barandbench.comadded August 2026
Bar and Benchby Debayan Roy24d ago
Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani on Monday sounded caution against "fixer lawyers" who facilitate bribery of judges.
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi24d ago
The Bombay High Court has issued notice to Maharashtra government on a public interest litigation (PIL) petition challenging the instructions that require women to seek court order for the medical...
Bar and Benchby Praisy Thomas24d ago
The Kerala High Court recently came to the aid of a 43-year-old widow who was denied the use of embryos she had preserved along with her husband during his lifetime at a hospital for assisted...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan24d ago
Using a vernacular version of a registered trademark may still amount to infringement if it is phonetically and visually similar to the original mark, the Madras High Court has held [Vikas Vs...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan24d ago
The Singapore High Court on September 9 rejected a claim by TCI Express CEO and Managing Director Chander Agarwal seeking S$468,090 from his former girlfriend, holding that money spent on her...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan24d ago
The Madras High Court recently quashed an animal cruelty case registered against a man accused of pelting a stone at his neighbour’s pet dog, after the dog allegedly bit and injured him [Balaji v.
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha24d ago
Right wing activist Swatantra Bhardwaj told a Delhi court on Monday that he was arrested by the Delhi Police due to political reasons and that it was the complainant who attacked him.
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench24d ago
The portrait of former Union Law Minister and Senior Advocate Ashoke Kumar Sen was recently unveiled at the Calcutta High Court Bar Library Club.
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench24d ago
The Allahabad High Court recently stayed the suspension of a teacher during the pendency of an enquiry against him over allegations that students at a government school were made to perform Islamic...
Bar and Benchby Pallavi Saluja24d ago
Chiann Bao is an independent arbitrator at ArbBoutique. Bao has arbitrated almost 150 cases worth billions of dollars and was recently appointed an international judge at the Bahrain International...
Bar and Benchby Giti Pratap24d ago
However, with the latest spate of judicial appointments, every High Court in India is being helmed by a full time Chief Justice.
Bar and Benchby Jai Raina24d ago
Every litigant in India has a stake in reducing court pendency. The Union government is no different, except that it is simultaneously one of the largest sources of that pendency and the body with...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan26d ago
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant on Friday proposed a common cross-institutional register containing details about an arbitrator’s conflicts, existing caseload, average time taken to deliver...
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S26d ago
The Karnataka High Court recently held that merely refusing to return a child’s volleyball and asking him to bring his father to get the ball back will not attract the offence of abetment of...
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S26d ago
The Karnataka High Court has dismissed an appeal challenging the appointment of Dr S Vidyashankar as Vice-Chancellor of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) at Belagavi [Yogesh B v.
Bar and Benchby Mohsin Dar26d ago
The High Court of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh recently observed that merely being an advocate does not place a person above the law and that, as an officer of the court, a lawyer is expected to...
Bar and Benchby Neha Joshi26d ago
Senior Advocate Saurabh Soparkar practices extensively before the Gujarat High Court, the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) and the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in Ahmedabad.
Bar and Benchby Siddhi Ghatlia26d ago
As is widely known, 29 separate central labour statutes, each with its own definitions, thresholds and procedures have now been repealed and consolidated into 4 Codes: the Code on Wages, 2019; the...
Bar and Benchby Praisy Thomas26d ago
Supreme Court Justice V Mohana on Friday drew parallels between law, music and cinema observing that all three involve interpretation and making sense of human experiences within their respective...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan26d ago
It would be impossible to regulate arbitrators in exactly the same manner as Supreme Court and High Court judges, former Supreme Court Justice AK Sikri said during a debate at India ADR Week 2026.
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