New Hong Kong Bar chairman to ease strains with Beijing Victor Dawes says Bar will speak out if necessary to improve government relations Newly elected Hong Kong Bar Association chairman Victor Dawes SC is hoping to heal the rift with Beijing and restore relations that soured in 2018. Upon taking over the association’s 1,600 barristers
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CESTAT ruling on service tax on the sale of goods Coram rejects the order passed by the Income Tax Commissioner (Appeals) The Allahabad Bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) has held that service tax is not leviable on the sale of goods that have already been subjected to Sales Tax or
... Continue Reading.[Raj Shekhar is a III-year B.A., LL. B, student at National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi.] On 16 December 2021, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (“JPC”) submitted its long-awaited report to the Indian Parliament after two years of deliberations on the of the Personal Data Protection Bill (“Bill”). While the experts and stakeholders
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Question: What do you mean by execution? Who can apply for execution of a decree? Find the answer to the mains question only on Legal Bites. [What do you mean by execution? Who can apply for execution of a decree?] Answer The term “execution” has nowhere been defined in C.P.C. In its widest sense, the
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ITAT: Change of Opinion not permissible to invoke Revisional Jurisdiction In a recent ruling by the Ahmedabad bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), the court held that a mere change in opinion cannot warrant invoking the revisional jurisdiction under section 263 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The assessment year 2015-16 was the
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Last Updated on 31 mins by Admin LB We need to preserve the “Unity in Diversity” of India by acting responsibly, read this article ‘Has India Lost Its “Unity In Diversity”?’ by Shubhangi Singh only on Legal Bites. Introduction The Constitution makers of India intended to make India a country that respected the choices and
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Question: What questions are to be decided by a court executing a decree and not by a separate suit. Find the answer to the mains question only on Legal Bites. [What questions are to be decided by a court executing a decree and not by a separate suit.] Answer Section 47 of the Code of Civil
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Question: By which court decree may be executed? What are the modes of execution of a decree? Find the answer to the mains question only on Legal Bites. [By which court decree may be executed? What are the modes of execution of a decree?] Answer According to Section 38, a decree may be executed either
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Last Updated on 2 hours by Admin LB Question: Discuss the law relating to the transfer of suits. [JK.J. 2014] Find the answer to the mains question only on Legal Bites. [Discuss the law relating to the transfer of suits.] Answer Section 22 to 25 provide for the transfer of cases from one Court to
... Continue Reading.The Rajasthan High Court pronounced that the writ petition against the rejection of an injunction application by trial court shall not be maintainable as per Articles 226 & 227 of the Constitution. A single-judge bench of Justice Dinesh Mehta, while hearing a writ petition moved by a group of petitioners against the trial court’s order
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