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OVERVIEW Hours after taking charge, Biden signed on Wednesday 17 memoranda of executive orders and declarations, including an end to the Muslim travel ban, imposed by the previous US a href="https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/articles/why-has-iran-issued-arrest-warrants-against-president-trump-and-35-others-11620.asp" style="c..

OVERVIEW • Odisha State Consumer Redressal Commission (Commission) has directed Amazon to pay Rs.45,000 as compensation for a law student whose order for a laptop discounted at Rs.190 was cancelled soon after t..

KEY TAKEAWAYS On Tuesday, the Calcutta High Court ruled out that a father has no fundamental right to collect his deceased son's preserved sperm solely on basis on father-son relationship. Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya also commented that deceased man's wife has prima..

OVERVIEW • Hours after his inauguration, President Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders, memorandums and proclamations, overturning most of Trump's controversial administration policies like measures towards fighting the pandemic, altering his environmental agenda, anti-immigration policies, reinforcing policies for ..

OVERVIEW • The Karnataka governor on 5th January approved the Karnataka Prevention of Sla..

The Duchess of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) for invasion of privacy and copyright infringement over five articles in th..

The Allahabad High Court has issued a directive stating that every citizen has the right to live peacefully, enjoy religious freedom, and live without the threat of anti-social elements. The petitioners, Mohammad Shahid and Ors., had filed an instant PIL seeking the High Court to administer the State of Uttar Pradesh, Ministry of Revenue Affairs, and Kaushambi Distr..

KEY TAKEAWAYS • Samsung electronics vice-chairman Jay. Y. Lee has been sentenced to prison for bribery, embezzlement, and concealment of criminal proceedings worth $7.8 Million (8.6 Billion Won) by the Seoul High Court this Monday, 18th January for 2 years and 6 months. • Lee J..

OVERVIEW • The Allahabad High Court on 19th January rejected the plea made by the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh for investigation by an independent agency into the Etah advocate assault case. • Last year in December, the U.P. police had barged into the house of Advocate Rajend..

Supreme court dismisses review petitions challenging 2018 aadhaar judgement; justice d. Y. Chandrachud dissents - ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW  • On Wednesday, 20th January 2021, the Hon’ble Supreme Court dismissed the review petition challenging the controversial 2018’ Aa..

• Samsung electronics vice-chairman Jay. Y. Lee has been sentenced to prison for bribery, embezzlement, and concealment of criminal proceedings worth $7.8 Million (8.6 Billion Won) by the Seoul High Court this Monday, 18th January for 2 years and 6 months. • Lee Jae Yong, 52, was convicted for bribing an associate of ..

OVERVIEW The petition filed by Indian Space Research Organization’s arm Antrix Corporation Ltd was admitted by the National Company Law Tribunal, Bengaluru on Tuesday. This was allowed by Central Government to chairman-cum-managing director of Antrix. p style="text-align: j..

Kamla Harris to become the first woman of color and of Indian-origin the vice-president of US. She will be sworn in on two bibles by Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice on 20th January. Harris will call for a bible belonging to Regina Shelton who is her neighbor, nanny, mentor and surrogate mother. This has ..

OVERVIEW Ex-DGP & CP M.N. Singh, and ex-DGPs ParvinderParsicha, D. Shivanandan, Sanjeev Dayal, Satish Mathur and K. Subramanyam and additional DGP Krishipal Raghuvanshi, along with former CP Dhananjay Jadhav filed a petition in September 2020 in the Bombay High Court against the unfair, hostile and fal..

KEY TAKEAWAYS Public interest litigation (PIL) is a petition which is filed by any member of public, concerning issue of public interest, for redress of public wrong or injury. This legal action is a way of using the discipline of law for effective social change. It is also impo..