KEY TAKEAWAYS The Allahabad High Court has stated that when a worker is hired for a specific project, his or her services terminate after the project is over, and that such a worker cannot be given permanent status. This statement was made by the Ben ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS The Supreme Court today postponed the hearing on a writ petition seeking new guidelines to combat hacking, cyber crime, data theft, and other related issues until November 26, 2021. The bench of Justices AM Khanwilkar and CT Ravikumar o ..
SC: Impermissible For Co-Operatives To Deny Membership To Single WomenIt has been held by the Supreme Court that denial of membership to single women, members of a particular community and people who eat particular food is not permissible by co-opera ..
Key Takeaways A High Court cannot place reliance on a "draft charge-sheet" which is yet to be placed before the Magistrate to quash the criminal proceedings under Section 482 of CrPCBackground An FIR was registered against the accused under ..
Key Takeaways A High Court in a criminal appeal under Section 374(2) of Code of Criminal Procedure is duty-bound to consider the entirety of the evidence.Background The trial court had convicted all the forty-four accused. The High Court upheld the c ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS The Court noted that applying the two-year limit to awards issued under Section 24(1)(a) of the 2013 Act could result in practical absurdities and paradoxes. The Supreme Court ruled that the provision of the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 ..
KEY TAKEAWAYS According to the Supreme Court, the 2015 change to Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 will only apply to Section 34 applications filed after the amendment's effective date. In a case where the applicability of S ..
Key Takeaways The Supreme Court held that losing a case after an argument cannot be termed as a deficiency in service on the part of an advocate. The Coram consisted of Justices MR Shah and BV Nagarathna which gave this judgement in the case of Nandl ..
2015 Amendment Won't Apply To Section 34 Applications Filed Prior To ItThe name of the case was Ratnam Sudesh Iyer v Jackie Kakubhai Shroff. The decision was given by a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and M.M. Sundresh. In this case, the cou ..
Key Takeaways Section 25 of the 2013 Act would apply to the awards made and published under Section 24(1)(a) of the 2013 Act.Background The State of Maharashtra, on 16th June 2011, issued a land acquisition notification under Section 41 of the 1894 A ..