head office expenditure
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Legislature has defined “head office expenditure” in clear and unambiguous terms to mean executive and general administration expenditure incurred by the assessee outside India, including, inter alia, travelling expenses, salaries, and other administrative costs.

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Bhansali Productions Saregama Strategic Partnership
Law Firms NewsNews

The transaction grants Saregama a significant minority equity stake in Bhansali Productions along with exclusive music rights for all future Bhansali films.

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Health Security and National Security Cess Act 2025
Legislation UpdatesRules & Regulations

Key Highlights of the Health Security and National Security Cess Act, 2025.

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Divorced Muslim woman maintenance
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“To raise the presumption of a valid marriage for Section 125 of CrPC based on cohabitation, the couple must be qualified to marry and not be within the prohibited degrees of marriage.”

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Depository liabile for broker misuse
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“This is not a one-off case of failure on the part of BRH as Depository Participant but involved 9493 of its clients having credit balance of securities in their demat accounts.”

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Separate suit challenging court auction
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“A transferee pendente lite takes the property subject to the outcome of the proceedings, irrespective of notice or bona fides.”

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Justice Manmohan
Know thy Judge

Justice Manmohan, formerly serving Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, was appointed as Judge of the Supreme Court of India on 3-12-2024.

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Right to privacy of students
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“If it is intended to be a voluntary act, appropriate provisions clearly specifying such fact ought to have been incorporated in the form by providing option to the parents to refuse to submit their consent or to opt out of it entirely.”

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OBC-NCL certificate
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“To cancel the candidature of otherwise eligible candidates, on sole grounds of issuance date, deprives the petitioners of their fundamental rights under Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India and actually runs contrary to the object sought to be achieved by providing reservations in public employment”

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Reference to Larger Bench Supreme Court
Op EdsOP. ED.

by Abhishek Gupta* and Kumar Kartikeya**

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systematic presentation of evidence before courts
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The directions were issued with the aim to institutionalize a standardized format for cataloguing witnesses, documentary evidence, and material objects, in order to facilitate better comprehension and immediate reference for all stakeholders, including the Appellate Courts

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lawyer accused of portraying Judicial Magistrate
Case BriefsHigh Courts

When the lawyer failed in allegedly threatening the police officers, he drove away from the spot against their instructions.

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Legislative and Plain Language Drafting
Legislation UpdatesNotifications

BCI has notified the integration of Drafting of Legislation and Plain Language Drafting into Paper 21 under Schedule II, Part II(B) of the Rules of Legal Education, 2008 to enhance legal drafting skills.

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Arbitral Tribunal cannot lift corporate veil
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Arbitrator went wrong in applying the doctrine of lifting the corporate veil/ determining another entity as the alter ego and fastening the liability on the petitioner.”

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Dowry Prohibition Officers
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“Eliminating dowry is not only a matter of enforcing the DPA 1961 but a constitutional imperative. It fulfils the Republic’s promise that every woman should enter marriage as an equal citizen and not as the bearer of an unjust financial burden”.

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FEDEX trademark
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Where explanation for adoption of the mark is not honest and there are two different versions with different reasons and which reasons themselves are not proved, such explanation should be disregarded on the principle that things speaks for themselves.”

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Shani Shingnapur Temple Trust
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“The executive cannot invoke the purpose of the Shree Shanaishwar Devasthan Trust (Shingnapur) Act, 2018 to justify a procedure that the Act itself does not permit.”

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Sikmi Tenancy
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The SLP centred around Sikmi Tenancy under the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 wherein the petitioner had contended that the High Court erred in its observation with respect to the petitioner’s rights as a Sikmi Tenant.

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MANUU Law School National Moot Court 2026
Law School NewsMoot Court Announcements

The 2nd MANUU Law School National Moot Court Competition 2026 explores cutting-edge questions on AI inventorship, authorship, jurisdiction, and copyright infringement arising from AI-generated works.

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