Legislation by incorporation is a common legislative device employed by the legislature, where the legislature for convenience of drafting incorporates provisions from an existing statute by reference to that statute…
Lawyers are perceived to be their client’s agents. The law of agency may not strictly apply to the client – lawyer’s relationship as lawyers or agents, lawyers have certain authority…
Section 2(u) of CrPC defines “Public Prosecutor”. It reads as follows:- “(u) “Public Prosecutor” means any person appointed under Section 24, and includes any person acting under the directions of…
Order XVIII Rule 4 of the Civil Procedure Code provides for the mode of recording the evidence. The said provision reads as follows: “4. Recording of evidence.— (1) In every…
Bombay High Court Diary Introduction A division bench of Justice G.S. Patel & Justice Neela Gokhale was hearing a petition pertaining to the builder’s default in payment of transit compensation…
The hearing of a suit begins on production of evidence by the parties and suit gets culminated on pronouncement of the judgment. Order XVIII Under Order XVIII Rule 1 of…
Kerala High Court Diary The general rule in criminal cases is that all inquiries and trials should be conducted in the presence of the accused, the principle underlying being that…
S. 2(g) of the Code defines the expression ‘inquiry‘ as meaning “every inquiry, other than a trial, conducted under this Code by a Magistrate or Court.” Chapter II of the…
The question was raised in the case of ‘Alok Kumar Roy v. Dr. S.N. Sarma, (1967)’. An appeal was preferred before Supreme Court by special leave and it was urged…
This was the case of former Chief Minister of A.R. Antulay, who was the Chief Ministers of Maharashtra till 12 Jan, 1982. While he was yet holding the office of…
