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Madras HC | Official Funds for Campaigning: One has to wear allegiance to a political leader, if not on the sleeve at least visibly crying out of pocket | Why? Read on

Madras High Court: The Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., expressed that: Election Commission has sufficient authority to

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras HC | “Trying to develop the case brick by brick and construct something purposeful”: HC while arranging counselling for same-sex couple and parents

Madras High Court: N. Anand Venkatesh, J., while addressing an issue with respect to protection to the same-sex couple, expressed that: “…I

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

“Did RICA do enough?”- South Africa’s top Court highlights inadequate privacy safeguards of RICA; declares it unconstitutional

Constitutional Court of South Africa: In a significant judgment delivered last month, the South African Apex Court, with a ratio of 8:2,

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Closed list approach versus open-ended approach in subject-matter copyright

by Nishant Thakur & Sandra Anil Varkey*

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One person company: evolution and efficacy

by Ashwin Mathew† and Arunadhari Iyer††

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Joinder and non-joinder of parties in civil proceedings in India in light of the doctrine of necessary and proper parties

by Riya Jariwala*

Case Briefs Foreign Courts

UK SC | Whether residential care workers who ‘sleep in’ are entitled to national minimum wage for time that is not spent actually performing some specific activity?

United Kingdom Supreme Court: The Bench of Lord Kerr, Lord Wilson, Lord Carnwath, Lady Arden and Lord Kitchin dismissed the appeals and

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MSPs against Corporates: A Legal Right under the Contract Act and a Constitutional Right under Article 21

by Mohit Rana* and Ravi Singh Chhikara**

Case Briefs High Courts

Telangana HC | Are principles of res judicata applicable to bail applications? Can repeated filing of bail applications without change in circumstances be accepted? Read on

Telangana High Court: G. Sri Devi, J., while addressing a bail application filed in a case of ‘Honour Killing’ enumerated the factors

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CAT | Widow of a substitute servant cannot be denied rights of family pension and death-cum-retirement benefits accorded to temporary servants

Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT): Pradeep Kumar, Member (A) addressed the instant application wherein the widow of one Narayan Dutt, who was engaged

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Third-Party Funding of Litigation — A Damocles Sword or a Welcome Step

by Arunadhri Iyer* and Ashwin Mathew**

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A Case against Judicial Censorship

by Ritwik Tyagi*

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CCI | No ‘opt-out’ option for WhatsApp users in the 2021 Update. Why? Data Sharing with Facebook, Unilateral terms and more. Read CCI’s take on WhatsApp’s conduct in the garb of the policy update

Competition Commission of India (CCI): The coram comprising of Ashok Kumar Gupta (Chairperson) and Sangeeta Verma and Bhagwant Singh Bishnoi (Members) while

Hot Off The Press News

From practising as an Advocate in London to becoming a Supreme Court Judge | Justice S.S. Nijjar had a remarkable journey

As per several news reports, Former Supreme Court Judge Surinder Singh Nijjar passed away due to cardiac arrest. Let’s have a brief

Case Briefs High Courts

Ker HC | In divorce petition under S. 13(1)(iii) of HMA, can Court order a party to appear before medical board for assessment of mental condition? Court discusses

Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of A. Muhamed Mustaque and Kauser Edappagath, JJ., held that to get a decree of divorce

Case Briefs High Courts

[Eminent Domain] HP HC | Can a writ in the instant nature be allowed to direct Temple authorities to spend the amount collected through donations for construction of parking sites

Himachal Pradesh High Court: A Division Bench of Tarlok Singh Chauhan and Chander Bhusan Barowalia, JJ. dismissed the petition being non-maintainable. The

Case Briefs High Courts

Kar HC | Immovable property which is compulsorily registrable under S. 49 of Indian Registration Act, 1908 may be taken as evidence for the purpose of collateral transaction

Karnataka High Court: Hemant Chandangoudar, J. allowed the petition and quashed the impugned order. The facts of the case are such that

Case Briefs High Courts

Madras HC | Wear masks; maintain social distancing norms at all political gatherings: HC to candidates and political parties in election-bound State of Tamil Nadu

Madras High Court: A Division Bench of Sanjib Banerjee, CJ. and Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy, J., requested all political parties and candidates, who hold

Case Briefs High Courts

Pat HC | To attract penalty for being a member of an unlawful association, the association must be one declared unlawful by a notification under UAP Act, 1967; HC declares seizure exercise illegal and arbitrary

Patna High Court: Birendra Kumar, J., heard the instant revision application challenging the validity of ex-post facto approval of search and seizure

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Covid-19 & contract performance: “Material adverse change”?

by Bhumesh Verma† and Anomitra Debnath††