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Don’t try to play lawmaker, Supreme Court tells judges
Adult son has no legal right to stay in parents’ house, rules HC
No copyright over our judgments: SC
Centre issues real estate guidelines to counter rampant discrimination
SC allows accused to produce taped phone conversation as defence
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Don’t try to play lawmaker, Supreme Court tells judges

TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Dec 9, 2016
NEW DELHI: Judges should not exhibit “judicial valour” by passing sweeping orders that encroach on the domain of the executive and legislature as the separation of powers among the organs of the state must be honoured, the Supreme Court has said. …

Adult son has no legal right to stay in parents’ house, rules HC

TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Nov 30, 2016
NEW DELHI: An adult son has no legal right to stay in his parents’ self-acquired property, the Delhi high court has ruled while upholding the wishes of an elderly couple who wanted their son and daughter-in-law evicted from their house. …

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No copyright over our judgments: SC

TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Nov 24, 2016
NEW DELHI: For long, a couple of firms had a virtual monopoly over printing judgments of the Supreme Court in book format and selling it to advocates, institutions and others. So much so that one of them claimed copyright over the manner in which it edited and published the judgments.
But on Wednesday, a Supreme Court bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and N V Ramana ruled that no one could have copyright over judgments delivered by the apex court. It could be reproduced in its raw form by anyone without the risk of being accused of infringing copyright, the bench said, settling a long-standing dispute. …

Centre issues real estate guidelines to counter rampant discrimination

Newindianexpress.com
25th June 2016
NEW DELHI: The Centre has introduced an anti-discriminatory clause in the recently passed Real Estate Act making it clear that promoters can’t discriminate against anyone in the allotment of any apartment, plot or building on any ground. …

SC allows accused to produce taped phone conversation as defence

TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Nov 25, 2015
NEW DELHI: Prosecution has been using electronic evidence to seek conviction of accused for a decade but for the first time, the Supreme Court on Monday permitted an accused to bring on record taped telephonic conversations to prove his innocence in a child sexual abuse case. …

Supreme Court sets 2005 cut-off on women’s right to ancestral property

Indianexpress.com
Nov 02, 2015
The court said the father would have had to be alive on September 9, 2005, if the daughter were to become a co-sharer with her male siblings. …

SC erred in junking decriminalization of gay sex; Justice Shah   

TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Sep 5, 2015
NEW DELHI: Former Law Commission chairman Justice A P Shah, who as chief justice of Delhi high court delivered the landmark judgment decriminalizing homosexuality by reading down Section 377 of IPC, has slammed the Supreme Court for reviving the controversial penal provisions by quashing the HC verdict. …

Judge goes by circumstantial evidence, awards man life term    

TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Jul 7, 2015 
BAREILLY: Passing a “historic” verdict based purely on circumstantial evidence, the court of additional district and sessions judge has sentenced a man to life imprisonment even after all eight witnesses turned hostile. The man had been charged with the murder of his wife and the judge saw it fit to go with the circumstantial evidence produced by the prosecution. …

Courts can skip empty formalities: SC    .Business-standard.com
June 28, 2015
It is a basic principle of law that no action shall be taken without providing a hearing to the affected party. This principle, called the law of natural justice, is “flexible” according to situations, and it need not be followed as an empty formality, Supreme Court stated in its recent judgment, Dharampal Satyapal vs Deputy Commissioner. The doctrine cannot be applied as a “strait-jacket formula. …

India to get own version of class action lawsuits   TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
May 21, 2015
NEW DELHI: India is set to have a stronger consumer protection law with its own version of class action suits. As the term is usually defined, a class action suit is one in which one or several persons sue on behalf of a larger group of persons, referred to as “the class”. …

Testimony of sole witness enough for conviction: SC   TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Apr 11, 2015
CHENNAI: An accused can be convicted on the testimony of a sole witness if the person is completely reliable, said the Supreme Court, upholding the verdict of the Madras high court which awarded five years of rigorous imprisonment to people facing conspiracy charge in a murder case. …

PMO plans to merge tribunals for efficiency, Company Law Board and CAT could be merged  Economictimes.indiatimes.com
27 Feb, 2015
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office is planning to prune the list of all important national tribunals and merge some of them to create larger entities and ensure efficiency. …

Proxy counsel cannot argue a case: High court   TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Feb 16, 2015
Background: There are times when the advocate on record is stuck in some other court and cannot attend to another matter. In such cases, he appoints a “proxy counsel” to take care of the case in his absence. …

HC asks 2 cops to face trial 23 years after torturing woman   TimesofIndia.indiatimes.com
Jan 25, 2015
MUMBAI: Police can’t torture an accused to extract information, the Bombay high court has ruled in a landmark judgment, and ordered two policemen to face trial for brutally assaulting a woman in custody 23 years ago. …

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