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Tuesday, 02 May, 2017 |
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1. The Supreme Court, in Ravada Sasikala vs. State of Andhra Pradesh and Another, has held that when there is medical evidence that there was an acid attack on the young girl and the circumstances having brought home by cogent evidence and the conviction is given the stamp of approval, there was no justification to reduce the sentence to the period already undergone. [(2017) 2 MLJ (Crl) 181 (SC) : LNIND 2017 SC 89] Read more 2. The Kerala High Court, in Regional Director ESI Corporation vs. Jaymat Hotel Resorts Ltd. Rep. By Its Managing Director and Another, has held that in the light of the fact that the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 applied to the club and the cottage which were already functioning in the premises where a hotel building was being constructed as a part of the very same project, it cannot be said that the persons employed in the construction of the hotel are not persons employed in connection with or incidental to the work of the club and the cottage. [2017-II-LLJ-36 (Ker) : LNIND 2016 KER 29515] Read more 3. The Patna High Court, in Shivjee Mahto versus State of Bihar and Others, has held that neither the pension sanctioning authority nor the State Government could have exercised the revisional power and reduced the pension of the Petitioner under Rule 139 of Bihar Pension Rules, 1950. [2017-II-LLJ-164 (Pat) : LNIND 2017 PAT 441] Read more 4. The Madras High Court, in J. Meena vs. T. Manikandan, has held that regarding custody of child, it is not only the human touch but the physical touch of the mother matters much for the emotional and physical growth of the child. [(2017) 3 MLJ 491 : LNIND 2017 MAD 713] Read more Click here to register for Lexis®India Trial/Demo For training, write to contact.in@lexisnexis.com |
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(a) The Supreme Court has restored criminal conspiracy charges against senior BJP leaders L K Advani, Uma Bharti, Murli Manohar Joshi and other leaders in the Babri Masjid demolition case. (b) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed seeking the Centre to enact the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) to bring all communities on the common platform in the light of diverse personal laws in different religions. (c) The Supreme Court’s five-Judge Constitution bench comprising Justices Madan B. Lokur, R. K. Agrawal, Prafulla Chandra Pant, D. Y. Chandrachud and Ashok Bhushan has begun hearing on Assam Migrants issue referred to it by a two-Judge bench in the Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha vs. Union of India. (d) The support of the Supreme Court Bar Association and a group of senior advocates to a lawyer facing contempt of Court for accusing the Court registry for not listing his case before a bench has irked Chief Justice of India. (e) The Supreme Court has formed the Constitution Bench to hear the appeal against the Delhi High Court verdict in the WhatsApp case. |
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Landmark Judgements |
Issue related to ‘automatic stay’ that has been done away with in the amended Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (mainly for sections 34 and 36) will be applicable on an Award passed prior to 23 October, 2015. The Delhi High Court has observed the application of the amended provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act, 2015 which also dealt with the issue related to ‘automatic stay’, that has now been done away with in the amended section 36 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. It also differentiates between the interpretation accorded to the terms ‘in relation to arbitral proceedings’ and ‘to the arbitral proceedings’ in the amended Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s 26. Read more |
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