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Bombay HC Considers Framing 21-Point Interim Guidelines for Protection of Advocates from Violence [Read Order]
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (18+ words) Law Street Journal...
Bar Council Can't Deny Enrolment for Post-Application Job: Jharkhand HC
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (267+ words) The Court also directed the Jharkhand State Bar Council to henceforth conduct meetings of the Enrolment Committee and the Scrutiny Committee at least twice a month. The judge was struck by an autorickshaw with a passenger in the front seat,…...
BCI Moves Supreme Court To Co Opt Highest Polling Women Candidates Who Narrowly Missed Election In State Bar Council Polls | Law Street
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (357+ words) Submissions Before the Court The BCI has further stated that the same proposal has been placed before the Supreme Court's Supervisory Committee overseeing the election process. It has sought a specific direction from the Court approving the vote-based co-option mechanism…...
Senior Citizens Need Not Be "Penniless or Destitute" To Seek Protection Under 2007 Act: Gauhati HC Upholds Son's Eviction [Read Order]
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (371+ words) Gauhati: A Division Bench of the Gauhati High Court has dismissed an intra-court writ appeal preferred by two sons challenging their eviction from the self-acquired residential property of their 86-year-old father, a retired bank employee residing at Dhubri, Assam, under…...
Wife Marrying Off Daughter Secretly Constitutes Mental Cruelty to Husband: Madras HC [Read Judgment]
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (414+ words) Chennai: The Madras High Court has granted divorce to a husband, holding that a wife's act of arranging and solemnising the marriage of their daughter without the husband's knowledge amounted to mental cruelty. The Court observed that a father's pain…...
Wife Cannot Be Denied Maintenance Merely Because She Filed Restitution Petition After Husband Moved For Divorce Bombay HC | Law Street
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (253+ words) The Court partly allowed the revision application and modified the maintenance order as follows: Case Details Criminal Revision Application No. 113 of 2024, High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Nagpur Bench. Before Justice Urmila Joshi-Phalke. Reserved on March 12, 2026; Pronounced on April 17, 2026. Mr....
Why Supreme Court Carved out an Exception for Stray Dogs in NALSAR Campus [Read Judgment]
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (424+ words) The Court held that the protection of stray dogs cannot be divorced from the responsibility to ensure human safety and made accountability a mandatory precondition for any campus-based animal welfare activity. Observing that rights claimed in favour of animals cannot…...
Madras HC Stays Tamil Nadu Cyber Crime Wing's Omnibus X Blocking Order, Says Political Criticism Constitutionally Protected [Read Order]
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (494+ words) Chennai: A Division Bench of the Madras High Court, comprising Justice L. Victoria Gowri and Justice N. Senthilkumar, has stayed a notice issued by the Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime Wing, Tamil Nadu, directing the removal and blocking of multiple URLs on…...
Senior Advocate Mahalakshmi Pavani Among Members of New Supreme Court Election Tribunals [Read Order]
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (635+ words) New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Sunday constituted two additional Election Tribunals for the expeditious adjudication of disputes arising out of the ongoing State Bar Council elections, with Senior Advocate Mahalakshmi Pavani being named as a member of one of…...
Cannot Penalise Lawyers For Attending Court Despite Boycott Calls: Tripura HC [Read Order]
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (256+ words) Tripura: The High Court of Tripura has held that a Bar Association cannot initiate disciplinary action against an advocate for appearing before a court or tribunal in discharge of his professional obligations under the Advocates Act and his Vakalatnama, notwithstanding…...