Chief Justice of Singapore Praises Indian Supreme Court For Handling 'Immense Caseload', Hails Its Judges As Hardest Working In World

The Supreme Court of India is among the busiest courts in the world and its justices are among the hardest working judges because of the immense caseload that they carry, said Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon of the Singapore Supreme Court on his visit to India. The judge, while commending his Indian counterpart and the top court, said, “I saw this myself when I was honoured...

Karnataka High Court Weekly Round-Up: January 29 To February 5, 2023

Nominal Index: Vijay Kumar & ANR And State of Karnataka. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 32 M/s Allengers Medical Systems Ltd And State of Karnataka. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 33 Padmanabha N S & others v. State of Karnataka & ANR. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 34 Ranjith Naik K V & Others And State of Karnataka & Others. 2023 LiveLaw (Kar) 35 Thotlegowda v. State of Karnataka....

Supreme Court Weekly Digest (29th January 2023 - 5th February 2023)

Judgements/OrdersOrder XLI Rule 5 CPC - Mere Filing Of Appeal Would Not Operate As A Stay Of Decree : Supreme CourtCase Title: Sanjiv Kumar Singh vs State Of Bihar | Special Leave to Appeal (C) No(s). 19038/2022 | 24 January 2023 Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 63Coram: Justices A S Bopanna and Hima KohliThe Supreme Court observed that mere filing of the appeal would not operate as a stay under...

Supreme Court Yearly Digest 2022- POCSO Act

Protection of Child from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act, 2012 - Any act of sexual assault or sexual harassment to the children should be viewed very seriously and all such offences of sexual assault, sexual harassment on the children have to be dealt with in a stringent manner - Cases of sexual assault or sexual harassment on the...

1,71,402 Law Graduates Appear For All India Bar Examination-XVII [Read Answer Key]

The Bar Council of India (BCI) today conducted the All India Bar Examination XVII. The answer key for the examination has also been issued. According to the BCI, the examination was successfully conducted by paper and pen mode across 53 cities and 261 centres with technology-enabled monitoring and confidentiality processes to ensure fair exam practice and that no impersonation...

Delhi High Court Weekly Round-Up: January 30 To February 5, 2023

Citations 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 96 to 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 120NOMINAL INDEXCPIO, CENTRAL ECONOMIC INTELLIGENCE BUREAU v. G.S. SRINIVASAN 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 96RAVINDER LAL AIRI v. S.SHALU CONSTRUCTION PVT. LTD AND ORS. 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 97SANDISK LLC & ANR versus LAXMI MOBILES & ORS 2023 LiveLaw (Del) 98Al Sudais Haj and Umrah Service v. Union of India & Anr. 2023 LiveLaw (Del)...

CJI & Supreme Court Judges Visit Amrit Udyan Of Rashtrapati Bhavan On Invitation Of President

On a special invitation by President Droupadi Murmu, Chief Justice of India, Dr Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and judges of the Supreme Court visited the Amrit Udyan of Rashtrapati Bhavan.The images and the video of the judges' visit were tweeted by the official twitter handle of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. On a special invitation by President Droupadi Murmu, Chief Justice of India Dr Justice...

J&K&L High Court Rolls Out Virtual Hearing Of Cases For Ladakh

In its bid to ease the justice deliverance mechanism for Ladakh, the J&K&L High Court on Saturday rolled out an initiative of taking up the case for the Union Territory through virtual mode by allowing the parties and lawyers to appear and plead their cases from there itself.Acting Chief Justice Tashi Rabstan, who himself hails from Ladakh, rolled out the initiative by hearing the...

OCI Rights: Supreme Court Urges 'Higher Echelons' To Examine 2021 MHA Notification Considering Impact On Indian Diaspora

The Supreme Court, on Friday, upheld the notification issued by the Central Government in 2021 - which took away the rights of Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) category students to apply for general seats and confined their right only to Non-Resident Indians (NRI) category seats, but with prospective effect.Noting that the 2021 notification would have a ‘wide ramification’, a Bench...

Supreme Court Yearly Civil Digest 2022

AadhaarAadhaar Act 2016 - UIDAI directed to issue Aadhaar cards to sex workers without insisting proof of residence. Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal, 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 525Act of GodAct of God - Meaning - When nothing of any external natural force had been in operation in a violent or sudden manner, the event of the fire in question could be referable to anything but to an act of God...

Supreme Court Issues Notice To All States In Plea To Equalise Salary Of Consumer Forum Members With District Judges

The Supreme Court has issued notice to all states in a petition concerning salaries of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission members.The matter was heard by a bench comprising Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, Justice PS Narasimha, and Justice JB Pardiwala. The batch of pleas prays for the salary of State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission members to be the same as District...

Meghalaya High Court Dismisses Saket Gokhale's Plea Seeking Action Against NPP For Violation Of Electoral Rules

Finding the maintainability of the writ petition filed by All India Trinamool Congress spokesperson Saket Gokhale to be barred by Article 329(b) of the Constitution, the Meghalaya High Court on Friday dismissed his plea seeking action against the National People's Party (NPP) for not filing its election expenditure report within 75 days of the conduct of the State Assembly Elections 2018.In...