Once a reader queried whether this column carried ‘imagined’ instances. We replied that the law is far stranger than fiction and we had no need to invent stories. Now comes a judgement that puts many of our columns into one, single, persp ..
The Keep or Kill Dilemma:To keep or to destroy? This is a question which all of us face when we sit down with unsorted papers, bills, credit card statements, insurance premium receipts and a plethora of other papers. Deciding which papers need to be ..
The straight answer to this is � to insist the presiding Judge to record "finding of facts". Every decision of court, as far as possible, must be based on record of findings of facts. Finding based decisions ..
Just about everybody has an opinion on legal delays. Some, obviously exaggerated, comments put the backlog clearing schedule at a couple of hundred years. Nice after-dinner banter, but way off the mark. Last year, Indian courts cleared two crore case ..
It is the rainy season of elections again. Coming are the Punjab and U.P. Everybody will engage in election activities shortly or show to be engaged so. Colours of the turbans will also get change. Changing the party and taking the better opportunity ..
'Ant in the Ear of the Elephant�(�The Story of the people�s struggle against the Kodankulam plant�) by Minni Vaid highlights how human suffering is in a new phase ..
Around the turn of the century, a news report had carried a bizarre story. An American judge gave his trousers (pants) to a Chinese laundry for alteration. Cost $10.50. He then experienced what is a common occurrence; clothes lost at the laundry. Hap ..
�Fundamental justice is a legal term that signifies a dynamic concept of fairness underlying the administration of justice and its operation, whereas principles of fundamental justice are specific legal principles that command �significan ..
The Gujarat High Court in the recent landmark decision in Nikhil P Gandhi v. State of Gujarat has struck down the contention that when a signed blank cheque leaf is handed over to the other party by way of security, the same can never be filled up an ..
Claim rejection is the most disappointing subject in a policy holder’s life. The customer starts loosing trust in the company and feels betrayed. They feel the company gives unrealistic reasons for rejecting their claims.An insurance claim reje ..