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Unnao rape case: SC sets aside order suspending Sengar's life term, asks HC to decide plea afreshThe Supreme Court has overturned a Delhi High Court decision that suspended the life sentence of former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. The c...- SC flags vacancies in high courts, prods Centre to clear names for judges appointmentThe Supreme Court has directed the central government to expedite the appointment of judges to High Courts, where over 7 lakh criminal appe...
- Parliamentary panel recommends to increase retirement age of judges in High Courts, Supreme CourtThe Committee, in its 133rd Report on the subject 'Judicial Processes and their reform', says it feels that the "age of retirement of judge...
- Supreme Court says life convicts who have completed 10 years of jail term should be released on bailA bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Abhay S Oka was hearing a batch of pleas of convicts sentenced to life terms seeking bail on the...
- Pendency of cases 'huge challenge', says CJI N V RamanaHe said during the COVID-19 pandemic, the priority was running of the courts and unlike commercial establishments, "we cannot secure the te...
- Long pending cases: Govt to rank consumer courts on disposal speed"The age of pending consumer cases is extremely high. There are 4,029 pending cases filed before the year 2000. A campaign has been launche...
- CJI terms pendency of criminal cases in Allahabad HC very worrying, urges Bar, Bench to resolve itJustice Ramana along with President Ram Nath Kovind took part in programmes, including the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Uttar Pr...
- Haryana RERA sets up mediation forum to settle homebuyers dispute with developers“It is prudent that such mechanisms are incorporated in the myriad field of laws, particularly laws dealing with real-estate sector, which ...
- Four states, one UT bring down pendency of 10-year-old cases to almost zeroHuge pendency in courts has resulted in a large number of undertrials languishing in jails for longer than the sentence they would have ser...
- Ravi Shankar Prasad seeks help from states, CJs to fill up vacanciesThe Apex Court had also directed the Centre to forward a copy of the NCMS Committee report to state governments and High Courts.
- Help high courts fill up nearly 5,000 vacancies in lower courts: Centre to state governmentsIn a letter to chief ministers, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that there are about 4,937 vacancies in the lower judiciary.
- Judges' vacancies not sole reason for pending casesThe study points out how states such as Tamil Nadu and Punjab ranked lower in terms of the number of pending cases despite of low judge-pop...
- Will bring patent pendency at same level as in US, Japan: Amitabh KantThe Government today said patent pendency will be brought down to the same level as in advanced countries like the US and Japan in the next...
- Government seeks judges' appraisal from Supreme CourtThe court-specific data will help the NJAC set judges' performance standards and could be key in determining promotions of judges to higher...
- CJI HL Dattu wants High Courts to clear over 5-year-old cases without delayPendency of over five-year-old cases has significantly increased in high courts, with 30-40% of such cases in many of them.
- Problem of pendency of cases huge: Ashwani KumarHighlighting the need for more Lok Adalats, Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar today said more than three crore cases were pending before var...
- Huge pendency of cases in High court, lower court is alarming: SC JudgeA senior Supreme Court judge on Sunday termed the huge pendency of cases in high courts and lower courts as alarming
- Over 50,000 cases pending in Supreme Court
- Corporate matters to get priority in SC, but at a costThe government is considering a proposal to set up a separate corporate Bench in the apex court to clear huge pendency of commercial cases.
- ‘Protection of all witnesses not practical’At a time when the Malimath committee on criminal justice system reforms has recommended enacting a legislation on the lines of laws in the...
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