lawyers
- India
CJI Surya Kant expresses confidence in young lawyers on I-Day
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday, August 15, said the nation has overcome several formidable challenges in the last eight decades but much remains to be done, urging…
- Middle East
Lebanese lawyers file complaint over banker’s Netanyahu meeting
Beirut: More than a dozen Lebanese lawyers filed a complaint at the prosecutor’s office in Beirut on Wednesday, July 29, against a prominent local banker, saying he violated the country’s laws by…
- Featured News
Beyond the bench: The many dimensions of Justice M. N. Rao
“One of the qualities of a scholar is largeness of heart and the generosity to guide the younger colleagues along.” A test that Amita Dhanda prescribes for scholars in her book “M N…
- India
Ram temple donation theft: Ayodhya Bar refuses to defend accused
Ayodhya: The Faizabad Bar Association, Ayodhya, on Monday, June 29, resolved that none of its members would represent the eight accused arrested in the alleged embezzlement of Ram temple donations, warning that…
- Education and Career
MS Education Academy prepares future lawyers through TG LAWCET
Hyderabad: “I chose the field of law because I want to serve society and stand up for justice.” These are the words of Mohammed Natiq Khan, who successfully qualified in TG LAWCET…
- World
Young lawyers key to judiciary’s tech transformation: CJI
New Delhi: Young lawyers, judicial officers and legal professionals are an encouraging source for the judiciary’s technological transformation, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant has said. Speaking at the Oxford Union on…
- India
Group of intellectuals, lawyers, social activists demand immediate end to SIR
New Delhi: A group of intellectuals, lawyers, students and social activists have demanded the immediate termination of the Special Intensive Review (SIR) of the electoral rolls, which they said is “against citizens’…
- India
CJI warns new advocates-on-record against outsourcing legal work to AI
New Delhi: Underlining the ethical obligations of the legal profession, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Friday, April 17, warned the newly qualified batch of advocates-on-record (AoRs) against outsourcing legal work…
- India
AI cannot replace training of a lawyer, discipline of a judge: SC judge
Hyderabad: Used intelligently, AI may save time and make some aspects of legal work more manageable, but it cannot replace the trained mind of a lawyer, the ethical responsibility of an officer…
- Kerala
Humble idli cooks up spicy storm on the internet
What can a tiny, humble yet healthy idli do? Quite a lot, it turns out. A decision by the Kerala High Court Advocates Association to postpone an idli-eating contest for its Muslim…
- Telangana
Lawyers protest over ‘mishandling’ of female advocate’s death in Rangareddy
Hyderabad: A group of lawyers on Wednesday, February 4, staged a protest at the Moinabad Police Station after the cops allegedly refused to file a complaint of a female lawyer’s murder in…
- Pakistan
Two Pakistan human rights lawyers jailed for 17 years
Islamabad: A Pakistani court on Saturday, January 24, sentenced two human rights lawyers to 17 years in prison each over social media posts the authorities claimed were hostile to the state and…
- Pakistan
Pakistan human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab, husband arrested
Islamabad: Pakistan’s prominent human rights lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and her husband, lawyer Hadi Ali Chattha, were arrested on Friday, January 23, while they were en route to a court in Islamabad.…
- India
CJI Kant asks lawyers to actively engage in justice system administration
New Delhi: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Thursday, January 15, called upon lawyers to wholeheartedly engage on the administrative side of the justice delivery system and move beyond “articulation of…
- India
Lawyers can’t be summoned by investigating officers unless approved by SP: SC
New Delhi: In a landmark verdict aimed at protecting lawyer-client privilege, the Supreme Court on Friday issued a slew of directions to curb arbitrary summoning of lawyers by probe agencies for rendering…
