Immediately Release ₹5 Crores To AIIMS Delhi For Treatment Of Children With Rare Diseases: High Court Directs Centre

The Delhi High Court has directed Union of India to immediately release Rs. 5 crores to All India Institute Of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to ensure that treatment of children with rare diseases, where it has already commenced, is not stopped due to lack of funds.Justice Prathiba M Singh directed the fund to be released within two weeks and that its expenditure shall be maintained by AIIMS...

Prisoners Have Fundamental Right To Get Compensation For Work Related Injuries Suffered In Jail: Delhi High Court Issues Guidelines

The Delhi High Court has issued a slew of guidelines for cases where an inmate or convict sustains work related injuries in prison, observing that there is no monitoring or remedial mechanism available to address such cases. Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma observed that when there is no employee or employer relationship between prisoners and jail authorities, such inmates must be provided...

YouTube Video Against HC Judges: Kerala High Court Seeks Personal Appearance Of KM Shajahan In Contempt Case

The Kerala High Court has directed K.M. Shajahan, the then private secretary of the former Chief Minister of Kerala V.S. Achuthanandan, to appear in person before the Court in the suo motu contempt proceedings that have been initiated against him for making serious allegations against High Court judges in a YouTube video. The Division Bench comprising Justice Anil K. Narendran and Justice...

SESSION 2- CJAR AND LIVELAW SEMINAR- BUILDING A TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE COLLEGIUM - LIVE NOW

CJAR AND LIVELAW SEMINAR ON JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS SESSION 2: BUILDING A TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE COLLEGIUM12-1:30p.m(Moderator – Mr. Alok Prasanna, Co-founder Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy)Justice Madan Lokur, former Judge, Supreme Court of IndiaJustice Deepak Gupta, former Judge, Supreme Court of IndiaJustice Ajit Prakash Shah, former Chief Justice, Delhi High CourtMs. R. Vaigai –...

Sikkim High Court Holds Full Court Reference To Condole Demise Of Former Chief Justice Ripusudan Dayal

The Sikkim High Court on Friday at 12:30 PM held a Full Court reference to condole the demise of Former Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court Justice Ripusudan Dayal. Justice Dayal passed away on 8th January. Chief Justice of Sikkim High Court Justice Biswanth Somadder made his obituary reference at the proceedings. Additional Advocate General for the State of Sikkim Dr Doma T. Bhutia and...

Gujarat High Court Permits Alleged Minor Rape Victim Insisting Termination Of Pregnancy 'At Her Own Risk'; Medical Board Immune From Any Litigation

The Gujarat High Court on Friday permitted an alleged rape victim (minor), who insisted to terminate her pregnancy of 19 weeks and 4 days despite the risks cited by the Medical Board, to do so at her own risk.Justice Ilesh J. Vora presiding the Court said that the doctors constituting the Medical Board will remain immune in the event of any litigation arising in this matter. It observed,"It...

Supreme Court Disapproves Of Uttarakhand High Court Approach In Disposing Matters In Same Format

The Supreme Court last week strongly disapproved of the practice of disposing of various criminal writ petitions by passing same-format orders, saying, “This approach of the High Court only burdens this court, and we thus cannot commend on the manner of disposal of the petitions in this manner.” A bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Manoj Misra was hearing an appeal against...

Notification Under S. 5 of FTDR Act Can’t Be Applied Retrospectively To Refuse Advance Authorization To Importer: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has ruled that a notification issued under Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (FTDR Act), which empowers the Central Government to formulate and announce the foreign trade policy, cannot be applied retrospectively by the Central Government. The bench of Justice Prathiba M. Singh held that once a notification issued under Section 5...

Plea On Removal Of Mosque From Allahabad HC Premises : Supreme Court To Hear In March

The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned the hearing in a plea against a 2017 ruling by the Allahabad High Court, directing the removal of a mosque called Waqf Masjid High Court from its premises for encroachment. Aggrieved by this judgement, the waqf board had moved the apex court in December 2018, which had ordered then status quo to be maintained with respect to the mosque. Yesterday,...

LIVE NOW- SEMINAR -EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE IN JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS

CJAR AND LIVELAW SEMINAR ON JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTSSESSION 1: EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE IN JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS 10:30a.m.-12p.m.(Moderator: Ms. Cheryl Dsouza, Secretary, CJAR)Mr. Dushyant Dave, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of IndiaJustice U.U. Lalit, Former Chief Justice of IndiaDr. Faizan Mustafa, former Vice-Chancellor, NALSAR University, HyderabadMr Aditya Sondhi, Sr. Advocate, Karnataka...

Family Court Does Not Have Jurisdiction To Entertain Claim For Defamation: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday held that a family court does not have the jurisdiction to entertain a claim for defamation. For a family court to assume jurisdiction, the dispute must have a proximate relationship to the marital relationship of the parties, the court observed. A division bench of Justice Anil K.Narendran and Justice P.G. Ajithkumar was hearing an appeal filed by the...

NCLT Mumbai Excludes Moratorium Period In Calculation Of Limitation

The National Company Law Tribunal (“NCLT”), Mumbai Bench, comprising of Shri Kishore Vemulapalli (Judicial Member) and Shri Manoj Kumar Dubey (Technical Member), while adjudicating a petition filed in Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Ltd. v Manpreet Developers Pvt. Ltd., has held that if an entity which itself was admitted into CIRP and has undergone moratorium, files...