Top Law News PM calls for legal system supporting development February 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday said that developing countries need a legal system conducive to both rapid economic development and promoting equitable distribution of the fruits of development. “The developing countries need a legal system which is conducive both to rapid economic development and which also has built-in mechanism to promote the equitable distribution of […] Read more » legal system Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
Top Law News High courts to get special wings for commercial disputes February 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The proposed commercial divisions of high courts will help resolve commercial disputes speedily, Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said Sunday. He told the 17th Commonwealth Law Conference here that the Commercial Division of High Courts Bill is before parliament. Voicing his concern over the increasing trend in commercial litigation, he said this was taking up […] Read more » Commercial disputes High Courts
Top Law News Government can’t provide food to all: Chief Justice February 6, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia Sunday said the government can’t be expected to provide food, education and healthcare to all but advocated relief to the deprived sections. Addressing the 17th Commonwealth Law Conference, he said while it was not possible to have access for everyone to everything, the needs of those below the poverty […] Read more » Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia
Top Law News Right to Justice Bill within 5-6 months: Moily February 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A bill ensuring right to justice for all is expected to be introduced in Parliament in the next five to six months, Union law Minister M Veerappa Moily said here today. “We are contemplating the Right to Justice Bill so that nobody should feel alienated.,”Moily told reporters after addressing Congress workers at the party office […] Read more » M. Veerappa Moily Right to Justice
Top Law News Gujarat seeks review of court order favouring companies February 5, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Gujarat seeks review of court order favouring companies The Gujarat High Court is set to hear the state government’s appeal against its earlier order prohibiting the state from collecting stamp duty from companies on imported goods, a government lawyer said Saturday. A division bench headed by Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya is likely to hear the matter March 10. Government counsel in the case […] Read more » Gujarat High Court
Top Law News Confession statement to police is weak evidence: Supreme court February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Observing that the ‘rampant’ practice among the police to use third degree methods to extract confessions was well known, the Supreme court has said that courts should be cautious in accepting the confession made by an accused to the police when it is the sole ground for prosecution. The prosecution case resting merely on confessional statement […] Read more » Confession statement
Top Law News Court recalls order of costs for frivolous lawsuit February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Gujarat High Court Friday recalled its order of imposing Rs.20,000 costs on a petitioner for filing a frivolous public interest litigation after his lawyer said costs should be recovered from him instead. The bench of Chief Justice S.J. Mukhopadhaya and Justice K.M. gave the order after advocate Girish Das submitted his client was not […] Read more » frivolous lawsuit
Top Law News Lowering age of sex to decriminalise innocent behaviour February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment India’s apex child rights body Friday said that its suggestion to bring down the age of a consensual, non-penetrative sexual act between two children to 12 years was meant to decriminalise ‘normal’ and ‘innocent’ behaviour by kids. ‘The reason for this formulation is not to promote child sexual promiscuity or sexual aggression among children but […] Read more » consensual sex National Commission for Protection of Child Rights
Top Law News RJD legislator surrenders in Bihar court February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator Surendra Prasad Yadav surrendered in a Gaya court Friday, the fifth day of the junior doctors strike in the state after his security guards allegedly fired at interns of a medical college. The government was under pressure to nab Yadav, who surrendered before a chief judicial magistrate’s court, as hundreds […] Read more » ANMCH Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College Hospital Bihar court Surendra Prasad Yadav
Top Law News Supreme court issues notice in 2004 Tamil Nadu school fire case February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the central and Tamil Nadu governments on a petition seeking compensation for the 94 students who died in a fire in a primary school in Tamil Nadu’s Kumbakonam town in July 2004. An apex court bench of justice Dalveer Bhandari and justice Deepak Verma issued notice on […] Read more » Tamil Nadu school fire case
Top Law News Court moved over CBI probe into Orissa pulses scam February 4, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Orissa High Court was Thursday moved by a petitioner seeking a CBI probe into an alleged multi-crore rupee scam involving supply of poor quality pulses under government welfare schemes. A team of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) also plans to inquire into the allegations. Petitioner Dilip Mohapatra said he filed the petition because […] Read more » Orissa pulses scam
Top Law News Supreme Court slaps Rs.10 lakh fine on frivolous litigant February 2, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Supreme Court slaps Rs.10 lakh fine on frivolous litigant The Supreme Court Wednesday slapped an exemplary cost of Rs.10 lakh on an appellant for filing a frivolous litigation aimed at frustrating attempts to acquire his land for the Bangalore-Mysore road project. The litigant was penalised for embarking upon a second round of litigation on an issue identical to the earlier phase of court hearing. […] Read more » frivolous litigant Supreme Court