‘In Supreme Court, you must speak in English’: CJI Ranjan Gogoi tells judge after hearing him argue in court in Hindi. “A Judge may hold his court in Hindi, but he must speak in English when addressing the Supreme Court. Gogoi, who was hearing an Additional District Judge’s promotion plea, was shocked to hear the
COMMON CAUSE PETITIONER(S) VERSUS HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD & ANR. RESPONDENT(S) Supreme Court ruled that RTI fee no more than Rs 50. The SC bench said that public authorities cannot ask for more than Rs 5 for each page for photocopying charge, & motive need not to be disclosed while filing out the form. A
On Friday morning, while addressing an advocate making a ‘mention’, he remarked, “a thousand new cases are filed every week. We have 11 benches as of now which hear 40 cases each on Mondays and Fridays. So 440 fresh matters each are being heard every Monday and Friday- 880 new cases in a week. Give us
“All the internet service licensees are instructed to take immediate necessary action for blocking of 827 websites as per the direction from Meity and for the compliance of the Hon’ble High Court order,” the Department of Telecom said in an order issued to internet service providers. The high court order was issued on September 27,
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY NAGPUR BENCH, NAGPUR WRIT PETITION No.1766 OF 2016 Rajesh Ramchandra Kidile vs The Maharashtra State Information Commission Bench at Nagpur & others The Bombay High Court has held that information relating to salary details of the husband cannot be disclosed in an RTI application filed by
Judges should be addressed in courts in a respectful and dignified manner and it is not compulsory to call them “my lord”, “your lordship” or “your honour”, the Supreme Court. “To address the court what do we want. Only a respectable way of addressing is required, there is no compulsion or anything like that. “When did we say
This appeal is directed against the final judgment and order dated 09.07.2010 passed by the High Court of Judicature, Andhra Pradesh at Hyderabad in Criminal Petition No. 2347 of 2008 whereby the High Court allowed the petition filed by the respondent herein under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (in short “the
The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs) has decided that CLAT 2019 will be conducted offline. he decision was taken at the 4th meeting of the NLU Consortium, held on Wednesday at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore. A press release further informs that the feasibility of making CLAT online would be considered depending
London court has ordered that six of the Mallya’s posh cars are to be sold to pay off the Rs 10,000 crore that he owes a consortium of Indian banks. The cars to be sold include four with personalised number plates using his initials VJM, one being a Porsche with the James Bond-esque number plate ‘OO07 VJM’. Cockerill said
Caught in the #MeToo controversy, MJ Akbar today resigned from his position of Minister of State for External Affairs. In a brief statement, Akbar said he had decided to seek justice in a court of law in his personal capacity. “Since I have decided to seek justice in a court of law in my personal
On Wednesday in Supreme Court of India Justice A K Sikri and Justice Ashok Bhushan headed a two judge bench for hearing an appeal against judgment of Orissa High Court and gave a re-iterated sentence that “ the statement of an injured recorded under Section :- 161 of Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973 can
While dismissing an appeal against an order of the Gujarat High Court, the Supreme Court on 8thOctober 2018 emphasized on the point that a litigant cannot take different standpoints in the same case at varied points in time. No litigant shall change the contention of the case according to his convenience or whenever it is favorable towards
The Supreme Court on 8th October 2018, ordered the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Bank to deposit INR 10 crores to the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi to compensate the losses borne by the Mumbai District Central Cooperative Bank (MDCC) due to the fraud committed by ICICI bank’s branch manager in displacing the money invested by the MDCC
“It’s high time that senior citizens/parents are allowed to live in peace and tranquility, the orders passed by the Maintenance Tribunal and the single Judge cannot be faulted,” the bench said. The Delhi High Court has confirmed the order of the Single Judge of the Maintenance Tribunal and declared it as a valid order. A senior
The High Court of Kerala, in a recent case, has directed the Indian Railways to treat identity cards issued to lawyers by respective Bar councils as a valid identity proof to undertake a train journey/travel. The court also asked the authority concerned in the railways to issue appropriate orders notifying the above as expeditiously as possible.
