Madras High Court has said it is a settled proposition of law that when a statute prescribes to do a particular thing in a particular manner, the same should not be done in any other manner. The proposition is well recognised as held by the Supreme C ..
The state government seems to be dragging its feet on implementing a path-breaking bill passed by the legislature that provides for penal action against any builder who does not convey land to the housing society within four months of the society bei ..
Huge towering hoardings erected near beaches or on the seaward side of a road in Mumbai marring the ocean view has come under the scanner of the Bombay high court. A division bench of Justice Bilal Nazki and Justice A R Joshi allowed an application o ..
For nearly 1.7 lakh undertrials languishing in jails after being booked for petty offences, there could be good news soon. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, law minister Veerappa Moily and Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan were unanimous that urg ..
By Prashant Mali (cyberlawconsulting@gmail.com)The criminals knew what they were doing when they hit the Western BeaverCounty School District.They waited until school administrators were away on holiday, and then during a four-day period between Dec. ..
A British hacker who broke into U.S. government computer systems seeking evidence of alien life has failed in his latest efforts to block extradition to the U.S. to face trial.The High Court ruled the extradition of Gary McKinnon, whose hacking expl ..
The draft Direct Taxes Code that proposes to reduce the rate of corporate tax to 25 per cent from about 30 per cent may have overhauled the taxation structure and rates for companies, but experts see that in real terms companies may end up paying mo ..
In the matter pertaining to water scarcity in Mohali, the divison bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court comprising Chief Justice Tirath Singh Thakur and Justice Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia issued a notice of motion to the Union of India, the state of ..
The remarks of Union minister Sachin Pilot regarding the bifurcation of the Allahabad High Court bench in western UP has angered the lawyer fraternity here. On Thursday, lawyers of the high court hurriedly convened a meeting of the Bar and passed a r ..
Irked by the manner in which Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) filed an appeal without any relevant documents challenging a trial court's order, Delhi High Court on Thursday slammed the insurance company for the "careless attitude&qu ..