Supreme Court To Commence Full Physical Hearings From April 4 : CJI Ramana

The Supreme Court will commence full physical hearings from next Monday (April 4), said the Chief Justice of India today."Monday onwards opening we are opening full physically. Monday and Friday we'll provide advocates virtual hearing if they ask", CJI Ramana said."The Bar expresses its gratitude for this", Senior Advocate Vikas Singh, the President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, told...

NEET-PG: Delhi High Court Expresses Disinclination To Interfere With Cut-Off Percentile

The Delhi High Court today said that it is not inclined to interfere with the cut-off percentile arrived at by the expert examination body for counselling and admissions to post graduate medical courses through the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice Vipin Sanghi and Justice Navin Chawla noted that with the lowering of cut-off by 15 percentile...

No One Can Be Permitted To Take The Benefit Of A Wrong Order Passed By A Court: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court observed that no one can be permitted to take the benefit of the wrong order passed by the court which has been subsequently set aside by the higher forum/court.In this case, some excess amount were paid to writ petitioners (applicants for the course of General Nursing Training) pursuant to the order passed by the Single bench of the High Court, which was subsequently set...

K-Rail Silverline - No Illegality In State Invoking LARR Act For Land Acquisition : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Tuesday held that the State government was justified in acquiring land in furtherance of its K-Rail SilverLine Project invoking provisions of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (LARR Act)Justice N. Nagaresh observed that the Railways Act, 1989 would not apply to this case since the Silver...

Legal Aid System In Prisons Ineffective; Many Languish In Jails Because Of This : Advocate Sudha Bharadwaj

"I think that all of us must collectively fight for the stronger legal aid system. Without that, Article 21 and 39A do not exist for people in the jails"

No Illegality In Senior Lawyer Filing Joint Vakalat Along With Junior Counsel For Client : Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Monday ruled that once a client authorises an advocate to conduct a case, the advocate is empowered to file a joint vakalat on behalf of the client. Justice N. Nagaresh added that filing a joint vakalat is not a ground to deny any lawyer his professional fee."The said authorisation would include authorisation to do all that is necessary to conduct and prosecute the...

Govt Servants Can't Participate In Any Strike; Absence From Work 'Dies Non': Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court on Monday barred the government employees from participating in the ongoing two-day nationwide strike organised by the National Convention of Workers against the policies of the Centre while directing the State to declare dies non on the protest days. It declared that the participation of government servants in the ongoing two-day strike is 'illegal'.A Division Bench...

Mere Filing Of Criminal Case By Wife, Demand For Separate House Not 'Cruelty': Karnataka High Court Sets Aside Divorce Decree

The Karnataka High Court has said that merely for the reason that the wife was demanding a separate house and that she was in the habit of leaving the matrimonial house and going to her sister's and parents' house, the same cannot be termed as "cruelty" for the purpose of seeking a decree of divorce by the husband. A division bench of Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice S Vishwajith...

States Can Give Hindus Minority Status If They're In Minority There; Minority Welfare Schemes Not Unconstitutional : Centre Tells Supreme Court

The Centre has also stated that there is no constitutional infirmity in the minority welfare schemes.

Delhi High Court Weekly Round Up: March 21 To March 27, 2022

CITATIONS 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 215 TO 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 241NOMINAL INDEXANKUR MUTREJA v. AVIATION EMPLOYEES BUILDING SOCIETY LTD 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 215Om Sehgal v. Union of India 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 216M/S GARRISON ENGINEER (CENTRAL), DELHI CANTT v. M.J. PRASAD & ORS. 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 217POONAM v. STATE NCT OF DELHI 2022 LiveLaw (Del) 218KHADI & VILLAGE INDUSTRIES COMMISSION 2022...

Is Affinity Test Integral To Determination Of Caste Status?What Should Be Parameters To Verify Caste Certificates? Supreme Court Refers To Larger Bench

The Supreme Court, on Thursday, opined that the parameters to be considered by the Caste Scrutiny Committee to verify the caste certificate needs to be decided by a larger Bench. Observing that two judgments rendered by the Division Bench of the Apex Court have set out different parameters for the verification of caste certificates, a Bench comprising Justices Hemant Gupta and...

Free Legal Aid Doesn't Mean Poor Legal Aid, Must Mean Quality Service : Justice UU Lalit

To augment the quality of services of legal aid, Justice Lalit said that it was important to induct talented persons.