In the High Court of Kerala2019 (3) KHC 548, 2019(3) KLJ331PetitionerA.SubairRespondentThe Chief Election Commissioner of KeralaDate of Judgement10 June 2019BenchHon’ble Justice S.P. Chaly Facts of the case Petitioner is a permanent resident of Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, and he holds an Electoral Identity Card issued by the Election Commission of India. According to the petitioner, name
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The BGS Case: Cleared The Air Or Muddied The Settling Waters?
[Prince Todi is a 3rd year student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur and Shruti Khanijow an Advocate at the Supreme Court of India] In the past decade, there has been an exponential growth of arbitration in India. The fundamentals of party autonomy, neutrality and speedy disposal of disputes have not only attracted private parties
... Continue Reading.SEBI’s Proposed Framework for Corporate Bonds and Debenture Trustees
[Rashmi Birmole is a III year B.A., LL.B. student at ILS Law College, Pune] Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (“IL&FS”), a non-banking finance company (“NBFC”) belonging to a sub-category of systemically important non-deposit accepting core investment companies was, at the time, engaged in financing and developing infrastructure projects. In June 2018, the collapse of IL&FS emerged
... Continue Reading.Covid 19: Consequences on Contractual Obligations
[Meenal Maheshwari is the lead transactional counsel at Essar Group] With the pandemic that has subsumed the world, a common question that corporates are dealing with is the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on already contracted obligations. The most relevant question raise is: at what point does Covid-19 pandemic allow a party to delay performance,
... Continue Reading.SC opens for ‘extremely urgent cases’ for hearing through video conferencing
//www.pathlegal.in/SC-opens-for–extremely-urgent-cases–for-hearing-through-video-conferencing-legalnewscopied-2384213 Author: Names Supreme Court on Thursday decided to open doors for "extremely urgent cases" for hearing through video conferencing after remaining shut for two days fol… Read More
... Continue Reading.‘Enemy of state’ Posters, Situps & 1300 FIRs: How Police Are Punishing Lockdown Violators
//www.pathlegal.in/-Enemy-of-state–Posters,-Situps—1300-FIRs:-How-Police-Are-Punishing-Lockdown-Violators-legalnewscopied-2384209 Author: Names Situps in the middle of the road, posters calling them ‘enemies of the state’ and a thousand-odd FIRs — this is what those not sticking to the Covid-1… Read More
... Continue Reading.Karnataka HC Makes Use Of Virtual Court Facility
//www.pathlegal.in/Karnataka-HC-Makes-Use-Of-Virtual-Court-Facility-legalnewscopied-2384210 Author: Names Case was heard via live video link The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday turned the concept of virtual court into … Read More
... Continue Reading.SUPREME COURT HOLDS THAT LENDING BANKS OF JAYPEE INFRATECH LIMITED CANNOT BE CONSIDERED AS FINANCIAL CREDITORS
Recently, the Supreme Court passed a Judgment dated 26-02-2020 in Anuj Jain v. Axis Bank Ltd and others, wherein the Apex Court held that lenders cannot initiate corporate insolvency resolution process as a financial creditor under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 as amended thereof (the Code) against a third party, which has only created
... Continue Reading.HIGH COURT OF DELHI HOLDS MAINTENANCE UNDER SECTION 125 CRPC IS FOR THE WELFARE OF NEGLECTED WIVES, CHILDREN AND PARENTS
Justice Manoj Kumar Ohri of the High Court of Delhi, while dealing with the Petition that challenged the Order passed by the Family Court which rejected the maintenance Petition filed by the Petitioner under Section 125 Criminal Procedure Code 1973. The High Court held that, in absence of documentary evidence on record showing that the
... Continue Reading.SUPREME COURT LEGALISES CRYPTOCURRENCY
The Supreme Court quashed an Order which was passed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in April, 2018. In 2018 the RBI banned the financial services firms from trading in virtual currency or cryptocurrency. On 04th March, 2020 the Hon’ble Supreme Court made the decision after hearing several petitions challenging RBI’s April, 2018 Order
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