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THE ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACТ, 1986INTRODUCTIONSince the sixties concern over the state of environment has grown the world over. There has been substantive decline in environment quality due to increasing pollution, loss of vegetal cover and biological diversity, excessive concentrations of harmful chemicals in the ambient atmosphere and in food chains, growing risks of environmental accidents…
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1. Advocate stands in Loco Parentis to Client In Pandurang Dattatraya Khandekar vs Bar Council of Maharashtra [(1984) 2 SCC 556 : 1984 SCC (Cri) 335], the Supreme Court observed: “9. … An advocate stands in a loco parentis towards the litigants and it therefore follows that the client is entitled to receive disinterested, sincere…
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“I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.”~ Justice Felix Frankfurter “There can be no security where there is fear.”~ Justice Felix Frankfurter “Without a free press there can be no free society. That is axiomatic. However, freedom of the press is not an…
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Introduced in Parliament as The Specific Relief (Amendment) Bill, 2017, the said Bill was passed by both houses of Parliament and eventually became an Act, The Specific Relief (Amendment) Act, 2018. The Bill enumerated Objects and Reasons why the need was felt for necessary amendments in The Specific Relief Act, 1963. STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND…
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Supreme Court Judgment on Order VII Rule 11 and Order X CPC when no cause of action is there or when the plaint is manifestly vexatious, and meritless. Landmark SC Judgment by Justice Krishna Iyer. SUPREME COURT OF INDIAT. Arivandandam vs T. V. Satyapal & Another on 14 October, 1977PETITIONER:T. ARIVANDANDAM Vs.RESPONDENT:T. V. SATYAPAL &…
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“Laws, taken in their broadest meaning, are the necessary relations deriving from the nature of things; and in this sense, all beings have their laws: the divinity has its laws, the material world has its laws, then intelligences superior to man have their laws, the beasts have their laws, man has hislaws.” (Montesquieu 1989, 1.1)…
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INTRODUCTION A mature legal system endeavours to provide not merely a remedy for every right infringed, but also an adequate remedy. It was in this process of a search for effective remedial action that Specific Relief emanated from the Equity Courts in England. The principles built up by successive Chancellors of England in this branch…
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