"Everybody With Any Grievance Can't Rush To SC With A PIL, SC Refuses To Entertain Plea To Ban ‘Paid News'

The bench gave the  petitioner liberty  to approach the Election CommissionThe Supreme Court today refused to entertain a public interest litigation seeking a ban on ‘ paid news ’ and gave liberty to the petitioner to approach the authority concerned (Election Commission of India).A bench of justices Ranjan Gogoi, R Banumathi and Navin Sinha was hearing a PIL filed by BJP leader and...

Don’t Need Fixed Tenure For CJIs, But A Consistent Judicial Policy: Justice Ranjan Gogoi

The senior-most puisne judge in the Supreme Court, Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Saturday rejected the suggestion for a fixed tenure for the Chief Justice of India, and asserted that instead, India needs a consistent judicial policy.Justice Gogoi’s reaction came as a response to the suggestion of a fixed tenure for the CJIs by Prof. N.R. Madhava Menon, former Vice Chancellor of National Law...

Supreme Court Weekly Round-Up

Clauses To Prevent Disputes And To Ensure Smooth Implementation Of Agreement Will Not Be An Arbitration AgreementThe Supreme Court in Shyam Sunder Agarwal vs. P Narotham Rao held that clauses inserted in the agreements to prevent disputes from occurring and to ensure smooth implementation of the agreement will not be an arbitration agreement. All Kinds Of Musical Programmes, Even If...

Plea In SC Raises Alarm Over “Unnecessary” Cesarean Deliveries; Demands Guidelines Or National Policy

A petition has been filed before the Supreme Court demanding a direction to the Centre as well as the States to formulate a policy or issue guidelines for doctors and hospitals conducting Cesarean deliveries.The petition, filed by Mr. Reepak Kansal through Advocate Dr. Ashutosh Garg, alleges “flagrant violations and abuse of health norms” due to the lack of such policy, claiming...

Court Congestion And Delays Require A Modern Approach Where Every Judge Needs To Show Leadership And Managerial Skills: CJI Misra

Issues of pendency and delays in the justice delivery system need to be tackled with judges taking up "the burden of judicial leadership and managerial skills", Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said on Friday, while delivering the valedictory address at the National Conference on 'Initiatives to reduce pendency and delays in judicial system'."The court congestion and delays do require a...

Notification For Information Commissioners Indicates Central Govt’s Intention To Go Ahead With RTI Amendment

It would appear from the recent DoPT advertisement inviting applications to fill vacancies in the Central Information Commission, that the central government is determined to effect the controversial 2018 amendments proposed to the Right to Information Act of 2005. A perusal of the advertisement dated July 26, pertaining to the appointment of Information Commissioners in the CIC, brings to...

CJI Asks High Courts To Form Think Tanks With Judges, Lawyers And Academicians To Explore Innovative Modes To Reduce Pendency

High Courts may form think tanks with Judges and lawyers and academicians to consider and explore other innovative modes and initiatives to reduce delays and pendency, said CJI Dipak MisraChief Justice Dipak Misra on Friday declared that a “warfare with a mindset” is to be fought against the mounting pendency, which threatens to defeat the access to justice.He was delivering the...

SC Orders CBI Director's Personal Presence Over Delay In Manipur Extra-Judicial Killings Probe [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Friday directed the Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to appear before it, after noting that the investigations in the alleged extra-judicial encounter killings in Manipur were taking an "unduly long time".The Bench comprising Justice M.B. Lokur and Justice U.U. Lalit ordered, "In our opinion, the investigations are taking an unduly long time and we...

SC Allows Interim Appointment Of Sitting Civil Judges Qualified Through Higher Judicial Service Exam As District Judges [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted interim relief to several judicial officers of subordinate judiciary vying for appointment as district judges through direct recruitment.The Bench comprising Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice S.K. Kaul directed the High Courts of Delhi and Allahabad to proceed with the selection process of the petitioners and appoint them as District Judges without...

Age Of Retirement Of Judges At All Levels Of Judiciary Be Increased To 70 Years: Justice Kurian Joseph

Amidst talk of introducing a Bill to raise the retirement age of Supreme Court and High Court judges, Supreme Court Judge Justice Kurian Joseph on Friday suggested that the age of retirement of judges at all levels of the judiciary be increased to 70 years. He advanced that there be no disparity in retirement ages of the judges of the apex court, the High Courts as well as the...

Govt. Releases Justice Srikrishna Committee Report And Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 [Read The Report And Draft Bill]

After much wait, the Government has released Justice BN Srikrishna Committee of Experts Report on Data Protection  as well as a Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 on Friday.Applicability of the lawThe committee’s report recommends that the law should be applicable to processing of personal data if such data has been used, shared, disclosed, collected or otherwise processed in India....

Bombay Lawyers Association’s Review Petition In Judge Loya Case Listed In The Supreme Court On July 31

The review petition filed by Bombay Lawyers Association before the Supreme Court is listed at serial number 1006 before the three-judge bench of the Chief justice of India Dipak Misra, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice AM Khanwilkar.BLA had sought review and recall of the judgment of the same bench wherein an independent probe into the death of Judge Loya was declined.It was the case of...