The liability of the owner of a vehicle for damages for any injury caused by the negligence of his driver, arises not under the Act, but under the common law of torts and under the Fatal Accidents Act. As...
Day: February 18, 2019
Whether the damage or death by negligence is caused by the use of a motor vehicle or in some other manner, does not make any difference to the principle of liability in tort. Prior to the insertion of Section...
Employees Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 — Section 14B Determination of damages is a quasi-judicial function or a judicial function and just as under the law of contract and the law of torts the courts are not...
The determination of just compensation would be guided by the principles in the Law of Torts

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The Motor Vehicles Act does not provide for any method of determination of the compensation. In Section 110-B it is provided that the Tribunal is to determine the just compensation. The language leaves no room for doubt that the...
Any right of action dies with the person. It is now the settled law of this Court in the decision reported in ILR 1972 Cut 275 (Oriental Fire and General Insurance Company Limited v. (Mrs. Kamal Kamini Das and...
Under the Government of India Act, 1935, the position relating to the Civil Services of the Crown in India is contained in a number of general provisions in Chapter, II of Part X thereof. Section 240(1) reiterates what was...
Sir Arthur Trevor Harries Chief Justice The Calcutta High Court Order A full and thorough enquiry was held by Mr. Justice K.C. Das Gupta into the charges made against Sri P.K. Bose the Registrar of the Original Side of...
311. Dismissal, removal or reduction in rank of persons employed in civil capacities under the Union or a State (1) No person who is a member of a civil service of the Union or an all India service or...
Under the Constitution of India 1950: Article 289 and its complementary Article 285 read as under:- “289 (1) The property and income of a State shall be exempt from Union taxation. (2) Nothing in clause (1) shall prevent the...
1. The Estate Office was first established in 1922 as a part of the Central Public Works Department. It was then placed under a Superintending Engineer and dealt with the allotment of Government owned houses, their maintenance and the...
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