Supreme Court Allows Pharmacy Council Of India To Consider For 2023-24 The Applications Received For New Colleges

The Supreme Court allowed the Pharmacy Council of India's (PCI) application seeking permission to consider for the next academic year 2023-24 the applications received for the establishment of new pharmacy colleges. The matter was heard by a bench comprising Justice BR Gavai and Justice Vikram Nath.On September 15, 2022, the Supreme Court, while approving the High Court judgments which set...

Delay In Filing Appeal; Incorrect Particulars: Supreme Court Imposes Rs One Lakh Costs On UP Government For Casual Approach

Pointing out that the State litigation cannot be so 'casual', the Supreme Court of India recently rapped the Uttar Pradesh government for filing an appeal plea quite belatedly, with incorrect particulars.A Supreme Court Bench of Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Hrishikesh Roy was considering an appeal moved by the UP government, challenging an Allahabad High Court judgement which enhanced...

Police Officers Not Required To Do 'Moral Policing' : Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal Of CISF Officer Who Harassed Couple At Night

Police officers are not required to do moral policing, observed the Supreme Court recently while upholding the dismissal of a CISF personnel who was found to have harassed a couple at night.The Court was deciding an appeal filed by the Central Industrial Security Force against a judgment of the Gujarat High Court which directed the reinstatement of a CISF officer named Sathosh Kumar Pandey,...

High Courts Should Use Technology For Automated Listing Of Cases; Avoid Manual Intervention : SC Judge Justice AS Oka

Supreme Court judge Justice Abhay Oka on Monday recommended all High Courts to start using technology to rule out manual intervention and automate the listing of new cases. "Technology can be used to stop all kinds of manual intervention. And if we want to bring transparency to our constitutional courts, we must use our technology and ensure that the first date of freshly filed cases...

Disposals Higher Than Filing Of New Cases in First 40 Days Of CJI DY Chandrachud's Tenure

In the first 40 days of the tenure of Justice DY Chandrachud as the Chief Justice of India, a total of 6,844 cases were disposed, the figures have revealed. This disposal is higher than the number of new cases instituted during this period - 5,898.From the time when Chief Justice Chandrachud took up the mantle as the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court as well as its administrative head,...

Courts Today- A Daily Round Up Of Important Legal Developments- 19.12.22

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Collegium System Necessary For An Independent Judiciary : Arvind Datar | Full Transcript Of Interview

If the executive controls the appointment of judges, it will cause long term damage to democracy

Bombay High Court Monthly Digest: November 2022 [Citations 422 – 466]

Nominal Index Citations 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 422 to 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 466 1. Girish Gopal Nair & Ors v. Divisional Manager The New India Assurance Co Ltd 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 422 2. The Nest India Foundation v. State of Maharashtra & Ors. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 423 3. Dineshkumar Govind Yadav v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. 2022 LiveLaw (Bom) 424 4. ...

Questions & Answers By Justice V. Ramkumar- Investigation By Police- PART XV

Q.71 What is an inquest ? Ans. An inquest is an inquiry to find out the apparent cause of death of a person who has died under suspicious circumstances. In England such inquiry is conducted by a coroner or a medical examiner. Coroner is a public official whose duty is to investigate the cause and circumstances of any death that occurs suddenly, suspiciously...

100 Important Supreme Court Judgments Of 2022 [Part 1]

As is the annual tradition, LiveLaw brings to you the list of 100 important Supreme Court judgments of the current year - a much awaited article by our dear readers.The judgments are selected based on the following criteria - (i) importance to the general public; (ii) settlement of a contested position of law; (iii) utility for practising lawyers and.A disclaimer is added here that the...

A Judge & A Journalist Have To Be Independent; If They Falter, Democracy Will Collapse : Justice BN Srikrishna

A judge and a journalist have to be necessarily be independent; if they falter, then whole of democracy gets shaken up. Former Supreme Court judge Justice B N Srikrishna made this statement while speaking at the RedInks Awards Ceremony organized by the Mumbai Press Club on Saturday.Here is the transcript of his speech :The buzz word in the atmosphere today is Ram, am I right? So let me quote...

Work Load Of Judges Heavy; Criticism Against Court Vacations Unjustified : Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal

The criticism against the Court vacations is unjustified, said former Union Law Minister, Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal, speaking in an interview to Mirror Now channel. He opined that the judges are hardworking and that the Government should not be commenting about how the Courts should function.Sibal was speaking about the recent attacks made on judiciary by ministers. He said–"Courts know...