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Bar, Bench & Litigation
Ex-UPA law minister Veerappa Moily allegedly plagiarised portions of an article published under his name in The Hindu on 11 June 2015, which emerged had been in-part copy-pasted from a 26 May article published in the same paper as an op-ed by G Sampath, reported the News Minute.
The article has been pulled from its website while the newspaper is “investigating charges of plagiarism”, according to its website.
The Bar Council of India (BCI) in 2010 said it was in talks with government agency Software Technology Parks of India to design cost effective or free anti-plagiarism software for law schools and others.
Law firms
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas (SAM) partner Ameya Gokhale, who joined the firm only recently, is representing Nestle India on its judicial review of food safety watchdog FSSAI, which banned its Maggi instant noodles for allegedly containing too much lead and MSG
Rohatgi continues charge with 10-pages of bad collegium names but Khehar unimpressed by generalities
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Court reporter Avantika Mehta’s Biting Friends personal blog tells the story of Kishan Bahadur and other Nepali staff working in Delhi’s Patiala House district court, who have lost property (and often more), in the 25 April earthquake that levelled 90 per cent of buildings in places such as his hometown Pokhara.
His colleagues are trying to raise funds and so far have Rs 2,000 towards rebuilding a house that will cost many times that. But shockingly, neither Tis Hazari court, which has about 50 Nepalis working in it, Saket court with around 20 Nepalis, nor Patiala House Court with 18 to 20 Nepalis, have granted any of those affected compassionate leave.
Post worth reading in full, and if you “want to help Kishan and others like him, please go to the Court Staff Secretaries at the various district courts, and donate what you comfortably can to their cause”, writes Mehta.
Pre-law student
The postgraduate “first seat allocation” is now live on the clat.ac.in website.
Pre-law student
A writ petition has been filed in the Rajasthan high court’s Jaipur bench by a Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2015 applicant, claiming that at least 15 questions remained obviously incorrect or were impossible, after having asked senior counsel and other experts to try and solve them.
Law firms
The CEO of Dhir & Dhir, Manju Mohotra, who had joined the firm in 2012 from Singhania & Partners, has resigned.
Bar, Bench & Litigation
Calcutta high court advocates, following the local high court bar association’s majority resolution, have gone on strike for three days from today due to the heat, reported the PTI, with judges waiting in vain in chambers to handle cases without lawyers present despite relaxing lawyers’ dress code requirements to “white shirt and pants”.
Chief Justice Manjula Chellur “likened the attitude of a section of lawyers practising at the high court with that of schoolchildren” and that the strike was irritating and painful.
News
Kapil Mishra to be Delhi’s new Law and Tourism Minister replacing jailed Jitender Singh Tomar.
Corporate M&A
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas advised the PVR cinema chain on buying for Rs 500 crore DT Cinemas from DLF Utilities, which was advised by Luthra & Luthra.
According to its press release, Shardul Amarchand partners Akila Agrawal and Sourav Kanti De Biswas acted for PVR, with senior associate Megha Bhargava, and associates Ishita Khandelwal and Rishab Basu.
They were assisted by competition law partners Shweta Shroff Chopra and Aparna Mehra, senior associate Vivek Agarwal and associate Sakshi Sejwal, guided by managing partner Pallavi S Shroff and senior advisor European and competition law, John Handoll.
Long-standing Luthra client DLF was represented by Luthra partner Samir Dudhoria with associates Ankita Kansil and Akshay Jain. ,
The deal will give PVR an additional 29 screens with 6,000 seats in eight locations in the Delhi area and Chandigarh, in addition to its existing 467 screens in 105 locations.