The Court has imposed fines on states and public authorities for adopting an approach where they can walk in as and when they please, ignoring the period of limitation prescribed by statutes.
The Allahabad High Court has asked a petitioner to cough up Rs 3 lakh for repeatedly filing petitions over the same issue. Courts are known to penalise petitioners for such abuse of law.
Following a plea in the apex court by four advocates, the Delhi High Court was forced to begin a new system of physical and virtual hearings so as to make the work of lawyers easier in coronavirus times.
In an interesting order, the Allahabad High Court has said that a married woman who is in a live-in relationship without ending her marriage first is committing a crime and her partner is also culpable.
The New Year eve announcement of the Indian Army appointing Major General Gautam Chauhan as Additional Director General (Human Rights) formally recognises the importance of human rights in military operations.
A court in Zimbabwe recalled the landmark judgment in the Kesavananda Bharati case and held that compelling schoolchildren to salute the national flag was violative of their right to freedom of religion.
The Bombay High Court has slammed the way news channels handled the Sushant Singh Rajput suicide case, saying that some actions were contemptuous in nature.
Two remarkable decisions of the Supreme Court have given hope to flat owners. Firstly, the Court declared that builders’ trend of asking for additional money
Thanks to the pandemic, Big Tech has emerged with huge profits and enormous clout over individuals and governments, including sanctions against the president of the most powerful country in the world. Have the Big Five collectively become the new superpower?
In a laudable judgment, the Allahabad High Court said that it is not mandatory to publish a notice for inter-faith marriages. When it is not needed for marriages under personal laws, why should it be for secular laws?