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Nov 09, 2025

Bar Council of India Approves Kerala's Proposal to Reserve Seats for Trans Students

The Bar Council of India (BCI) granted interim approval to the Kerala government's proposal to create two supernumerary seats for transgender students in all law colleges across the state. The move is being hailed as a significant step towards inclusivity in legal education.
The approval follows a directive from the Kerala High Court on October 24, which had asked the BCI to consider and approve the government's request.
The Kerala government had submitted its proposal in August seeking permission to introduce additional seats under the transgender category in both three-year and five-year LLB programmes.

Nov 06, 2025

Allahabad High Court Designates 90 Lawyers as Senior Advocates

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday designated 90 lawyers including 5 women as Senior Advocates.
Majority of these advocates practice before Allahabad and Lucknow benches of the High Court.
A few of them practice before the Supreme Court and Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) in Lucknow.
While the Allahabad bench had 108 Senior Advocates as in May, the number stood at 32 in the Lucknow bench.

Nov 05, 2025

IDIA Karnataka Holds Law School 101 Bootcamp

The Karnataka Chapter of Increasing Diversity by Increasing Access to Legal Education (IDIA) conducted a two-day online bootcamp titled Law School 101.
IDIA is a non-profit, student-run movement that seeks to empower underprivileged and marginalised children through legal education.

Nov 03, 2025

Kerala High Court Launches Online Portal SheBoX for Women Staff to Register Sexual Harassment Com...

The Kerala High Court launched an online complaint management system named SheBox through which women staff members of the High Court can register complaints related to the sexual harassment at workplace.
The portal was one of many IT initiatives launched by Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar in November 2025, which was Kerala Piravi Dinam (Kerala Day) as well as the 70th Establishment Day of the High Court.
SheBox was developed exclusively by women developers of the High Court's IT Directorate.

Oct 31, 2025

Justice Surya Kant appointed as 53rd Chief Justice of India

Justice Surya Kant, a senior judge of the Supreme Court, was appointed as the 53rd Chief Justice of India. He will assume office on November 24, 2025, succeeding Chief Justice Bhushan Gavai, and will serve until February 9, 2027.
The notification of the appointment of Justice Surya Kant was issued by the Department of Justice in the Union Law Ministry.
Justice Kant, who hails from Haryana, has served as Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court and earlier as a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court before being elevated to the Supreme Court in May 2019.

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