All High Courts Family Law Digest 2022

LiveLaw brings to you the most awaited High Courts Digest on Family law cases from the year 2022.ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT Interim Maintenance- Extremely Difficult For Woman To Maintain Herself With ₹1500 Per Month: Allahabad High CourtCase title - Sanjeev Rai v. State of U.P. and AnotherCase citation: 2022 LiveLaw (AB) 14Emphasizing that it is the duty and responsibility of the husband to...

'It's Quality & Not Quantity Of Witnesses Which Matters' : Supreme Court Relies On Solitary Eyewitness Testimony To Affirm Sentence

"It is not the quantity of the witnesses but the quality of witnesses which matters", observed the Supreme Court while affirming the conviction and sentence of four persons for murder of four persons.Only one eye-witness was examined in the case. She was one Pinky Singh, whose parents, brother and brother-in-law were murdered by the accused at night over a property dispute. She was also...

Ouster Of Civil Court's Jurisdiction Won't Have Retrospective Effect To Annul A Decree Validly Passed By Civil Court: Supreme Court

Recently a Division Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice V. Ramasubramanian and Justice Pankaj Mithal reiterated that ouster of jurisdiction of civil court can be expressed or implied, but it cannot have retrospective effect annulling a decree validly passed by the civil court.The Bench was hearing an appeal filed against an order of the Bombay High Court (Goa), which affirmed...

Plea Seeking Menstrual Leave : Supreme Court To Hear On February 24

The Supreme Court will hear on February 24 a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking menstrual leave for female students and working women across India.The petition has been filed by Advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi.When the petition was mentioned for urgent listing, Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud informed that it will be listed on February 24.The petition cites a study by the...

Supreme Court Weekly Digest With Nominal And Subject/Statute Wise Index [February 6 – 12, 2023]

SUBJECT WISE INDEX Bail The Supreme Court expresses anguish at Trial Courts acting in violation of its judgments on bail & remand. Chandmal v. State of M.P., 2023 LiveLaw (SC) 94 Bail & Remand: Supreme Court expresses anguish at trial courts acting in violation of its judgments in Siddharth vs. State of Uttar Pradesh LL 2021 SC 391 & Satender Kumar Antil...

Uddhav Thackeray vs Eknath Shinde : Why Supreme Court Said It's A Tough Constitutional Issue To Decide?

While hearing the case related to the rift within the Shiv Sena party, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Wednesday orally observed that one of the issues is a "tough constitutional issue to decide".One issue which has been referred to the Constitution Bench is the correctness of the view taken by the Supreme Court in its 2016 decision Nabam Rebia vs Deputy Speaker that a Speaker...

Sarai Kale Khan Night Shelter Demolished: Supreme Court To Consider Question Of Rehabilitation

Taking note of the fact that the night shelters at Sarai Kale Khan, Delhi have been demolished under the orders of the Delhi Urban Shelter Improvement Board (DUSIB), the Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will now consider the issue of rehabilitation.On Wednesday morning, Advocate Prashant Bhushan urgently mentioned the application before Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, saying...

High Courts Are Not Subordinate To Supreme Court, They Are Constitutional Courts : SC

High Courts are too, are constitutional courts and are not subordinate to the Supreme Court, the Apex Court reiterated in a recent order.Under the Indian Constitution, the power to interpret the Constitution and entertain judicial review petitions is exercised by the Supreme Court and the High Courts alone and therefore, are referred to as the constitutional courts. A Bench comprising of...

BREAKING| Hindenburg Report : Supreme Court Agrees To Hear On February 17 Congress Leader's Plea For Probe Against Adani Group

The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear on February 17 the petition filed by Congress leader Dr.Jaya Thakur seeking investigation against the Adani Group in the light of the report published by US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research which alleged that the ports-to-power conglomerate has inflated share prices of its companies through manipulations and malpractices.The matter was...

Top Quotes From The Top Court: Supreme Court Weekly Review [February 6-12]

As promised, we bring to you a compilation of the most impactful observations made by the Supreme Court, a judicial ‘action recap’, as it were! Here are our top picks from the week starting from Monday, February 6: 1. Money-laundering offence not limited to place where proceeds come into possession “It is clear that even if the involvement is in one or more of the...

Shiv Sena Rift | If Speaker Can Disqualify When Resolution For His Removal Is Pending, Would It Not Affect His Impartiality?Supreme Court Asks

A constitution bench of the Supreme Court commenced hearing the pleas concerning the constitutional issues arising out of the rift within Shiv Sena party between Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray groups. In yesterday's hearing, the bench heard arguments on why the judgement in Nabam Rebia v. Deputy Speaker (2016) should be referred to a seven-judge bench of the Supreme Court. In Nabam Rebia,...

Supreme Court Upholds Sec 9D Central Excise & Salt Act; Asks Cigarette Company To Pay Rs 5 Lakh Cost For Cancer Affected Children

The Supreme Court, recently, endorsed the order of the Delhi High Court upholding the validity of Section 9D of the Central Excise and Salt Act, 1944 (Excise Act).A Bench comprising Justice S. Ravindra Bhat and Justice Dipankar Datta also imposed a cost on the appellant cigarette manufacturing companies for unnecessarily protracting the proceedings before the Apex Court. It issued directions...