Kerala HC Allows Power Of Attorney Of Husband To Sign In Marriage Register; Directs Registrar To Verify Identity Of Husband Through Video Conference [Read Judgment]

If there is no difficulty to identify the person through the medium of video conference, certainly that can be resorted, the court said.The Kerala High Court, on a plea of a lady whose husband works abroad, has directed the Registrar of Marriage to allow power of attorney holder of the husband to sign in the marriage register, after verifying the identity of the husband by holding a...

Court Staff Accused Of Raping Litigant In Judge’s Chamber Gets Bail From Delhi Court

The court staff accused of raping a woman litigant in judge’s chamber two years ago has been granted bail by a Delhi court.Additional sessions judge Ramesh Kumar granted bail to the staff named Premveer who is posted as ahlmad in Tis Hazari court.The complainant, in this case, is a woman who is pursuing a civil case in Tis Hazari court. She lodged a complaint in December 2017, saying...

Delhi HC Orders For Expeditious Appointment Of Daulat Ram College Girls’ Hostel Warden As Per Rules [Read Judgment]

Putting to rest the controversy surrounding the appointment of warden in Delhi University’s Daulat Ram College, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the governing body of the college to initiate the process of appointment of warden within two weeks.Justice Sunil Gaur held the appointment of last warden Dr Asha to be irregular.The court disposed of the petition moved by Dr Asha with...

Kerala Govt Sanctions Stipend For Junior Lawyers [Read Circular]

The Government of Kerala has approved stipend for junior lawyers. Lawyers aged less than 30 and having less than three years of practise, with annual income less than Rs. 1 lakh are entitled to stipend. The stipend amount is Rs. 5,000 per month.The stipend is disbursed out of the Kerala Advocates Welfare Fund constituted under the Kerala Advocates Welfare Fund Act 1980. Section 9 of the...

After Padma Shri Lalji’s Death, Advocate Sends Legal Notice For Medical Care At Airports

Prompted by a petition started by Abhishek Singh, son of Padma Shri Lalji Singh, famously known as the ‘father of DNA fingerprinting in India’ who died of heart attack at the airport in Uttar Pradesh, an advocate has served a legal notice on the Deputy Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, for immediate steps to provide medical facilities at all airports across India.Advocate Gurmeet...

Trademark Holders Cannot Be Penalized For Non-Compliance Of Rules By Registrar: Delhi HC Upholds Single Judge's Order [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Friday, upheld Justice Vibhu Bakhru's in-depth analysis of the provisions relating to renewal and restoration of the trademark in the case of M/S Epsilon Publishing House Pvt. v. Union Of India.In the impugned order, Justice Bakhru had inter alia emphasized on the legal proposition that a registered proprietor of a trademark cannot be penalized for non-compliance of...

TTV Dhinakaran Gets Interim Relief From Delhi HC: ECI Told To Consider Allotting ‘Pressure Cooker’ Symbol

In a major relief to TTV Dhinakaran, the Delhi High Court on Friday upheld his right to use a common name and symbol by way of an interim arrangement while directing the Election Commission of India to allow his group to use a common symbol, preferably ‘pressure cooker’, after giving them proper hearing.“I find considerable merit in the prayer made by the Petitioner (Dhinakaran) and...

Online Registration For AIBE-XII Now Open

The Registration for the All India Bar Examination-XII held by the Bar Council of India has begun on its website.Here is the tentative schedule for the...

‘There Must Be An End To It‘: Kerala HC Orders CBI Investigation In Shuhaib Murder Case [Read Judgment]

“Innumerable murders have been taken place in the locality and all such murders have been styled as 'political murders'. But, it is a fact that political parties are not dying whereas; individuals are being put to death and their family members are virtually being thrown to the street,” the court said.The Kerala High Court, on a plea of parents of a youth who was murdered in Kannur,...

Defects Not Permitted To Be Cured Beyond 1 PM- Lawyers Peeved By Newly-Introduced Filing Conditions Of Kerala HC

The newly introduced filing conditions in the High Court of Kerala like restricting urgent filing up to 1 PM have caused a lot of grievance amongst advocates. The conditions, introduced by an Office Circular dated 01.03.2018, also do not permit curing of defects beyond 1 PM. Before the circular, a file could be re-presented on the same day after curing the defects for urgent listing on the...

Performance Of Information Commissions In India: 1.81L Pendency, Mere Rs 4.41cr Penalty Imposed In One Year, Annual Reports Not On Websites [Read Report]

An assessment of various Information Commissions in India has revealed a pendency of 1,99,186 appeals and complaints at the end of October 2017 in 23 commissions with many functioning with reduced manpower in states like Kerala, where a lone Commissioner is running the show with a pendency of 14,000 appeals/complaints.The revelation has been made in the “Report Card on Performance...

Delhi HC Grants Interim Protection To Karti Chidambaram From ED’s Arrest

Lodged in CBI custody in INX Media case since February 28, Karti Chidambaram got some relief on Friday with the Delhi High Court granting him interim protection from being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) till March 20.Friday’s order would mean he cannot be arrested by the ED once he is released from CBI’s custody.Karti, son of senior Congress leader and former Union...