Source – indiatoday.in Is it not time to discontinue long vacations for courts, especially the Supreme Court (SC), when the Indian judiciary is grappling with backlog to the tune of a whopping 3.3 crore cases across the country? A first-of-its-kind public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed before the SC demanding that court vacations, a British era practice,
Source – littleindia.com Accordingly, Foreign law firms/companies or foreign lawyers do not have an absolute right to practice law in India and they will be governed by the code of conduct applicable to the legal profession in India. The division bench of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India consisting of Justice A.K. Goel and Justice U.U.
Source – The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to urgently hear a petition challenging the Karnataka governor’s invitation to the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) to constitute a new administration. The plea, which was filed by the Hindu Mahasabha, describes the post-poll coalition between the Congress and the JD (S) (who were campaign rivals)
Source – ndtv.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has slapped a cost of Rupees one lakh each on internet giants like Google and Facebook for failing to file their replies on the steps taken by them to block videos of sexual offences on social sites. A bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit noted
Source – theprint.in By the middle of next week, Karnataka will have a new government headed by Janata Dal (Secular) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy. The Congress, which has the second highest number of MLAs in the new assembly, will also be part of the new government. The events of the last six days starting 15 May, the
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Karti Chidambaram, son of senior Congress leader P Chidambaram, to travel to offshore locations in United Kingdom, Germany and Spain with certain conditions, including that he would not open or close a bank account abroad. Karti, who has been facing probe in various corruption cases, was allowed to go
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: The dramatic turn of events through the night over the Karnataka power tussle in the Supreme Court here saw a mad rush of news-hungry scribes during the rare post-midnight hearing which continued till the wee hours today. As the speculations about possible court proceedings at night began around 10 PM last night, mediapersons started
Source – inc42.com As the cryptocurrency firms, enthusiasts and organisations like IAMAImoved the various courts against the RBI circular dated April 6, the Supreme Court of India, upon hearing a related-case, has directed to club all the petitions pending across various courts in this regard. The Supreme Court has also refused to put any stay on the RBI circular, till the matter
Source – bloombergquint.com In a dramatic turn of events, the Supreme Court of India, at a middle-of-the-night hearing, refused to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party from taking oath on Thursday morning as the new government in Karnataka. Though it did direct the Attorney General of India, KK Venugopal, to produce the letter written by BJP Karnataka
Source – indiatimes.com NEW DELHI: Toughening its stand against a review of its ruling diluting the arrest clause in the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said it would not allow arrest of an innocent merely on a complaint even if Parliament made a law. “Right to life and liberty
