The Supreme Court on Tuesday (5 January) added four more entry points on three national highways and one state highway to restrict commercial vehicles’ entry into the city while also banning heavy commercial vehicles not bound for the national capital.
Top legal luminary and former Supreme Court chief justice Sarosh Homi Kapadia passed away late on Monday (4 January 2016), a family member said. Kapadia was 68 and is survived by his wife Shernaaz, a Chartered Accountant son Hoshnar, and a daughter Tenaaz who works with a private company.
There is a vacancy of one post of a Full-Time Research Associate at MHRD IPR Chair at IIT Madras.
Airing anguish over callousness of the state that led to the drowning of 24 budding engineers of a Hyderabad college, the Himachal Pradesh High Court has also shown the humanitarian side of law by sharing the plight of the parents. It has virtually slammed the government in each and every hearing over the past 18 months of the accident about its cause and the steps it has initiated to prevent such incidents in the future.
Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Patiala, has launched a journal RGNUL Journal of Social Sciences which is bi-annual (a six monthly peer reviewed social sciences journal). There is a call for papers in this journal that is about to be released shortly. The Editorial Board of the Journal for Social Sciences includes well known academicians, researchers and professionals. The last date for the submission to the journal is 20th February 2016.
The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Saturday (2 January) ordered compensation of Rs.20 lakh each to the families of 24 students of a Hyderabad engineering college who were washed away in the Beas river last year, to be paid within eight weeks.
The world Journal of Legal Research and Development, ISSN: 2455-1589 is inviting submissions for its February edition. The Last date for sending in the submissions is 15th February 2016.
Punjabi University is organizing its second edition of Dhawani Manocha Memorial National Moot Court Competition 2016 which is to be held from 3rd March to 5th March 2016 at Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab.
The Debating Society of KIIT School of Law is organizing the third edition of the KSOL National Parliamentary Debate Competition, 2016 that is to be held from 4th March to 6th March, 2016. This Parliamentary Debate Competition is to be held in Bhubaneswar.
VIT School of Law is organizing its 1st edition of Moot Court Competition on International Law which is to be held from 4th to 6th March, 2016. The Moot problem would be based on International Law.
The Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Act, 2015, received the assent of the President of India on 26 December 2015, and has been notified in the Gazette of India on 29 December 2015. It shall be deemed to have come into force from the retrospective date of 15 June 2015, when the first Ordinance (of 2015) to amend the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, was promulgated. It is pertinent to point out that the said first Ordinance was then substituted by the second Ordinance to amend the N.I. Act. Now, with the notification of the aforesaid Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Act, 2015, which has been duly passed by the Parliament and has received the assent of the President, the Negotiable Instruments (Amendment) Second Ordinance, 2015, has been repealed. With this, the issue of territorial jurisdiction of filing of cheque bouncing cases has been finally settled.
The CBI on Wednesday (30 December) filed a case against former principal secretary of the Delhi government Sanjay Pratap Singh for amassing disproportionate assets worth Rs.6.14 crore, officials said.
The Society of Mooters, University Law College, Bangalore is organizing the 20th edition of All India Moot Court Competition, 2016. The competition is be to held from 26th February to 28th February 2016.
Eligibility:
Students who are presently studying LL.B. in the three year or the five year course in the institutions recognized by the Bar Council of India.
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The state government in Odisha is shortly going to constitute a Law Commission that will examine all the existing laws and suggest modifications, if necessary, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said on Tuesday.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (30 December 2015) asked the Delhi government to file reply on a plea seeking stay of the notification directing the city’s public schools to provide their buses for running as public transport from January 1 to 15 when the number of private vehicles on the capital’s roads will drastically fall. [Also see: Plea to stay operation of private school buses as public transport filed in Delhi HC.]
The Central Government today (30 December) issued directions, to all agencies, under Section 18 of Air Act, 1981, to control air pollution and improve the Ambient Air Quality in Delhi and National Capital Region (NCR). The directions have been issued to state governments of Delhi, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (30 December 2015) sought clarification from state government on giving exemption to single women drivers and two-wheeler users from odd-even scheme.
National Law School of India University in association with Trilegal is organizing the 9th National Law School and Trilegal International Arbitration Moot which is to be held between 20th to 22nd May, 2016.
The NLSTIAM was first held in the year 2008 and since then it is attempting to raise the bar of the Moot Court Competitions in India. This year, the NLSTIAM is attracting entries from all around the world.
The moot problem is expected to be based on Communications Law.
Schedule of the National Law School and Trilegal International Arbitration Moot, 2016 is as follows:
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The Jammu and Kashmir High Court on Tuesday (29 December) quashed the detention order of hardline separatist leader Masrat Alam under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA).
The Supreme Court on Tuesday (29 December 2015) upheld the Kerala government’s liquor policy restricting service and consumption of liquor at bars in five star hotels only, saying the policy of curbing public consumption of alcohol did not suffer from any arbitrariness. “We find no illegality or irrationality with the intention of the state to clamp down on public consumption of alcohol. So the policy does not suffer from the vice of arbitrariness,” said a bench of Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh in their judgement. The full judgment of the court can be seen online here.
