law Archives

P&H HC | Suppression of a ‘material fact’ of non-disclosure of pendency of bail application considered, subservient to the right of liberty granted to the petitioners; Guidelines issued

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Three petitions are clubbed together where the petitioners intended to withdraw their bail applications as bail was

Case Briefs High Courts

Man taking a lady from another community in his car, attacked by violent mob: Act of mob moral policing? Ker HC unfolds

Kerala High Court: Calling it to be ‘moral policing’ K. Haripal, J., addressed a matter wherein a man had taken a lady

Case Briefs High Courts

Testamentary disposition of property is deviation from natural line of inheritance in lesser or greater degree: Can it result in complete disposition in favour of one heir or exclusion of any other heir? Jhar HC throws light

Jharkhand High Court: Expressing that the due execution of a Will is to be proved as per the provisions of law as

Appointments & Transfers News

Appointment of 10 new Judges to Telangana High Court

President appoints S/Shri (1) Kasoju Surendhar alias K. Surender, (2) Smt. Surepalli Nanda, (3) Mummineni Sudheer Kumar, (4) Smt. Juvvadi Sridevi alias

Case Briefs High Courts

Incarcerated for 8 years for an offence punishable with minimum 10 years imprisonment: Violation of Right to Personal Liberty and Right to Speedy Trial? Del HC answers

Delhi High Court: Subramonium Prasad, J., remarked that, “…achievement of universal equality before the law requires the tenets of personal liberty to

Case Briefs High Courts

Economic Offence | Entire community is aggrieved if economic offenders, who ruin economy of the State are not brought to book: Patna HC

Patna High Court: Expressing that the entire community is aggrieved if the economic offenders, who ruin the economy of the State are

Case Briefs High Courts

Prosecution must stand on its own legs basing its findings on the evidence that has been led by it: All HC

Allahabad High Court: Siddhartha Varma, J., held that it is the bounden duty of the enquiry officer to have seen whether the

Case Briefs High Courts

High Court cannot act as a post office to collect and exchange information: Madras HC

Madras High Court: While stating that Central Information Commission has only made recommendations, which cannot by any stretch of imagination be taken

Case Briefs High Courts

No stay on OTT Release of film ‘83’: Bom HC | Netflix and Star India already have antecedent rights, both digital and satellite for 10 years

Bombay High Court: While refusing to restrain Star India and Netflix from streaming the film ‘83’ on their respective broadcasting portals, R.I.

Case Briefs High Courts

Extraordinary writ jurisdiction is to be exercised only in rare cases or certain contingencies in the interest of justice, including exceptional cases: Del HC

Delhi High Court: Chandra Dhari Singh, J., expressed that it is settled law that the power to issue writ has its own

Case Briefs High Courts

When parents are alive, can a son claim his share in property of his parents? Bom HC answers

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of G.S. Patel and Madhav J. Jamdar, JJ., held that Asif i.e. son has no rights

Op Eds OP. ED.

Unilateral Appointment of Arbitrators: A Discussion

by Shamik Sanjanwala*

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

Unregulated tourism activities resulting in damage to environment in eco-sensitive Himalayan States of India: NGT takes suo motu cognizance

National Green Tribunal, New Delhi (NGT): The Coram of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel (Chairperson) and Justice Sudhir Agarwal (Judicial Member), Prof. A.

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

‘Reduction of Capital’ is a ‘Domestic Affair’ of a particular company in which, ordinary, a Tribunal will not interfere because of the reason that it is a ‘majority decision’ which prevails: NCLAT

National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi (NCLAT): The Coram of Justice Venugopal. M, Judicial Member and Kanthi Narahari, Technical Member, held

Case Briefs High Courts

Can Additional Sessions Judge or Sessions Judge try offences under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016? Bom HC answers

Bombay High Court: Sandeep K. Shinde, J., held that Special Court which is to try offences under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code,

Case Briefs High Courts

In the case of reckless driving, injured party will have to always prove that either side was negligent? All HC explains

Allahabad High Court: The Division Bench of Dr Kaushal Jayendra Thaker and Ajai Tyagi, JJ., while addressing a case of negligent driving,

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Bloomberg Privacy Case | Whether a person under criminal investigation can have a reasonable expectation of privacy? UKSC explains

United Kingdom Supreme Court: The Bench of Lord Reed, President and Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Hamblen and Lord Stephens, held that

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

Sportsmanship can turn losers into winners, just as poor sportsmanship can turn winners into losers: Singapore High Court

Singapore High Court: While expressing that, Courts cannot always do justice because they do not have unlimited powers, as they are sometimes

Case Briefs High Courts

Corruption is a termite in every system; a root cause of all problems but has to be put to account: All HC

Allahabad High Court: While expressing that medical and legal fields are more a service than a profession especially the stream of oncology

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

If a person conceals facts about pre-existing fatal disease at the time of taking insurance, would it be a breach of insurance contract? NCDRC explains

National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC): The Coram of Dinesh Singh (Presiding Member) and Karuna Nand Bajpayee (Member) upheld the decision of