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Bar Council Of India Announces Three-Year Moratorium On Establishment Of New Centers Of Legal Education In India
The Bar Council of India (BCI) has framed the Rules of Legal Education, Moratorium (Three-Year Moratorium) with respect to Centers of Legal Education, 2025, which effectively puts a bar on establishment or granting of approval to any new Center of Legal Education in India.The Regulation, which is prescribed to remain in force for three years, further bars introduction of any new section,...
Supreme Court Daily Round-Up : August 13, 2025
Links of today's stories :Supreme Court Directs District-Wise Survey To Ascertain POSH Act Compliance By Employers'Gender-Neutral' Often Misunderstood As 'Gender Equality' : Supreme CourtSupreme Court Cancels Bail Of Olympian Wrestler Sushil Kumar In Murder Case, Directs Surrender In A Week'I Will Look Into It' : CJI BR Gavai On Plea Relating To Stray DogsSIT Flags Flaws In NOIDA's...
Supreme Court Deletes Stay On Telangana HC Order Quashing Nomination Of 2 MLCs
The Supreme Court today modified its earlier interim order in the dispute over two Telangana Legislative Council nominations under the Governor's quota, deleting the stay on the High Court judgment that had quashed the nominations of Prof. M Kodanda Rama Reddy and Amer Ali Khan.A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta said the August 14, 2024 order, passed in pleas by BRS...
'Directions To Shift Stray Dogs Impractical & Illegal' : NGO Files Plea In Supreme Court Seeking Recall Of Order
An application seeking a recall as well as a stay on the direction on relocation of stray dogs from Delhi NCR has been filed before the Supreme Court. The application filed on August 12, a day after the bench of Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice R Mahadevan issued directions to the authorities in the National Capital Territory of Delhi to immediately start picking up stray dogs from all...
Non-Signatories Have No Right To Attend Arbitration Proceedings, Their Presence Breaches Confidentiality : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (Aug. 13) observed that a party non-signatory to an arbitration agreement cannot participate in the arbitration proceedings, as the signatories to an arbitration agreement are only entitled to remain present in the arbitration proceedings. The bench comprising Justices PS Narasimha and AS Chandurkar set aside the Delhi High Court's decision, which allowed...
Is Sex Education Provided In Higher Secondary Schools? Supreme Court Asks UP Govt
The Supreme Court sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh Government about the inclusion of Sex Education in the school curriculum in the higher secondary schools of the state. The bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kumar and SC Sharma said :“We are of the opinion that an additional counter affidavit/reply would be required to enable the State to inform us as to whether sex education...
Bihar SIR | ECI Removing Searchable Draft Roll From Its Website Shows Malafides : Prashant Bhushan To Supreme Court
In the pleas challenging Election Commission's special intensive revision of Bihar's electoral rolls, Advocate Prashant Bhushan alleged before the Supreme Court today that the ECI has indulged in a malafide exercise by arbitrarily deleting many electors without giving proper reasons and concealing data from the public.In particular, the counsel claimed that the Election Commission...
Delhi Stray Dog Matter Shifted To 3-Judge Bench Of Supreme Court; Hearing Tomorrow
The suo motu case taken on the stray dog issue, in which a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court on August 11 passed directions to relocate the stray dogs in Delhi-NCR to dog shelters, has now been shifted to a 3-judge bench.A bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath, Justice Sandeep Mehta and Justice NV Anjaria will hear the matter tomorrow.The directions to remove the stray dogs were passed by...
Supreme Court Seeks Union's Response On Challenge To Amendment Allowing Executive Magistrates To Validate Delayed Birth/Death Certificates
The Supreme Court, on August 12, issued a notice in a matter relating to the power to decide on the delayed registration of births and deaths after one year. Through a 2023 amendment under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, the power to issue the delayed registration of births and deaths after one year has been shifted from a Judicial Magistrate to an Executive Magistrate.Before...
Will Take Up West Bengal Voter Roll Revision Issue Later, Says Supreme Court In Bihar SIR Matter
During the hearing of the Bihar SIR matter, the Supreme Court today said that it is not going to take up the issue regarding the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal for the time being."Bengal can wait, nothing is happening right now", a bench comprising Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said.Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who was appearing for...
Bihar SIR| Supreme Court Refers To S.21(3) RP Act; Asks If ECI Doesn't Have Residual Power For Special Intensive Revision
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (August 13) asked the petitioners challenging the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar's electoral rolls whether the ECI does not have the residual power to conduct such an exercise in a manner it deemed fit.A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi in this context referred to Section 21(3) of the Representation of the...