Senior advocate Indu Malhotra prays for setting up sexual harassment complaint committees in courts, to SC justices Gyan Sudha Mishra and TS Thakur. Points out that SC guidelines in the 1997 Visakha judgement need to be implemented in courts because harassment of women is a ‘serious issue’. The bench was hearing a male advocate’s plea against conviction for slapping a female lawyer in Delhi HC [HT]
32 Madurai law college students get suspended after allegedly locking college principal in staff room for two hours. Students were allegedly protesting against opening of private law colleges and were demanding free laptops for the past one week [TOI] [correction: an earlier version of this story had an error with respect to the timing of the alleged lock-up. We regret the error, which has now been corrected.]
The Competition Commission of India posts first volume of its quarterly newsletter ‘Fair Play’. Newsletter includes updates on enforcement, advocacy initiatives, and CCI’s international efforts including engagements with the International Competition Network [ICN Blog][Fair Play Vol I]
Bombay HC on July 11 held that the IT company is a ‘factory’ under the Employees State Insurance Act, because software development is a manufacturing process. Nishith Desai Associates lawyers Veena Gopalakrishnan and Vikram Shroff comment that applying manufacturing labour laws to the IT sector should not be widened, as it could limit the flexibility for the sector if some other labour laws start being extended. [NDA Hotline]
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Surely you can do better than "Sex Harassment in Court: Snr Adv prays for Vishaka compliance after slapping".
Quality...Quality...Quality.
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