Legal India Court pulls up lawyer facing contempt charges January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pulling up a lawyer facing contempt of court proceedings, the Gujarat High Court has been directed him to remain present before it Jan 24. The bench comprising Justices A.M. Kapadia and B.N. Mehta directed Girish Das, in a suo motu contempt proceeding, to be present in court as he failed to do so during a […] Read more » charges contempt lawyer
Legal India Baby’s death in womb: Surgeon, two others found guilty January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A surgeon and two others have been found guilty of negligence by a magisterial probe in the death of a pregnant woman’s baby in her womb due to wrong blood transfusion at a government hospital here last month. The probe report was given Monday. Transfusion of blood from a wrong blood group led to the […] Read more » Surgeon womb
Legal India Ex-judge asked me not to complain against Balakrishnan: Iyer January 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Stepping up pressure for a probe into graft allegations against former chief justice of India K.G. Balakrishnan, retired Supreme Court judge V.R. Krishna Iyer Monday said a former high court judge approached him recently to persuade him not to raise the matter with the prime minister. ‘He (the judge) requested me that I should not […] Read more » K.G. Balakrishnan V.R. Krishna Iyer
Legal India CBI points finger at Aarushi’s parents, but lacks evidence January 3, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) casting strong aspersions on the role of Aarushi Talwar’s father in her murder, the parents Saturday again lashed out at the agency for making “wild” allegations without a shred of evidence. Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her parents’ Jalvayu Vihar apartment in Noida, Delhi’s […] Read more » CBI
Legal India All India Bar Examination 2010 July 16, 2010 / July 18, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on All India Bar Examination 2010 The All India Bar Examination aims to test a lawyer’s competence to practice legal profession in India. It will test a candidate’s analytical abilities and basic legal knowledge. It intends to set a minimum standard for eligibility to practice law. All those students who want to practice law, after completion of their law education, will […] Read more » All India Bar Examination Law Education
Legal India All SC judges will take call on HC order: CJI January 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | 3 Comments on All SC judges will take call on HC order: CJI New Delhi: The 26 judges of the Supreme Court (SC) will together discuss and decide whether the Delhi high court’s judgment, that the office of the chief justice of India (CJI) falls within the ambit of the RTI Act, should be challenged. The verdict can be challenged only in SC. The apex court is already […] Read more »
Legal India Chief Justice of India (CJI) comes under RTI, rules Delhi High Court January 14, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment NEW DELHI: In a landmark verdict, the Delhi high court on Tuesday said the Chief Justice of India is a public authority and his office comes within the ambit of the RTI Act as the concept of judicial independence is not judge’s personal privilege but responsibility cast on the person. This is in sharp contrast […] Read more » Chief Justice of India CJI
Legal India Uttar Pradesh has been stopped by Apex court from demolishing temples November 3, 2009 / November 3, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Friday stopped the Uttar Pradesh government from demolishing three temples within the premises of. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan issued this direction on an allegation by Lucknow resident Sangam Lal Pandey who told the court that there were four temples of British vintage inside the jail premises. Pandey said one […] Read more »
Legal India Mayawati gets another jolt from Allahabad HC September 22, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Allahabad HC gave yet another jolt to UP CM Mayawati as it stayed the construction of a boundary wall around the site of a memorial to late Kanshi Ram. court order came on a PIL moved by lawyer Sangam Lal Pandey. It relates to the site of the recently demolished Lucknow district jail, where a […] Read more »
Legal India No permanent commission for women in Army: govt September 22, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government told the Delhi HC, There is no scope for granting permanent commission to women in the Army, Solicitor General of India Gopal Subramanium submitted before Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul that the granting of permanent commission to women officers on short service commission in the Indian Army is not possible. The court was hearing […] Read more »