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The Madras high court on Monday issued notices to Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry chairman RK Chandramohen and the Bar Council of India on a writ plea seeking disclosure of the name of the Union minister who had attempted to contact Justice Regupathi for a favourable order in a criminal case.  b..

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The Bombay high court on Monday granted Mumbai University liberty to amend its rules in connection with revaluation of exam papers to ensure a speedy process. The order came after a statement was made by university counsel Rui Roderigues that the university was planning to disband an existing expert committee in the pre..

 Madras High Court ordered notice to Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry, Prasar Bharati and the Central Board of Film Certification on a Public Interest Litigation Petition(PIL) seeking a direction to the Centre to regulate and prohibit transmission obscenity, violent, vulgar telecasts and exhibition of indecent dramas, serials, dances and advertisements by private channels. ..

Madras High Court dismissed a petition, challenging the order of the Tamil Nadu Government to hike the salary of MLA’s and allot land for constructing houses. When a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition filed by Social activist Traffic Ramasamy came up for hearing before the first Bench comprising Chief Justice H L Gokhale and Mr Justice D Murugesan, Government P..

Madras High Court ordered notice to Chairman of the Tamil Nadu-Pondichery Bar-Council on a Quo-Warranto petition questioning the authority under which R K Chandramohan has been holding the post.  When the petition came up for hearing before a Division Bench comprising Mr Justice F M Ibrahim Kalifulla and Ms Justice R Bhanumathi, the High Court registrar submitted a let..

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 CJI said this at the First National Justice Academy Zonal Judicial Conference on Enhancement of Tim..

 Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan said here on Sunday that eyewitness accounts in criminal cases must be examined properly for speedy disposal of cases.  "In some states, eyewitnesses are not heard. On the basis of my personal experience, I suggest you to hear eyewitnesses prop..

If justice delayed is justice denied, then no family member of any custodial death victim has ever got justice in Tamil Nadu.  Just consider this. Rohini, whose history-sheeter-husband Lingam was beheaded inside a sub-jail with the knowledge of an assistant jailer in 1992, got a compensation in..

 Union minister of state for human resource development Daggubati Purandeswari said the Centre would soon bring an Act on the Right to Education.  Though primary education is a subject of state governments, the central government has asked all the states to prepare ..

Judge Baqir Ali Rana of anti-terrorism court no 2, who is conducting the trial in the high-security Adiala Jail in the garrison city of Rawalpindi of five LeT operatives accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday ordered a blackout on the media c..

Expelled BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat government’s decision to ban his book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah in the state. Singh, along with a representative of Rupa and Co, publisher of the book 'Jinnah -- India, Partition, Independence', filed a petition in the apex court against the ban imposed by the Narendra Modi government on August 19, t..

The judicial reform ship floated by the government three months ago with law minister Veerappa Moily as captain has had a smooth sailing till now thanks to tail winds generated by intense public opinion that virtually forced SC judges to bow to demands of transparency. Moily’s roadmap on judicial reforms had four components — make judges declare assets; make them accountable for miscon..

Chief Justice of India KG Balakrishnan on Friday asserted that his office was out of the purview of the country's transparency law, the Right to Information Act. "The office of the Chief Justice is privy to so much of information like privileged communication between various constitutional authorities, complaints against judges etc. How can all this information be disclosed (under the RT..

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