Bar, Bench & Firm News HC sets aside prosecution of lawyer & assistant in bribery case November 22, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has quashed a trial court decision for prosecution of a lawyer and his assistant in a 2009 briberycase allegedly involving the then Chairperson of Company Law Board R Vasudevan for getting a favourable order. The High Court set aside the order of the trial court by which advocate Ankur Chawla and […] Read more » advocate Ankur Chawla assistant Vikas Shukla Delhi High Court illegal gratification of Rs 10 lakhs for passing a favourable order Prevention of Corruption Act prosecution of lawyer & assistant
Bar, Bench & Firm News Amarchand Mangaldas’s Shardul Shroff denies influencing his late mother Bharti’s will November 21, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Shardul Shroff, the Delhibased managing partner of law firm Amarchand Mangaldas, has denied influencing his late mother Bharti Shroff to will her stake in the firm and other assets to him at the expense of younger brother Cyril. In an exclusive interaction with ET, his first since the dispute came into the public domain, the […] Read more » Shardul Shroff denies influencing his late mother Bharti's will
Bar, Bench & Firm News Amarchand Mangaldas Case: Shroff brothers agree to mediate November 20, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The ownership dispute between the managing partners of India’s biggest law firm – Amarchand Mangaldas – reached the Bombay High Court today. After several hours of trading charges, the 2 brothers, Shardul and Cyril Shroff have agreed to a second attempt at mediation and a three member mediation panel of Nimesh Kampani, Justice Srikrishna and […] Read more » Amarchand management committee Amarchand Mangaldas Case counsel P Chidambaram Cyril Shroff Harish Salve Justice Srikrishna Nimesh Kampani ownership dispute between Cyril Shroff and Shardul Shroff Shardul Shroff
Bar, Bench & Firm News In most rape cases offenders known to victim : Delhi HC November 19, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The city police in an affidavit has informed the Delhi High Court that 1704 rape cases were registered with it and in most rape cases, the offender was a person known to the victim. It said that a total of 215 cases of incestuous rape have been registered in the capital in the first 10 […] Read more » cases of incestuous rape Justice B.D. Ahmed Justice Siddharth Mridul rape cases offenders known to victim
Bar, Bench & Firm News Women making false rape allegations need to be punished: Court November 18, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Women making false rape allegation to settle personal scores need to be prosecuted and punished, a Delhi court has observed, saying such matters cause intense misery and humiliation to the accused which continues even after acquittal in the case. Additional sessions Judge Virender Bhat while acquitting two Delhi youth from the charges of gang rape, […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat false rape allegation to settle personal scores false rape allegations Women making false rape allegations
Bar, Bench & Firm News Magistrate pulled up for following procedure ‘unknown to law’ November 17, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has pulled up a magistrate for convicting a man without framing charges in a theft case, saying the officer has followed a procedure which was “unknown to law”. , while disposing of the criminal appeal filed by Tamil Nadu resident Arumugam challenging his five-month jail term, set aside the judgement saying the […] Read more » District and Sessions Judge R K Gauba
Bar, Bench & Firm News Information on SC benches may arouse regional feelings: CIC November 17, 2014 / November 17, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Disclosure of information related to setting of Supreme Court benches outside Delhi may “arouse regional feelings” and create “needless political controversy” resulting in law and order problem, the CIC has held allowing the apex court to withhold it. “We find force in the arguments of the respondent that the information sought, if disclosed at this […] Read more » activist R K Jain Appellant Rajiv Rufus CIC Disclosure of information related to setting of Supreme Court Information on SC benches needless political controversy
Bar, Bench & Firm News Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff sues brother Cyril in Bombay HC November 17, 2014 / November 17, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Two of India’s top lawyers, Shardul and Cyril Shroff, brothers who run the law firm Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co (AMSS) could find themselves in a protracted legal battle over the assets and ownership of the law firm. Shardul, the Delhi-based elder brother and one of the two managing partners of the […] Read more » Amarchand Mangaldas Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff Shardul Shroff has filed legal action in the Bombay high court Shardul Shroff sues brother Cyril in Bombay HC
Bar, Bench & Firm News Judiciary should not show undue sympathy towards criminals: SC November 14, 2014 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Judiciary should not show undue sympathy towards criminals: SC The Supreme Court has held that judiciary should not show undue sympathy towards criminals while awarding sentence, saying it would do more harm to the justice system and would undermine the public confidence in the efficacy of law. “Undue sympathy by means of imposing inadequate sentence would do more harm to the justice system to […] Read more » justice M Y Eqbal
Bar, Bench & Firm News Court seeks BCI response over barring DU law graduates November 13, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought responses of the Bar Council of India (BCI) and Delhi Bar Council (DBC) on a plea challenging the apex law body’s order barring DU law graduates from being enrolled as advocates. Justice Manmohan issued notices to BCI, DBC, Delhi University (DU) and its Faculty of Law and sought the […] Read more » advocate Naushad Ahmad Khan Bar Council of India BCI BCI response over barring DU law graduates Chief Justice G Rohini DBC Delhi Bar Council Delhi High Court Justice R.S. Endlaw Legal Education Rules 2008 plea was filed by law student Tarun Narang
Bar, Bench & Firm News Delhi records 40 cases of crimes against women every day November 10, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Capital records 40 cases of crimes against women every day and the highest among these are of rape, molestation and sexual harassment in public, official data shows. While the figures have risen over the last year, the Delhi Police claim to have solved over 90 per cent of the cases. The compilation of the […] Read more »
Bar, Bench & Firm News SC declines to entertain plea for renaming India November 10, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Monday declined to entertain a plea seeking to rename India as Bharat and asked the petitioner to approach an appropriate authority with its plea. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice HL Dattu asked the petitioner to first make an appropriate representation before an authority in support of his plea. […] Read more » Chief Justice HL Dattu plea for renaming India
