civil law

The Supreme Court has criticised the popular practice among litigants adopting unfair means to approach courts demanding interim relief only to enjoy its benefits and intentionally spoiling the final scrutiny of the matter. A Bench comprising Justices R. V. Raveendran and J. M. Panchal said that any attempt by a litigant to retain the benefit of the interim order by avoiding final adjudication,..

New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Set up in 1997 to lessen the increasing burden of environment-related public interest petitions on the judicial system, the National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) has been without a head for over eight years. There is no website or address through which people can access the authority with their green grievances. Despite several directives by the Delhi High C..

Those who try to delay judicial proceedings without valid reasons cannot expect any relief from courts as statutory provisions like the limitation period have to be adhered to strictly, the Supreme Court has ruled. A bench of Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph in an order has said relaxation in the statutory rules can be given by courts only in exceptional cases and not otherwise. "Such ..

Orissa HC intervenes, super cyclone victim gets ex gratia 1/2/2009 A victim super cyclone has finally received the ex-gratia announced by the government after nine years following the intervention of Orissa High Court. The ex-gratia amount was paid to one Prasanna Barik, father of Lipan Barik of Dhaniapada village under Gardapur block in Kendrapara district after the High Court directed t..

The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum has directed Reliance General Insurance Company to pay Rs 1 lakh as mediclaim to an advocate member of the High Court Lawyers Public Charitable Trust. The company has also been directed to pay Rs 10,000 as compensation for causing mental agony and harassment. According to the complaint, filed by the trust, 1682 advocate members of the trust includi..

END TO CITY'S PROPERTY DISPUTES ? NEW LAW TO MAKE TITLE CLEAR. 28 Dec 2008, 0422 hrs IST, TNN NEW DELHI: The film ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’ was an iconic depiction of Delhi’s ugly property disputes. But a new title law that is on the cards may make disputes like these history. The first draft of the ‘Delhi Urban Property Registration & Titling Bill’ is ready. Once it becomes law, registra..

Dubai: Emirates is appealing an Indian court decision ordering it to pay Rs1.1 million (Dh84,360) in compensation for causing "inconvenience, discomfort and mental harassment" to a passenger couple. A consumer court in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh entered the order after Indian passenger Manmohan Lal Sarin, flying from New Delhi to Johannesburg with his wife, alleged that the cabin cr..

Newspapers and periodicals cannot be held responsible if there is a defect in a consumer product whose advertisements are printed in their pages, the Delhi High court has held. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog set aside a trial court order that had directed newspapers to issue a disclaimer saying that 'qualities of products advertised in their dailies are not guaranteed by the newspaper'. 'We set aside..

PENSION PART OF RIGHT TO LIFE : BOMBAY HC 23 Dec 2008, 0300 hrs IST, Swati Deshpande, TNN MUMBAI: Pensioners now have a reason to smile. In a landmark judgment, the Bombay High Court has held that pension is a vital aspect of social security and that the right to receive it constitutes a right to life under the constitution. Moreover, it held that pension must be paid regularly i..

MP:10 YEAR LEGAL BATTLE FOR RS. 527An aged person finally got justice after fighting a legal battle for 10 years.Seventy five-year-old B R Sharma had taken a loan of Rs 3,000 from General Post Office, Ratlam, on June 10, 1996. He repaid the loan before time but the GPO charged him Rs 527 extra.Mr Sharma showed the details of loan repayment and demanded Rs 527 paid extra..

The poor state of roads of Municipal Corporation Delhi (MCD) has come under the scanner of the Delhi High Court which slammed the civic agency for its non-serious attitude towards repairing potholes. "The roads of the national capital are bumpy, full of potholes and uneven and which are perennial source of giving nightmarish experience to the vehicle owners...," Justice Kailash Gambhir made a..

SC directs TN Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Justice Kanna Dasan to remain on leaveThe Supreme Court directed the chairman of Tamil Nadu Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission Justice Kanna Dasan to proceed on leave till the final disposal of his petition filed in the apex court.A bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Mukundakam Sharma issued the directions when the two p..

Hospital claims doc not on rolls16 May 2008, 0302 hrs IST, Deeksha Chopra, TNNNEW DELHI: The state consumer commission has ruled that the hospital, not the doctor, will be liable to compensate a patient in case of a botched-up surgery or any other kind of medical negligence.Delivering the judgment, Justice J D Kapoor said: "Whenever a patient lands in any hospital, nursing ..

DELHI HC: MCD FILES REPLY ON THE STATUS OF COWS DYING IN GAUSHALAS 12/18/2008 The MCD filed an affidavit in the Delhi High Court in order to curb the mortality rate of cows and other cattle in the Capital. MCD’s Standing Counsel Madhu Tewatia told the court that it has drafted an action plan to curb the mortality rate in the gaushalas. Appearing before a bench of Chief Justice of Madr..

Mumbai: An 11-year-old Labrador has emerged a champion of dog rights by not only winning for himself the right to travel in the elevator of his apartment complex in a Mumbai suburb but getting his master a Rs 5,000 compensation from the apartment’s anti-pet managing committee. The Thane District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum passed an order, defending Shimu aka Peter Pan’s right to use th..