Scuffle grows into bench vs bar row ​​​​​​​A scuffle that broke out between Lalitpur District Court employee Premika Tamang and lawyer Amir Lamichhane on June 28 snowballed into a fight between the bar and bench, especially the cadre judges of the Supreme Court. Kathmandu 04 Jul, 2023
Supreme Court stays cancellation of Gurung's candidacy The Supreme Court stayed the Election Commission’s decision to scrap the candidacy of CPN (Unified Socialist) candidate from Rupandehi Constituency-2 Raju Gurung. Kathmandu 17 Oct, 2022
Former CJs say not enough evidence to summon them Four former chief justices — Anup Raj Sharma, Kalyan Shrestha, Sushila Karki, and Min Bahadur Raymajhi — who were summoned by the impeachment recommendation committee today wrote a letter to the House panel objecting to its decision to summon them without gathering any evidence to support suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana’s allegations against them. Nepal 16 Sep, 2022
New HoR can take up impeachment motion: Ex-judges Former Judges Forum-Nepal, which suspended Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana derided during his impeachment hearing, organsied a press conference on Wednesday and said Rana’s impeachment could be taken up by the new House of Representatives to be formed after November 20 elections. Nepal 15 Sep, 2022
Lawyers press for CJ's impeachment Office bearers of the Nepal Bar Association and some senior advocates met Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and handed him a memorandum listing 17 reasons they said were enough to impeach Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana. Nepal 27 Nov, 2021
Poll panel summons JSP-N executive committee members The Election Commission has asked members of the executive committee of the Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal to appear before it on July 26 with original copies of their citizenship certificates or voter identity cards. Kathmandu 23 Jul, 2021
Speaker's lawyers also find fault in prez action Five lawyers representing Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota and a lawyer representing the petitioners told the constitutional bench of the Supreme Court that President Bidhya Devi Bhandari acted beyond her scope when she dissolved the House of Representatives on the recommendation of the government Kathmandu 05 Jul, 2021
Deuba deserves to stake claim for PM's post, argue lawyers Lawyers representing members of the dissolved House of Representatives, including Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, who have challenged the dissolution of the HoR continued to present their case on Thursday, saying that President Bidhya Devi Bhandari erred when she rejected Deuba’s claim for prime ministership. Nepal 25 Jun, 2021
CPN-MC leaders recalled from Oli's Cabinet The CPN-Maoist Centre on Saturday decided to recall its ministers from Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s Cabinet. Kathmandu 14 Mar, 2021
What will happen when House resumes Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leaders close to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli have indicated that he is unlikely to resign as PM immediately, leading people to speculate what will happen when the next session of the House of Representatives is called before March 8. Nepal 25 Feb, 2021
'With written constitution, PM has no inherent power' Lawyers representing petitioners, who have challenged the dissolution of the House of Representatives, rebutted the defendants’ arguments saying that in a democratic country such as Nepal which was governed by a written constitution, no authority, not even the prime minister, could claim inherent or implied power to dissolve the Lower House of the Parliament. Kathmandu 16 Feb, 2021
PM's House dissolution move against statute: Senior advocates Senior advocates Raman Kumar Shrestha and Ram Narayan Bidari pleaded before the constitutional bench that Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli acted beyond the scope of the constitution to dissolve the House of Representatives. Kathmandu 30 Jan, 2021
