Practicing Chartered Accountant Cannot Enroll As A Lawyer: Gujarat HC [Read Order]

The Gujarat High Court, last week, upheld the denial of enrolment to a practicing Chartered Accountant.“…the person as a member of profession has to discharge his obligation and, therefore, the profession as an Advocate or Lawyer which is a full time, one cannot be permitted if he is already working as a profession like Chartered Accountant. The nature of work may have some kind...

Children Are The Real Sufferers In Matrimonial Disputes:Delhi HC Calls For Suggested Guidelines [Read Petition]

When it comes to matrimonial disputes, children are the real sufferers. So has been observed by courts in various judgments.The Delhi High Court had recently lamented how children are used as tools of vengeance by disputing parents and how it is a child's fundamental right to get love of both the parents. Even in custody matters, welfare of child is of paramount importance.With the best...

Rajasthan HC Quashes FIR Against Lawyer For Allegedly Rendering Wrong Legal Advice To Bank [Read Order]

The Rajasthan High Court, last week, quashed an FIR filed by a Bank alleging wrong legal advice by a lawyer in the form of a forged search report for grant of loan.The Court was hearing a Petition filed by Mr. Rajendra Singh under Section 482 of the Cr.P.C. seeking quashing of an FIR registered against him under Sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467...

Bombay HC Restrains Patanjali Ayurved From Telecasting One Advertisement After HUL Seeks Injunction

The Bombay High Court on Monday passed an ex-parte order against Patanjali Ayurved owned by Baba Ramdev restraining them from broadcasting a particular advertisement that plaintiff Hindustan Unilever sought injunction against.Justice KR Shriram passed the order after fixing the matter for hearing once it was mentioned by plaintiff’s lawyers at 2 pm.Senior Advocate Virag Tulzapurkar appeared...

Federation Of Labour Law Practitioners Can’t Be Registered As A Trade Union, Lawyers Can’t Claim Rights Through Such Enactments: Bombay HC [Read Judgment]

In a significant judgment, the Bombay High Court has held that the Federation of Labour Law Practitioners cannot be registered as a trade union under the Trade Unions Act, 1926.A bench of Justice SC Dharmadhikari and Justice Vibha Kankanwadi was hearing a petition filed by Advocate IA Saiyed.Brief BackgroundIn his petition, Saiyed had challenged an order of the Deputy Registrar, Trade...

Francis Bacon: Less Cited Story Of The First Queen’s Counsel

The petition on senior designations heard by the bench of Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Rohington Nariman and Justice Navin Sinha has evoked a new found interest in the legendary lawyer and philosopher, Sir Francis Bacon. Bacon was the first to be given  a patent which conferred upon  him the designation as Queen’s  Counsel Extraordinaire in 1597 which  gave him precedence at the Bar.Three centuries later,  the near monopoly of Bacon, gave way to the demands of an egalitarian democratic Great...

Advertise Animal Slaughter Norms In Print And Electronic Media: Calcutta HC To State [Read Order]

The Calcutta High Court, on Friday, directed the West Bengal Government to advertise the norms and guidelines related to animal slaughter in print and the electronic media.“…the public at large may not be aware of the restrictions contained either in the judgments of the Court or in the Act of 1950 and the rules framed thereunder. This may lead to an innocent person being unaware of...

Delhi HC Awards Imprisonment To Litigant For Irresponsible Allegations Against Government Counsel [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court recently awarded week-long imprisonment to a litigant, finding him guilty of criminal contempt of court for leveling baseless allegations of impropriety against government counsel appearing for the Revenue Department.“The Court is of the view that the conduct of the respondent, insofar as he has leveled baseless allegations against counsel who appeared and assisted...

NEET Mess: Madras HC's Appeal To Wards Against Suicide Fails To Save Load-Man's Daughter With Big Dreams

On August 24, the Madras High Court had appealed to the students who had failed to clear NEET examination to not take any drastic step like suicide and directed the state government to identify all such students and counsel them to not take any wrong decision.“This Court is only concerned with the mindset of the children and their parents who were all along been dreaming and working...

Gorakhpur Tragedy: Allahabad HC Constitutes Fact-Finding Team To Visit Hospital & Inspect Infrastructure [Read Order]

The Allahabad High Court, on Thursday, constituted a fact finding committee of the Secretary, Uttar Pradesh State Legal Services Authority, and directed it to visit Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College and Hospital to take note of the infrastructure there.It further directed the Secretary to visit the place where oxygen cylinders are stored, and examine the arrangements of supply of oxygen...

Dignity Of Bombay HC Rests On Surer Foundations: Bench Headed By Justice Oka Accepts State’s Apology, Doesn’t Initiate Contempt [Read Order]

A bench headed by Justice AS Oka has passed a judgment dated August 29, accepting the unconditional apology of the Maharashtra government in the matter relating to noise pollution rules.On August 28, the state government had withdrawn allegations made against Justice Oka in a precipe dated August 24 and tendered an unconditional apology to Justice Oka, the Chief Justice as well as the...

Right to Privacy Judgment – II: Privacy, The Individual, And The Public/Private Divide

Privacy presupposes the existence of a private realm. The struggle for privacy has been, among other things, a struggle between rival understandings of how to define the private realm. In the early judgments of the United States Supreme Court, privacy was understood as a spatial concept, summed up in the old aphorism, “a man’s house is his castle.” Gradually, that concept evolved to include relationships and institutions such as marriage and the family: for example, the US Supreme Court struck...