Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News SC stays defamation cases against Kejriwal May 2, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court today stayed proceedings in trial courts in two criminal defamation cases against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and decided to hear them along with the pleas in which the constitutional validity of the penal provisions have been challenged.The apex court did not accept the plea that prosecution should continue in the trial […] Read more » defamation cases defamation cases against Kejriwal featured Kejriwal SC stays defamation cases
Bar, Bench & Firm News Fill vacancies of professors in medical colleges: HC to govt May 2, 2015 / May 2, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The court observed that the state government has to maintain necessary infrastructural facility and standards of education in medical colleges. Raising concerns over the large number of vacancies of professors and associate professors in medical colleges, the Bombay High Court has asked Maharashtra government to take up the issue on priority basis and fill up […] Read more » Bombay High Court featured Fill vacancies of professors Fill vacancies of professors in medical colleges justice N H Patil Justice V L Achliya medical college medical college vacancy
Bar, Bench & Firm News Woman lawyer among 6 designated as senior advocates in HC May 2, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has designated six lawyers, including one woman lawyer, as senior advocates. Among the six lawyers designated as senior advocates are former Bar Council of India Chairman K K Manan, Mohit Mathur, ex-Secretary of Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA), Vivek Sood, Balbir Singh, Mukul Talwar and Rekha Palli. “I feel immensely […] Read more » Balbir Singh Delhi High Court Delhi High Court Bar Association DHCBA ex-Secretary of Delhi High Court Bar Association (DHCBA) featured former Bar Council of India Chairman K K Manan Mohit Mathur Mukul Talwar Rekha Palli. senior advocates senior advocates in HC six lawyers designated as senior advocates Vivek Sood Woman lawyer
Bar, Bench & Firm News Confirming all docs in passport process cumbersome: Govt to HC April 30, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre today told the Delhi High Court that fake documents submitted during passport process of verification may sometimes escape attention of officers, but confirming authenticity of each and every document would make the process of issuing passports “cumbersome”. Confirming authenticity of each document given by an applicant would also “amount to gross mistrust of […] Read more » Chief Justice G Rohini Confirming all docs in passport Confirming all docs in passport process Delhi High Court docs in passport process featured Justice R.S. Endlaw passport process Passport Sewa Model
Bar, Bench & Firm News NDA govt politicising judicial appointments: Jethmalani to SC April 30, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The new law replacing the collegium system of appointment of judges for higher judiciary came under severe criticism in the Supreme Court from noted jurist Ram Jethmalani who accused the NDA government of politicising and compromising judicial independence.He contended that the Constitutional Amendment Act carried out by the government to bring the new legislation was […] Read more » featured judicial appointments law replacing the collegium system of appointment of judges National Judicial Appointment Commission NDA govt NDA govt politicising judicial appointments politicising judicial appointments
Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News SC notice to Kerala on plea against its new liquor policy April 30, 2015 / April 30, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has issued notice to the Kerala Government on a plea challenging the High Court’s decision to ratify the new liquor policy that restricts foreign liquor bars to five-star hotels only. A bench headed by Justice AR Dave issued the notice yesterday on a PIL filed by Kerala Classified Hotels Association. Last year, […] Read more » featured Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Kerala on plea against its new liquor policy new liquor policy new liquor policy that restricts foreign liquor bars to five-star hotels PIL filed by Kerala Classified Hotels Association
Bar, Bench & Firm News Court, Judiciary & Legal System Wife Won’t Allow Husband to Rape Someone in Her Presence : Delhi Court April 30, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment No woman would allow her husband to establish physical relations with another in her presence, a Delhi court has said while acquitting a man of the charge of raping his widowed sister-in-law in front of his wife. “It is improbable that the wife of accused would keep on gagging the mouth of the woman […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jain featured Husband to Rape No woman would allow her husband to establish physical relations Wife Won't Allow Husband to Rape Wife Won't Allow Husband to Rape Someone in Her Presence
Bar, Bench & Firm News Lawyers on strike till May 2 April 29, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Litigants in all six district courts will have to suffer as the lawyers who had been on strike against the delay in enhancing pecuniary jurisdiction of lower courts from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 2 crore, on Monday decided to continue it till May 2. Speaking to this newspaper, Sanjeev Nasiar, the convenor of co-ordination […] Read more » Dwarka featured Karkardooma Lawyers on strike Patiala House Rohini Saket Tis Hazari
Bar, Bench & Firm News Kudos & criticism for lowering age to try juveniles as adults April 26, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Kudos & criticism for lowering age to try juveniles as adults Days after government cleared a proposal to lower to 16 years the age to try juveniles as adults in heinous crimes, the move has received kudos from some quarters but child rights activists and others are of the view that it is an undesirable and a poorly conceived idea. Those who support the idea do […] Read more » criticism for lowering age to try juveniles featured juveniles as adults in heinous crimes lowering age to try juveniles as adults senior criminal lawyer K T S Tulsi try juveniles as adults
Bar, Bench & Firm News Karnataka HC sets aside single judge order on BBMP polls April 25, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In a relief to Siddaramaiah government, the Karnataka high Court today set aside its single judge’s order to hold polls to the city civic body Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanaraga Palike (BBMP) by May 30, an issue on which the ruling party and the Opposition are at loggerheads. The court, however, asked the state government and the […] Read more » BBMP polls Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanaraga Palike (BBMP) Chief Justice D H Waghela featured Justice Ram Mohan Reddy Karnataka HC Karnataka HC sets aside single judge order single judge order on BBMP polls
Bar, Bench & Firm News Poverty can’t be ground to keep undertrials in jails : SC April 25, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Poverty cannot be a ground for keeping a person behind the bars in petty offence cases due to non-furnishing of bail amount, the Supreme Court on Friday said and asked state legal services authority lawyers to move courts across the country to secure the release. “Poverty can’t be a ground for keeping in custody an […] Read more » District Judges district magistrates District Superintendents of Police featured ground to keep undertrials in jails keep undertrials in jails Poverty can't be ground to keep undertrials
Bar, Bench & Firm News Attacks on religious places shakes human conscience : Delhi High Court April 25, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court on Friday said that attacks on religious places shakes human conscience of all and such practices should be stopped.”This is something which shakes the human conscience and agitate all of us. There should not be any attack of any kind on any religious places,” Justice Siddharth Mridul said. The court’s oral […] Read more » Attacks on religious places Delhi High Court featured Justice Siddharth Mridul shakes human conscience
