Gujarat High Court
Sub-Inspector Exam: Gujarat High Court Rejects Pleas By Unsuccessful Aspirants Challenging Mandate Of Scoring 40% Marks In Each Subject
The Gujarat High Court rejected a plea moved by certain candidates challenging the result of Sub-Inspector exam wherein the selection board required candidates to secure 40% marks in each of the four subjects. The court held that the purpose of selection would stand defeated if instead of ascertaining knowledge of candidate in each subject their overall assessment is considered. The...
Gujarat High Court Hosts 2-Day Conference On Arbitration Law
The Gujarat High Court in collaboration with the Gujarat State Judicial Academy hosted a Two-Day Conference on Arbitration Law on September 20-21 bringing together eminent Judges and senior advocates from across the country, aiming to deepen engagement with arbitration jurisprudence, highlighting contemporary challenges and a way forward for the future. A press note states that the...
Gujarat High Court Mandates 45-Year Minimum Age, 20 Yrs Practice For Senior Advocate Designation; Can't Appear For Mentioning
The Gujarat High Court has mandated that advocates applying for senior advocate designation must be of minimum 45-year age to claim eligibility, in its newly notified High Court of Gujarat (Designation of Senior Advocate) Rules, 2025.The Rules which were published and notified on September 17 states:"3. Eligibility condition for designation of Senior Advocate :(a) An advocate shall be eligible...
'Disgraceful': Gujarat High Court Slams Lawyer For Creating False Demolition Panic, Moving Midnight Appeal
The Gujarat High Court deprecated the conduct of an advocate who claimed that due to non-grant of injunction order by trial court, the authorities would demolish his clients' flats overnight, noting that he misused the high court's machinery by moving an appeal late at night without even ascertaining the correct facts. Calling his conduct "deplorable" and "disgraceful" the court said that...
Magistrate Can't Keep Adult Woman In Shelter Home Against Her Will, Violative Of Her Fundamental Rights: Gujarat High Court
The Gujarat High Court has said that while a magistrate has the power to pass an order to protect the safety of a woman–who had lodged a rape complaint, and send her to a shelter home after she refused to go to her own home, however she cannot be kept there indefinitely against her will. It also said that once a woman who is a major makes a request to leave the shelter home, the magistrate...
Gujarat High Court Upholds Jurisdiction Of State Tribunal For Public Works Contract Disputes Involving Municipal Corporation
The Gujarat High Court dismissed a batch of petitions filed by private contractors involved in public works contract disputes with municipal corporations, in view of a state government notification providing for routing such disputes to be adjudicated by tribunal under the Gujarat Public Works Contracts Disputes Arbitration Tribunal Act 1992. For context the 1992 Act provides for the...
'Absolutely Irresponsible': Gujarat High Court Declines To Quash FIR Against Lawyer For Disclosing POCSO Victim's Name To Media
The Gujarat High Court refused to quash the FIR against a woman advocate booked for disclosing the name of a POCSO victim by giving a media bite, stating that she behaved "absolutely irresponsibly as a professional as well as a human". Justice Nirzar Desai in his order further observed that what was more glaring is that the applicant could not protect the "dignity, reputation, and privacy of...
Gujarat High Court Adjourns Asaram's Regular Bail Plea In 2013 Rape Case To September 26
The Gujarat High Court on Monday (September 22) adjourned to Friday (September 26) the regular bail plea of Asaram who was convicted in a 2013 rape case by a sessions court in Gandhinagar and is serving a life sentence.A division bench of Justice Ilesh J Vora and Justice PM Raval was informed by applicant's counsel that he will be filing a regular bail plea before the Rajasthan High Court...
Gujarat High Court Suggests Ahmedabad School To Consider 10% Admissions On 'Minimal Basis' In Memory Of Child Stabbed By Fellow Student
The Gujarat High Court on Wednesday (September 17) orally suggested to a private school in a Ahmedabad whose student was reportedly stabbed by another student last month, to consider giving admission to 10% students on a 'minimal basis' in the memory of the deceased student. Justice Nikhil Kariel was hearing two pleas moved by the school— one challenged the show cause notice asking why...
Yatin Oza Objects To New 'Undertaking' Rule For Gujarat High Court Senior Designation In Letter To GHCAA
Senior advocate and former GHCAA president, Yatin Oza, has written to Brijesh Trivedi, President of the Gujarat High Court Advocates' Association (GHCAA), raising his strong objections to a new Rule in the recently published High Court of Gujarat (Designation of Senior Advocates) Rules, 2025. Oza has taken exception to Rule 5 ('Undertaking') of the 2025 rules, which requires a...
Gujarat High Court Rejects PIL By Rajkot Resident Claiming Illegal Construction Of Multiplex Cinema Hall In Porbandar
The Gujarat High Court on Friday (September 19) dismissed a PIL moved by a resident of Rajkot claiming illegal construction of Multiplex Cinema Hall in Porbandar district, after noting that the litigant had not been able to establish his credentials.The court further noted that there was no material in the plea, other than newspaper reports, to show how the petitioner found that the...
Surat Rape Case: Gujarat High Court Grants Narayan Sai 5-Day Temporary Bail To Meet Ailing Mother
The Gujarat High Court on Thursday (September 18) granted five-day temporary bail to Narayan Sai–convicted and sentenced to life by sessions court in 2019 in a rape case– to meet his "ailing" mother.A division bench of Justice Ilesh J Vora and Justice PM Raval in its order said:"Having regard to the peculiar facts and circumstances and grounds urged in the application and having regard...