Our Judicial System Needs A Hybrid System Where Lawyers Will Be Allowed To Opt Physical Hearing Or Virtual Facility: Justice Gautam Patel

A webinar was jointly organized on Saturday by Forum for Fast Justice, Public Concern for Governance Trust and National Federation of Societies for Fast Justice on "A Vision for Virtual Courts" addressing the need and importance of virtual hearings in Indian judicial system. The speakers for the webinar included Retired Justice R.C. Chavan, present Vice Chairperson of Supreme...

"State Needs To Fix Responsibility"; Bombay HC Directs State To Pay Rs.50 K Each As Compensation To 2 Men Detained Illegally

The Bombay High Court has directed the State government to pay Rs.50,000 each towards compensation to two men who were illegally detained in Beed District of Aurangabad Division for six days in 2013 and observed that in such cases the State needs to obtain explanation from the erring authority and fix some kind of responsibility.Division bench of Justice TV Nalawade and Justice MG Sewlikar of...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

Franklin Templeton: SEBI Appoints Observer On The Basis Of Supreme Court's December 9 Order [Chennai Financial Markets & Accountability V. The Securities Exchange Board of India & Ors.]Securities & Exchange Board of India has appointed an Observer regarding e-voting of unit holders of six schemes of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund. This comes in light of an order passed by top court...

Supreme Court Issues Show-Cause Notice To Appellant-Convict For Misleading It To Get Favourable Order

The Supreme Court last week issued show-cause notice to a convict for misleading it by producing a wrong copy of a trial court's verdict to get a favourable order which had allowed him to walk free on payment of a fine only in a graft case. The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose, while issuing the notice to appellant S. Shankar, asked him why it should not recall the order...

Franklin Templeton: SEBI Appoints Observer On The Basis Of Supreme Court's December 9 Order

Securities & Exchange Board of India has appointed an Observer regarding e-voting of unit holders of six schemes of Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund.This comes in light of an order passed by top court of December 9, 2020 whereby the top court had also directed that the result of the e-voting would not be announced and would be produced before the Hon'ble Supreme Court in a sealed cover...

"No Limits To Atrocities Of UP Police":BCI Condemns Police Assault On Etah Advocate-Requests CJI & CJ of Allahabad HC To Take Action Against Guilty

Taking a very serious notice of the incident which took place at Etah, Uttar Pradesh a few days back, the Bar Council Of India has issued a Press Release resolving to request Chief Justice of India & Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court to take "immediate steps to find out the guilty police personnel and issue a direction to Uttar Pradesh Government to immediately put them...

Advocate Mehmood Pracha's Office Raid: Delhi HC Women Lawyers Forum Condemn Targeting Of Lawyers By Investigative Agencies

The Delhi High Court Women Lawyers Forum on Saturday condemned the raids at the offices of Mehmood Pracha, an advocate representing many accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy cases. In a letter addressed to the President of the Delhi High Court Bar Association, Mohit Mathur, the lawyers associated with the forum discouraged the investigative agencies from arraigning lawyers as accused...

Charging Additional Costs For Carry Bags At Payment Counter Without Prominent Prior Notice Is An Unfair Trade Practice: NCDRC

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has directed Big Bazaar to discontinue its unfair trade practice of arbitrarily imposing additional cost of carry bags on the consumer at the time of making payment.Dismissing the revision petition filed by it, the Commission observed that a consumer has the right to know that there will be an additional cost for carry bags and also...

Conditions Enunciated In Section 37 NDPS Act Not Applicable In Juvenile's Case; S. 12 JJ Act Overrides S. 37 NDPS Act: Patna High Court

The Patna High Court on Wednesday (23rd December) ruled that the negation and conditions as enunciated in Section 37 of the NDPS Act, will not be applicable in the case of a juvenile. The Bench of Justice Sudhir Singh also opined that the intention of the legislature was to give an overriding effect to Section 12 of Juvenile Justice Act over Section 37 of the NDPS Act. The matter...

Medical Negligence- Principle Of 'Res Ipsa Loquitor' Will Apply If Patient Suffers A Complication Not Contemplated Normally : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court has held that the principle of 'res ipsa loquitor' will apply in a case of medical negligence if a patient suffers a complication which is not contemplated normally.'Res Ipsa Loquitor' (the thing speaks for itself) is a rule of presumption applied in cases to presume negligence when certain attendant circumstances are proved.The High Court was dealing with a case of a...

Sci-Hub Undertakes Before Delhi HC To Not Upload Till Jan 6 New Articles In Which Elsevier, Wiley India & ACS Claim Copyright

Online science repository Sci-Hub has undertaken before the Delhi High Court to refrain from uploading, publishing, and making available till January 6 any article in which academic publishing houses Elsevier Ltd, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, and American Chemical Society claim copyright.The undertaking was made by the counsel of Alexandra Elbakyan, a Kazakhistan-based creator of 'Sci-Hub' website...

A Trespasser Not Evicted By Due Process Of Law Is Entitled To Electricity Connection: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday (24th December) held that even a trespasser, unless evicted by due process of law, is entitled to electricity. The Bench of Justice Arindam Mukherjee further clarified that the Electricity connection, if granted to the petitioner (alleged trespasser), wouldn't create any right in her favour as regards the property. The matter before...