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Clauses stipulating ‘deposit-at-call’ before invoking arbitration defeats the purpose of ADR process

Supreme Court: In the case where a Notice Inviting Tender had a clause asking the parties invoking arbitration to furnish a “deposit-at-call”

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SC ‘fixes’ it’s January 7 verdict; Teachers can now claim gratuity under Payment of Gratuity Act

Supreme Court: The Bench of Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra, JJ has held that pendency of any writ petition by itself

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SC| Revisionary Court shouldn’t act like an Appellate Court

Supreme Court: Reminding the Courts of the scope of their powers, the bench of Abhay Manohar Sapre and Dinesh Maheshwari, JJ has

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Ayodhya Dispute to be settled by a ‘confidential’ Court monitored mediation; No Gag order passed [Full Report]

Supreme Court: The 5-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and SA Bobde, Dr. DY Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and SA Nazeer, JJ has

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SC awards Rs. 10 Lakh compensation in a medical negligence case to ‘send message’ to medical practitioners

Supreme Court: In a case of medical negligence where a minor surgery resulted in amputating a woman’s arm, the bench of Abhay

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SC elaborates on the scheme of determining additional purchase price under Clause 5A under Sugarcane Control Order, 1966

Supreme Court: On the question relating to assessment of the taxable income of a Co-operative Society engaged in the business of production

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SC asks Centre to set up Motor Accidents Mediation Authority if feasible

Supreme Court: When a practicing advocate, had suffered in nasty accident at the young age of 18 years, in which his entire

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SC acquits 6 falsely implicated death row convicts in a 16 year old crime; orders reinvestigation

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Dr. AK Sikri, SA Nazeer and MR Shah, JJ has acquitted 6 death row convicts and

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Can High Court quash proceedings for offences under Section 307 IPC? Here’s what SC said

Supreme Court: On the issue relating to the power of compounding of offences conferred on a court under Section 320 Cr.P.C. and

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SC| There cannot be a uniform qualification/disqualification for the Board of Directors under the Banking Companies Act

Supreme Court: The bench of Abhay Manohar Sapre and Indu Malhotra, JJ has held that there cannot be a uniform qualification or/and

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Motilal Pesticides overruled as it missed the difference in the terms ‘Income’ and ‘Gross Total Income’

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Dr. AK Sikri, SA Nazeer and MR Shah, JJ decided an issue relating to interpretation of

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Direction to implement ‘short-term measures’ for funding for infrastructure of subordinate judiciary issued

Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of Ranjan Gogoi, CJ and L. Nageswara Rao and Sanjiv Khanna, JJ has directed the short-term measures

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Is it permissible to draw inference of guilt of illegal gratification in case of death of complainant? Larger bench to decide

Supreme Court: Stating that it has some reservation in respect of the observation and findings recorded by the 3-judge bench of former

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Clauses stipulating ‘deposit-at-call’ before invoking arbitration defeats the purpose of ADR process

SC ‘fixes’ it’s January 7 verdict; Teachers can now claim gratuity under Payment of Gratuity Act

SC| Revisionary Court shouldn’t act like an Appellate Court

Ayodhya Dispute to be settled by a ‘confidential’ Court monitored mediation; No Gag order passed [Full Report]

SC awards Rs. 10 Lakh compensation in a medical negligence case to ‘send message’ to medical practitioners

SC elaborates on the scheme of determining additional purchase price under Clause 5A under Sugarcane Control Order, 1966

SC asks Centre to set up Motor Accidents Mediation Authority if feasible

SC acquits 6 falsely implicated death row convicts in a 16 year old crime; orders reinvestigation

Can High Court quash proceedings for offences under Section 307 IPC? Here’s what SC said

SC| There cannot be a uniform qualification/disqualification for the Board of Directors under the Banking Companies Act

Motilal Pesticides overruled as it missed the difference in the terms ‘Income’ and ‘Gross Total Income’

Direction to implement ‘short-term measures’ for funding for infrastructure of subordinate judiciary issued

Is it permissible to draw inference of guilt of illegal gratification in case of death of complainant? Larger bench to decide

How to know if a temple/mandir is Public or Private? SC enunciates

SC| Only the leave for salary is payable would be taken into account for determining the pensionable service

Should Ayodhya dispute be decided by mediation? SC to decide on March 6 [Full Report]

Here’s why SC commuted the death sentence of man who killed his wife and 5 children to LI

Section 6 of the Public Premises Act must be read independent of Sections 59/61 of the Major Port Trusts Act

SC orders forced eviction of more than 1,000,000 tribals from from forestlands across 16 states

Anil Ambani and others guilty of contempt of court for willfully not paying dues to Ericsson [Full report]