Odisha Law Students Association - OLSA

Orissa HC lawyers to go on protest against Administrative Tribunal's abolition - Bar & Bench Less than a week after the Supreme Court issued notice in a contempt petition against Delhi lawyers who …

Supreme Court Dismissed Odisha Government’s Appeal against Prakash Mishra:
Supreme Court today quashed the Odisha govt's special leave petition appeal challenging the June 19th High Court order quashing the vigilance case against CRPF DG & former Odisha DGP Prakash Mishra. Today case was heard by a bench of Justice J Chelemeshwar & Justice Abhaya Manohar Sapra. The Odisha govt fielded senior advocates Harish Salve & Avisekh Manu Singhvi to plead its case.

No compromise in r**e cases: SC blasts appellate judges for “puncturing” justice system - Bar &... A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and PC Pant unequivocally condemned the practice of allowing compromises in r**e cases.

Common Law Admission Test (CLAT)-2015 results:

Arindum Nayak emerged the state topper with AIR-128.
Anupam Nayak as 2nd in state rank with AIR-303.
Satabdi Dash as 3rd in state rank with AIR-391.

The newly elected office bearers of "The HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION, CUTTACK", 2015-16.

1. President: Sri Ashok Kumar Mohapatra (Sr.Advocate)

2. Vice-President: Sri Lalatendu Samantaray

3. Secretary: Sri Bijaya Kumar Ragada

4. Joint Secretary: Sri Karunakar Das

5. Asst.Secretary: Sri Rupesh Kumar Kanungo

6. Asst.Sec(Library): Sri Nikunja Kumar Deo

Executive Body Members:

1. Sri Bibhuti Bhusan Behera
2. Ms. Arundhati Sahu
3. Sri Pranaya Swain
4. Ms. Swayam Pragyan Kar
5. Sri Pradeepta Kumar Behera
6. Sri Suryakanta Satapathy
7. Sri Debasis Mishra
8. Sri Asis Kumar Mishra
9. Sri Sangram Mahapatra

The BCI and its new rules: What does it mean for non-litigation advocates? The recently issued Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules, 2015 (`the Rules') by the Bar Council of India (BCI) are likely to exclude many non-litigation advocates from `practising' law in India. The avowed purpose of the Rules is to save Bar Associations from slipping out of the ha…

BCI notifies (new) Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules; Senior Advocates,... A few months after introducing the Certificate and Place of Practice (Verification) Rules of 2014, the Bar Council of India has notified an amended version of these Rules.

Five new Seniors for Supreme Court; Two more women lawyers get the gown The Supreme Court of India today designated five lawyers as Senior Advocates. They are Rana Muhkerjee, Subramonium Prasad, Mahalakshmi Pavani, V Mohana and Sanjay Hegde. This decision was taken in a full court meeting of the Supreme Court judges held today evening. Mahalakshmi Pavani and V Mohana ha…

Judiciary Watch – Four HCs get new additional judges; Justice Waghela appointed Chief Justice of... The High Courts of Punjab & Haryana, Jharkhand, Orissa, and Patna today increased their strength through the appointment of additional judges. Justice D H Waghela, previously the Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, has been appointed as the Chief Justice of the Orissa High Court. Ramendra Jai…

When judging judges, does the Supreme Court of India chicken out? “Nemo est supra leges” – Nobody is above the law. As a journalist covering the Supreme Court of India, it is indeed fascinating that even today, lawyers, journalists and laymen have not forgotten the infamous tenure of one of the former Chief Justices of India – Justice KG Balakrishnan.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed a special court order to summon former PM Manmohan Singh and Aditya Birla group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla in connection with the allocation of a coal block to Hindalco in Odisha.

The special court dealing with the coal block allocation cases had summoned Singh and former coal secretary P C Parakh on April 8.

After hearing preliminary argument from senior advocate Kapil Sibal, Harish Salve, Ashwani Kumar and others, a bench headed by Justice Y Gopala Gowda issued notices to the CBI and the government and stayed all proceedings in the special court.

"We issue notice on all six petitions. The trial court order shall remain stayed," the bench said after hearing arguments by Sibal.

Coalgate - Sibal, Salve & Ors get stay on summons to Manmohan Singh, ex-Coal Secretary Parakh,... The Supreme Court today stayed the summons issued to the former Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh and industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla. The court was hearing an appeal filed against the order of the Special Judge trying the coal scam cases. A Division Bench comprising Justice Gopala Gowd…