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Our Judicial System Needs A Hybrid System Where Lawyers Will Be Allowed To Opt Physical Hearing Or Virtual Facility: Justice Gautam Patel
A webinar was jointly organized on Saturday by Forum for Fast Justice, Public Concern for Governance Trust and National Federation of Societies for Fast Justice on "A Vision for Virtual Courts" addressing the need and importance of virtual hearings in Indian judicial system. The speakers for the webinar included Retired Justice R.C. Chavan, present Vice Chairperson of Supreme...
"State Needs To Fix Responsibility"; Bombay HC Directs State To Pay Rs.50 K Each As Compensation To 2 Men Detained Illegally
The Bombay High Court has directed the State government to pay Rs.50,000 each towards compensation to two men who were illegally detained in Beed District of Aurangabad Division for six days in 2013 and observed that in such cases the State needs to obtain explanation from the erring authority and fix some kind of responsibility.Division bench of Justice TV Nalawade and Justice MG Sewlikar of...
Sci-Hub Undertakes Before Delhi HC To Not Upload Till Jan 6 New Articles In Which Elsevier, Wiley India & ACS Claim Copyright
Online science repository Sci-Hub has undertaken before the Delhi High Court to refrain from uploading, publishing, and making available till January 6 any article in which academic publishing houses Elsevier Ltd, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, and American Chemical Society claim copyright.The undertaking was made by the counsel of Alexandra Elbakyan, a Kazakhistan-based creator of 'Sci-Hub' website...
What Is Attorney-Client Privilege?
There are very few elements of the law as holy and sacred as Attorney-client privilege. Attorney-client privilege or lawyer-client privilege is the common law concept that makes all communications between a lawyer and their client confidential, and such confidentiality is protected by law. "Privileged professional communication" is the immunity accorded to the communication between...
Can A Twitter Account Of The Government Be Considered A 'Public Authority' Under The RTI Act?
For information like money spent on advertisements, accounts blocked, audience targeted, and other stats, can the Twitter handle of let's say the Prime Minister - which is not independent of his prime ministry - be considered a 'body' under the definition of 'public authority' in the RTI Act? It is not Twitter, the platform, which is mooted to be under RTI scrutiny but an account of the Government on Twitter. Government accounts, such as that of the Prime Minister, are utilized for...
Supreme Court Constitution Bench Judgments Of 2020
There were 11 Constitution Bench judgments/orders of the Supreme Court in 2020. Due to the advent of Covid-19 pandemic, many of the hearings took place through video conferencing mode. Anticipatory Bail Cannot Be Limited To A Fixed Period Except In Special And Peculiar Circumstances[Sushila Aggarwal And Others V/S State (NCT Of Delhi)]The Supreme Court held that anticipatory bail should...
'Fascinatingly Bizarre' : CBI Court Remarks On Harish Salve Representing Poorly-Paid Convent Cook In Abhaya Case
In the judgment in the Sister Abhaya murder case, the Special CBI Court has termed it 'fascinatingly bizarre' that one of the witnesses in the case, the poorly paid convent cook Achamma, had carried out 'highly expensive litigation' in far away New Delhi to challenge the constitutional validity of narco-analysis test.The Court described it as a "fascinatingly bizarre" fact as she did not deny...
Delhi Police Raid Office Of Mehmood Pracha, Lawyer Of Several Accused In Riots Conspiracy Cases
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Thursday raided the office of Mehmood Pracha, an advocate is representing many accused in the Delhi riots conspiracy cases.The Delhi Police has reportedly said that the raid was based on a warrant from a local court to search for "incriminating documents" and "metadata of outbox" of the official email address of Pracha's law firm.In a video of the...
'Expressing Dissent Hallmark Of Democracy': Allahabad High Court Quashes FIR For Tweets Against UP CM
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday held that merely expressing dissent against the affairs of the State is not a criminal offence. A division bench of Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal in its judgement, stated, "Expressing dissent on law and order situation in the State, is a hallmark of a constitutional liberal democracy like ours, constitutionally protected under...
Electoral Bonds: No Public Interest In Disclosing Identities Of Donors & Donees, Says CIC Rejecting RTI Application
The Central Information Commission on Monday held that disclosure of names of political parties to whom contributions are made under the electoral bonds and the donees thereof, is not in public interest. Information Commissioner Suresh Chandra also said that there does not appear to be any public interest of such importance that requires superseding of "right to privacy" of donors...
