The Pre-Trial Conference is a pro-active case management process. PTCs reflect the court's approach to the administration of justice, which considers the interests of litigants, the administration of justice, and the communitarian need to ensure that ..
Generally, the offences which are tried by the High Court in its original jurisdiction are the more serious offences such as murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, drug trafficking, arms offences, kidnapping, rape and carnal inte ..
Dear friends,Months before, someone had posted a query about validity of certificates or degrees conferred by Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, Prayag (Allahabad). Today a friend made a call to me with a specific query about validity of Prathma and Madhyama c ..
Nowadays the people are in festive mood and worshipping the Goddess of Power. Most of worshipers who chant the verses of Durga Saptashatee, necessarily chant the Argala strotram. One of the prayers in this strotra stands for elimination of malice ..
Hon’ble Dr. B.S. Chauhan, J. in a Special Leave Petition[1] that was filed against refusal of interim relief by the Bombay High Court has elaborately discussed the norms for granting an interim order by the courts, specially by writ courts. Ref ..
A bench comprising of Hon’ble M Katju and Hon’ble AK Ganguli, JJ have has criticized the judicial trend of imposing the primary liability on the Insurance Co. to satisfy the award amount in motor accident claims with a liberty to recover ..
In CIVIL APPEAL NO. 7687 OF 2004 General Manager, Telecom v. M. Krishnan & Anr. Decided on 1st Sept, 2009, the supreme court while setting aside a Full Bench decision of Kerala High Court , has held jurisdiction of the con ..
In CIVIL APPEAL NO. 3911 of 2003 Bihar School Examination Board v. Suresh Prasad Sinha decided on 04/09/2009 the Supreme Court considered the question, whether a statutory School Examination Board comes within the purview of the Consumer P ..
When the offence is non compoundable under s 320 Cr.P.C., but the relations of victim and accused have now become cordial and the victim does not want the accused to be punished, a technical problem arises before the trial court/lower judiciary as su ..
In Smt. Sarbati Devi & Another v. Smt. Usha Devi (1984) 1 SCC 424, the Supreme Court held that a mere nomination does not have the effect of conferring to the nominee any beneficial interest in the amount payable under the life insurance policy, ..