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
Top Law News SC refuses to transfer cases to CBI and grants protection to Arnab Goswami for 3 weeks May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Tuesday refused to transfer to CBI the criminal cases lodged against Republic TV Editor in-Chief Arnab Goswami for alleged defamatory news show telecast on April 21 in connection with the Palghar mob-lynching case. Observing that Journalistic freedom lies at the core of freedom of speech and expression, the top court quashed all […] Read more » Arnab Goswami grants protection to Arnab Goswami
Top Law News Collect only tuition fees : Delhi High Court May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has directed two private schools here not to collect from students any amount other than the tuition fees that too as per rates prevailing prior to October 31 last year. Justice Rajiv Shakdher also directed the schools, both in south Delhi, to pay salaries of staff and teachers at rates presently […] Read more » Justice Rajiv Shakdher
Top Law News Coronavirus not a pandemic in Pakistan : Pakistan’s Supreme Court May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the government on Monday to lift some of the remaining restrictions imposed on business to halt the spread of the coronavirus, even as the country recorded a rise in infections since beginning to emerge from lockdown. In its decision, which is binding, the court said the virus “apparently is not a […] Read more » Coronavirus not a pandemic in Pakistan
Corporate Law News Top Law News FM Nirmala Sitharaman : Decriminalise Companies Act violations involving minor defaults May 20, 2020 / May 20, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, while announcing the fifth and the final tranche of the economic stimulus package on Sunday, said that the government will soon move an ordinance to decriminalise Companies Act violations involving minor technical and procedural defaults. The government has decided to drop seven compoundable offences while five will be dealt with under […] Read more » economic stimulus package Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ordinance to decriminalise Companies Act violations
Top Law News SC comes up with new guidelines for hearing matters from May 18 to June 19 May 18, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court will hear all cases via video and audio links between May 18 and June 19, and has scaled up its ‘1881’ helpline to assist advocates and litigants in e-filing and virtual hearing, according to a standard operating procedure (SoP) released on Sunday amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown. The fresh SoP assumed significance as […] Read more » new guidelines for hearing matters
Top Law News Court grants bail to undertrial in murder case and asks to install Aarogya Setu app. May 18, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A Delhi court has granted interim bail to an undertrial prisoner arrested in a murder case, while directing him to install the ‘Aarogya Setu’ app on his phone. Additional Sessions Judge Naveen Kumar Kashyap on Saturday granted relief to accused Ravi Dhika on his plea that he had to take care of his ailing wife […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Naveen Kumar Kashyap interim bail to an undertrial prisoner to install Aarogya Setu app
Top Law News Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda will address ‘Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series’ on topic ‘India’s Leadership in Environmental Law Regimes in light of India’s Ethos’ May 18, 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), Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda, Padma Bhushan & Professor of Law, University of Denver, USA will share his thoughts on the topic ‘India’s Leadership in Environmental Law Regimes in light of India’s Ethos’. Lecture will begin by 08.00PM on 18.05.2020 […] Read more » India's Leadership in Environmental Law Regimes in light of India's Ethos Prof. N. R. Madhava Menon Memorial Lecture Series Prof. Ved Prakash Nanda
Top Law News Ensure essentials reach tribals amid lockdown: Bombay High Court May 16, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court directed the Maharashtra government and civic authorities to ensure that food and basic necessities reach the tribal community across the state amid the COVID-19 lockdown. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Amjad Sayed was hearing a petition filed by one Vivek Pandit highlighting the plight of tribals in […] Read more » Additional government pleader B V Samant COVID-19 lockdown
