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Prashant Bhushan Moves SC Seeking Investigation In to Sahara/Birla Political...
LiveLaw News NetworkActivist Lawyer Prashant Bhushan Today moved an application in Common Cause Vs Union of India (WP(C) 505/2015) pending before the Supreme Court of India seeking thorough...
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Mere Non-Filing Of Original/Certified Copy Of Arbitration Agreement Does Not...
Ashok KM What is prohibited is the entertainment of the application unless it is accompanied by the original arbitration agreement or a duly certified copy thereof, the Court said. The Supreme Court in...
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Refusal To Answer Court Queries Isn’t Criminal Contempt: SC [Read Judgment]
Ashok KM The Supreme Court in Kuldeep Kapoor & Ors vs. Court on its Motion, has observed that a litigant refusing to answer a question put to him by the Court does not constitute criminal contempt...
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Jallikattu Ban: SC Dismisses TN Govt’s Review Plea
LiveLaw News NetworkIn a major blow to the Tamil Nadu government, the Supreme Court today turned down its review plea to lift the ban centuries old Jallikattu or bull fighting in the state. A bench...
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UCC Questionnaire Is For Academic Quest, Not For Imposition: Law Commission...
Nitish Kashyap The Chairman of the Law Commission of India, Justice BS Chauhan, has said the questionnaire on Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has not been prepared in an attempt to impose the Uniform Civil...
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SC Directs Microsoft, Google And Yahoo To Drop Foetal Sex Test Advertisements...
LiveLaw News Network “Whether one is going to have a boy or a girl, that kind of information is not necessary in India. The sex ratio is going down in the country and we are concerned about that....
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SC To Revisit Justice Krishna Iyer’s Landmark Judgment In Bangalore Water...
LiveLaw Research TeamThe Supreme Court’s seven-Judge Constitution bench will hear on Thursday arguments on whether it or a nine-Judge bench should review the definition of “industry” as interpreted by...
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Indian Justice System: Thoughts For Progressive Orientation [Text Of Dr.LM...
LiveLaw News Network Hon’ble Smt. Sumitra Mahajan, Speaker, Lok Sabha and the Chief Guest of today’s function, Mr. Soli Sorabjee, Senior Advocate and former Attorney General for India, Dr. Abhishek...
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Subsequent Bequest In Will Void If Absolute Bequest Has Been Made In Same...
Ashok KM The Supreme Court in Madhuri Ghosh vs. Debobroto Dutta, has reiterated the legal position that where an absolute bequest has been made in respect of certain property to certain persons in a...
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Pendency Of Liquidation Case Against Credit Society Doesn’t Bar Its Committee...
Ashok KM The Supreme Court in Vineshkumar Mavjibhai Parmar Vs. Dethali Gopalak Vividh Karyakari Sahakari Mandali Ltd, has held that Managing Committee members of Credit Societies, against which there...
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Restrain HCs From Hearing Demonetisation PILs: Centre To SC; Decision Tomorrow
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Centre today urged the Supreme Court to bar the High Courts from entertaining public interest litigations pertaining to demonetization of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currencies and...
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Bulandshahr Rape Remarks: Azam Ready To Apologise; Nariman Wants Law To Be...
LiveLaw News Network Justice Dipak Misra-led bench seeks assistance of legendary Fali S Nariman and AG Rohatgi in laying down a law to make ministers answerable for their public statements if it were...
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SC Slams Kerala Vigilante Groups For Encouraging Killing Of Stray Dogs; State...
LiveLaw News Network “We restrain such organizations to impart training to the children or to distribute subsidized airguns for people to kill stray dogs or to publically propagate that there is war...
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Not Placing An Ordinance In The Legislature Is Fraudulent, Says SC...
LiveLaw Research TeamThe Supreme Court today reserved its judgment in the case of Krishna Kumar Singh v State of Bihar, after grilling the counsel on both the sides on the propriety of promulgating an...
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SC May Refer The 1978 Bangalore Water Supply Judgment For Reconsideration By...
LiveLaw News NetworkThe Supreme Court’s seven-Judge Constitution bench, which today heard arguments on whether to refer Justice Krishna Iyer’s landmark judgment in Bangalore Water Supply case for...
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Subsequent Adoption Can’t Divest Any Person Of Estate Vested In Him Or Her...
Ashok KM Adopted son would not divest any person in whom the property had been vested prior to adoption, the bench said. The Supreme Court in Saheb Reddy vs. Sharanappa, has reiterated the legal...
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Demonetisation: People Are Frantic. Speed Up Relief Measures, SC To Centre
LiveLaw News Network"People are frantic..from newspaper reports we know the inconvenience they face.. public is in some difficulty... Please dont dispute it." CJI Thakur to AG Mukul Rohatgi. The...
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Fresh Tiff: SC Collegium Reiterates 43 Names For Hcs Rejected By Centre
LiveLaw News NetworkFresh confrontation is brewing between the Supreme Court collegium and the Centre with Chief Justice T S Thakur firmly telling Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi today that the...
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Dowry Death: Ingredients Shall Be Proved By Prosecution Beyond Reasonable...
LiveLaw News Network The bench did not consider two per-incuriam judgments authored by Justice Vikramjit Sen, which held that prosecution can discharge the initial burden to prove the ingredients of...
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Justice JS Khehar Appointed As New Executive Chairman of NALSA [Read...
LiveLaw News Network Government of India has appointed Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, as the new Executive Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA). He succeeds Justice Anil R. Dave,...
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