News Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. 15 December 2014 The Bombay High Court refused to entertain a Writ filed by an advocate challenging the imposition of service tax on advocates. So the business clients of individual lawyers and law firms will continue to pay service tax as mandated by the Finance Act. 16 December 2014 In the case of Italian Marines who are accused of killing...

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Weekly Legal Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. 8th December 2014: The division bench of Supreme Court has struck down the legality of provisions in certain circulars which banned hookah smoking and sale of cigarettes in designated smoking areas. With this three High Court (Bombay, Gujarat and Madras) decisions is overturned. The illegality of circulars was found on the basis of it being...

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A Tribute to Justice Krishna Iyer

Author: Anjana Srinivasan, (2nd Year student of IIT Kharagpur Law School) Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer has been hailed as the “judicial conscience of India” and credited with the responsibility of “humanizing law in India”. He was a ceaseless crusader of human rights and had a passion for compassion. He was a rare combination of a legislator, a minster and a judge. Justice Krishna Iyer was born on November 15, 1915 to a leading criminal...

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Legal News Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. Updates: 23rd November to 07 November 2014. The Supreme Court has constituted a Special Bench christened ‘Social Justice Bench’ to achieve the Constitutional  goal of securing ‘social justice for the citizens of the country. The bench comprising of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice UU Lalit will hear all cases in the Supreme Court falling within...

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