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The commotion over the post of the Chairman of the Bar Council Of India (BCI), has finally been put to halt by a notification issued by BCI itself, withdrawing the authorization granted to Tamil Nadu lawyer Mr. S. Prabhakaran.
The...
While hearing a petition filed by the Supreme Court Women Lawyers Association (SCWLA), a bench of Justices Dipak Misra and N.V Ramana asked the Parliament to consider making a separate law for awarding harsher punishment to those convicted of...
It was at the backdrop of the city reaching dangerous levels of pollution that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal introduced the much maligned ‘odd-even formula’ for automobiles running in the NCR. The government’s objective, apart from addressing the issue...
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has asked Delhi University (DU) to shut down colleges that offer law courses in evening shifts. According to the BCI, a proper quality of legal education cannot be ensured if the classes run...
With the advent of technology in every sphere of life, the courts of our country are not ready to be left behind. This was proved when the Delhi High Court on January 10, 2016 allowed testimony of a witness...
Perjury in law is the crime of telling a lie in a Court after promising to tell the truth promised under an oath. In the Jessica Lal Murder case, the apex court has nullified the perjury prosecution against the...
In a move that has caught the eye of one and all and proves that Justices lead by example, the CJI, T.S. Thakur, and Justice A.K. Sikri have decided to car pool to Court every day for the next...
In a judgement dated 23rd December 2015, the Bombay High Court ruled that false cases filed by a wife against her husband under Section 498A of IPC amount to mental and matrimonial cruelty; and that divorce can be sought...
Following the recent controversies surrounding the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), the three member panel headed by Justice RM Lodha laid down the following 15 key recommendations to the same in order to keep a check on...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is known as a malicious kind of cyber-attack that can bring down any website. It floods the websites with a huge amount of unexpected and unrequested traffic from a large number of computers spread...
Section 138 of The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 deals with the dis-honour of cheques. It was enacted with the main motive of providing relief to those who suffer as a result of dis-honoured cheques. But after the landmark judgement...
The Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha have both passed The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill 2015. It was introduced in the Parliament last year after the hue and cry raised by the country on the conviction...
It all started with the chilly morning of 15th December 2015 when the Delhi Chief Ministers Office (CMO) was stormed into by the CBI raiding the principal secretary’s office and allegedly confiscating corruption related files. It was an exercise...
This year’s Christmas has promised an exciting gift for Delhi Lawmakers as an expert committee has proposed a fourfold hike salary for them this year. The three member panel is being headed by PDT Achary, the former Secretary General of...
In 2014, a study released by World Health Organization (WHO) stated that Delhi is the most polluted city in the world. The report on Ambient Air Pollution conducted the research in almost 1600 cities across the world. Recently, even...
Compassionate Appointment scheme is one that grants appointments on compassionate ground to the dependents (Divorced Daughters) of a Government servant who dies before retirement or retires on medical grounds. This is to ensure that the family is not deprived of...
In 1980s, the Central Government had requested the states to introduce a scheme to include award pensions to the post-independence political sufferers. In 1988, the West Bengal Government launched the Political Sufferers scheme which would provide State allowance to...
Cyber Security is the protection of one's information systems from theft, damage to hardware/software or to the information on them by way of unauthorized use. In India, the nodal agency for monitoring and dealing with cyber security threats is...
On the first of this month, the Allahabad High Court pronounced a landmark judgement where it laid down that a child born from rape will have inheritance rights over property of the biological father. This case involved the rape of...
The Magdras High Court through its recent judgement has taken a step towards making higher education accessible to more number of people. It held that a person can pursue a degree course without having done plus two (12th Grade) if...
The controversial law banning dance bars in Maharashtra, which provided employment to thousands of women, was put on hold by the Supreme Court in the month of October. A plea was filed in the Supreme Court, more than a...
On Tuesday, the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry suspended a group of three lawyers of Madras High Court for having setup a bar at the court campus. According to sources, the three advocates, namely E Murugan, D Vijay and C Vijay -...
In a child sexual abuse case trial, the alleged sexual offender produced a CD as defence evidence in the court of law, claiming that the phone conversation recorded in it establishes the fact that he was wrongfully framed for...
In order to combat global terrorism, which is the biggest threat to the world right now, all nations need to unite in order to eradicate it completely, said the Supreme Court today while refusing to grant interim relief to...
The Supreme Court in its recent judgement, given by Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R.K. Agrawal, held that the names of holy or religious books cannot be claimed as trademark for goods or services.
One Mr. Priyadarshi, a trader, wanted to register a trade mark...
How do law breakers become law makers is a question that has been plaguing the Indian political system for decades. In order to address this very grievance, dubbed as criminalization of politics by criminal netas, the Supreme Court has agreed...
November 26 which is widely celebrated as ‘Law Day’ has today been notified by the Government of India as ‘Constitution Day’. Why this date? The Constitution of India was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949 and was enforced...
The Maharashtra Food & Drug Administration (FDA) will soon file an appeal in the Supreme Court to continue the ban on Maggi noodles and reverse the Bombay Hight Court order. FDA will contest Nestle India's claim that it acted arbitrarily...
Justice TS Thakur, the seniormost judge after Supreme Court Chief Justice HL Dattu, will become the next Chief Justice of India and would be at the helm of the country’s judiciary till 4 January, 2017.
Current Chief Justice Dattu has...