Top Law News The Delhi High Court again puts on hold intellectual property rights authority notices on limitation. May 24, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has again put on hold operation of two fresh public notices issued by the intellectual property rights authority, giving lawyers and litigants time till June 1 to complete documentation in cases before it. On May 11, the high court stayed a May 4 public notice of the Controller General of Patents, […] Read more » Delhi High Court hold put on intellectual property rights authority
Top Law News Court summons Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor and seven other accused on June 5. May 24, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here on Saturday took cogniznace of the charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the Yes Bank scam and issued summons to the bank’s co-founder Rana Kapoor and seven other accused. The charge sheet, filed earlier this month, named as accused Rana kapoor, his wife, daughters and three firms associated with […] Read more » DHFL ED Enforcement Directorate Rana Kapoor scam-hit Dewan Housing Finance Limited Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor Yes Bank scam
Top Law News US class action lawsuit against Infosys & top brass dismissed. May 23, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Infosys on Friday said a class action lawsuit filed against the company and some of its employees in the US District Court has been dismissed. The move comes after whistleblower complaints alleging certain unethical practices by the top management emerged in October last year. Infosys had disclosed that it had received whistleblower complaints alleging certain […] Read more » lawsuit against Infosys
Top Law News 6% of total and 14% of closed cases find resolution under IBC so far May 23, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Less than six percent of the total cases filed under India’s four-year-old bankruptcy code have found resolution till the end of March 2020, the latest data from the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) shows. A total of 3,774 cases or corporate insolvency resolution processes (CIRPs) have been filed since the Insolvency and Bankruptcy […] Read more » bankruptcy code Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas esolution under IBC IBC Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code Jaypee Infratech
Top Law News PIL in Supreme Court seeks ban on video conferencing app Zoom. May 23, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court, asking the government to ban video conferencing app Zoom in the country, for official and personal use until “appropriate legislation was put in place.” The PIL said that the CEO of Zoom, Eric S Yuan, has publically apologized for privacy lapses, highlighting the security shortcomings in the app. […] Read more » ban on video conferencing app Zoom ban on video conferencing through Zoom PIL in Supreme Court video conferencing app Zoom
Top Law News SC-appointed receiver seeks additional funds from Centre as Amrapali projects face financial hurdles May 23, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With Amrapali projects facing financing hurdles, the Supreme Court-appointed receiver on Friday sought additional funds from the Centre to allow NBCC to complete the construction. The Justice Arun Mishra-led bench of SC pushed Centre to release additional funds to the tune of Rs 500 crore. The government has assured the court that finance ministry will […] Read more » allow NBCC to complete the constructio Amrapali projects facing financing hurdles Justice Arun Mishra
Top Law News All benches of Delhi HC to take up urgent matters via video conferencing from Friday May 22, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has decided that from Friday all its judges will sit everyday to take up “urgent matters of all kinds” via video conferencing. The step follows the high court and the lower courts together having taken up 20,726 urgent matters during the COVID-19 related lockdown from March 24 to May 19 “As […] Read more » Chief Justice D.N. Patel high court Registrar General Manoj Jain take up "urgent matters of all kinds" via video conferencing take up urgent matters via video conferencing
Top Law News NGT directs CPCB to issue guidelines on monitoring of environmental norms by dairies May 22, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The National Green Tribunal Thursday directed the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to issue guidelines within a month for checking pollution and monitoring of environmental norms by dairies throughout the country. A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said that at least the minimum distance of dairies and gaushalas from habitations, water […] Read more » CPCB monitoring of environmental norms by dairies NGT NGT directs CPCB
Top Law News BCI to hold consultations on resumption of courtroom hearings across country May 22, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bar Council of India (BCI) on Wednesday decided to hold countrywide consultations with lawyers and litigants on resumption of regular hearings in all courts, which have only been taking up urgent matters via videoconferencing during the coronavirus-induced lockdown. The BCI observed that litigants are unable to get justice through the virtual courts. “It (BCI) […] Read more » BCI CJI S A Bobde a Justice D Y Chandrachud
Top Law News RBI cuts interest rates and extends loan moratorium to ramps up economic support. May 22, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday slashed interest rates, extended moratorium on loan repayments and allowed banks to lend more to corporates in an effort to support the economy which is likely to contract for the first time in over four decades. The benchmark repurchase (repo) rate was cut by 40 basis points […] Read more » RBI RBI cuts interest rates RBI extends loan moratorium RBI ramps up economic support. three-month moratorium on payment of monthly instalments
Top Law News Mahesh Jethmalani and Dilip Ukey will address ‘Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series’ on topic ‘Making Our Criminal Justice System Work’. May 20, 2020 / May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment In “Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial’ online lecture series of ABAP (Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad), Mr. Mahesh Jethmalani, Sr Adv, Supreme Court & Professor (Dr.)Dilip Ukey, Vice Chancellor, MNLU, Mumbai will share their thoughts on the topic ‘Making Our Criminal Justice System Work’. Lecture will begin by 5.00PM on 23.05.2020 (Saturday). In this online […] Read more » Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series
Top Law News India’s extradition request for Dawood aide Tiger Hanif refused by UK May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s request for the extradition of Tiger Hanif, an alleged aide of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim wanted in India in connection with two bomb blasts in Surat in 1993, has been turned down by the UK government, official sources have confirmed. Hanif, whose full name is Mohammed Hanif Umerji Patel, was traced to a grocery […] Read more » Dawood aide Tiger Hanif
