Legally Wired
Legally Wired
Ramalinga Raju and six other accused in Satyam scam denied bail as plea of extended trial fails to impress judge [HT]
Mulla & Mulla to appeal against Kerala High Court fixing compensation of Rs 75 lakh for Mangalore air crash victims, citing wrong interpretation of Montreal convention [The National]
SC begins hearing into $2bn tax claim on Vodafone, Harish Salve challenges IT Department’s jurisdiction saying transfer of control of "downstream companies by the two foreign companies cannot be a basis (for I-T Dept) to exercise jurisdiction" [Law et al. news]
Ratan Tata denies 2G bribe allegations after criminal lawyer Majid Menon defending Swan Telecom implies Tata hospital donation like a bribe [TOI / Mint]
SC reserved verdict on the constitutional validity of the Right to Education Act [The Hindu]
An NGO via CCI claims Facebook “can potentially engage in anti-competitive and unfair business practices” through e-currency [The Hindu]
Bombay High Court reprimands CBI for delays in probing Adarsh Society missing files controversy, expressing angst over grant of bail to four accused due to CBI’s late filing of chargesheet [ET]
Writ petition to challenge death sentence for drug dealer rejected [DNA]
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- 57,179 cases pending in SC as of 30 June; on 1 May 2011 only 54,547 cases were pending. [Supreme Court / PIB]
- Law ministry to examine deal for Mukesh Ambani Mumbai residential tower, may get referred to CBI [Mint] (via @SonyBhatt)
- Bail denied to three company promoters in CWG scam [ET]
- Men in Black ‘Follow the Money’ as CJI Kapadia battles fight against graft [Bloomberg]
- Court summons Shilpa Shetty, Richard Gere for lip-kiss in 2007 TV show on AIDS: indecent act and crime under IPC hurts Bhojpuri community [TOI]
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- Rabinder Singh of Matrix Chambers becomes England’s first Sikh High Court judge [The Lawyer]
- SC finally lays down guidelines for grant of ex parte orders: only in “exceptional” cases and courts to be “very careful”. [SpicyIP] Will this also prevent speedy remedies for those who can afford expensive lawyers?
- File sharing sites fire from Reliance BIG, serves “John Doe orders” on Indian ISPs [The Hindu]
- Sikkim CJ Dinakaran post resignation claims he is victim of conspiracy [Economic Times]
- High Court writ gets Forest Dept to increase Karnataka bamboo cover for elephants [IBNLive]
- Satyam’s Ramalinga Raju and others seek bail after deadline for trial lapses [Mint]
- Casual workers not entitled to ‘equal pay for equal work’, says High Court [Economic Times]
- JSA’s Somsekhar Sundaresan is not impressed with new takeover code [Business Standard]
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- SEBI’s revised Takeover Code hikes public offer threshold to 25 per cent, raises minimum offer size from 20 to 26% but short of 100% [Mint]
- Takeover Code commentary and disagreements: Khaitan’s Arindam Ghosh, Kotak’s Sourav Mallik, Finsec’s Sandeep Parekh and Amarchand’s Cyril Shroff [Moneycontrol, 3 pages or video]
- “32 years later not much has changed”: Undertrial prisoners still fall through the cracks [Law and Other Things]
- Kasab appeals death penalty to Supreme Court [NDTV]
- Gurgaon district court records statement that two women are in same-sex marriage [TOI]
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- Adarsh Society writ to defreeze accounts for paying favourite senior lawyers rejected by Bombay High Court: “Nowhere has the SC held that right to legal representation includes right to counsel of one's choice…” [TOI] (Adarsh has used Vidhii Partners in the past, for example)
- Pak foreign minister justifies slow 26/11 trial her country, draws parallels with Indian judicial delays [India Today]
- Satyam trial unlikely to finish by SC fixed deadline of 31 July with defence still cross-examining witnesses after CBI adopting measure to plug in delays [Mint]
- Cabinet approves govt Lokpal draft over Anna’s, excluding PM from purview; Khursheed fixes 7 year limitation period with bill to hit Parliament monsoon session starting this Monday as Anna’s hunger strike threat looms [NDTV]
- Delhi airport regulator caps decibel levels following high court’s directive on resident’s plea [Indian Express]
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- The epic Vodafone tax case to hit Supreme Court in two weeks, Voda AGM told [totaltelecom]
- Tata Nano land judge recuses self after 15 hearings on personal grounds, Justice I P Mukherjee takes over [TOI]
- SC rejects Dinakaran WP, allows Forum for Judicial Accountability to passively monitor Dinakaran proceedings and assist counsel [The Hindu]
- Himachal district court move to Rs 25 cr judicial complex delayed by HC [Indian Express]
- 2G Raja continues offensive: after PM and home min, now points finger at AG Vahanvati [TOI]
- CBI threatened by alleged Dara Singh fake encounter cops, seek witness protection [Indian Express]
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- A fake Patna High Court website has scammed Rs 7,000 from applicants for fake high court jobs; Police now investigating [Times of India]
- Raja ups the stakes and drags PM, Chidambaram into heart of 2G case, says they were fully aware of sale of licence-holding companies to foreigners [NDTV]
- “Bhaag bhaag DK Bhose, DK Bhose”: Law grad’s Allahabad PIL against Delhi Belly’s potentially rude hit song being played anywhere outside of a cinema; notice being issued [NDTV] [see also Legally India’s earlier coverage of DSK’s involvement in the many disputes against the film]
- Supreme Court watches two-hour video of Baba Ramdev supporters getting teargassed; Home minister not party to case [The Hindu]
- New Companies Bill will come up before the Monsoon session of Parliament, claims Moily in new garb as corporate affairs minister. [Business Standard]
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Round up of the latest and most legal from around the web.
- Supreme Court: Don’t open our judgments on flimsy grounds [The Hindu]
- Deadline for Greater Noida ‘hi tech court’ with video conferencing and servers was March 2010, now slated to be done in two months [Times of India]
- “A Challenge, An Opportunity!” AZB’s Abhijit Joshi talks of motivation and his philosophy behind law firm management following his appointment as AZB CEO. [Moneycontrol.com]
- P&H student files writ v BCI against 20 year age-limit for applying to 5-year LLB courses [Indian Express]
- Supreme Court hikes 1996 chemical company pollution damages from Rs 37 crore to Rs 200 crore for failing to pay [Economic Times]
- New independent environmental regulator for granting industrial environmental clearances [Business Standard]