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The 2-year old National Law University, Delhi came of age with their first-ever moot court competition win. The team took home the 2010 D.M. Harish Memorial Government Law College Moot Court Competition after beating Indian Law Society, Pune. Held every year in the honour of tax law expert, Late D.M Harish, by Mumbai’s Government Law College, the moot is sp..

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The Supreme Court will consider on February 19 the application of Ministery of Defence (MoD) blaming red tapism and Supreme Court-appointed Centrally empowered committee (CEC) for delay in construction of roads within the radius of 50 kms along the China border. Ministry of Defence (MoD) in its application which is pending since March 2009 has said China is in a state of ful..

The Union Government will come out with a Bill to prevent tainted lawyers by becoming judges, Law and Justice M Veerappa Moily said. He said a Bill on Standard and Accountability for judges, to replace the Judges Act of 1968, would be introduced in the Budget Session of Parliament. Mr Moily was speaking after inaugurating a three-day Global Consultative Meet..

Lawyers in Tamil Nadu will boycott court proceedings on February 19 to protest "failure" of the state government in taking action against police officers held responsible for the violence in the Madras high court premises a year ago. The decision was taken today at a meeting of the Joint Action Committee representing various advocates associations, including Madras high ..

The Supreme Court has ruled that social and economic backwardness is one of the mitigating circumstances while commuting the death sentence of two convicts to life imprisonment. The convicts Mulla and Guddu along with others had abducted five villagers and murdered them in cold blood on December 21, 1995 when they failed to meet their demands for ransom of Rs 10,000 each.br..

The outgoing Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice A P Shah has said the 17-year-old system of appointment of judges through a collegium should be changed and not left to a single body, but to be transparent and broad based. The selection of judges should be through a broad based body and not left to a collegium, Justice Shah said. ‘I feel if the c..

Retired Supreme Court Judge P V Reddy is going to be the new chairman of the Law Commission of India. According to reliable sources, the Law Ministry has cleared his name to head the Law Commission, which is without chairman since July 2009, when the term of Justice A R Lakshmanan expired. Union Law Minister M Veerappa Moily had earlier trie..

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Delhi High Court Bar Association for checks and balances in collegium system Staff Reporter To make judges’ elevation process more transparent and non-controversial NEW DELHI: Sha..

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Chairperson of Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) Justice S B Sinha has urged Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to ensure an effective customer care section of each service provider and address the complaint within a specific time. Addressing a one-day seminar on Dispute Resolution Scenario in Telecom and Broadcasting Sectors Justice Sinha said it ..

In an important ruling the Supreme Court has ruled that the property acquired from the criminal activities within the country cannot be confiscated or attached under chapter VIIA of the CrPC untill and unless the crime has international ramifications. A Bench comprising Justices V S Sirpurkar and Surinder Singh Nijjar while dismissing the appeal of the State of Madhya Pradesh also t..