Former Delhi HC Chief Justice Rajinder Sachar Passes Away

Notable human rights activist and former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, Justice Rajinder Sachar passed away on Friday.Mr. Sachar enrolled as an Advocate in April, 1952, and began practicing at the Supreme Court from December, 1960. He was appointed as an Additional Judge of Delhi High Court in February, 1970, and was confirmed as a Permanent Judge in July, 1972, making his way to...

LIVELAW Wins The IDEX LEGAL AWARD For ‘LEGAL JOURNAL OF THE YEAR’ : Read The Full List Of Winners

IDEX Legal announced the winners and runners-up of the seventh annual IDEX Legal Awards held in Mumbai on 13 April at The St. Regis Hotel. The day also witnessed the launching of their 4th General Counsel (GC) Benchmarking Report, during The Legal Counsel Congress.The GC Report was created in association with Thomson Reuters, and it focuses on the challenges faced by GCs and their responses...

In A Landmark Verdict, Delhi HC Asks Parents To Compensate Daughter For Violating Her Right To Choice, Detaining Her In Mental Hospital [Read Judgment]

HC says obligation to respect one‘s rights is placed both on state and non-state actors.In a rather unusual judgement coming on the heels of Supreme Court’s Hadiya verdict, the Delhi High Court has recognised that threat to the right of choice of a person and thereby right to life, liberty, privacy and dignity can very well come from the person‘s own parents and has directed the parents...

Resignation Of Special Judge Who Acquitted 5 In 2007 Mecca Masjid Blast Rejected

The resignation of Special NIA Judge K. Ravinder Reddy, who acquitted Godman Aseemanand and four others in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case, has reportedly been rejected.The Judge had submitted his resignation to Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court on Monday citing personal reasons.Curiously, the Judge's resignation closely followed the verdict delivered by him the same day, when...

Kathua Gangrape Case: Media Houses Apologise Before Delhi HC For Revealing Victim’s Identity, Told To Pay Rs 10L Each Towards J&K Victim Compensation Fund [Read Order]

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked all media houses which revealed the identity of the 8-year-old Kathua gangrape-cum-murder victim to pay Rs 10L fine towards victim compensation fund maintained by the Jammu and Kashmir State Legal Services Authority for disbursement to victims/ families of the deceased victims of sexual violence.A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C...

‘Kathua’ Genocidal Rape: India’s International Obligation At Stake

The recent brutal rape and killing of an eight year old girl child in Kathua- a village in Jammu and Kashmir, in the name of a religious and ethnic conflict critically spotlights India’s international obligation under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948, (`the Genocide Convention’). Although the Genocidal tendencies in India are not new—the Sikh riots in 1984 and Gujarat carnage in 2001 being classic cases—the successive governments in India seems to...

Bombay HC Tells Family Court To Allow NRI Woman Give Her Consent For Divorce Via Skype [Read Judgment]

In a significant judgment, the Bombay High Court has held that a petition for divorce through mutual consent can be filed through a registered power of attorney and directed the Family Court, Bandra, to allow recording of consent terms via Skype or any other technology.Justice Bharati Dangre gave the above directions while hearing a writ petition filed by Harshada Deshmukh who sought an order...

Rape Case Against Accused Can’t Be Quashed Merely Because Victim Didn’t Support Prosecution Case During Trial Of Co-Accused: Orissa HC [Read Judgment]

This court cannot assume a thing and quash the criminal proceeding against the petitioner on the ground that the co-accused persons have been acquitted as the victim has not supported the prosecution case, the Court said.The Orissa High Court has observed that merely because the victim did not support the prosecution case during trial in respect of the co-accused persons, the same cannot be...

Applying ‘Lost Life Principle’ Kerala HC Awards Special Compensation To A Motor Accident Victim’s Mother [Read Judgment]

Invoking the concept of ‘Lost Life Principle’, High Court of Kerala has ordered an insurance company to pay additional compensation to the mother of a minor victim in a motor accident case.The division bench of High Court of Kerala comprising Justice PN Ravindran and Justice Devan Ramachandran, has ordered an amount of Rs.15,00,000 to be paid to the mother of victim based on ‘lost...

Special Judge Who Acquitted 5 In 2007 Mecca Masjid Blast Resigns Hours After Verdict

Special NIA judge K Ravinder Reddy who acquitted Godman Aseemanand and four others in the 2007 Mecca Masjid blast case resigned hours after delivering the verdict.The judge submitted his resignation to Andhra Pradesh Chief Justice on Monday.Judge Reddy cited personal reasons for his resignation.The resignation closely follows the verdict delivered by the Special Judge at about 12...

Plaintiff Can't Seek Specific Performance Of Agreement Against Defendant On A Cause Of Action For Permanent Injunction : SC

The cause of action to claim a relief of permanent injunction and the cause of action to claim a relief of specific performance of agreement are independent and one cannot include the other and vice versa, the court said.The Supreme Court in Sucha Singh Sodhi v Baldev Raj Walia, has held that a plaintiff could not claim the relief of specific performance of agreement along with the relief of...

The Ignoble Ways Of Legal Profession

To salvage the lost nobility of legal profession, it is necessary to send a strong message by throwing out the goons in gowns from the profession.Lawyers often resort to the self-congratulatory pat that they are in the ‘noble-profession’. I distinctly remember my enrolment ceremony about seven years ago, when one of the then members of the Bar Council congratulated the young lawyers assembled there for choosing the ‘noble profession’. Justice J. Chelameswar, the then Chief Justice of the High...