Top Law News The Gujarat High Court quotes doctor’s letter in Ahmedabad hospital condition order. May 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court, while delivering an order on the poor conditions prevailing in Ahmedabad’s Civil Hospital, quoted an anonymous letter written by a resident doctor which claimed “mismanagement” and “irregularities” there could turn doctors like him into “super spreaders” of the novel coronavirus. The division bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and IJ Vora said […] Read more » Justice IJ Vora Justice JB Pardiwala The Gujarat High Court
Top Law News Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law & Justice & Electronics and Information Technology will address ‘Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series’ on topic ‘Legal & Digital Challenges for India Post Covid’ May 26, 2020 / May 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & Information Technology will address “Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial’ online lecture series on Friday, 29th May 2020 at 6:00PM on the topic ‘Legal & Digital Challenges for India Post Covid’. Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad (ABAP) is the organiser of this online lecture […] Read more » Legal & Digital Challenges for India Legal & Digital Challenges for India Post Covid Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Minister of Law & Justice Post Covid Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series Ravi Shankar Prasad
Top Law News Bombay High Court : Why to hear dignified treatment plea for lockdown violators. May 24, 2020 / May 24, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has disposed of a petition raising concerns over enforcement of the lockdown by the police in Maharashtra noting that even educated citizens are not following the required norms. The petition was filed by a Nagpur resident Sandip Nair raising concerns over the ‘humiliating’ manner in which the police are punishing violators. The […] Read more »
Top Law News City court grants interim bail to DMK leader R S Bharathi. May 24, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A city court on Saturday granted interim bail till June 1 to DMK organisation secretary and Rajya Sabha member R S Bharathi, who was arrested for his alleged disparaging remarks made against the Scheduled Caste community a few months ago. A battery of DMK lawyers, including senior counsel P Wilson and N R Elango, who are […] Read more » DMK organisation secretary R S Bharathi interim bail to DMK leader R S Bharathi R S Bharathi Rajya Sabha member R S Bharathi
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
