constitutional law

A. Patrawala Advocate has  coined Pulic Policy in the following legal terms:    The Concept of Public Policy To define the Public Policy is like beating around the bush. The concept has gain significance when used in legislation to qualify particular matter and disqualifying i..

The Centre has directed all the States/Union Territories to enforce the Supreme Court directive, under the Motor Vehicle Act, of fixing High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) for all vehicles forthwith to check their theft by criminals. In a letter to the chief secretaries/administrators, the Union Road Transport and Highways Ministry’s Secretary Brahm Dutt said viol..

Delhi High Court dismissed the petition of five Delhi University candidates who challenged the University’s decision to disqualify them in the students union election. Three ABVP and two NSUI candidates had approached the Delhi High Court against Delhi University..

Delhi High Court dismissed the petition of Greater Kailash residents, who wanted a say in the inquiry into the recent mishap at the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) work site at Zamrudpur. During the day, DMRC lawyer Virender Sood submitted the Action Taken Report (..

The people in Haryana can now obtain legal advice regarding their cases on a helpline. Justice Adarsh Kumar Gel of Punjab and Haryana High Court and Executive Chairman of Haryana State Legal Services Authority (HSLSA) inaugurated the legal services helpline (0172-26040..

 The Supreme Court on Monday stayed all further proceedings, pending in 12 High Courts, on petitions challenging a Bar Council of India Rule fixing 20 years as the upper age limit for admission to the five-year integrated law course and 30 years for the three-year degree course. The Bar Council had sought transfer of all the cases pending in High Courts to the Supreme Court. Senior..

 A three-judge Bench of the Gujarat High Court, headed by Chief Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan, on Monday began the hearing on the public interest litigation petition challenging the constitutionality and validity of the State government’s notification banning the publication, sale, and distribution of Jaswant Singh’s book Jinnah India-Partition Independence, in Gujarat. Justices ..

The Delhi High Court asked the CBI to interrogate Buta Singh in a bribery case also involving his son Sarabjot alias Sweety Singh . The Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes, Buta Singh had submitted before the High Court his willingness to be questioned..

The Madras High Court has admitted a winding up plea petition against Subhiksha, the beleaguered deep discount retail chain, filed by Kotak Mahindra Bank. While admitting the petition, Justice P Jothimani passed orders for publication of advertisement in national dailies by Kotak Mahindra Bank. The advertisement will seek objections, if any, from stakeholders about the closu..

Supreme Court Judge B Sudershan Reddy said the greatest constitutional challenge would be to accommodate civil society institutions and their deliberations into the reckoning of formal institutions of the state and decision-making. The greatest constitutional challenge..

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan emphasised the need for speedy trial saying judges should ask relevant questions only. Justice Balakrishnan said the judges should have fair knowledge of law and should ask ‘relevant questions’ only. ..

The Union Government is likely to clarify its stand on the issue of legalising gay sex between two consenting adults, before the Supreme Court next week. Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has already indicated that the committee of three ministers, comprising himself, ..

The Forum for Right to Information Campaign has welcomed the decision of the judges of Supreme Court of India on Wednesday to make public their assets and said that the issue had been haunting higher judiciary for quite some time. Terming it a decision in the right direction, the Forum District Chairman P. C. Sai Babu said that the decision comes after months of public debate over makin..

If things go according to plan, the Kerala High Court will become the first high court in the country to declare assets of all its judges including the Chief Justice.o:..

The Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan on Friday said the decision of Supreme Court judges to make their assets public was entirely "unanimous"./b..