Bar License Violation: Congress Leader VM Sudheeran Moves SC Against Kerala Govt. [Read Intervention Application]

The Bar Licence issue in Kerala took a serious political twist with Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee President V.M. Sudheeran knocking the doors of the Supreme Court alleging that the Pinarayi Vijayan government violated a Supreme Court ban by permitting bar hotels existing across highways to continue with their business.“In the above said notice the Intervenor has asked for strict and...

Justice Chelameswar May Attend Collegium Meetings

Justice J. Chelameswar, who had decided to boycott collegium meetings, may, in “public interest”, participate in the deliberations for appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court and the High Court.“There has been a rethink and for public good and in public interest, justice Chelameswar may now participate in SC collegium meetings to appoint judges… This way his views will get...

A First In India: Uttarakhand HC Declares Ganga, Yamuna Rivers As Living Legal Entities [Read Judgment]

A division bench of Uttarakhand High Court has declared that rivers Ganga and Yamuna, all their tributaries, streams, every natural water flowing with flow continuously or intermittently of these rivers, as juristic/legal persons/living entities having the status of a legal person with all corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person.This is the first time in India and...

Law Commission Submits 265th Report- ‘Prospects Of Exempting Income Arising Out Of Maintenance Money Of Minor’ [Read Report]

Income earned by way of interest on the amount of maintenance deposited in favour of the child does not require to be exempted from being clubbed with the income of the parent/ guardian; as such exemption, if granted, would open flood gates of tax evasion, recommended the Commission.Law Commission of India has submitted Report No; 265  titled ‘Prospects of Exempting Income arising out...

Agree To Lifetime Ban On Convicted Lawmakers: EC To SC

The Election Commission on Monday filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court supporting a PIL for setting up special courts to decide criminal cases related to people’s representatives, public servants and members of judiciary within a year and to debar the convicted persons from legislature, executive and judiciary for life.On March 3, the Supreme Court, on a PIL by advocate and BJP...

Uphaar: SC Rejects Gopal Ansal's Last Minute Mercy Plea; To Surrender Today

In a huge setback to business tycoon Gopal Ansal whose deadline to surrender expires today , the Supreme Court today rejected his mercy plea in 1997 Uphaar theatre fire case and directed his lawyer Ram Jethmalani to approach President Pranab Mukherjee.Going by SC's March 9 order, Gopal has to surrender by today evening in Patiala House court from where he will be lodged in Tihar jail to serve...

Breaking: MoP On Judges Appointments Cleared And Sent To Centre: CJI

Chief Justice J S Khehar-led bench of the Supreme Court today said the apex court collegium has cleared the Memorandum of Procedure for appointment of judges to higher judiciary.Outside the court Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said the collegium has sent the MOP to centre on March 14 and the central government is studying it.Bringing down curtain on a 17 month standoff with the Centre and...

Reduce Litigation By Governments: Law Minister To Centre, States

· “File cases only after careful and considered view”· “Identify frivolous and vexatious matters and separate them with merit and take quick steps to either withdraw or dispose them speedily”· “Litigation should be adopted only as a last resort”With government-Centre and state governments being a party to nearly 46 per cent of the 3.14 crore cases pending in courts, Law...

Legal Eagles Discuss Govt-Judiciary Tiff; Judges Appointment

“We need more judges. It is not merely an issue of numbers but also of quality of judges. And a larger issue is the millions of people who still do not have access to courts”: Senior lawyer Harish Salve.“Centre cannot appoint judges in the lower courts and the state governments don’t appoint judges in enough numbers because it is not their priority”, Senior lawyer Kapil Sibal.Four...

How Supreme Court Missed An Opportunity to Lay Down Law On Constitutional Options In Case of Hung Electoral Verdicts

The French sociologist, Alexis de Tocqueville, who visited America in the 1830s had remarked: “Scarcely any political question arises in the United States that is not resolved, sooner or later, into a judicial question.”The unravelling of the political situation in Goa, following the hung verdict in the assembly elections, could lead one to make a similar observation about the role of...

'Ours Is A Strange Country, The bigger The Criminals, Bigger Their Outreach': CJI Appeals To LSAs To Reach Out To Victims

Concerned about the victims in bomb blast, acid attack and in rape cases, the Chief Justice of India Justice J S Khehar on Saturday appealed to the legal services authorities and the lawyers to reach out to the victims to render legal services to them.Without taking the name of specific case, CJI said even the terrorist who has failed relief from the court even up to review plea and he...

Kerala District Judges Selection Row Reaches Governor’s Doors

The row over the procedure followed in the selection of Kerala District and Sessions Judges took a new twist with two applicants who claimed they were victims of the process and were wrongly left out sending a representation to the Governor P Sathasivam seeking his intervention.In the representation to Sathasivam who is also a former Chief Justice of India, the candidates alleged that the...