Law on Joint Enterprise wrongly interpreted for 3 decades: UK Supreme Court [Read Judgment]

A Five Judge bench of the Supreme Court of United Kingdom has unanimously ruled that the test imposed by judges in evaluating the guilt in joint enterprise cases-where an accused acted in unison with the murderer but did not strike the fatal blow, has been incorrectly applied for the past 3 decades.The concept of joint enterprise could be enunciated as follows ; if two persons jointly set out...

Historical Debts on Property can be recovered even after three decades; Supreme Court of Appeals, South Africa [Read Judgment]

In a Judgment having wider effects for real estate owners, sellers,buyers, attorneys and the entire real estate industry, the Supreme Court of Appeals(S.C.A),South Africa, has held that owners of the land would be liable for debts owed to the municipality arising from the land even after a period of 3 decades. A 5 Judge bench of the S.C.A with 4:1 majority has ruled that new owners of the...

Sindh Province in Pakistan passes Landmark Hindu Marriage Bill [Read Bill]

Pakistan's Sindh Assembly has passed the Hindu Marriage Bill. Sindh has now become the first province in the country to allow the minority community viz. Hindus to register their marriages.The Bill states that if any of the party is aged less than eighteen at the time of marriage, then such a marriage is void. The Bill also makes it mandatory to register marriages within 15 days.Divorce can...

Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at the age of 79

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia passed away on Saturday at the age of 79. As per the US Marshalls Service, he died in his sleep early on Saturday while in West Texas for hunting trip.“He was an extraordinary individual and jurist, admired and treasured by his colleagues,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement for the court. “His passing is a great loss to the court...

SCOTUS interdicts Obama administration from implementing Carbon Norm Regulations [Read Order]

In a severe setback to President Barack Obama , the Supreme Court of United States by a majority of 5 -4 voted on Tuesday, staying the implementation of federal regulations aimed to curb emission of carbon dioxide namely from coal-fired power plants, the major manifesto of his administration’s ‘clean power plan’ to fight climate change.The court was considering a plea made by 27...

Lahore High Court agrees to hear petition to bring back Koh-i-Noor from British Queen Elizabeth-II

Lahore High Court on Monday agreed to hear a petition seeking a direction to the Government to bring back Koh-i-Noor from British Queen Elizabeth-II. The court has directed the office to fix the petition before any appropriate bench for hearing.Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan overruled the objection by the Court’s Registrar Office to the petition filed by barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffry. The...

Petition over Bhagat Singh’s innocence referred to larger Bench by division bench of Lahore HC

A Division Bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday sought a larger bench to hear petition seeking to prove the innocence of Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh was convicted under the offences of hatching conspiracies, awarded and hanged on March 23, 1931, along with Sukhdev and Rajguru.The bench, comprising Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan and Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan, referred the petition to...

SCOTUS rejects Arkansas plea to revive Abortion regulation law

The Supreme Court of United States has rejected a plea seeking a writ of certiorari against the ruling by Court of Appeals which affirmed the District court view which had blocked the Abortion law of Arkansas State.Before the District Court, Plaintiffs had challenged the constitutionality of Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Acts to the extent that, it prohibits all abortions, regardless...

While Indian SC Constitution Bench starts mulling over the issue, Canada SC gives green signal for Assisted Suicide

In a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court of Canada on Friday gave a green signal for assisted suicide to begin now under certain circumstances, while providing the new Liberal Government four months time to pass a law regulating such practice.The Court ruled that doctors in Quebec would be allowed to facilitate the procedure, as the Province of Quebec had already put the law into effect in...

US Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Obama’s Immigration Actions

The SCOTUS agreed to hear the administration’s defense of President Obama’s immigration executive actions, which were challenged by Texas and more than two dozen other states. The Obama administration asked the justices to take the case in November; weeks after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a district court ruling putting the executive actions on hold.The administration...

German Supreme Court rules Facebook‘s ‘Friend Finder’ illegal !

Germany’s Top Court has ruled that Facebook’s Friend Finder feature is illegal.  According to the Press release, The Federal Court of Justice upheld the concurrent findings of the courts below which had held that this feature constitutes advertising harassment.In 2010, Federation of German Consumer Organizations had complained that Facebook breached German consumer protection law by...

Supreme Court of Canada joins Twitter

On its 140th anniversary of the first hearings, the Supreme Court of Canada has joined Twitter, popular social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character “tweets". Now the Supreme Court can be followed in twitter as @SCC_eng.Press Release issued by the Supreme Court on Monday says that Tweets will pertain to the business of the Court and will be posted from...