DSLSA Holds Mega Legal Services Camp

The Delhi State Legal Services Authority (DSLSA), in conjunction with the district legal services authorities (East, Northeast and Shahadra) organised a mega legal services camp on Saturday. The camp was organised from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm at KendriyaVidyalaya, VigyanVihar.Justice Gita Mittal, Acting Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court and executive chairman of DSLSA, inaugurated the...

Advocate Gautam Bhatia Makes It To Forbes 30 Under 30 List

Advocate Gautam Bhatia, who worked closely with Senior Counsel Arvind Datar, playing a major role in getting the right to privacy declared as a Fundamental Right, has made it to the Forbes 30 under 30 list.The 2011 National Law School of India graduate studied at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He then went to Yale University to study constitutional law, as he wanted "his...

High Courts Weekly Round-Up

Allahabad High CourtNo intervention with the right of privacy of an Indian citizen can be permitted so mechanically, Allahabad High Court observed while ordering the police to discontinue surveillance of a man, who was kept under surveillance since 2011.Bombay High CourtThe Bombay High Court recently quashed and set aside an order passed by a metropolitan magistrate wherein an...

Office of Profit: AAP MLAs’ Petition Not Maintainable After President’s Assent To Disqualification, ECI Tells Delhi HC [Read Affidavit]

The Election Commission of India has submitted before the Delhi High Court that the petition of AAP MLAs against their disqualification in an office-of-profit case is liable to be dismissed as not maintainable since they challenge the ECI recommendation which is non-existent once the President has taken a decision on it.In an affidavit filed before the court, Vijay Kumar Pandey, director...

MPHC Asks State Government To Provide Security For Display Of Movie Padmaavat [Read Order]

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has directed the State government to provide adequate police protection and support to the persons, who are involved in exhibition and distribution of film ‘Padmaavat' and to the viewers.Issuing interim direction, the court restrained any person, group or protestors from carrying firearms, articles that might cause injury or damage to the property within 200...

As Maharashtra Court Fee (Amendment) Act Is Yet To Be Notified By State, Bombay HC Adjourns Petition Challenging Vires Sine Die

The Bombay High Court on Thursday adjourned the petition challenging the vires of the Maharashtra Court Fee (Amendment) Act sine die granting the petitioners liberty to mention the matter once the said amendment is notified by the state.This development took place after Advocate-General AA Kumbhakoni challenged the maintainability of the petition and submitted that even though the...

The Press Is The Most Powerful Watchdog Of Public Interest In A Democracy: Bombay HC While Quashing Media Gag Order In Sohrabuddin Case [Read Order]

As reported earlier, the Bombay High Court has quashed and set aside the media gag order by special CBI judge SJ Sharma dated November 29 and held that subordinate courts did not have such inherent powers to pass such an order.In the 39-page judgment published yesterday on the high court website, Justice Revati Mohite Dere held that it is only the ‘courts of record’, i.e., the Supreme...

India Needs To Free Up Judicial Time, Address Delays To Make Doing Business Here Easy [Read Report]

Economic Survey finds injunctions, stays, SLPs, original jurisdictions, lack of modernization burdening courtsIndia needs to address pendency, delays and injunctions which are overburdening courts and severely impacting the progress of cases, especially economic cases, through the different tiers of the appellate and judicial arenas if it wants to further ease the prospects of doing...

Ban On Legislators Practising As Advocates: BCI Calls General Council Meet On Sunday To Consider Sub-Committee Report

The Bar Council of India has called its General Council Meet on Sunday to decide the issue of ban on Members of Parliament and the Members of Legislative Assemblies from practicing as advocates.BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra told LiveLaw that a meeting of General Council Meet has been called on Sunday.It is to be noted that the three-member committee of RG Shah, BC Thakur and DP...

Petition Filed In Delhi HC Against Debarment Of DU's LLM Students From Practicing Or Working; Notice Issued [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court, on Monday, issued notice on a Petition challenging an Ordinance passed in June, 2015 under the Delhi University Act, 1992 prohibiting LLM students from practicing or undertaking employment while enrolled in the course.The Bench comprising Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Chander Shekhar, however, refused to pass any interim order and fixed the next date of hearing as...

Examination Of Child Witness- Preliminary Finding Of Incompetency Of Child Witness Can Be Varied By Court At Later Stage: Kerala HC [Read Order]

In an elaborate judgment dealing with the manner of testing the competency of a child witness, the High Court of Kerala has held that the preliminary finding made by the court regarding the incompetency of the child witness can be varied at a later stage.The issue arose out of a murder trial in which a man was accused of killing his wife in their house in a fit of anger. The child of the...

Bombay HC Grants Relief To Man Declared Unfit For Constable Post As He Has Tattoo [Read Judgment]

The Bombay High Court recently granted relief to a man declared unfit for the post of constable/driver in the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) as he had a tattoo.The bench of Justice RM Borde and Justice RG Ketkar directed the CISF to consider the applicant’s claim for employment as he had been found fit otherwise. It was only during the medical examination that the examiner found...