adopting the measure as passed by the Lok Sabha Wednesday. The Constitution (99th Amendment) Bill, which seeks to put the proposed judicial appointment commission and its entire composition in the constitution, and the […] Read more » bill to end collegium system National Judicial Appointments Commission
