The Supreme Court of India, in the case of Javed Ahmad Hajam Vs. State of Maharashtra, ruled in favor of the appellant, quashing the FIR against him under Section 153-A...
Jurisprudence
The case of Mohammed Khalid and Anr. Vs. State of Telangana involves the appeal of individuals convicted under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The High Court's judgment affirming...
When a decision of a coordinate Bench of same High Court is brought to the notice of the bench, it is to be respected and is binding subject to right...
Haryana Vs. Yunus: For trial under Section 302 IPC, if a witness is branded as untrustworthy having allegedly twisted the facts and made contrary statement, it is not safe to...
Rejection of Plaint-Test for exercising the power under Order 7 Rule 11 is that if the averments made in the plaint are taken in entirety, in conjunction with the documents...
Bail Law-Even if the allegation is one of grave economic offence, it is not a rule that bail should be denied in every case
Union and States are duty-bound to completely eradicate manual scavenging (SC-20/10/2023)
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The Union Govt should take appropriate measures and frame policies, and issue directions, to all statutory bodies, including corporations, railways, cantonments, as well as agencies under its control, to ensure...
To determine the difference between the concept of laches and acquiescence is that, in a case involving mere laches, the principle of estoppel would apply to all the defences that...
Once there is no primary evidence available, the trial as a whole stands vitiated (SC-13/10/2023)
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In the absence of any material on record to establish that the samples of the seized contraband were drawn in the presence of the Magistrate and that the inventory of...
The categories of “unique circumstances” that were outlined in Gladue take on meaning by reference to vastly different cultures, histories, experiences, legal traditions, programs, and justice initiatives across Canada. Its...
After examining the historical origins of the concepts of Rule of Law, Rechtsstaat and Etat de droit, the report looked at these concepts in positive law. In international law, they...
Party government indeed means nothing better than party trickery to those who furnish the entire wealth of the country. Tories and Liberals only vie with one another as to which...
The jurists who believe in natural law seem to me to be in that naïve state of mind that accepts what has been familiar and accepted by them and their...
The growth of education is an increase in the knowledge of measure. To use words familiar to logic and to science, it is a substitution of quantitative for qualitative judgments....
The question is how far the law ought to go in aid of the writers. In the case of contracts, to begin with them, it is obvious that they express...
Two other types of liability, contractual and relational, must receive brief notice. The former has long done valiant service for the will theory. Not only liability arising from legal transactions...
A good check upon that sentiment of power-worship which still misleads us by magnifying the prerogatives of constitutional governments as it once did those of monarchs. Let men learn that...
, What constitutes the law? You will find some text writers telling you that it is something different from what is decided by the courts of Massachusetts or England, that...
I answer that, Law is a rule and measure of acts, whereby man is induced to act or is restrained from acting: for "lex" [law] is derived from "ligare" [to...
The lesson should be clear to every American: Judges matter. And that means the selection of good judges should be a priority for all of us. I appreciate that many...
LawLaw Positive command of sovereign or divine. One can be ruled either by a Statute, a Statue, or a Statement. Legislation is the rule-making process by a political or religious...
one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras. They differ in this: that one thinks the god whom he...
The word injustice relates to some Law: Injury to some Person, as well as some Law. For what's unjust, is unjust to all; but there may an injury be done,...
If justice be not a natural principle, then there is no such thing as injustice; and all the crimes of which the world has been the scene, have been no...
It is to be observed that the right of property is equally invaded, by obstructing the free employment of the means of production, as by violently depriving the proprietor of...
My subject is not Capital Punishment in particular, but that theory of punishment in general which the controversy showed to be almost universal among my fellow-countrymen. It may be called...
That idea—"the wrong-doer deserves punishment because he might have acted otherwise," in spite of the fact that it is nowadays so cheap, obvious, natural, and inevitable, and that it has...
In despotic governments there are no laws; the judge himself is his own rule. There are laws in monarchies; and, where these are explicit, the judge conforms to them; where...
Beside the sense or instinct which man possesses in common with brutes, he has the advantage of acquired knowledge; and thence arises a second tie, which brutes have not. Mankind...
It is not only the common interest of mankind that crimes should not be committed, but that crimes of every kind should be less frequent, in proportion to the evil...