SC suggests creating a dedicated fund for giving stipend to young lawyers for initial three years. It also calls for improving essential facilities for women lawyers across court complexes.
NLSIU’s Centre for the Study of the Legal Profession is set to examine the profession’s structures, norms, and practices through rigorous empirical research, sustained policy engagement.
At every transition, the profession loses women. Not because they lack competence or ambition. But because the institutions they enter were designed by men, for men.
SC Bar Association survey, the first of its kind, revealed 81% women lawyers had harder professional journey than male peers; 71.5% reported some form of professional impact due to marital status.
Of the 301 women advocates surveyed across Delhi-NCR, 95.4 percent emphasised the importance of stronger institutional policies in enabling women’s professional growth.
Panel of judges working on proposal to develop additional building in court premises that will accommodate new spacious courtrooms equipped with latest technology, it is learnt.
Former Delhi HC Bar Association president Rajiv Khosla was convicted on 29 Oct for assaulting lawyer Sujata Kohli in 1994. A section of male lawyers resolved to abstain from work Tuesday in protest.
A judge in Madras High Court once passed a comment on my short haircut. I protested but other male lawyers made me apologise. This is what women lawyers face.
I have absolutely no doubt that the Nandan Nilekani-led NEET committee will come up with a very relevant and useful set of recommendations. But will it help?
Government tells Parliament toll collections touched Rs 70,278 crore in 2025-26, Rajasthan has highest number of toll plazas, while expenditure on operating plazas is not maintained centrally.
Our education system is a destroyer of all talent by enforcing learning by rote, pushing students to coaching classes to ‘crack’ competitive exams. And then, papers leak.
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