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  Death penalty highly desirable: Ram Jethmalani

  India | February 22, 2015 17:13 IST

  New Delhi: Senior advocate and MP Ram Jethmalani vehemently opposed the idea of abolishing death penalty in India adding that the possibility of incorrect convictions was very miniscule. He was addressing a symposium in the

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  Lawyers get parking space for 300 vehicles near Supreme Court

  India | January 18, 2015 10:28 IST

  New Delhi: Parking woes of lawyers practising in the Supreme Court will soon be a thing of the past as the India Trade Promotion Organisation's (ITPO) has provided them parking space across the road to

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  Lawyers dominate Modi's cabinet

  India | June 08, 2014 10:48 IST

  New Delhi: One-third of the Union Council of Ministers are law degree holders while two are doctors and nine graduates in various other streams.Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Rajnath Singh are among 12

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  Ghaziabad lawyers' agitation turns violent

  India | April 18, 2014 7:34 IST

  Ghaziabad: The two-day-old Ghaziabad lawyers' agitation turned violent on Thursday after the police failed to act against allegedly erring constables who Sunday manhandled the former bar association secretary inside a police station.The lawyers who were

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  Musharraf should be tried in military court: Lawyers

  World | February 11, 2014 16:50 IST

  Islamabad: Pervez Musharraf's lawyer today argued in a special court conducting his treason trial that the embattled former Pakistani military ruler's case should be heard by a military court.Musharraf's lawyer Khalid Ranjha told the special

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  Ugandans case: Angry exchanges, Delhi Commission for Women refuses to hear Somnath Bharti's lawyers

  India | January 24, 2014 17:24 IST

  New Delhi: The Delhi Commission for Women today refused to hear the lawyers who had come on behalf of Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti to give his representation in connection with the alleged misbehaviour with

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  Pistorius lawyers still negotiating settlement

  Other Sports | January 23, 2014 19:08 IST

  Cape Town, South Africa: Oscar Pistorius' lawyers have been negotiating an out-of court settlement for nearly six months with representatives of the parents of slain girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, which a legal expert says could be

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  Lawyers demand recall of collegium's recommendations

  India | January 13, 2014 7:01 IST

  Chennai: Tamil Nadu unit of All India Lawyers Union yesterday demanded immediate recall of 12 names recommended by the collegium of the Madras High Court for appointment as Additional Judges of the Court, and sought

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  Agra HC bench demand: Lawyers plan to gherao Taj today

  India | August 26, 2013 9:32 IST

  Agra:  Police and district administration have made elaborate arrangements to thwart an attempt by lawyers from the Agra and Aligarh divisions to gherao the Taj Mahal today to focus public attention on their demand for

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  Lawyers march in Delhi, demand support for Tamils in Sri Lanka

  India | March 19, 2013 15:48 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 19 : A group of lawyers protested in Delhi today and demanded from the  Indian government to support the UN resolution on war crimes against Sri Lanka.Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is

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  Lawyers, women activists slam retaining minimum age of consent for sex to 18 years

  India | March 18, 2013 22:14 IST

  New Delhi, Mar 18: Lawyers and activists Monday slammed the government for agreeing to retain the age of consent at 18 years in the anti-rape bill that it plans to introduce in the Lok Sabha

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  Lawyers go on rampage in Jaipur, clash with police

  India | March 07, 2013 17:33 IST

  Jaipur, Mar 7 :  Agitating lawyers today clashed with police and went on a rampage torching a vehicle and vandalising a check post to protest against yesterday's police action against them during a march to

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  Jaipur to Chandigarh, lawyers clash with police

  India | March 06, 2013 20:21 IST

  Jaipur/Chandigarh, Mar 6: Clashes Wednesday between agitating lawyers and police in Jaipur and Chandigarh left nearly a dozen people injured.Lawyers and police officers were among the injured in clashes outside the state assembly in Jaipur

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  Work in courts affected by lawyers' stir

  India | July 11, 2012 21:11 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 11 : The judicial proceedings in various courts across the country was paralyzed today as the lawyers, responding to the Bar Council of India's call to protest against the government's Higher Education

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  Lawyers ransack Odisha collector's residential office

  India | April 24, 2012 20:06 IST

  Sambalpur (Odisha), Apr 24: Irate lawyers here today chased the district collector, abused her and ransacked her residential office alleging highhandedness, police said.Collector Mrinalini Darswal and Sambalpur Bar Association president Pramod Kumar Rath lodged FIR

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  Advocates Attack Mediapersons; Judicial Probe Ordered

  India | March 02, 2012 22:20 IST

  Bangalore, Mar 2: High drama was witnessed today outside the civil court here when unruly lawyers attacked mediapersons and pelted stones damaging OB vans, leaving at least 20 scribes and police personnel injured.  A judicial

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  Lawyers Observe Day-Long Strike To Protest Anna's Arrest

  India | August 17, 2011 22:42 IST

  New Delhi, Aug 17: The work in all the six district courts here came to a grinding halt today as lawyers observed a day-long strike to protest the arrest of Gandhian Anna Hazare and non-inclusion

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  Hotel Maid Could Not Have Survived Cross-Examination, Say Lawyers

  World | July 02, 2011 15:46 IST

  New York, Jul 2: The criminal case against disgraced IMF MD Dominique Strauss-Kahn is mortally wounded by revelations about his accuser's tissue of lies, say legal experts, according to The New York Post.  Prosecutors admitted

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  Congress, Lawyers Slam Gujarat Govt For Destroying 2002 Riot Records

  Politics | June 30, 2011 18:35 IST

  Ahmedabad, Jun 30: Opposition Congress and lawyers representing riot victims today severely criticized the Gujarat government for destroying crucial State Intelligence Bureau (SIB) records pertaining to the 2002 riots period.  “The records were destroyed to

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  Doctors, Lawyers Join Anti-Mubarak Protests In Cairo

  World | February 10, 2011 19:46 IST

  Cairo, Feb 10: Doctors in white lab coats and lawyers in black robes streamed into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Thursday as labor unrest across the country gave powerful momentum to Egypt's wave of anti-government protests.