Top Law News Train young lawyers to understand profession,ethics January 21, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India J S Khehar today urged the Bar Council of India to train young lawyers to make them understand the profession and its work ethics. He also asked the apex lawyers’ body, BCI, to improve the quality of legal institutions by training and helping litigants and make the lawyers competent enough to […] Read more » Bar Council of India BCI Chief Justice of India Court featured Law Legal News \ J S Khehar
High Profile Cases Law Ministry faced flak over vacancies in courts in 2016 December 26, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment 2016 can be summed up as a year when the Law Ministry came under constant fire of outgoing Chief Justice of India T S Thakur for rising vacancies in the higher judiciary even as its efforts to finalise a document to guide appointments in high courts and the Supreme Court failed. On its part, the […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Court featured Law Law Ministry faced flak over vacancies in courts Legal News T S Thakur
Top Law News Justice J S Khehar to be the 44th CJI December 7, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, who led the five-judge constitution bench in the Supreme Court which had struck down the controversial NJAC Act for appointment of judges, was today recommended as the 44th Chief Justice of India. Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today wrote a letter recommending the name of Justice Khehar, who is […] Read more » Chief Justice of India CJI Court featured Justice J.S. Khehar Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News CJI recuses from hearing PIL seeking norms for raids September 6, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today recused himself from hearing a PIL seeking framing of guidelines for safeguarding rights of public against alleged misuse of powers by probe agencies during search and seizure. As the plea contained details of recent searches conducted at the houses of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, Justice […] Read more » Chief Justice of India CJI Court featured Law Legal News PIL seeking norms for raids T S Thakur
High Profile Cases CJI not happy with PM skipping issues of judiciary in I-Day speech August 16, 2016 by Legal India News | 1 Comment on CJI not happy with PM skipping issues of judiciary in I-Day speech Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today expressed dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi not mentioning the problems faced by the judiciary in his speech on the occasion of 70th Independence Day, and said he was expecting some words about the judges’ appointments. “I think I have reached the peak of my career, so […] Read more » Chief Justice of India CJI Court featured Law Legal News Supreme Court T S Thakur
Top Law News 3.08 crore cases pending in HCs, lower courts: Govt April 29, 2016 / April 30, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Despite disposal of over two crore litigations last year, over three crore cases are still pending in the 24 high courts and various lower courts in the country, Rajya Sabha was told today. The latest figures have come even as Chief Justice of India T S Thakur had on Sunday lamented that the judge-to-people ratio in […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Court featured High Court Law Legal News Rajya Sabha TS thakur
Top Law News No worry till judiciary’s independence is intact December 6, 2015 / December 7, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Terming the debate on intolerance as a “political issue”, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur today said there is no need to fear or worry till the judiciary is “independent” and upholds the rule of law. “Yeh siyasi pahlu hain (this is a political issue). We have a Rule of Law. So long as […] Read more » Chief Justice of India featured Legal News No worry till judiciary's independence is intact T S Thakur
Top Law News Justice T S Thakur to be next Chief Justice of India November 4, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Justice TS Thakur would succeed Justice HL Dattu as the next Chief Justice of India. Justice Thakur, the senior-most judge of the apex court, will take over as the CJI after Justice Dattu retires on December 2. His name was recommended to the government by Justice Dattu on Monday, official sources said. After the law […] Read more » Chief Justice of India featured Justice T S Thakur to be next Chief Justice of India Justice T.S. Thakur Law Legal News Supreme Court
Top Law News Govt to seeks jurists’ views on bill to scrap collegium system July 28, 2014 / July 28, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Displaying earnest, government will seek the views of jurists and former judges on the proposed Judicial Appointments Commission bill it plans to bring in Parliament to replace the present collegium system where judges appoint judges. Sources said Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will listen to top jurists and former judges on Monday to elicit their […] Read more » Amendment apex court Arun Jaitley Chief Justice of India composition controversy corruption courts Gopal Subramanium Govt to seeks jurists Judicial Appointments Commission bill Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad news Ravi Shankar Prasad The Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news UPA government
Top Law News Subramanium among first choice of CJI July 19, 2014 / July 19, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Senior lawyer Gopal Subramanium, whose name was left out by the Centre for elevation as Supreme Court judge, today emerged as the first choice of Chief Justice of India R M Lodha to try the high and mighty in the coal blocks scam cases. “If I failed in something you (lawyers appearing in the matter) […] Read more » cheif justice of india Chief Justice of India CJI coal blocks allocation scam cases newly-appointed Solicitor General Ranjit Kumar news Senior lawyer Gopal Subramanium Subramanium Subramanium among first choice Supreme Court judge todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Increased workig hours can work successfully: CJI July 15, 2014 / July 15, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Dispelling doubts of lawyers’ bodies on his proposal to increase court’s working hours to reduce pendency of cases, Chief Justice of India RM Lodha on Monday said that the proposal was successfully first tried in Patna High Court when he was heading it. Justice Lodha said that after getting Bar Associations of Patna High Court […] Read more » Chief Justice of India news RM Lodha Supreme Court Supreme Court Bar Association todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Trace Modi’s wife: Letter asks CJI, Delhi CJ April 30, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment An advocate from Meerut has written a letter to the Chief Justice of India and Delhi High Court Chief Justice seeking their intervention for the “safety and security” of BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi’s wife Jashodaben, alleging she has been “wrongfully confined at some unknown place”. “It is seriously apprehended that she has been […] Read more » Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Justice of India Delhi High Court Jashodaben Narendra Modi news todays news todays top news Top news Varanasi
