Breaking: SC Constitution Bench To Hear Aadhaar Case From July 18
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Chief Justice of India has agreed to constitute a Five Judge Bench to hear 'whether Aadhaar violates right to privacy'. The Five Judge Bench to start hear the matter from July...
View ArticleSC Gives Centre Four Weeks To Decide On Regulating NGOs
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court today gave the Centre four weeks time do decide if it will bring in a legislation or guidelines to regulate government funds for NGOs and prosecute them in case of...
View ArticleLife Ban For Convicted Legislators: SC Pulls Up Election Commission For Not...
Prabhati Nayak MishraThe Election Commission of India today found itself in a difficult situation before the Supreme Court in a PIL which demanded life ban of convicted MPs and MLAs from contesting the...
View ArticleHighway Liquor Ban: Arunachal & Andaman Too Get Exemption From SC From 500...
Live Law News NetworkLike Sikkim and Meghalaya, now Arunachal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands too will enjoy full exemption from the 500 metre cap on liquor sale on National Highways and State...
View ArticleNGT Puts Total Ban On Nylon, Synthetic Manjha [Read Judgment]
Live Law News NetworkThe National Green Tribunal has imposed complete ban on manufacture, distribution, sale and use of nylon or any synthetic manjha or thread holding that the same is lethal in nature...
View ArticlePermitting Audience For Foreign Lawyers, In Domestic Courts” &“Hague Rules,...
Chief Justice JS Khehar INAUGURAL ADDRESS BY HON'BLE SHRI JAGDISH SINGH KHEHAR CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA AT ALL INDIA SEMINAR OF THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION ON JULY 8, 2017 AT India Habitat...
View ArticleJudicial Vacancies: Calcutta HC Laments “Step Motherly Attitude”, Pulls Up...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, pulled up the Centre for its “step motherly attitude”, and urged it to fill up judicial vacancies to “prevent the system from collapsing”. “In a...
View ArticlePerjury Case: Ex-BCCI Chief Anurag Thakur Tenders Unconditional Apology
Live Law News NetworkFormer BCCI President Anurag Thakur today tendered fresh unconditional apology in the Supreme Court for filing a false affidavit in connection with a contempt case against him...
View ArticleAssam CM Sonowal Rapped By SC On National Register Of Citizens Issue
Live Law News NetworkAssam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal was at the received end of the ire of the Supreme Court, which is monitoring the updating of the National Register of Citizes (NRC) for...
View ArticleHigh Courts Cannot Entertain Challenges To Special Court Orders In Coal Scam...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court on Thursday reiterated that challenges to the orders passed by the Special Court during the pendency of trial in the infamous Coal Scam can only be entertained by the...
View ArticleBreaking:No Coercive Action Against Lawyers & Law Firms For Non-Compliance...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to abstain from taking any coercive action against lawyers and law firms for non-compliance with any legal requirement under the...
View ArticleSC Constitution Bench To Decide On Continuation Of Oversight Committee’s...
Ashok K.MThe Supreme Court has referred to the Constitution Bench a query raised in a plea by Amma Chandravati Educational and Charitable Trust that whether the oversight committee should continue to...
View ArticleJustice Vikramajit Sen Appointed As Broadcasting Content Complaints Council...
Former Supreme Court Judge, Justice Vikramajit Sen has been appointed as the new Chairperson of Broadcasting Content Complaints Council, the independent self-regulatory body for general entertainment...
View ArticleManipur Extra Judicial Killings: SC Orders CBI To Constitute SIT [Read Judgment]
In a landmark Judgment, Supreme Court of India on Friday directed the CBI to constitute a Special Investigation Team and to investigate the alleged extra judicial killings in Manipur. The Bench...
View ArticleSC Pulls Up Centre For Delaying Decision On NRI Voting Rights, Former AG...
LiveLaw News Network "This is a petition of 2014. Every year you keep saying we will amend we will amend. You said this in 2014, 15, 16 and again..this is not the way a government works", an angry CJI...
View ArticleOrder Extending Madras HC’s Stay On Cattle Rules: SC To Hear Clarification...
Prabhati Nayak Mishra The Supreme Court has agreed to hear on Friday an application filed by animal rights activist Gauri Maulekhi seeking clarification of its July 11 order staying centre's two...
View ArticleBlocked 3,500 Child Pornography Sites: Centre To SC
Live Law News NetworkThe Centre today informed the Supreme Court that it has managed to block nearly 3,500 child pornography sites and has also taken other measures to prevent further such material...
View ArticleVijay Mallya Can’t Be Sentenced In His Absence, Says Supreme Court
Live Law News NetworkThe Supreme Court today indefinitely deferred the sentencing of business tycoon Vijay Mallya, convicted in the contempt case filed by consortium of banks headed by the SBI and said...
View ArticleNHRC Has Been Reduced To A Toothless Tiger: Supreme Court [Read Judgment]
Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court on Friday expressed regret over the reduction of the National Human Rights Commission to a “toothless tiger”. “Considering that such a high powered body has brought...
View ArticleBCCI Case: Relief For AnuragThakur But Srinivasan In Fresh Trouble (Read Order)
Live Law News NetworkThe Supreme Court today dropped perjury and contempt proceedings against former BCCI President Anurag Thakur after accepting his unconditional apology but its yet another former...
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