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LiveLaw Supreme Court Half-Yearly Digest 2026 - Specific Relief Act & Transfer of Property Act
Specific Relief Act, 1963 & Transfer of Property Act, 1882 - Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest Jan - Jun, 2026 Specific Relief Act, 1963 – Discretionary Relief – Impact of Unexplained Delay / Laches in Filing Suit – Approaching Court at the Fag End of Limitation - For claiming an equitable relief like specific performance, the plaintiff's conduct must be beyond reproach...
Undertrial Prisoner Release : Supreme Court Directs States To Ensure Effective Functioning Of District Committees
The Supreme Court recently flagged non-compliance with the Centre's Standard Operating Procedure for the 'Support to Poor Prisoners' Scheme, directing all States to ensure that District Level Empowered Committees (DLECs) meet regularly and take timely decisions on cases of undertrial prisoners placed before them for consideration of release. “We have also taken note of the fact that the meetings of the District Level Empowered Committees (DLECs) are not being regularly held, as mandated in the...
If Legal Assistance Is Inadequate, Constitutional Courts Must Ensure Quality Aid To Litigants : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has disapproved of dismissing appeals on technical grounds like the absence of a delay condonation application when the litigant was not having proper legal assistance. It is the duty of the Courts to ensure quality legal assistance to the litigants.“True that the appeal should have been accompanied with an application for condonation of delay, but the Constitutional Courts should also be alive to the travails of a litigant and if the legal assistance is not adequate, it has a...
LiveLaw Supreme Court Half-Yearly Digest 2026 - Service Law
Service Law - Supreme Court Half Yearly Digest Jan - Jun, 2026 Accelerated Promotion – Counter-Extremism/Naxal Activities – Parity in Treatment – Judicial Review of Committee Decisions – The Supreme Court upheld the High Court's direction to grant accelerated promotion to a police constable (Respondent) who resisted a Naxalite attack on a police station - The State had...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : August 31, 2026
Links to reports of August 31 :Supreme Court Refuses To Entertain Plea Seeking Disclosure Of Ethanol Percentage In Petrol Pump Nozzles & BillsSupreme Court Stays FIR Against Gym Owner 'Mohammed' Deepak Over Bajrang Dal ConfrontationGoa Nightclub Fire: Supreme Court Refuses To Interfere With Bombay High Court's Cancellation Of Owners' BailSupreme Court Refuses To Stop CJP's September...
Informant's Consent Not Needed To Quash Criminal Case Based On Settlement With Victim : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday (August 31) held that even where an FIR involves non-compoundable offences, criminal proceedings may be quashed on the basis of a settlement once the real victim has categorically settled the dispute with the accused, and the consent of an informant who is not the victim is not necessary. “Disastrous consequences will arise if such informants (who are not victims) are allowed to enter into settlement and the real victim is left in limbo. Hence, what law contemplates...
Art. 226 | Certiorari Can Be Used To Quash Tribunal Decision Which Is Grossly Perverse : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Monday (August 31) held that High Courts, while exercising their certiorari writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution, can interfere with a Tribunal's order where the findings are unsupported by any material or documentary evidence. “If a finding is recorded without there being any evidence on record or a finding is recorded without any supporting document, whatsoever, a case for interference would be made out since such finding would amount to an error of...
NCRDC Third Member Deciding Appeal Instead Of Answering Reference Not Necessarily Illegal : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has clarified the limits of a third or “referee” member's role when members of a National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) Bench differ, holding that although the normal course is for the referee member to answer only the questions referred and return the matter to the original Bench, an exceptional case may justify deciding the appeal itself.Where a referring Bench, instead of specifying the precise points of difference under Section 58(3) of the Consumer...
High Courts Shouldn't Routinely Stay Trials : Supreme Court Flags Mechanical Invocation Of Revision Powers
The Supreme Court has disapproved the routine practice of High Courts staying trials while entertaining challenges to interlocutory orders, cautioning that such stays should be granted only where continuation of the trial would seriously and irreparably prejudice the revision proceedings or adversely affect the parties.also flagged the mechanical invocation of revisional jurisdiction...
