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NUJS Kolkata

17 September 2013

New Guwahati CJ Goel: Guwahati HC Chief Justice AK Goel will replace Orissa HC chief justice C Nagappan after Nagappan is being elevated to the Supreme Court this week [Orissa Diary]

NUJS sexual harassment: NUJS Kolkata’s Internal Complaints Committee has belatedly submitted an interim report to the law school’s executive council about the sexual harassment complaint of one staff member against another. The EC has now asked the committee for the final findings within a few weeks [Bar & Bench]

09 September 2013

vqf3iekfA Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) 2012 examinee lost out on a Nalsar Hyderabad seat due to a mistake in last year’s question paper, the Delhi high court has held.

05 August 2013

NUJS Cal The NUJS Kolkata staffer who has been on leave since another member of staff accused him of sexual harassment in June, could not be found by police.

29 July 2013

The NUJS Kolkata employee’s internal sexual harassment complaint against another staffer has become a criminal matter, after she filed a First Information Report (FIR) with the police alleging sexual harassment, physical assault and criminal intimidation by threatening to attack her with acid.

25 July 2013

NUJS Professor of law Manoj Kumar Sinha has been appointed as director of the Indian Law Institute (ILI) Delhi.

22 July 2013

NUJSComplaints included declining faculty standards and opaque, apparently arbitrary decision-making from the top.

19 July 2013

NUJSNUJS Kolkata graduate Adreeka Pandey and assistant professor Lovely Dasgupta have amicably settled their differences.

17 July 2013

NUJS Kolkata will hold an inquiry on Thursday (18 July) into a sexual harassment complaint made by a member of staff in the vice chancellor’s office against another staffer, who is understood to be on leave but has not resigned.

The victim alleged in June that she was receiving lewd emails and objectionable proposals from a senior staffer in the registrar’s department for over a year.

After she filed a written complaint to the VC, an “internal counseling committee” was constituted by the EC which has fixed Thursday as its first date of hearing, confirmed NUJS registrar Dr Surojit Mukhhopadhyay.

16 July 2013

NUJS: Warning NUJS Kolkata has closed its investigation into a student’s allegation of physical assault by a faculty member.

27 June 2013

 

Ramlu recruits139 students from 6 national law schools find 87 new homes.

20 June 2013

NUJS Kolkata has received an internal complaint of sexual harassment from one of its vice chancellor’s (VC) staff members, against a senior employee in the registrar’s department, reports the Times of India.

The victim has reportedly alleged that she was receiving “lewd emails and objectionable proposals” from the accused for over a year, had complained to the administration and no action was taken, and has now filed a written complaint to the VC on the advice of the registrar to whom she had verbally complained.

NUJS has set up a committee comprising two senior faculty members, a senior non-teaching staff, and a teacher from Jadavpur University English department, to investigate the complaint. The accused has been suspended.

The accused told the paper yesterday that he had already resigned, and NUJS VC Ishwara Bhatt confirmed that he had received a call from the accused stating this intent, though the registrar said that he had received no resignation from the accused yet.

NUJS registrar Surajit Mukhopadhyay said:

“[…]This is the first time that such a controversy has happened in the university and we have taken very serious note of the matter. If the accused is proved guilty, strictest action according to the law of the land will be taken.”

Bhatt told the Times that NUJS would do everything to “uphold the dignity” of the complainant.

12 June 2013

CLAT preferencesAt least 50 CLAT 2013 candidates were reshuffled to different colleges two weeks after the first results were first released.

03 June 2013

Clat preferences Nuals Kochi drops behind RMLNLU Lucknow and CNLU Patna but seven oldest national law schools stay top.

28 May 2013

Deplorable score: The Hindu’s V Venkatesan attacks former SC judge Cyriac Joseph’s suitability for the National Human Rights Commission based on the number of judgments authored by him being “deplorably and consistently below average”. He writes: “In the history of the Supreme Court, some judges are celebrated merely because of their salient contributions to the interpretation of the law and the Constitution, and not because they wrote more judgments than their colleagues. Yet, the number of judgments written by a judge cannot be dismissed as being irrelevant […]”

NUJS bribe hackers: NUJS Kolkata students Monalisa Saha and Sreerupa Chowdhury won a $30,000 grant from the World Justice Project for their website Bribe Hackers which encourages victims of the offence of bribery to report their complaint online so that the Bribe Hacker team can investigate it and publicise those found guilty of the offence on their site [DNA India]

Simple living, high disposal: Madras High Court justice Chandru settles more than 96,000 cases in less than seven years. The Milli Gazette lauds him for declining to have a farewell in his honour on retirement, and personally bidding a goodbye to companion judges, court staff and others by going around he court premises on his last day

Raveendran for NBSA: Former SC justice RV Raveendran succeeds late justice JS Verma in becoming the chairman of the News Broadcasting Standards Authority (NBSA), the self regulatory initiative of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA). Raveendran retired from the SC on 14 October 2011 [Indian Television]

Comic relief: Network 18 owned TV channel Comedy Central has been prohibited from broadcasting for 10 days starting Saturday, after an inter-ministerial committee (IMC) set up by the information and broadcasting ministry found that several of its shows carried "obscene dialogues and vulgar words," which appeared to "offend good taste." [India Today]

FDI in AI: Delhi lawyer Ankit Jain has complained to the Competition Commission against the government allowing FDI in aviation but not in Indian Airlines. “The government is pumping in thousands of crores into AI to keep it alive and yet denying it even an outside chance of getting funding, management expertise of a foreign airline that may help it turn around,” said Jain [TOI]

Unpromoted women lawyers: Former Clifford Chance lawyer Stephanie Haladner said: “said: "There is an unconscious bias that is stopping women from getting promoted in law firms. […]One other issue for women that constantly comes up is that women tend not to be as good at promoting themselves within an organisation.” [Telegraph]