plea against Senior Advocates' designation
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“There has been large growth in the legal profession of first- generation lawyers making their mark, some of them young ones, coming from National Law Schools and other prominent Law Schools”.

Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court said that the delivery will be conducted by AIIMS at the appropriate time and the Union Government will bear all the medical costs for the delivery.

irretrievable breakdown of marriage
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Supreme Court considered an appeal seeking divorce for husband and wife aged 87 years and 82 years respectively, on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of marriage.

weighted average method for captive user
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The weighted average shareholding method is applied by taking average shareholding held by particular shareholder for the year for the purpose of calculating proportionate electricity required to be consumed by it in terms of the second proviso of Rule 3(1)(a).

Electoral Bonds Scheme
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The Finance Act, 2017 introduced a system by which electoral bonds could be issued by any scheduled bank for the purpose of electoral funding.

Manual Scavengers Act
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A PIL on the implementation of the Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013 is pending before the Supreme Court.

bail to minor's gang rape accused
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Earlier, the Bombay High Court had refused to grant bail to the accused considering the seriousness of the offence.

applicability of pre-emption Hindus Mohammadan law
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment dating back to the year 1952 on applicability of pre-emption to non-Muslims.

Preterm vs Abortion
Case BriefsSupreme Court

A letter was received by ASG seeking clarification from the Court regarding whether foeticide can be done before termination process since the baby was viable, and that if that was not done, it would be a preterm delivery and not a foeticide.

termination of unplanned pregnancy
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The woman had adopted Lactational Amenorrhea Method (‘LAM’), a process which implies absence of menstruation due to continuing breast feeding as a contraceptive method.

Wipro's 'Chandrika' trade mark
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Wipro Enterprises has a registered all India trade mark ‘Chandrika’ since 1976.

Section 138 NI Act
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The accused has miserably failed to discharge his evidential burden, that fact will have to be taken to be proved by force of the presumption, without requiring anything more from the complainant”

26-week medical termination of pregnancy
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The case is of a married couple who conceived for a third time and due to financial and emotional reasons cannot raise the child. The woman sought the court’s intervention for abortion, as her pregnancy had crossed the legally permissible limit of 24 weeks for abortions under the MTP Act

multiple Inconsistencies in evidence
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“When the testimonies of the eye-witnesses suffer from fatal flaws, to sustain conviction on the basis of such unreliable evidence would surely amount to miscarriage of justice”

telangana high court
Case BriefsHigh Courts

“Bar Council of India is directed to examine the representation of the petitioner after taking note of the Supreme Court’s observations in the case of Bar Council of India v. Bonnie Foi Law College.”

unstamped arbitration agreements
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Having regard to larger ramifications of NN Global case, the Supreme Court viewed that proceedings should be placed before a seven-judge bench to reconsider the correctness of the view by a five-judge bench.

grounds of arrest in writing
Case BriefsSupreme Court

“The very purpose of the constitutional and statutory protection would be rendered nugatory if the authorities concerned are permitted to merely read out or permit reading of the grounds of arrest, irrespective of their length and detail, and claim due compliance with the constitutional requirement under Article 22(1) and the statutory mandate under Section 19(1) of the PMLA”.

bail to murder accused
Case BriefsSupreme Court

The Court did not express anything on the merits of the case and released the accused considering the period in custody and reasonable time for conclusion of Trial.

restriction landlords right public interest unreasonable
Cases ReportedNever Reported Judgments

This report covers the Supreme Court’s Never Reported Judgment dating back to the year 1952 on West Bengal Rent Control (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1950.

Can Karta sell HUF property without consent
Case BriefsSupreme Court

Supreme Court clarified that “an HUF is capable of acting through its Karta or an adult member of the family in the management of the HUF property.”