New Delhi: A female lawyer was found dead in the Wadala area of Mumbai on Thursday. A police officer said that the woman's throat was slit and that the neighbours informed the police. The police have taken her live-in partner into custody and he is being questioned. He is also said to be from the legal fraternity. The woman's father is said to be a Delhi-based IAS officer. More details...
02:44 PM, Aug 09, 2012
New York: Actress Katie Holmes and her lawyer, Jonathan Wolfe, went out on a dinner date. "The 33-year-old actress was dining with advocate Jonathan and his wife, Renee," people.com quoted a source as saying. Since filing for divorce from actor Tom Cruise last month, Holmes has embraced the single life and she's already landed a role in the Broadway play Dead Accounts. ...
11:58 AM, Jul 30, 2012
Coimbatore: Madras High Court Chief Justice M Yusuf Eqbal on Sunday hit out at lawyers who insisted on taking as legal fees a percentage of the compensation won by accident victims and their families. It is a normal practice for advocates to take a 20 to 30 per cent cut in the compensation awarded to accident victims, whose case they represent in the court. Seeking to draw a fine line...
12:27 PM, Jul 23, 2012
Bangalore: In response to the call given by the Bar Council of India, lawyers belonging to Karnataka State Bar Council will boycott courts on July 11 and 12 protesting against some new bills proposed to be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament. A member of the Bar Council of India, Bhoje Gowda told PTI, considering the impact of Higher Education Research Bill, 2011, the National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for...
02:18 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Los Angeles: Actor Tom Cruise says there's no way he would let go of his daughter Suri in his divorce with estranged wife Katie Holmes. The 50-year-old actor is adamant about getting meaningful and significant contact with his daughter post divorce, reports tmz.com. Lawyers from both the sides are trying to negotiate the deal by meeting on a regular basis. Both the parties even met for a full business meeting...
11:45 AM, Jul 10, 2012
Actor Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila, a Brazilian model, are expecting their third child, he said on his Twitter page. The couple were married last month at their home in Austin, Texas, after dating for several years. "Happy birthday America, more good news, Camila and I are expecting our 3rd child," McConaughey wrote on Twitter. McConaughey, 42, plays the manager of a male strip club in the movie Magic...
02:19 PM, Jul 05, 2012
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
The lawyer of Luke Pomersbach denied the cricketer had confessed to the police of having inadvertently touched or molested US citizen Zohail Hameed. ...
10:05 PM, May 21, 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
