Vairam law office

29/10/2014

In a welcome move, the Supreme Court has enhanced the monthly stipend payable to those clerking at the apex court. The revision has raised the stipend from from Rs. 25,000 to Rs. 30,000 per month, effective...

26/10/2014

A litigation lawyer ends up making several trips to multiple courts each day, while being confined to a dress code of blacks and whites. When I was told that I would be working in the litigation team,...

21/10/2014

In what can potentially snowball into a major controversy, a Tamil news channel, Thanthi Television, has recorded and telecast Supreme Court proceedings in the bail application of Jayalalithaa which was heard on October 17.

18/10/2014

In a poignant appeal from jail, AIADMK general secretary Jayalalithaa, who will soon be out on bail, has asked party workers not to defame the judiciary and help to maintain law and order in the State. “The co

18/10/2014

The Supreme Court’s grant of bail on Friday to former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa and three co-accused centred on a basic point of criminal procedural law that courts are empowered to suspend the operat

09/10/2014

On September 27 this year, Justice RM Lodha retired as the forty-first Chief Justice of India (CJI). In my short stint as a journalist in the Supreme Court, during which time two other CJIs retired, Justice Lodha was given the most heartfelt farewell given to any of the CJIs; there was absolutely no…

07/10/2014

STRAHAN residents were first on the scene of a car crash that claimed the life of a 15-year-old girl on Friday night.

07/10/2014

07/10/2014

Bloomberg has recently released its third quarter report for 2014 on M&A activity in the Asia-Pacific region. Amarchand Mangaldas is the only Indian firm to have made it to both the Asia-Pacific (ex Japan) and South-East Asia deal count tables, ranked 11th with a market share of 2.4% from 44 deals,…

02/10/2014

On track to accepting admissions from the next year onwards, the Maharashtra National Law University is the sixteenth institute of its kind in the country. Over the years NLUs have been setup across the...

02/10/2014

VERUS Advocates has hired Siddharth Bhavnani as a Partner in the firm’s Delhi office with effect from October 1, 2014. Bhavnani had previously worked at Dua Associates’s Gurgaon office as a Manager, a firm he rejoined in 2013 following a short spell at Tatva Legal. It is understood that Bhavnani sha…

02/10/2014