Top Law News ‘Why should we hear him?’ SC slams Advocate Prashant Bhushan for insulting Judiciary. April 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court bench had slammed Prashant Bhushan for openly maligning and insulting the judiciary. The Apex Court said that Prashant Bhushan does not have any faith in the institution. Justice Kaul even said that why should the Top Court hear him when Mr Bhushan does not have any faith in it. Prashant Bhushan had […] Read more » Advocate Prashant Bhushan insulting Judiciary. Prashant Bhushan openly maligning and insulting the judiciary top law news top legal news
Top Law News Perils of video conferencing : Rajasthan HC lawyer appears in ‘baniyan’ for online hearing. April 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment With the nationwide lockdown completing one month, India is just about getting used to working from home or maybe not quite. While the internet is flooded with pictures and memes of people focusing on looking sharp upwards of the waist, a formal shirt and a tie for the video conferencing, paired with one’s favourite shorts […] Read more » Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma Perils of video conferencing rajasthan HC Ravindra Kumar Paliwal
Top Law News Dignity in death: 3-year jail term for those who prevent funeral of ‘notified disease’ victims in TN. April 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Any move to prevent the burial or cremation of a victim of any “notified disease” could land you in jail for three years along with a fine in the state. Section 74 of the the Tamil Nadu Public Health Act of 1939 now specifies that any move to prevent “dignified burial or cremation of those […] Read more » Chennai-based Dr Simon Hercules who succumbed to COVID-19 Dignity in death fears of the spread of COVID-19 Madras High Court prevent funeral of 'notified disease' victims+ Tamil Nadu Public Health Act top law news top legal news
Top Law News COVID-19 test kits should be made available at lowest cost: Delhi High Court April 27, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment COVID-19 test kits should be made available urgently at the lowest possible price so that the virus can be controlled and people’s health can be safeguarded at a time when the country was facing an “unprecedented medical crisis”, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Najmi Waziri issued the direction to three private companies which […] Read more » Aark Pharmaceuticals Advocate Anshumaan Sahni advocates Jayant Mehta ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research Justice Najmi Waziri Rare Metabolics Life Sciences Pvt Ltd top law news top legal news
Top Law News Supreme Court heard 593 matters and delivered verdicts in 215 cases during COVID-19 lockdown. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court heard 593 matters via video-conferencing and delivered judgement in 215 of them in a month during the unprecedented nationwide lockdown. As COVID-19 infections spread in the country, the Supreme Court shut its doors to litigants and lawyers on March 23, two days before the lockdown came into force, but opened up to […] Read more » COVID-19 lockdown SC during COVID-19 lockdown Supreme Court delivered verdicts in 215 cases Supreme Court heard 593 matters
Top Law News COVID-19 test kits should be made available at lowest cost : Delhi High Court April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment COVID-19 test kits should be made available urgently at the lowest possible price so that the virus can be controlled and people’s health can be safeguarded at a time when the country was facing an “unprecedented medical crisis”, the Delhi High Court has said. Justice Najmi Waziri issued the direction to three private companies which […] Read more » COVID-19 test kits Delhi High Court
Top Law News HC gives 2 weeks to 5 DSGMC schools to pay salary arrears of teachers. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has granted two weeks’ time to five schools run by the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (DSGMC) to pay salary arrears to its teachers, some of whom have not been paid since December last year. A bench of justices Vipin Sanghi and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal said “there can be no justification […] Read more » Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee DSGMC Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal Justice Vipin Sanghi no justification for non-payment of salaries
Top Law News Plea in Delhi HC for feeding stray dogs and other animals during lockdown. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court seeking directions to the Centre, the AAP government and civic bodies here to provide food and water to stray animals during the ongoing lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus. The petition has contended that stray dogs and other animals are largely dependent on garbage and […] Read more » Delhi High Court feeding stray dogs feeding stray dogs and other animals during lockdown
Top Law News Special court rejects remanded activist Anand Teltumbde’s interim bail plea. April 26, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A special court here on Saturday remanded activist Anand Teltumbde to judicial custody in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case and rejected his plea for temporary bail, which he sought in view of the COVID-19 outbreak. The National Investigation Agency had arrested the Dalit scholar on April 14 after he surrendered before it following the Supreme Court’s […] Read more » remanded activist Anand Teltumbde
Top Law News COVID-19: Government to suspend insolvency proceedings for six months. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment To avoid companies at large from being forced into insolvency proceedings as businesses get impacted due to COVID-19, the union cabinet on Wednesday has given its nod to the proposal to introduce a new clause — 10A, under section 10 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, government sources told CNBC-TV18. The announcement, however, […] Read more » IBC IBC 2016 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 insolvency proceedings as businesses Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Top Law News Supreme Court terms foreign arbitral award against NAFED as “illegal”. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Supreme Court on Thursday settled a 39-year-old arbitration dispute in favour of National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and saved the company from a potential hit of $1.6 billion. Terming the international arbitral award of 1989 of the Federation of Oil, Seeds and Fats Associations Ltd (FOSFA) against NAFED as ex-facie illegal, the […] Read more » FOSFA NAFED NAFED as ex-facie illegal National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India
Top Law News MSME association moves SC against govt order that directs full salary payment to workers. April 25, 2020 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Can small private employers, faced with mounting losses and no revenue be asked to continue paying salaries of workers during the lockdown, indefinitely? This question has been raised in the Supreme Court by a Ludhiana based association of hand tools manufacturers, comprising of 41 MSMEs. On March 29, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had […] Read more » DMA full salary payment to workers MHA MSME association quash the MHA order directing payment of full salaries.
