Supreme Court Directs Bar Council Of India To Audit Disciplinary System For Advocates, Stresses Accountability In Legal Profession

The Supreme Court has directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to undertake a comprehensive performance audit of the disciplinary mechanisms administered by it and the State Bar Councils, emphasising that the legal profession's privilege of self-regulation must be matched by transparency, accountability and institutional effectiveness.While emphasizing the need for Continuing Legal Education for advocates, the Court also asked the Bar Council of India (BCI) to undertake a comprehensive...

Continuing Legal Education For Advocates Necessary : Supreme Court Urges BCI To Establish National Legal Academy

The Court also directed the Bar Council of India to undertake a comprehensive performance audit of its disciplinary framework.

Proof Of Attestation Not Proof Of Will's Genuineness When There Are Suspicious Circumstances: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court on Monday (July 6) held that where a Will is surrounded by suspicious circumstances, mere examination of an attesting witness(es) is not enough. The Court added that, in such circumstances, the propounder bears the additional burden of dispelling those doubts and satisfying the judicial conscience that the document truly represents the free and informed wishes of...

LiveLaw Supreme Court Weekly Digest: June 1 - 7, 2026

Administrative Law — Public Trust Doctrine — Prospective Regularisation based on Market Value — Reference date for valuation – Held that accepting the Banthia Committee's methodology, once an allotment is judicially declared illegal, the original concessional price becomes entirely irrelevant - Regularisation is not a continuation of the original transaction but a prospective...

Banks Cannot Blacklist Lawyers By Putting Them In Caution List : Supreme Court

Matters relating to professional misconduct of advocates fall within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Bar Councils.

Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With Delhi HC Order Allowing Wife To Seek Husband's Hotel, CDR Records To Prove Adultery

The Supreme Court refused to interfere with the Delhi High Court ruling permitting a wife to summon hotel records and the call detail records (CDRs) of her husband in matrimonial proceedings to substantiate allegations of adultery.A partial court working days bench of Justice Manmohan and Justice K. Vinod Chandran dismissed the appeal filed by the husband, declining to interfere with...

When Can A Judgment Be Declared 'Per Incuriam'? Supreme Court Explains

The Supreme Court on Tuesday reiterated that the doctrine of per incuriam is an exception to the rule of stare decisis and can be invoked only in limited circumstances, holding that a judgment may be declared per incuriam if its ratio is irreconcilable with an earlier decision rendered by a Bench of equal or larger strength or if it was delivered without considering a relevant...

Motor Accident Claims | Supreme Court Lays Down Law On Using ITRs To Assess Victim's Income

For bringing in a consistency in the mode of calculation of a deceased's annual income for determining the motor accident compensation claims, the Supreme Court has laid down comprehensive guidelines for assessing the annual income of victims in motor accident compensation cases, drawing a clear distinction between salaried employees and self-employed persons. A bench of Justice Sanjay Karol...

Citing AI-Generated Fake Precedents Is Advocate Misconduct; Judgments Based On Them Are Void : Supreme Court

It will be a serious lapse on the part of the judges to rely on such non-existent precedents, the Court cautioned.

Supreme Court Sets Aside NCLT Judgment For Using AI-Hallucinated Citations, Asks BCI To Examine Issue

The use of AI-generated fake judgments is "like the release of methyl isocyanide in the province of law and justice", the Court observed.

'Advocate Cannot Compromise Without Client's Authorisation', Supreme Court Explains Law On Compromise Decree

The Court upheld the setting aside of the 28-year-old compromise decree, as it was signed by the advocate without the client's express authorisation.

Representation Of People Act Doesn't Apply To Municipal Elections : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that the penal provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (RPA) do not apply to municipal elections, clarifying that candidates accused of filing false affidavits in local body polls can instead be prosecuted under the Indian Penal Code where the applicable municipal law does not provide a penal provision. A Bench of Justice Sanjay Karol and...