Top Law News SC seeks government response on gay sex verdict August 18, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court sought the central government’s stand on decriminalizing of gay sex between consenting adults after a set of two fresh lawsuits challenged the Delhi High Court’s verdict. A bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sathasivam issued a notice to the central government on lawsuits filed by Christian Apostolic Churches Alliance and […] Read more »
Top Law News Court gives road accident victim’s family Rs.2.3 mn August 18, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court awarded a compensation of Rs.2.3 million to the family of a man killed in a road accident in 1998. Justice J.R. Midha enhanced a lower court’s compensation of Rs.1 million to Rs. 2.3 million and said: “The future prospects of the deceased should be taken into consideration while assessing compensation for the […] Read more »
Top Law News Lawyers boycott work at Allahabad HC August 18, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Judicial work was paralysed at the Allahabad High Court as advocates abstained from work in protest against a recent indication from the Centre that it might consider setting up a separate bench of the court in western Uttar Pradesh. Addressing the protesting lawyers, president of the High Court Bar Association V C Mishra decried the […] Read more »
Top Law News Reduce pendency of cases: PM August 17, 2009 / August 17, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called upon the judiciary and the executive to work together to eliminate the “scourge.” Addressing a joint conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices here, Prime Minister said, “I can assure this august gathering with all the emphasis at my command that my government will not be found wanting at any […] Read more »
Top Law News ‘Chronic shortage’ of judicial officers: CJI August 16, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishanan expressed concern over the ‘chronic shortage’ of judicial officers.He said, There are structural obstacles which discourage talented law graduates from joining the judicial services and over 17 per cent posts of judicial officers remained vacant in the subordinate judiciary. “There has undoubtedly been a chronic shortage of judicial […] Read more »
Top Law News Delhi HC pulls up DCP August 16, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court pulled up the DCP ‘West Delhi’ for not taking effective measures to prevent sale of spurious liquor in the Capital’s Dabri area despite several people dying after consuming hooch in May this year. Justice Kailash Gambhir made these observations while going through an affidavit filed by the West District Police in response […] Read more »
Top Law News Support SC, ST to help them compete general candidates:SC August 16, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court has held that SC, ST candidates must be provided with all facilities to enable them to compete with general category candidates in specialised institutions. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Mr Justice P Sathasivam and Mr Justice B S Chauhan, in a 26 page judgment today directed IIT, Delhi to reconsider […] Read more »
Top Law News HC dismisses plea on swine flu August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on HC dismisses plea on swine flu Supporting the government in its efforts to tackle Swine flu, Delhi High court refused to entertain a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that sought court’s directions to the government to take effective measures to deal with the epidemic. Stating that the government was doing its job to prevent the spread of the disease, a Bench comprising […] Read more »
Top Law News Court wants urgent steps for children’s welfare in juvenile homes August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court asked the government to stop ‘the blame game’ and take urgent steps for the welfare of children living in juvenile homes in the capital. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan said: “None of us understands the problem of children. The need of the hour is […] Read more »
Top Law News Get beggars off the streets, court tells Delhi government August 12, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi government’s counsel told a division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Ajit Bharioke that most of the beggars in the capital are from other states. Counsel said co-ordination with the states is difficult without the intervention of the central government. The court then issued a notice to the central government on the […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News Delhi HC sets aside monetary reward August 12, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has set aside a monetary award granted to a Delhi Development Authority contractor by an arbitrator, saying that “the arbitrator took upon himself the job of rewarding a corrupt contractor and thereby rewarding corrupt DDA officials”. The DDA had given a contract to Messrs K. C. Chibber & Company to build […] Read more » Law News Legal News
Top Law News HC to hear PIL on swine flu August 12, 2009 / August 13, 2009 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court will take up for hearing public interest litigation seeking directions to the Centre and the Delhi Government to take effective measures to deal with cases of swine flu in the Capital. The petitioner, social worker Anjana Jain through her lawyer Sugriv Dubey, has alleged that Delhi’s government hospitals do not have sufficient […] Read more » Law News Legal News