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...

Lalu Prasad’s Transfer Petition In Fodder Scam Case Rejected

The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday rejected RJD supremo Lalu Prasad’s plea to transfer a case related to fodder scam from a special CBI judge’s court to another court.Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh read out his decision on Thursday. The court had reserved its order after the final argument on the petition on August 25. The case (rc64A/96) relates to alleged illegal withdrawal from...

Haj-Bribe Sting Operation: Himachal HC Quashes Summons Against Rajdeep Sardesai And Others [Read Judgment]

Himachal Pradesh High Court on Tuesday quashed the summons issued in criminal defamation proceedings instituted against Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai, Mr. Anirudha Bahal and Mr. Ashutosh for broadcasting of a sting operation in 2012.Justice T.S. Chauhan allowed their Petitions, holding that merely by virtue of them being the Managing Director, Editor-in-Chief, Editor and Founder Editor-in-Chief...

Who Is a “Police Officer” To Whom A Confession By An Accused Is Tabooed ?

Has anyone come across a police officer unknowingly becoming a non-police officer and vice versa ? Well, if the Legislature and the Judiciary so ordain, such a magical transformation can take place.In order to fully comprehend the above forensic legerdemain,it may be necessary to examine a few legal provisions. They are Sections 25 to 27 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (“Evidence Act” for short) and Sections 161 and 162 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“Cr.P.C” for short). Those...