High Profile Cases Outgoing CJI Gogoi declines requests for interviews and lauds media for maturity in trying times of Supreme Court. November 16, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi on Friday expressed his inability to have one-to-one interview with scribes and lauded the press for its “maturity” and “character” in preventing “canards and falsehood” in “trying times” of the judiciary. Justice Gogoi, the 46th CJI and the first from a north-eastern state, said it was not the […] Read more » CJI Dipak Misra Justice J. Chelameswar Justice Kurian Joseph Madan B Lokur Outgoing Chief Justice India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi Ranjan Gogoi
High Profile Cases CJI Gogoi to meet UP chief secretary and DGP to review law and order situation in UP. November 8, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi is likely to have a meeting with Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and director general of police on Friday to assess the law and order arrangement in the state ahead of the verdict on the Ayodhya land dispute case to be pronounced next week, sources said. The CJI has called […] Read more » Chief Justice of India Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi DGP Om Prakash Singh Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute Ranjan Gogoi UP Chief Secretary Rajendra Kumar Tiwari
Bar, Bench & Firm News Need to understand why law graduate’s natural choice is not legal profession: CJI August 17, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Saturday said there is a need to look at the role and functioning of lawyers and understand why a law graduate’s natural choice is not the legal profession in spite of great attractions and opportunities. The CJI said lawyers act as advocates and advisors of litigants and help […] Read more » CJI law graduates legal profession Need to understand Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News SC to hear plea challenging Rafale deal on October 10 October 9, 2018 / October 9, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear a fresh PIL against the Rafale deal between India and France on Wednesday. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S K Kaul and K M Joseph Monday said it will hear the PIL filed by lawyer Vineet Dhanda, who is seeking a direction to the Centre […] Read more » Advocate M L Sharma's plea PIL Rafale deal Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News Collegium: Further deliberation needed for elevating Judge to Supreme Court May 19, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court collegium has favoured “further deliberation” and “broad-based consideration” of names of Chief Justices of various high courts before sending its decision reiterating the elevation of Uttarakhand Chief Justice K M Joseph as a judge of the top court. The resolution of the May 16 collegium meeting, uploaded on the supreme court website […] Read more » Chief Justice Dipak Misra Chief Justice K M Joseph Collegium featured Indira Banerjee J Chelameswar Kurian Joseph M B Lokur R Subhash Reddy Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News Supreme Court: Woman can file complaint against ex-husband for cruelty even after divorce May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman can lodge a complaint under the domestic violence law against the excesses committed by her ex-husband even after the dissolution of marriage, the Supreme Court has said. The top court refused to interfere with the order of the Rajasthan High Court which held that the absence of subsisting domestic relationship in no manner […] Read more » ex-husband featured Navin Sinha R Banumathi Rajasthan High Court Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News Collegium meet on Justice K M Joseph’s elevation to Supreme Court concludes May 12, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A crucial meeting of the Supreme Court Collegium was held today to discuss the issue of reconsidering the name of Uttarakhand Chief Justice K M Joseph for elevation to the apex court, after it was returned by the Centre. Official sources said the members of the Collegium deliberated on the issue for nearly an hour. […] Read more » featured justices J Chelameswar K M Joseph's elevation Kurian Joseph M B Lokur Ranjan Gogoi Supreme Court collegium
High Profile Cases Top Law News Supreme Court to examine Shanti Bhushan’s PIL on allocation of cases April 14, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today decided to examine a PIL filed by former law minister Shanti Bhushan challenging the existing roster practice of allocation of cases by the Chief Justice of India (CJI). A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan sought the assistance of Attorney General K K Venugopal and Additional Solicitor General […] Read more » CJI featured J Chelameswar PIL Ranjan Gogoi Shanti Bhushan Supreme Court
High Profile Cases Top Law News PIL in SC over CJI’s administrative authority as of roster April 7, 2018 / April 7, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Senior advocate and former Law Minister Shanti Bhushan today filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking clarification on the administrative authority of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) as the master of roster and for laying down the principles and procedure to be followed in preparing it for allocation of cases. He filed the […] Read more » Chief Justice of India featured Kurian Joseph law minister M B Lokur PIL Prashant Bhushan Ranjan Gogoi
Top Law News SC judges row has been resolved: Bar Council of India January 15, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India (BCI) today said the crisis, which had erupted after four top Supreme Court judges came out openly against allocation of cases by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, has been resolved internally and the “story is over now”. BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, who led a seven-member delegation and held […] Read more » against allocation of cases by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra featured justices J Chelameswar Kurian Joseph Madan B Lokur Ranjan Gogoi SC crisis
Top Law News Court notice to centre; Reliance on gas price July 30, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to the Centre, Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) on a public interest litigation petition challenging the government’s decision to double the price to $8.4 per million British thermal unit (mmBtu) for gas produced from the KG basin. A Bench of Chief Justice P. […] Read more » BP Exploration (Alpha) Limited Chief Justice P Sathasivam Court notice to centre; Reliance on gas price CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta gas exploration Gurudas Dasgupta plea Justices Ranjana Desai KG-D6 national news natural gas price hike news NIKO Resources Ltd Petroleum Minister M. Veerappa Moily public interest litigation Ranjan Gogoi Reliance Reliance Industries Limited RIL todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Political parties shouldn’t promise freebies: SC July 5, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Political parties shouldn’t promise freebies: SC Freebies promised by political parties in their election manifestos shake the roots of free and fair polls, the Supreme Court on Friday said and directed the Election Commission to frame guidelines for regulating contents of manifestos. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi said though the election manifesto is published before the code of conduct comes into […] Read more » advocate S Subramaniam justices P Sathasivam national news news Political parties shouldn't promise freebies: SC Ranjan Gogoi todays news todays top news Top news
