A government-constituted high-level committee on institutionalisation of arbitration mechanism in India has released its working paper, accessible on the LawMin website. The committee has invited...

In a commendable achievement, five students and alumni of West Bengal National University of Judicial Sciences (NUJS) have been offered admission to the LLM programme at Harvard Law School.The...

In a bid to support families of convicts serving prison sentence, the Kerala State Legal Services Authority has launched the Legal Aid for Socio-Economically Challenged Dependants of Convicts Scheme,...

Supreme Court Lawyer Atul Nanda has been appointed as Punjab’s next Advocate General. Senior Advocate Nanda will be taking over the reins from his predecessor advocate Ashok Aggarwal, who resigned...

Harking back to India’s inspiring journey from 0 per cent growth rate to the world’s fastest growing economy over the past 70 years, President Pranab Mukherjee spoke at length on the vitals of our...

Disappointed by the elevation of his junior to the Supreme Court, Karnataka High Court judge Justice HG Ramesh has turned down the offer to be appointed as the Madras High Court Chief...

The Bar Council of Delhi has extended the date for submission of educational certificates until further notice.As a result of some inconsistencies in the recording of documents, the council has...

With rapid advances towards a techno-driven society, the legal fraternity is up for some serious competition with business-making and financial-planning software.At JP Morgan, a programme called COIN...

A considerable spike in death sentence cases was witnessed last year, as per the annual statistical report of the Centre for Death Penalty for 2016.The report reflected on the rising trajectory of...

In its annual State of World’s Human Rights Report for 2016-17, Amnesty International (AI) has said the authorities have used repressive laws to curb freedom of expression and to silence critics.The...

In a significant move towards affordable healthcare, the government has slashed the prices of coronary stents by 80 per cent.The ceiling price of bare metal stents has been fixed at Rs. 7,260 and...

A viral petition by Virali Modi on Change.org, that highlights the dire need for disabled-friendly reforms in Railways, has the nation parading along with 93,000 supporters and counting. After...

Senior advocate Kishore Dutta will be the new advocate-general of West Bengal.The appointment comes after his predecessor barrister Jayanta Mitra stepped down on Tuesday before completion of his...

In a major blow to the international standing of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recommended that its re-accreditation...

In a major legal blow to President Donald Trump’s controversial scheme of temporarily prohibiting people from seven Muslim majority countries, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the...