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“SRM Hotels should have been given an opportunity to demonstrate that they and not TTDC are better equipped to run the hotel.”

Madras High Court
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“In the post of Typist where there are vacancies at any given time, the petitioner can be accommodated in any subsequent vacancy without the challenge being made to the selection and appointment of the next candidate and without dislodging the candidate who is selected in his place.”

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Madras High Court said that the adoptive child is construed to be a member of the adopted family, all the ties of the child are replaced in the adoptive family created by adoption

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Madras High Court concluded that without any experimental data to compare the costs of using filtrate material, which requires frequent changing, vis-a-vis using an external reagent, the economic significance of the claimed invention cannot be established. Thus, the claimed invention lacks an inventive step under Section 2(1)(ja) of the Patents Act.

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“Sexual harassment causes considerable harm to women. Harassment undermines women’s workplace authority, reduces them to sexual objects and reinforces sexual stereotypes and inappropriate gender behaviour. It can have deleterious consequences for the mental and physical health of women”.

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Madras High Court said that the reason given in the impugned refusal check slip reveals the patriarchal mind set of the registering authority, giving an underlying assumption that an unmarried woman above the age of 18 years cannot give her biological child in adoption.

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“Why should our future Lawyers be made to undergo the same difficulties we encountered? Why can’t we come together to provide them with a safe and robust ecosystem? This should be the vision we must create for ourselves in today’s time and age”

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As per the petitioner, the society is an autonomous body and is not a public authority within the meaning of Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

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Madras High Court viewed that the Union must confirm that the process has been commenced with a clean slate to receive suggestions and objections regarding the proposal to ban the import of ferocious dogs.

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Cases Reported in HCC
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(2023) 2 HCC (Bom) Labour Law — Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 — S. 25-O (2) — Closure of Undertaking — Whether contractual

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“The function of the Bar Council is to ensure that the livelihood of these lawyers is protected by fixing minimum stipend to be paid in the event of engaging the services of the junior lawyers, who have enrolled.”

Bail to PFI Members
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“We are conscious of the legal position that we should be we are slow in interfering with the order when the bail has been granted by the High Court, however it is equally well settled that if such order of granting bail is found to be illegal and perverse, it must be set aside.”

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“Though the Act does not ban donation of kidney in favour of a person who is not a near relative and the only restriction is that transplantation can be done only after prior approval by the State Authorisation Committee, yet the transplant surgeons are hesitant to carry out kidney transplants between unrelated persons.”

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“Group IV Government employees engage in direct communication with the public for which knowledge of Tamil is essential and requirement of 40% marks in language paper is Sine Qua Non for Efficient Discharge Of their functions”

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“Once gender identity is given horizontal reservation, it follows that the transgender community, being a socially and educationally backward community discriminated based on gender identity, should also be entitled to similar reservation.”

Cases Reported in HCC
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(2023) 2 HCC (Bom) Income Tax—Finance Act, 1987—Settlement of inheritance rights—Liability to pay tax—The receipt of an amount for retirement from the

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Madras High Court was satisfied that the family is without any means and that unless the property is allowed to be dealt with, great hardship will be caused to them.

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Cases Reported in HCC
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Bombay High Court Service Law—Upgradation of Pay—Petition against denial of financial upgradations under the Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACPS) and the Modified