Keeping Pace with Legal Change
This is an important development because the current Chief Justice, Augustine George Masih will retire to give way to the new Chief Justice. The selection guarantees a smooth change in the leadership at the apex of the judicial system of the state, which would avoid an administrative vacuum.
The protracted legal struggle by the Indian Forest Service officer, Sanjiv Chaturvedi has hit an incredible and unprecedented milestone. One of his cases set records on the number of judicial recusals by a single judge, with a fifteenth judge recusing themselves in one of his cases
Many people know of Portia’s famous speech in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Merchant of Venice’ in which she pleaded that justice…
he worlds of law and entertainment often come into conflict, particularly when creative materials are inspired by actual high-profile events…
Ladakh, the Union Territory of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir that was split into the Union Territories in…
In 2015 the state government took a step to protect and preserve the native breeds of cows and as a result, the Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Act was passed. It is among the strictest laws of cattle protection in the land. The Act subjects a total prohibition on the slaughter of cows, the sale of beef and export of cows to be slaughtered in the state of Haryana.
The case dates back to the month of March 2008, when an election was approaching. Rahul Gandhi was delivering a speech at a mass gathering in the Pilibhit district, Uttar Pradesh when he was apparently quoted saying something that was quite offensive to the Sikh community.
The scandal started when the Customs (Preventive) Commissionerate in Kochi took steps against an imported car of the actor. The authorities of the department confiscated the Land Rover Defender, and this is an SUV that is of high quality and priced high with its off-road features. This confiscation was done by the Customs Act of 1962 which gives authorities the mandate to detain goods which they are convinced have been imported illegally.
R. Venkataramani is a well-known figure within the Indian legal fraternity, and his career dates back to more than forty years. In 1977 he started his legal career with the Bar Council of Tamil Nadu and in 1979 he transferred his practice to the Supreme Court of India. Such was his mastery of law and powerful oratory that in 1997 he was named Senior Advocate by the Supreme Court; the title is given to only a few attorneys of the highest caliber.
The case was started in the tumultuous months of August 2017. A special court of CBI in Panchkala on August 25 of the same year found the head of the Dera Sacha Sauda, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, guilty in a case of raping two of his adherents, women. The ruling served as a catalyst to a binge of violence, mainly in Panchkulawhere tens of thousands of Dera followers had gathered in the days before the verdict.
