Challenge To Child Marriage Exception To Rape In SC: Petitioner-NGO Relies On...
Live Law News NetworkThe counsel for the NGO, Independent Thought, Gaurav Agrawal, today began his submissions before the Supreme Court’s bench of Justices Madan B.Lokur and Deepak Gupta, justifying...
View ArticleDecoding SC’s First Major Judgment On Insolvency And Bankruptcy Code, 2016...
Live Law News NetworkIn a detailed judgment, Justice RF Nariman, while sitting with Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul, has extensively travelled through the new legislation - Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code of...
View ArticleSC To Hear Bofors Pay-Offs Case In October
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court today agreed to hear the plea in bofors pay-off case by BJP leader and advocate Ajay Kumar Agarwal in October. He had challenged the Delhi High Court May 31, 2005...
View ArticleI Became A Lawyer By Accident: AG K.K. Venugopal Reveals That Secret [Video]
Apoorva MandhaniSenior Advocate K.K. Venugopal, during his felicitation by the Bar Council of India for being appointed as the Attorney General for India, revealed the circumstances in which we decided...
View ArticleSC To Hear Petition Against Deportation Of Rohingya Muslims On Monday [Read...
Apoorva MandhaniA Petition has been filed before the Supreme Court, challenging the decision to deport Rohingya Muslims, who have taken refuge in India to escape persecution in Myanmar. The matter was...
View ArticleService Details Of Employees Amounts To ‘Personal Information’ Which Cannot...
Manu SebastianThe Supreme Court has held that service details of employees fall within the ambit of ‘personal information’ under Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, and that such details...
View ArticleWhy Not Old Age Homes In Each District? SC Seeks Replies From States
Live Law News NetworkFormer union minister and senior advocate Ashwini Kumar won a huge victory when on his PIL, the Supreme Court today sought the response from the states with regard to the status of...
View ArticleIs J&K HC Order To Provide Security To Ex-Judges Valid? SC To Examine
Live Law News NetworkFive months after the Supreme Court upheld the security arrangements made for former Chief Justice Uma Nath Singh of the Meghalaya High Court and another retired judge of that...
View ArticleSC Takes Score Of Arrangements Made For Well-Being Of 10-Yr-Old Rape Survivor...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Supreme Court, on Friday, took score of the arrangements made for the well-being of 10-year-old rape victim who recently delivered a baby girl after her plea to abort the unwanted...
View ArticleShould Bail Seekers First Exhaust Sessions Court Remedy Before Approaching...
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court bench of Justices J.Chelameswar and Amitava Roy, on September 1, granted leave on an appeal filed by the Gauhati High Court Bar Association against the judgment of...
View ArticleAnti-Sikh Riots: Justice Panchal And Justice Radhakrishnan To Scrutinize SIT...
Apoorva MandhaniThe Apex Court has named its former Judges, Justice J.M. Panchal and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan as members of the supervisory panel appointed by it to scrutinize the Special...
View ArticleSC Grants 4 Weeks Time To RBI, Centre On Siblings’ Plea For Exchanging Old...
Live Law News NetworkThe Supreme court today gave the RBI and Finance Ministry four weeks time to file response on a plea seeking extension of window for exchanging demonetized notes of Rs 500 and...
View ArticleSC Stays Insolvency Proceedings Against Jaypee Infratech
Live Law News Network“Homebuyers, being unsecured creditors, will get nothing out of the insolvency proceedings as the dues of financial institutions, which are secured creditors, would be cleared...
View ArticleSC Seeks Centre’s Response On Plea Against Deportation Of Rohingyas To Myanmar
Apoorva MandhaniSeeking the Centre’s response on the issue, the Supreme Court today said it would on September 11give urgent hearing to the petition challenging the proposed decision to deport 40,000...
View ArticleSC Tells Bombay HC To Decide Pleas On RERA Expeditiously, Other HCs Asked To...
Nitish KashyapThe Supreme Court on Monday directed the Bombay High Court to expeditiously decide all pleas and petitions challenging the validity of the new Real Estate (Regulation and Development)...
View ArticleSC Stays Bombay HC Order Granting Interim Stay On Centre’s Notification On...
Nitish KashyapAfter a full bench of the Bombay High Court ordered interim stay on the Centre’s new amendment to Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court...
View ArticleSex Determination: Despite The Court Order &Existence Of Nodal Agency,...
Prabhati Nayak MishraThe Supreme Court has sought petitioner Sabu Mathew's suggestions as how the nodal agency, set up by the Centre following apex court's order, can effectively work to prevent...
View ArticleSC Stays J&K HC Order Giving Lifelong Security To Ex-Judges
Live Law News NetworkThe Jammu and Kashmir High Court's order directing the state government to provide lifetime security cover to retired judges and advocate generals has been stayed by the Supreme...
View Article“Have You Filed Any PILs For The Poor, Downtrodden? These Are Luxury Class...
Live Law News Network“People must refrain from filing such PILs… sometimes it will remain in the realm of publicity interest litigation” Chief Justice Dipak Misra Satya Narayan Shukla, the General...
View ArticleSC To Examine If CVC, VC Appointees Are Of Impeccable Integrity, Centre...
Prabhati Nayak MishraDefending the appointment of Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC) KV Chaudhary and Vigilance Commissioner (VC) TM Bhasin, the Centre told the Supreme Court that the appointments...
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