Supreme Court Justice BV Nagarathna on Saturday stressed that the independence of the Bar was essential to a constitutional democracy and urged lawyers to guard it. She also called upon Bar Councils, whether at the Central or State level, to…
Speaking at the 13th convocation of National Law University Delhi, Supreme Court judge Justice Ujjal Bhuyan stressed that law universities should be places where students learn to think independently. He said universities should not simply pass existing knowledge from one…
The Court asked the committee to give its interim report on alleged excessive police force and molestation of female protesters at the earliest. The Supreme Court has constituted a five-member High-Powered Enquiry Committee (HPEC) to independently examine allegations of violence…
The Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform (CJAR) has called for the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against former Allahabad high court judge Yashwant Varma, from whose official residence a huge amount of cash was discovered after a…
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia was responsible for a pattern of human-rights violations in Crimea after Russia took control of the peninsula in 2014. The case was brought by Ukraine and was described as the first…
The United Kingdom Supreme Court unanimously ruled that, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, the legal meaning of the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ refers to biological sex. The decision came from a case concerning whether a person who…
A US trade court ruled that President Donald Trump’s 10 percent tariff on most imports was unlawful. The tariff had been introduced as a replacement for an earlier tariff programme after the US Supreme Court had rejected Trump’s previous attempt…
A United Nations Commission of Inquiry has said that Israeli security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza and that the conduct it examined supports its conclusion that genocide is continuing. The commission said it had reasonable grounds to find…
Supreme Court judge Justice Sandeep Mehta has written to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant seeking action against Rajasthan High Court acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma. In letters dated August 2, 10 and 17, Justice Mehta raised several concerns…
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