barandbench.comadded August 2026
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha5d ago
The Delhi High Court commended a young advocate for being thoroughly prepared and arguing a case independently when his senior, representing the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in...
Bar and Benchby Ritwik Choudhury6d ago
The Supreme Court recently constituted a one-member high-powered independent committee headed by former Allahabad High Court Justice Sudhir Kumar Saxena to finalise the list of genuine members and...
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha6d ago
The Delhi High Court recently issued notice to the Delhi government on a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging a notification allowing the recruitment of additional public prosecutors (APPs)...
Bar and Benchby Pallavi Saluja6d ago
Joanne Lau was a partner in Allen & Overy's international arbitration practice, where she spent close to 12 years, before taking over as Secretary-General of the Hong Kong International Arbitration...
Bar and Benchby Shruthi Naik6d ago
The judge reportedly called such a shortage "glaring" and made a call for urgent steps to fill the vacancies.
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan6d ago
The Madras High Court recently refused to recall an interim order directing the addition of labels to bottled drinking water and packaged salt and sugar to disclose that such products may contain...
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench6d ago
The Allahabad High Court recently said that a husband cannot merely rely on social media messages to establish that his wife is continuously “living in adultery” without corroborative evidence of...
Bar and Benchby Arna Chatterjee6d ago
The Karnataka High Court recently held that allegations of body-shaming and verbally abusing another woman do not, by themselves, constitute the offence of insulting a woman’s modesty under Section...
Bar and Benchby Shanmugham D Jayan6d ago
Bar & Bench recently reported a case before the Supreme Court. The facts, simply put, are as follows: a private university encroached upon government land in Tamil Nadu, which had been allotted to...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan6d ago
Childlessness cannot by itself amount to cruelty and a wife cannot be blamed merely because a married couple is unable to conceive, the Madras High Court recently observed.
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S6d ago
A Bengaluru special court on Thursday remanded Ozone Urbana Infra Developers Pvt Ltd managing director Vasudevan Satyamurthy to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for 14 days following...
Bar and Benchby Bar & Bench6d ago
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday held that the disciplinary committee of a State Bar Council cannot suspend a lawyer at an interim stage of disciplinary proceedings against him [Akhilesh...
Bar and Benchby Swagta Nath6d ago
The Gujarat High Court recently upheld the dismissal of a Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) from service over allegations that he held three 'benami' mobile phones, and that he had failed to...
Bar and Benchby Ritwik Choudhury6d ago
A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court challenging two Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) orders that mandate the singing of all six stanzas of national song Vande Mataram at formal State...
Bar and Benchby Siddesh M S7d ago
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Karnataka High Court's direction constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by senior IPS officer Alok Kumar to conduct a de novo investigation...
Bar and Benchby Prashant Jha7d ago
The Delhi High Court has dismissed an application filed by Bihar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Raju Kumar Singh seeking suspension of his conviction in a case arising from the fatal shooting of...
Bar and Benchby Hiranya Bhandarkar7d ago
The Karnataka High Court has refused to quash Enforcement Directorate (ED) proceedings and its provisional attachment order against JSW Steel for allegedly having procured illegally mined iron ore...
Bar and Benchby Praisy Thomas7d ago
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday told the Travancore Devaswom Board (TDB) to exercise greater care while procuring supplies for making Nivedyam/ Prasadam at the Sabarimala temple after a plea...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan7d ago
The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that a corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) can continue even if the insolvency application that...
Bar and Benchby S N Thyagarajan7d ago
The Delhi High Court has upheld disciplinary proceedings against a Competition Commission of India (CCI) officer accused of tampering with witness statements recorded during a probe into alleged...
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