In the latest news it was observed that the Centre today opposed a plea filed before the Delhi High Court seeking to recognize the rights of same-sex couples to get married under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1956. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted that the concept of same-sex marriage is not recognized under Indian Culture or
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Film star Suriya Sivakumar should face contempt action over his comments on Sunday on the Madras High Court linked to the alleged suicide of three medical aspirants, a judge has said. However, it appears that the judge reacted to a wrongly translated version of Suriya’s statement. Four students who were to appear for the highly
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Image from here In an interesting scenario that perhaps adds to the mounting pile of evidence of ex-parte interim injunctions being problematic, the Delhi High Court on 9th September, 2020, modified an ex-parte interim injunction order after finding that the plaintiff concealed material facts during the hearing. The initial order had estopped the defendants, Sujata
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Topical Highlight When Covid-19 Shuttered Cinema Halls!: Should Producers Share Royalties from OTT Release of Films? Image from here In a guest post, Tanvi Sehgal weighs in on the impact of the COVID-19 induced shift from theatrical release of films to OTT release on the producers’ share of earnings. She explains how the pandemic shutting down
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In a latest, landmark and laudable judgment titled Ashoo Surendranath Tiwari vs Deputy Superintendent Of Police, EOW, CBI & Anr. in Criminal Appeal No. 575 of 2020 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 5422 of 2015), the Supreme Court has held explicitly, effectively and elegantly that in a case of exoneration in departmental proceedings on
... Continue Reading.[Yashika Gupta is a 5th year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur] On 14 August 2020, the Supreme Court (“SC”), yet again, cleared the air on the applicability of the Limitation Act, 1963 (“Limitation Act”) to the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“the Code”). In Babulal Varsharji Gurjar v. Veer Gurjar Aluminium
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The Lok Sabha on Monday passed two bills for the availability of high-quality medical professionals both for homeopathic treatment as well as in the Indian System of Medicine. They were- The National Commission for Homeopathy Bill, 2019 and The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Bill, 2019. These bills were passed by the Rajya
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I. Overview of the Case The Republic of Nicaragua v United States of America case was decided in 1986 and came as a huge shock to the United States government since it failed to convince the ICJ that it lacked jurisdiction. The case is known for an attack on sovereignty, American dominance and expands the
... Continue Reading.[Gayatri Puthran is a 3rd Year B.B.A., LL.B. student at the Jindal Global Law School] In a bid to promote ease of doing business, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (‘SEBI’) on 2 September 2020 by way of its circular titled ‘Disclosures on Margin obligations given by way of Pledge/ Re-Pledge in the Depository
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NLAT: Fortunately it was just an entrance test, not the Iraq war NLSIU Bangalore has made a press release about the conclusion of the dramatic retakes of the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) today, claiming a successful run yet again but declining to confirm how many actually sat for the re-takes. It also finally confirmed
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