Practising Advocates' Experience Gained At Bar Injects Judicial Branch With Fresh Perspectives : SC [Read Judgment]

Members of bar can add to the robustness of judiciary with their novel approaches to law.

Breaking: SC Collegium Recommends Transfer Of Delhi HC Judge Justice Muralidhar And Bombay HC Judge Justice Ranjit More

Supreme Court Collegium has recommended to transfer Delhi High Court Judge Justice Muralidhar to Punjab and Haryana High Court.The Collegium also recommended to transfer Bombay High Court Judge Justice Ranjit More to Meghalaya High Court and Karnataka High Court Judge Justice Ravi Vijayakumar Malimath to Uttarakhand High Court.Justice Muralidhar is presently the third Senior most Judge of...

Judicial Officers Cannot Seek Direct Recruitment To Post Of District Judges Against Quota For Advocates : SC [Read Judgment]

Direct recruitment is an exclusive quota for practising advocates, the SC held.

Tribunal Rules 2020 : Old Wine In New Bottle?

The problem of Executive dominance in appointment of members persists in the new Rules as well.

Forged Order Made In Justice G S Patel's Name; Probe Initiated [Read Order]

In a shocking development, a forged order was found to have been made in the name of Justice Guatam Patel of Bombay High Court.On noticing this, Justice Gautam Patel held an urgent sitting on a Saturday afternoon.Justice Gautam Patel passed an order on February 15 and declared that a forged order has been 'put out' dated December 1, 2019 in a testamentary matter wherein it seeks make...

Parental Responsibility Does Not End With Breakdown Of Marriage: SC [Read Judgment]

"The Courts should decide the issue of custody on a paramount consideration which is in the best interest of the child who is the victim in the custody battle."

Supreme Court Monthly Digest [January 2020]

Significant Judgments Of January 2020 Kashmir Lockdown Judgment: [Anuradha Bhasin v. Union ofIndia] A significant take away from the Supreme Court's judgement on Kashmir lockdown is its declaration that freedom of speech and expression and also freedom of trade and commerce through the medium of internet are constitutionally protected rights under Articles 19(1)(a) and...

PIL In SC Seeks The Release Of Result Of Clinical Trial Involving 6799 Infants For Rotavac Vaccine [Read Petition]

The Supreme Court today heard a plea seeking directions to the Government to make public the segregated data (result) of the Rotavac clinical trial (phase III) involving 6799 infants that was conducted at three centres namely Delhi, Pune & Vellore.The Petition was filed on behalf of Mr. S. Srinivasan, the (Managing Trustee of "Low Cost Standard Therapeutics"). He is a Graduate and...

Summoning Income Tax Returns Doesn't Violate Right To Privacy As They Are Govt Documents : Telangana HC [Read Judgment]

The Telangana High Court has held that a direction to produce income tax returns in Court will not violate right to privacy under Article 21 of the Constitution, as they are government documents accessible to others.The Court held so while deciding a civil revision petition which challenged the order passed by a Trial Court dismissing an application to summon the income tax returns of...

Not Only Govt But Collegium Also Responsible For Delay In Appointment Of HC Judges: AG Tells SC [Read Order]

The Centre told the Supreme Court on Monday that on an average the government takes 127 days for clearing the recommendation sent to it during the process of appointment judges in higher judiciary, whereas the apex court Collegium takes 119 days to deal with it.Attorney General K K Venugopal told a bench of Justice S K Kaul and Justice K M Joseph that high courts across the country have not...

Women In Army : How SC Rejected Centre's Arguments Based On 'Sex Stereotypes'?

The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark verdict holding that Women Short Service Commission Officers in the Indian Army are entitled to Permanent Commission at par with their male counterparts, regardless of their years of service. The Apex Court also held that confining women officers to only "staff appointments" by denying them command assignments is a violation of equality principle...

Notion That Women Are 'Weaker Sex' Constitutionally Flawed: SC Calls For Change In Mindset [Read Judgment]

"If society holds strong beliefs about gender roles – that men are socially dominant, physically powerful and the breadwinners of the family and that women are weak and physically submissive, and primarily caretakers confined to a domestic atmosphere – it is unlikely that there would be a change in mindsets."