Top Law News Justice not blind, courts don’t wear blinkers: Delhi HC January 24, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment “Justice is not blind and nor do the courts wear blinkers,” Delhi High Court has said while coming down hard on a man for keeping his 94-year-old mother “out of her own home” for 16 years by engaging her in litigation over possession of the house built by her. While imposing costs of Rs 5.3 […] Read more » Court courts Delhi High Court featured justice Law Legal News
Top Law News Bombay High Court notice to cops over security to BMC staff during demolition July 4, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment The Bombay High Court has issued notice to the city police commissioner and senior police inspectors of those police stations that refused to provide protection to civic officials while demolishing illegal hutments from pipelines supplying drinking water. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anil Menon were informed by senior counsel S […] Read more » BMC Bombay High Court Bombay High Court notice to cops over security to BMC staff during demolition Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anil Menon courts featured Law Legal News
Criminal Law News 11 get life sentence in 2005 caste clash case in UP July 3, 2015 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment 11 persons have been sentenced to life imprisonemnt by a Ballia court in a decade-old triple murder case in Dahturi Tola village. On June 11 2005, two groups belonging to different castes had clashed following a dispute over plucking of mangos in Beria police station area leading to the murder of Abhay Singh of one […] Read more » 11 get life sentence in 2005 caste clash case in UP Ballia caste clash case courts Criminal news featured Law Legal News murder case UP
Top Law News Govt to seeks jurists’ views on bill to scrap collegium system July 28, 2014 / July 28, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Displaying earnest, government will seek the views of jurists and former judges on the proposed Judicial Appointments Commission bill it plans to bring in Parliament to replace the present collegium system where judges appoint judges. Sources said Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will listen to top jurists and former judges on Monday to elicit their […] Read more » Amendment apex court Arun Jaitley Chief Justice of India composition controversy corruption courts Gopal Subramanium Govt to seeks jurists Judicial Appointments Commission bill Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad news Ravi Shankar Prasad The Supreme Court todays news todays top news Top news UPA government
Top Law News Gujarat lawyers don’t want courts to open on all Saturdays November 1, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Advocate groups have opposed the Gujarat High Court’s decision to make lower courts work on all Saturdays in a month from the new year to counter the mounting backlog of cases. Like state government offices, lower courts, at present, observe a holiday on the second and the fourth Saturday of a month. A total of […] Read more » courts don't Gujarat lawyers open Saturdays want
Top Law News Jharkhand lawyers boycott courts October 27, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Jharkhand High Court lawyers Wednesday boycotted courts to protest against the ‘unparliamentarily remarks’ by some judges. The advocates Tuesday decided to boycott the courts of all the 11 judges from Wednesday to protest against the unparliamentarily remarks made by some of them, Jharkhand High Court Advocates Association leader Mantu Gope told. ‘Lawyers should be […] Read more » boycott courts Jharkhand lawyers
Top Law News CBI to get six new special courts in Maharashtra October 20, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will soon get six dedicated special courts across Maharashtra to hear cases investigated by the agency, the government announced Wednesday. While three courts will come up in Mumbai, one each will be set up in Pune, Nagpur and Amravati, the state cabinet decided at a meeting presided over by […] Read more » CBI courts get Maharashtra new six special
Top Law News Fund for computerising courts more than doubled September 16, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government Thursday more than doubled the fund to implement the ambitious e-court project aimed at computerisation of all subordinate courts across the country — from Rs.441.8 crore to Rs.935 crore. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs raised the fund for the e-court project, revising the older 2007 estimate, in its meeting chaired by Prime […] Read more » computerising courts doubled Fund more than
Top Law News Lawyers demand more women courts and judges September 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A group of lawyers has sent a representation to the chief justice of Delhi High Court seeking more women courts as well as judges to deal with cases of marital discord. The representation, signed by about 150 lawyers led by Rubinder Pal Ghumman, said there were inadequate number of courts and judges to deal with […] Read more » courts demand judges lawyers women
Top Law News ‘Courts can move against state for acts against public good’ August 3, 2010 / August 3, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Higher courts have the power to issue writ to the state if its acts are contrary to the public good, the Supreme Court has ruled, while holding that a public sector bank also falls within the definition of the state. ‘…if any action on the part of the state is wholly unfair and arbitrary, writ […] Read more » courts move public good'
Top Law News Government questioned on special fund for courts July 13, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Monday issued notice to the central and state governments and the high courts on a report seeking to create a separate ‘infrastructure fund’ for improving facilities in subordinate courts. The proposed ‘infrastructure fund’ sought to be created would be funded by the deposits of the court fees and fines imposed on litigants […] Read more » courts special fund
Top Law News States consulted on courts working in shifts June 19, 2010 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The possibility of lower courts working in shifts to render speedy justice and re-employment of retired judges to reduce pending cases is being discussed with the state governments by a parliamentary panel. “The committee is looking into the aspects of the courts working in shifts and re-employment of retired judges to dispose the pending and […] Read more » courts shifts working
