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The lawyers at Orissa High Court have been on continuous strike and the high court had initiated suo moto contempt proceedings against the same. Aggrieved by the boycott, the Petitioner, M/s PLR Projects Ltd., had approached the Supreme Court seeking transfer of its case out of Orissa and it submitted that it was unable to seek int..

The Supreme Court has observed that a Labour Court or Tribunal while holding enquiry under Section 33(2)(b) of the Industrial Disputes Act cannot invoke the adjudicatory powers vested in them under Section 10(i)(c) and (d) of the Act. They also cannot dwell upon the proportionality of punishment in the process of formation of t..

In a major legal setback to Pakistan, the High Court of England and Wales has given an extremely landmark and laudable judgment on October 2, 2019 after a long drawn out legal battle that dates back to 1948 rejecting rightly Pakistan's frivolous claims and ruling explicitly that the VII Nizam of Hyderabad's descendants and India can collect 35 million pounds from Lond..

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday directed the AAP government to ensure implementation of the Education Department's circular regarding installation of fire safety systems in all schools in the national capital and to take action against violators. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar directed the Edu..

Justice Arup Kumar Goswami was on Tuesday sworn in as the new Chief Justice of the Sikkim High Court. He was administered the oath of office by Governor Ganga Prasad at the New Raj Bhavan here. Goswami succeeds Justice Vijai Kumar Bist. Sikkim Chief Minister P S Tamang, Justice Meenakshi Madan R..

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday sought response of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on a plea seeking linking of movable and immovable property documents of citizens with their Aadhaar number to curb corruption, black money generation and 'benami' transactions. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to..

While the Supreme Court is working with its full sanctioned strength, vacancy of judges is on the rise in the 25 high courts of the country, according to latest Law Ministry data. The figures released by the ministry on October 1 show that the high courts faced a shortage of 420 judges -- the highest till now this year. As on October 1, the high courts were working with 659 ..

The Supreme Court Tuesday extended by four weeks the interim protection from arrest granted to civil rights activist Gautma Navlakha in the Koregaon Bhima violence case. However, a bench of justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta asked Navlakha to approach the concerned court to seek pre-arrest bail in the case. p style="..

It has to be said right at the outset that a two Judge Bench of the Apex Court comprising of Justice Navin Sinha and Justice BR Gavai just recently on October 4, 2019 in Fainul Khan vs State of Jharkhand and another in Criminal Appeal No(s). 937 of 2011 with Criminal Appeal No(s). 938 and 939 of 2011 has very rightly maintained that the rights of victim and society a..

Most of you may be reading, listening to the news on Punjab Maharashtra Co-operative Bank's failure and would broadly be aware as to how a co-operative bank ranking number four in the Cooperative sector with apparently good balance sheet became almost become bankrupt, overnight.   At this stage issue of accountability..

Co-operative moment The Co-operative moment, according to historians, began during 19th century in UK, US and other countries. Robert Owen (1771–1858) is considered as the father of the cooperative movement. In 1844 the Rochdale Pioneers founded the modern Cooperative Movement in Lancashire, England, to p..

 The Supreme Court’s answer is in a firm ‘No’ again to the legal question posed to it in the judgment of the case- Union of India & Others v. M/s Unicorn Industries, as to “whether, by invoking the doctrine of promissory estoppel, can the Union of India  be estopped from withdrawing the exemption from payment of Excise Duty in r..

It is most pleasing, most heartening and most refreshing to learn that the highest court of India that is the Supreme Court has most recently on September 26, 2019 in a latest, landmark and extremely laudable judgment titled Krishna Prasad Verma (D) Thr. LRs Vs State of Bihar & Ors in Civil Appeal No. 8950 of 2011 has minced..

The admissibility of website content, pages is a challenging task because of global nature of the internet and also due to the dynamic nature of websites. It becomes more complex, if the author of the website does not authenticate the content before the court. The party intend to prove the content fails, in case, the content does not exists anymore as either the web..

In a hard hitting, hair raising and historic judgment titled R (on the application of Miller) (Appellant) v The Prime Minister (Respondent) Cherry and others (Respondents) v Advocate General for Scotland (Appellant) (Scotland) in [2019] UK SC 41 on appeals from [2019] EWHC 2381 (QB) and [2019] CSIH 49, Lady Hale who presided the 11 Judge Bench read out on 24 Septemb..