commercial activity Archives

‘Lawyer’s activities not commercial in nature; using residential premises as lawyer’s office not misuse’: Delhi HC quashes 22-year-old complaint

“A commercial activity involves investment of capital, profit and loss and co-operation of labor; on the other hand, the professional service of rendering advice in law is dependent upon one’s own academic qualification and individual skill. These peculiar and distinctive features of the legal profession do not permit its inclusion in commercial or semi-commercial activity, establishment, or institution.”

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Legal profession not a commercial activity, chambers should not be charged commercial rate of electricity: Allahabad High Court

Allahabad High Court directed UPPCL to charge for the consumption of electricity by the lawyers chambers in the court premises as per the rate schedule LMV-I as approved by the U.P. Electricity Regulatory Commission.

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Bombay High Court| Nature of activities conducted by BCCI are commercial in nature, liable to pay employees contribution under ESI Act, 1948

Bombay High Court: Bharati Dangre, J. dismissed an appeal which was filed by Board of Control for Cricket of India (‘BCCI’), being