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'Judicial System Exists For Common Man': Supreme Court Emphasizes The Need To Write Short & Clear Judgments & Restrict Time For Oral Submissions
In its postscript to the 182 paged judgment refusing to quash Delhi Assembly's summons To Facebook India Head In Delhi Riots Enquiry, the Supreme Court emphasized the need to restrict the time period for oral submissions by lawyers and to have 'more crisp, clear and precise' judgments which litigants can understand."The purpose of our post script is only to start a discussion among the...
Striving To Comply; Reserves Right To Challenge IT Rules : Twitter To Delhi High Court
Twitter has informed the Delhi High Court that it will file its first Compliance Report consistent with the 2021 Rules no later than on 11th July 2021, The first compliance report will be covering the period 26th May 2021 to 25th June 2021. Twitter has further submitted that, while it is striving to comply with the 2021 Rules, it reserves its right to challenge the...
'Important' : Supreme Court Seeks Centre's Affidavit In Challenge To Provisions On Restitution Of Conjugal Rights
While adjourning the hearing to July 22, Supreme Court on Thursday granted two weeks time to the Union of India to file its counter affidavit in the plea filed challenging the provisions dealing with restitution of conjugal rights.A bench comprising Justice RF Nariman, Justice KM Joseph and Justice BR Gavai adjourned the matter for two weeks after ASG Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Union...
'Delhi Can Ill-Afford Another Riots; Role Of Facebook Must Be Looked Into': Supreme Court Upholds Delhi Assembly Summons
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to quash the summons issued to Facebook India Managing Director Ajit Mohan by the Peace and Harmony committee of the Delhi Assembly Committee seeking his appearance in an enquiry related to Delhi Riots."The capital of the country can ill-afford any repetition of the occurrence and thus, the role of Facebook in this context must be looked into...
Can Anyone Write Anything To Destroy Some One's Reputation?: Delhi High Court To Saket Gokhale In Defamation Suit By Lakshmi Puri
The Delhi High Court today lashed out at RTI activist Saket Gokhale for allegedly defamatory tweets against the former Indian Assistant Secretary General at the UN, Lakshmi Puri, noting that Gokhale of his own admission had not approached any authorities before putting out the tweets.The tweets in question allegedly not only raised queries about Puri and her husband's sources of income, they...
Supreme Court To Hear Amazon-Future-Reliance Case On July 20
The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned to July 20th the hearing of the petition filed by Amazon challenging an order dated March 22 passed by a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court staying a single-judge order which had upheld the Emergency Award passed by a Singapore Tribunal halting the Reliance-Future deal. A bench comprising Justices RF Nariman, Justice KM Joseph...
UAPA : Can Magistrate Extend Time To File Chargesheet Under Section 43D?Supreme Court To Examine
The Supreme Court is examining the issue whether a Magistrate is competent to grant extension of time for filing chargesheet as per section 43 D of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act.The issue before the bench comprising Justices UU Lalit, Ajay Rastogi and Aniruddha Bose is whether such extension of time under Section 43D can only be allowed by a "special court" under the UAPA....
[TODAY AT 5PM] Webinar On "Evolving A Feminist Jurisprudence"- By Justice Asha Menon, Ms Nishtha Satyam
LiveLaw in association with Delhi High Court Women Lawyers Forum is organizing a webinar on "Evolving A Feminist Jurisprudence".Justice Asha Menon (Judge, Delhi High Court) and Ms Nishtha Satyam (Deputy Country Representative UN Women India) will be the distinguished speakers.Ms. Alia Waziri (Lawyer, Consultant UN Women India) and Ms Anushka Barua (Lawyer, Delhi High Court) will moderate...
Supreme Court Grants Interim Bail To 13 Prisoners Who Were Languishing In Jail For 14-22 Years Despite Proving Juvenility
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted interim bail to 13 prisoners who have been lodged in Agra Jail for periods ranging from 14 to 22 years, despite establishing that they were juveniles at the time of offence."It is not in dispute that 13 Petitioners have been held by Juvenile Justice Board as juveniles. Let interim bail be granted to them by presenting personal bonds", a bench...
'Purely Voluntary Service In Commercial Capacity Not Public Function; Not Amenable To Article 226': Twitter Tells Delhi High Court In Sanjay Hegde's Case
Opposing the writ petition filed by Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde before the Delhi High Court seeking restoration of his suspended Twitter account, the US based social media giant has claimed that it is not discharging a public function and is not amenable to writ jurisdiction in India under Article 226 of the Constitution. Hegde has invoked the High Court's writ jurisdiction, saying...
Breaking: Kiren Rijiju Is The New Union Minister For Law And Justice
Kiren Rijiju is appointed as the new Union Minister for Law and Justice after the Cabinet reshuffle. He replaced Ravi Shankar Prasad, who resigned from Union Government.Rijiju is a Law Graduate from Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.PM Modi has kept the Ministry of Science & Technology with himself, whereas, Amit Shah has also got additional charge of Ministry...