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Son emerges after father’s death, secures house keys, step uncle challenges it and prevails; HC says only civil court can decide property rightsA property dispute between a deceased man's son and his stepbrother has reached the Calcutta High Court. The court has ruled that only a ci...- Boss denied you a deserving salary hike despite good performance? Check your rights under new Labour CodePrivate sector employees in India face limited legal recourse against appraisal discrimination, especially when it's not gender-based. Whil...
- PoK 'PM' Sardar Tanveer Ilyas disqualified by court for contemptSpeaking at a function in Islamabad last week, Ilyas indirectly blamed the judiciary for affecting the functioning of his government and in...
- India can't have parallel legal systems for rich and poor: SCThe apex court also said the "colonial mindset meted out to the district judiciary" must change to preserve the faith of citizens and state...
- High treason trial against Musharraf to resume this weekThe matter was also fixed at the start of this month but the schedule was cancelled because of the LHC top judge's foreign trip.
- PM Narendra Modi reaches out to CJI to ease judiciary-executive tensionsThe SC struck it down saying that it was an inroad into judiciary’s independence and it would prefer to have the final say over such appoin...
- Government belief that it can reject Collegium advice explains tiffA revised MoP for laying down the process of appointment of SC judges has seen conflicting opinions from the government and the judiciary.
- Government wants performance of judges to be assessed before recommendation for elevationLaw minister DV Sadananda Gowda on October 7 had written to the then Chief Justice of India, HL Dattu, underlining the significance of NJDG.
- Government got moving on filling up court vacancies early this monthIn April, 48 names were sent by high court chief justices for elevation of which 40 were received on April 21 and 4 on April 25.
- Top judges to look into setting up commercial courts to ensure speedy settlementIndia’s top judges will look to draw up a roadmap for establishing commercial courts to ensure speedy settlement of high-value business dis...
- Government reaches out to Supreme Court to speed up appointment of judges to superior judiciaryAs per available information, the names of lawyers and lower court judges recommended by respective collegiums of state government.
- Pakistan lifts bar on 65,000 people from traveling abroadAmong the people still on the list is name of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf who has been barred by the courts from leaving the ...
- Bribe of 2 gulab jamuns, tea got me data on judiciary in 1980s: Rajeev Dhavan"We could get data about pendency of cases in courts either through bribes or in an informal way," Dhavan said.
- Supreme Court declines urgent hearing of plea for quashing of NJAC ActThe Supreme Court today declined urgent hearing of a plea seeking quashing of the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act whic...
- Patna High Court quashes government notifications on reservationThe order said , "the action of the executive government proves its 'obduracy' to impose reservation in judicial services contrary to the o...
- Judges are better equipped to appoint judges: Outgoing CJI R M LodhaOutgoing CJI R M Lodha strongly defended collegium system of appointment of judges, saying any other mode may impact on the independence of...
- Pak court asks police to register case against MusharrafA Pak court directed the police to register a case against Musharraf .
- CJI to sack HC judge in Ghaziabad PF scamThe first casualty is Justice A K Singh of Allahabad high court.
- Global think tank asks Pak to reverse radicalisationA leading international think tank has asked Pakistan's new government to reverse State-driven Islamisation that has radicalised swathes of...
- Musharraf to quit on August 14: ReportPervez Musharraf has decided in principle to quit and will announce his decision in this regard on the country's Independence Day on August...
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