Intellectual property cases are exempt from the recently initiatiated process of transfer of small cases from the Delhi high court to Delhi’s district courts, reported Mint . Delhi high court justices GS Sistani and SD Sehgal gave a temporary order in favour of the Asian Patent Association, which ha...

Special courts to hear corruption cases are on the Delhi government’s agenda, reported *Business Standard . The government will consult Delhi high court’s chief justice to constitute courts to hear cases under the Janlokpal Bill 2015 and Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 to dispose of these cases at...

Vodafone has, through senior advocate K Vishwanathan, challenged the telecom authority’s new rules which deprive it of charges paid to it by other operators on outgoing calls from their network to the Vodafone network, reported The Indian Express . In its challenge to the Telecom Regulatory Authorit...

In a setback to Cipla, the Delhi high court on Friday held that the Indian drug major was infringing Swiss pharmaceutical company Hoffman-La Roche’s patent in lung cancer drug erlotinib hydrochloride, sold under the name of Tarceva. A division bench of Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Mukta Gup...

The Delhi high court on Friday asked its registry to file reply on a plea which sought to quash an order directing transfer of all pending cases up to the value of Rs 1 crore to subordinate courts. The plea filed by Asian Patent Association sought stay of transfer of cases which fall under the categ...

The Delhi high court began transferring all cases of value lesser than Rs 1 crore, and all non-commercial disputes of value between Rs 1 crore to Rs 2 crore, to Delhi’s lower courts, yesterday onward. Cases in which judgment has already been reserved by the high court will remain with the high court...

Flipkart and Snapdeal, not Amazon but its subsidiary Junglee, and 18 other e-commerce websites will face investigation for possibly violating Indian foreign direct investment (FDI) laws, as per yesterday’s Delhi high court order, reported Mint . Advocate Rishi Agarwala, acting for the All India Foot...

The Delhi high court on Friday dismissed a plea seeking a law to prohibit cow slaughter and sale of beef and its products across the national capital region (NCR). A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath dismissed the plea saying the petition is “misconceived” and the Delh...

With the Central Information Commission facing a huge pendency of cases, the Delhi high court on Friday directed the centre to finalise the selection of three central information commissioners within six weeks. “The selection process that has already been commenced vide notifications dated 25 Februa...

The Delhi high court on Friday directed app-based cab service provider Uber to file an affidavit giving details of the diesel cabs it has phased out within the national capital. Justice Manmohan, who remarked that there was no “phasing out of diesel-based cabs by Uber”, also asked the firm to also p...

Justice TS Thakur, the seniormost judge after Supreme Court Chief Justice HL Dattu, will become the next Chief Justice of India and would be at the helm of the country’s judiciary till 4 January, 2017. Chief Justice Dattu has recommended the name of Justice Thakur, being the seniormost judge after h...

AZB & Partners advised former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin and his family on their acquisition of a minority stake in ANI Technologies which runs taxi app Ola. Ola was advised by IndusLaw. AZB Delhi partner Anil Kasturin and senior associate Jaishree Tolani acted for Sarin who, as Mint reported, is ...

Khaitan & Co acted for Reliance Telecommunications in its acquisition of the wireless business of J Sagar Associates (JSA)-advised Sistema Shyam Teleservices for Rs 2,100 crore of equity, while also taking on Rs 2,400 crore of Sistema’s debt to the government.

In a setback to the Arvind Kejriwal government, the Delhi high court on Friday quashed the executive decision to get the books of accounts of the three private power distribution companies (discoms) in the city-capital scrutinised by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG).

Taxi aggregators Uber and Ola cabs plan to get licenses to comply with latest government guidelines reported the Economic Times . Since the two start-ups are not governed by the Motor Vehicles Act 1988 or any of the state acts on vehicles, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways last week releas...

The Delhi high court on Wednesday allowed app-based cab service providers to run diesel-run taxis for point-to-point transportation here, provided they shift from diesel to CNG by 1 March, 2016. Justice Manmohan on the request of Uber India granted time to app-based companies to shift from diesel-ba...

The Delhi high court on Tuesday made it clear that it will allow to only CNG-based taxi vehicles to run in the national capital and asked Uber India to inform when it can replace the diesel cabs with these.

Taxi operator, under fire, fires back as Ola can’t seem to get a break…

The Delhi high court heard first arguments on Monday in the infringement claim by the US footwear company against two Indian rivals that have released similar plastic clog-style shoes. Calling it a case of obvious imitation, Akhil Sibal, […] counsel representing Crocs India said, “I am in the market...

After a telecom company whose phone users are suffering from frequent call drops complained to the Delhi high court that the call drops were because 130 of its mobile towers had been “wrongly” sealed, the court has ordered that mobile towers erected after valid cellular licenses be de-sealed, report...