Contempt Verdict Against Prashant Bhushan An Assault On Free Speech : Sr Adv Navroz Seervai [Read Statement]

The judgment of the Supreme Court holding Advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt is an "assault on free speech and expression in the name of upholding the "dignity and majesty" of the Court in the eyes of the public", said noted jurist Navroz H. Seervai, Senior Advocate.In a statement given to LiveLaw, he said that the verdict appeared to be "a calculated assault on the one segment of...

Courts Worked On A Daily Basis During Lockdown; Criticism Unwarranted: Solicitor General

The criticism of judiciary over its way of functioning during the lockdown is "unwarranted", said Tushar Mehta, Solicitor General for India on Sunday."We have critics who criticise everything. One of the unwarranted criticisms is against the judiciary", he said. "From the day of lockdown, the Courts in the country have not shut even for a day. The Supreme Court has worked on a daily...

Courts This Week - A Weekly Round Of Important Legal Developments In The Country [Episode-27]

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Plea In SC Seeks Direction To The Centre For Uniform Grounds Of Divorce For All Citizens Regardless Of Religion, Race, Caste, Sex, Place Of Birth [Read Petition]

The Supreme Court has been moved in a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to take apposite steps to remove anomalies in the grounds of divorce & make them uniform for all citizens without prejudice on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth in spirit of the Articles 14, 15, 21, 44 and international conventions. Alternatively, the PIL by BJP leader and Supreme...

EIA Notification: Judiciary's Tryst With 'Ex Post Facto' Environmental Clearance

The phrase 'Ex Post Facto' is being widely used these days, thanks to Clause 22 of the Draft Environment Impact Assessment 2020. Ex Post Facto is a Latin phrase which means 'done, made, or formulated after the fact'.The controversial clause 22 of the Draft Environment Impact Assessment 2020 provides a route for those who run a project or an activity without obtaining...

Supreme Court Weekly Round Up

1. SC Holds Prashant Bhushan Guilty Of Contempt For Tweets Against Judiciary; Will Hear Him On Sentence [In Re: Prashant Bhushan & Anr.]The Supreme Court on Friday held Advocate Prashant Bhushan guilty of contempt of court in the suo moto contempt case taken against him over two of his tweets about the Chief Justice of India and the Supreme Court. Justice B R Gavai, reading out the...

[VIDEO] LiveLaw Practitioner Series: [Investigation] From First Information Report To Filing Of Charge-Sheet [Sections 154 TO 173 CrPC] By Justice V. Ramkumar [Read Notes]

LiveLaw is organizing a webinar under its "LiveLaw Practitioner Series" tomorrow at 10:30 AM(16/8/20)Justice V Ramkumar (Former Judge, High Court of Kerala) will speak on the topic [Investigation] From First Information Report To Filing Of Charge-Sheet [SECTIONS 154 TO 173 CRPC]The Details of the Webinar are as follows:Zoom Meeting...

[Prashant Bhushan Contempt] If Two Tweets Can Bring Down Court's Authority, Then It Is Not As Strong As We Imagined: Senior Adv Sanjay Hegde

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Advocate's Facebook Post Criticising HC Judge Not Contempt, SC Held In 2018

Amid intense debates about the justness of the Supreme Court's contempt verdict against Advocate Prashant Bhushan for his tweets against the judiciary and the Chief Justice of India, an order passed by the top court in 2018 assumes relevance.That was a case pertaining to a contempt action against an advocate of the Punjab and Haryana High Court for making a Facebook post against a...

[VIDEO] Gautam Bhatia's Lecture Series On Landmark Cases Of Supreme Court (1950-2020)-Episode [1] AK Gopalan Vs State Of Madras

LIVELAW PRESENTSGAUTAM BHATIA'S LECTURE SERIES ON LANDMARK CASES OF SUPREME COURT OF INDIA (1950-2020]EPISODE-1 AK GOPALAN VS STATE OF MADRAS[Gautam Bhatia graduated from the National Law School of India University in 2011. He read for the BCL and the MPhil at the University of Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, and for an LLM at the Yale Law School. He practiced law for four years in Delhi. He...

[AGR Case] 'Why Shouldn't Jio Pay Dues Of Reliance Communications For Using Its Spectrum?' SC Asks Reliance Jio [Read Order]

The Supreme Court on Friday stated that Reliance Jio must pay Reliance Communications' AGR dues in light of the fact that it was using the latter's spectrum since 2016."Justice Mishra: Jio is using since 2016. Why should we not ask Jio if they are using the spectrum. Who are the beneficiaries? It is shocking state of affairs if revenue is not shared and spectrum is used by somebody else?"A...

[NEET 2020]"Vande Bharat Flights Are Being Made Available": SC On Plea Seeking Examination Centres In Gulf Countries

The Supreme Court on Thursday told petitioner(s) seeking allocation of Test Centres for NEET Examination in foreign countries that Vande Bharat flights for return to India are being made available amid pandemic.A bench of Justices Nageswara Rao, Hemant Gupta & S. Ravindra Bhat quoted the National Testing Agency's (NTA) counter affidavit before the Supreme Court, intimating that it is...