What Is The Period Of Limitation For Filling Complaint U/S 12 & 18 Of DV Act: Allahabad HC Judge Refers Matter To A Larger Bench [Read Order]

Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh, vide order dated 02.08.2019, has referred a matter under Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (the Act) to be adjudicated by a larger bench of the Court. The issue involved therein was that what should be the period of limitation for filling a complaint under Sections 12 and 18 of the Act. Section 12 of the Act prescribes that an application may be filed before the...

BCI To Decide Whether Advocates Should Remain 'On Their Legs' While Addressing Courts

Should the Advocates remain on their legs while addressing the Court? The 'Full House' of Bar Council of India might take a decision in this regard.Hariom Jindal, an advocate practicing in district courts in Ludhiana, had approached the National Human Rights Commission against this practice highlighting the fact that there is no rule mandating advocates to remain standing while appearing in...

Vidhi's Panel Discussion On Infrastructure Of India's District Courts: Key Highlights

Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy organised a panel discussion to launch its Building Courts: Surveying The The infrastructure of India's District Courts which highlights the state of infrastructure at various district court complexes across the country. The report provides a ranking of all the States and Union Territories based on the following nine parameters: Getting There, Navigation,...

'Temple Is Not A Commercial Establishment':Employees Entitled To Gratuity Under Special Law Not General Act: Karnataka HC [Read Judgment]

The Karnataka High Court has held that a temple employee in the state will be entitled to gratuity benefits under the Karnataka Hindu Religious Institutions and Charitable Endowment Act, which is a special law enacted in the state and not under the Payments of Gratuity Act, which is a general law. A full bench comprising of Justice B V Nagarathna, Justice K N Phaneendra and Justice B A...

Decisions Of Vice-Chancellor Are Quasi-Judicial Orders, Adjudicating Valuable Rights Of The Parties: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

The Allahabad HC on Thursday directed a Bareilly based University to amend the seniority list of its lecturer after 26 years and also held that decisions of Vice-Chancellor and Chancellor of the University were quasi-judicial orders, adjudicating valuable rights of the parties, and as such doctrine of the merger was applicable to them. The undisputed facts of the case were that...

'Do Not Allow Foreign Law Firms To Operate In SEZs' : Bar Council Of Delhi Writes To PM [Read Letter]

The Bar Council of Delhi (the Council) has written a letter to the Prime Minister raising objections against the permissions granted to foreign law firms to open their offices in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in India. The council submitted that the objection with regard to opening or operation of foreign law firms in India is not a fresh one and all the bodies of lawyers across India,...

How An IPS Officer Led The Rescue Of An Infant From Trafficking?

Rema Rajeshwari, an IPS Officer in Telangana, along with her team of impeccable officers successfully rescued a 2-month old girl from a human trafficking racket and reunited her with her family. To achieve something so heroic, an intricately advanced system needs to be put in place. Every clue is a blessing, each lead, a hope. Therefore, Ms Rema Rajeshwari shared with Live Law the details of...

UAPA Tribunal Upholds Extension Of 5 Year Ban On SIMI

A UAPA tribunal headed by Delhi High Court sitting judge Justice Mukta Gupta has upheld the five year extension of the ban on Students Islamic Movement of India(SIMI) notified by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on January 31 this year.It is understood from sources familiar with the development that the tribunal passed the order on July 29 holding that there were valid reasons to ratify...

Parliament Passes Code On Wages For Workers [Read Bill]

The Rajya Sabha on Friday passed the Code on Wages, 2019, which will subsume four existing laws on labour wages - the Payment of Wages Act, 1936; the Minimum Wages Act, 1948; the Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, and the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976.Lok Sabha had cleared the Bill on July 30. As per the Code, the central government can fix floor wages, taking into account living standards of...

'M J Akbar A Brilliant Journalist With Impeccable Reputation' : Witness In Defamation Case Against Priya Ramini

Witness examination continued today in MJ Akbar's criminal Defamation case against Priya Ramani who had alleged the former of sexually harassing her. Two witnesses were brought for examination before the Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal. One of these witnesses was Ms Jyotika Basu, who's the Editor of The Sunday Guardian. Ms Basu was first examined by Ms Geeta Luthra,...

Uncontroverted Testimony Of Landlord Is Sufficient Evidence To Determine Mesne Profits: Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Dismissing the appeal of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., the Delhi High Court held that an unrebutted oral evidence of a landlord in support of his claim for mesne profits at a certain rate was sufficient evidence in terms of Order XX Rule 12 of CPC. The Appellant was aggrieved by the order of trial court granting mense profits to the Respondent landlord at a rate of...

Kerala HC Sets Aside Single Bench Direction For CBI Probe Into Shuhaib Murder [Read Judgment]

A division bench of the High Court of Kerala on Friday set aside the judgment of a single bench which handed over to CBI the investigation of the killing of Shuhaib, a Youth Congress worker, in Kannur district in February 2018. Allowing the appeal filed by the Kerala Government against the order, the bench of Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy and Justice A K Jayasankaran Nambiar observed "there...