Non-Disclosure Of Material Information Itself Could Be A Ground For Termination Of Services : Supreme Court

The Supreme Court reiterated that non-disclosure of material information itself could be a ground for cancellation of employment or termination of services.In the year 2003, Dillip Kumar Mallick was appointed under the Central Reserve Police Force ('CRPF') Group Centre, Bhubaneswar. A departmental inquiry was initiated against him on the allegations that though he was involved in a criminal...

Patna High Court Advocate-on-Record Rules Repealed; Advocates Need Not Qualify AoR Exam To File Cases In HC

The "Registration of Advocates as Advocate on Record of the Patna High Court Rules" has been repealed,The notification to this effect has been published in the Bihar Gazette on 8th April 2022.The AoR Rules have been facing criticism from the lawyer community in Bihar and also evoked protests by lawyers' groups against the AoR system. In 2020, the Lawyers Association, Patna HC (one of the...

Mediation Not A Threat To Lawyers' Profession : President Ram Nath Kovind

While speaking at the inaugural event of the two-day national conference on "Mediation and Information Technology" in Gujarat, the President of India Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday spoke about the misconception amongst lawyers that mediation could be a threat to their profession. The President said that, if there was any misconception amongst lawyers that mediation could be a threat to...

Order Can't Be Termed "Mala Fide" Just Because It Is Illegal, Erroneous Or Perverse: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that every erroneous, illegal or even perverse order/action by a Statutory authority, by itself, cannot be termed as wanting in good faith or suffering from malafide. For imputing motives and drawing inference about want of good faith in any person, particularly a statutory authority, something more than mere error or fault ought to exist, the bench comprising...

Kerala High Court Asks Public Service Commission To Provide Visually Impaired Woman With A Suitable Scribe To Appear For Online Exam

The Kerala High Court has directed its Public Service Commission to ensure that a visually impaired woman is given a suitable scribe as contemplated in the circular issued by the Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment Department of Disability Affairs to appear in an online examination for the post of a teacher.However, Justice N. Nagaresh clarified that if the respondents are not able...

Gauhati High Court Upholds The Minimum Age For District Judges In Assam

Court held that the limitation on age has a rational and reasonable nexus with the Rules of Assam Judicial Service Rules of 2003. The Gauhati High Court recently upheld the minimum age limit for appointment of District Judges in Assam. A division bench of Chief Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Soumitra Saikia held that the limitation on age has a rational and reasonable nexus...

Counsel Has Professional Duty To Exercise The Right Of Re-Examination : Madras High Court

The Madras High Court(Madurai Bench) has recently observed that a counsel has a professional duty to exercise their right of re-examination for upholding the cause of their clients. The Bench of Justice G.R Swaminathan made this observation while hearing a second appeal, after noting that the sense and meaning of the answers given by the appellant in trial must have been brought out...

Degree Of Certainty Must Be Arrived At Before A Fact Is Said To Be Proved: Madras High Court

The Madras High court allowed a second appeal filed by one R. Selvaraj (died) and his legal heirs against the order passed by Sub Judge in appeal suit for enjoyment of the suit schedule property. Justice N. Anand Venkatesh, while passing the order focused on the importance of bringing certainty to a fact especially in civil matters. The disputes in the present appeal were with...

Visually Challenged Lawyer Files Complaint Against Practo Before Chief Commissioner Under Disabilities Act Citing Accessibility Barriers

A complaint has been filed before the Court of Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities against Practo Technologies alleging that its services were not effectively accessible to persons suffering from blindness and is therefore in gross violation of several provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.The complaint has been filed by Rahul Bajaj, a lawyer with...

Allahabad HC Finds Man Guilty Of Raping A 10 Y/O Girl 33 Years After The Incident, Sets Aside Trial Court's Acquittal Order

The Allahabad High Court last month found a man guilty of committing the rape of a 10-year-old girl in May 1988, i.e., over 33 years after the date of the incident. With this, the HC allowed the Government appeal filed in 1989 against the trial court's acquittal order by setting aside the same.Significantly, the Bench of Justice Suneet Kumar and Justice Vikram D. Chauhan also observed that...

Madras High Court Leaves It To Haj Committtee To Decide On Including Chennai As Pilgrim Embarkation Point

The Madras High Court has disposed of a writ petition filed by the Popular Front of India challenging the guidelines framed by the Haj Committee for the year 2022 regarding embarkation points and to include Chennai Airport as one of the embarkation points for the Haj pilgrims. A bench comprising Chief Justice Munishwar Nath Bhandari and Justice D Bharatha Chakravarthy stated that if...

Courts Must Make Mediation & Negotiation Mandatory As Part Of Case Management: CJI NV Ramana

"An active effort must be taken by Courts to make negotiation and mediation mandatory, as a part of case management", said the Chief Justice of India NV Ramana on Saturday while speaking at the inaugural event of the two-day national conference on "Mediation and Information Technology" in Gujarat."Imbibing effective ADR mechanisms into the judicial process can reduce pendency, save...