
Facebook Inc's bungled initial public offering has gone from one of the most highly anticipated stock offerings to a hot legal opportunity for lawyers on both sides of shareholder litigation. Court battles over the fizzled IPO could run for years, as the social networking company, the banks that took it public and the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc face claims that they short-changed investors. Besides fighting off claims by Facebook shareholders,...

03:39 AM, May 26, 2012

Three judges from the Saket court were attacked by two men on a motorbike following an accident on Thursday evening. ...

02:24 PM, May 18, 2012

New Delhi: Lawmakers should "re-think" on the existing law regarding "age of consent" for sex keeping in mind the changing "social attitudes", a Delhi court has said. "It is time for the legislators to have a re-think regarding existing law by creating certain exceptions and of making allowances regarding the age of the consent/protection keeping in view the changing social attitudes and social sensibilities," Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau said....

12:07 PM, Apr 29, 2012

Bangalore: High Court Chief Justice Vikramajit Sen, commenting on Lokayukta officer RK Dutta's report on the March 2 violence at City Civil Court Complex, said it may order a CBI probe if the police cannot conduct a free and fair investigation into the incident. Advocate General S Vijay Shankar stated that the government has appointed Pranab Mohanty (IGP and Joint Commissioner of Police - Crimes (West), Bangalore) for further investigation....

02:17 PM, Mar 27, 2012

Bangalore: Advocates in Karnataka on Tuesday called off their 18-day stir to demand action against police and mediapersons for 'assaulting' some of them during the March 2 violence in the civil court premises after the government assured them that appropriate action would be taken against those found guilty. "Action will be initiated against police found guilty by the probe committee, led by DIG (CID) RK Dutta," Minister for Home R...

06:32 PM, Mar 20, 2012

Bangalore: Police officials in Bangalore are likely to wear black badges on Friday in protest against the recent brawl between lawyers and mediapersons outside a court, in which, several policemen, including a DGP, were hurt. Last week, lawyers at the City's Civil court assaulted media persons and policemen. The bar council also went against a Supreme Court directive and boycotted court proceedings - demanding the release of 4 arrested lawyers...

09:13 AM, Mar 09, 2012

Bangalore: In an unusual action, police have decided to stage a black badge protest in Bangalore on Friday seeking action against lawyers who assaulted their personnel in last week's violence in the City Civil Court complex, amid the worsening Advocates-Media-Police confrontation. Police hit out at efforts by advocates in slapping "false cases" against them which they see as an attempt to put pressure on the High Court over the March...

11:32 PM, Mar 08, 2012

Bangalore: Members of Karnataka State Police Family Members' Association on Thursday staged a demonstration in Bangalore demanding stringent action against the advocates who recently assaulted police and mediapersons. Over 100 members belonging to the Association shouted slogans against the advocates as well as the state government and demanded that government handover probe to the CBI instead of a judicial probe. Addressing mediapersons, the members said at least 50 police personnel...

01:47 PM, Mar 08, 2012

Mumbai: The CBI on Tuesday claimed to have unearthed a conspiracy of dilution of charges against the accused in the muti-crore Adarsh housing scam and arrested its own counsel and a former Congress MLC, who is already an accused in the housing case. The CBI stumbled upon the case with the arrest of an Income Tax lawyer J K Jagiasi who allegedly asked an Air India official, accused in one...

03:49 PM, Mar 06, 2012

New Delhi: Legal services across Karnataka were hit on Monday after a resolution by the state Bar Council called for a boycott of the courts. The move clearly violates the Supreme Court's directions that bar councils cannot sponsor the boycott of court proceedings. The Karnataka State Bar Council directed all lawyers to stay away from the courts on Monday to protest police action against them in a recent clash between...

11:52 AM, Mar 05, 2012

New Delhi: Legal services across Karnataka are likely to be crippled on Monday as the state Bar Council has passed a resolution calling for the boycott of courts. The move clearly violates the Supreme Court's directions that bar councils cannot sponsor the boycott of court proceedings. But the Karnataka State Bar Council has gone ahead and directed all lawyers to stay away from courts to protest police action. Three lawyers...

07:09 AM, Mar 05, 2012

Bangalore: The Karnataka State Bar Council on Sunday directed all lawyers across the state to stay away from the courts on Monday in protest against the police "excess" on some of its members on Friday when some advocates attacked mediapersons and policemen at the city civil court complex. "As a mark of protest against police excess on a section of lawyers at the city civil court complex and blaming the...

12:53 AM, Mar 05, 2012

Bangalore: Facing heat from the media over its 'inaction', police on Saturday arrested four advocates in connection with attack on media personnel by a section of lawyers during the mayhem that rocked the city civil court. The arrests came after the media in the state rejected the judicial probe into Friday's attack as "eyewash" and demanded that the guilty advocates be brought to book immediately. Special police squads set up...

09:55 PM, Mar 03, 2012

Bangalore: All courts will be shut on Saturday after Friday's violence the city's civil court premises. Hundreds of lawyers took on media persons at the court barring them from entering the premises and also threw stones and bottles on them. Several journalists and policemen were injured and a few cameras and media vans were damaged too. Karnataka Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda will meeting the Karnataka Home Ministry and law department...

07:35 AM, Mar 03, 2012

A video journalist for a Kannada channel was injured in the head while several others suffered blows. ...

10:35 PM, Mar 02, 2012