Keeping Pace with Legal Change
The Union Home Minister of India is an extremely powerful and responsibility-filled office. It constitutes the core of national unity,…
Trading in Russian oil is one of the key issues that have been mooted in the multifaceted and quite controversial…
The death of Satya Pal Malik at the age of 79 brings to the conclusion a quite controversial and long…
A major turn of events is the recent resignation of an industrialist named Gautam Adani as an executive director at…
At the heart of a crisis of integrity in the Indian system of public examination, and a firm that markets…
The Supreme Court unequivocally dismissed requests to shield Rajasthan district court employees from punitive action after their employees collectively exercised mass leave to protest delays in restructuring. In an important ruling, the Supreme Court stated that the staff in subordinate courts could not “hold the judicial system at gunpoint” by conducting a strike/collective leave. The ruling reiterated that judicial functions are an essential service that cannot be interrupted and that the courts can maintain strict discipline in the institutional environment.
The Supreme Court in a landmark judgment granted Pollution Control Boards the power to impose fines by way of restitutionary or compensatory damages for causing harm to the environment. These damages can be imposed in the form of bank guarantees or fixed sum of monies. This judgment reflects the embracing of environmental principles by the Indian judiciary, while also respecting the statutory rights framed within the relevant acts.
A few months ago, the Madras High Court in a painstaking custodial torture case made a statement claiming custodial torture…
SEBI has proposed allowing credit rating agencies to rate financial products under other financial sector regulators, even where no rating…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has summoned a senior Bihar police officer to appear in-person after he submitted an affidavit supporting…
