We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world.
Updates: 03th January to 11th January 2015:
In
a major move the Supreme Court has revised rules regarding its selection of
judicial clerks which allows non-NLU students to apply. The new rules, published on the Supreme
Court’s website, specifies that applicants can come from any law college
accredited by the Bar Council of India (BCI).
The
President of India promulgated the
Citizenship (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 on January 06, 2015 with immediate
effect which provides for the following amendments to the Indian Citizen Act,
1955:
•
At present one year continuous stay in India is mandatory for Indian
Citizenship which is relaxed stating that if the Central Government is
satisfied that special circumstances exist, it may, after recording such circumstances
in writing, relax the period of twelve months specified upto a maximum of
thirty days which may be in different breaks.
•
To enable for registration as Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) by a minor, whose
parents are Indian Citizens.
•
To enable for registration as Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) by a child or a
grand-child or a great grandchild of such a citizen.
•
To enable for registration as Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) by such spouse of
a citizen of India or spouse of an OCI registered under Section 7A and whose
marriage has been registered and subsisted for a continuous period of not less
than two years immediately preceding the presentation of the application under
this section.
•
In respect of existing PIO card holders central government may, by notification
in Official Gazette, specify a particular date from which all existing PIO card
holders will be deemed to be OCI card holders.
The
Delhi High court dismissed a plea against Amir Khan starrer movie- PK, holding
that there was no substance in the allegations leveled against the movie, in
the PIL filed by Ajay Gautam. The Court also observed that the provision for
appeal against the CBFC’s decision on certification of films was restricted to
film-makers. Mr. Gautam had alleged that the movie defamed and maligned the
Hindu religion and culture. It was also contended that the movie hurt the
religious sentiments of Hindus.
In
a submission made before the Apex Court, the Central Government has said that
it wants to stop NGOs that do not submit their balance sheets of last three
years. The Central Government represented by the Additional Solicitor General P
S Patwalia submitted to the Bench headed by Chief Justice of India HL Dattu
that the submission of balance sheets by the NGOs must be a condition precedent
for grant of funds.
The
Supreme Court has published the in-house mechanism adopted by it in 1999 to
deal with complaints against the judges of the Supreme Court and High Court in
its website. This has been published pursuant to its judgment in the sexual
harassment case involving a sitting judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. In
the above judgment the Court relied on the in-house mechanism and had scrapped the
investigation initiated by the Madhya Pradesh Chief Justice on the ground that
it was not in compliance with the in-house mechanism.
Siemens,
Dong Energy and London Array – the world's biggest operating offshore wind farm
– are all heading for a UK court showdown with German turbine-maker Enercon
over alleged patent infringement of 'Storm Control' technology developed by the
latter's founder, Aloys Wobben. The Wobben Properties lawsuit names Siemens,
Dong and turbine-installation specialist A2Sea as defendants. The 630MW London Array – which is already
using 175 3.6MW Siemens turbines – is the subject of a similar but separate
action, and is set to join the other defendants in contesting the case at a
High Court hearing in London, currently scheduled for June. Enercon had
previously successfully sued turbine OEM Gamesa in Spain over the 'storm
control' patent, a verdict which is currently being appealed.
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