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  • The appellate court should not interfere with the acquittal order passed by the trial court merely because two views are possible in a given case. “38. It is a well-established principle of law, consistently re-iterated and followed by this Court is that while dealing with a judgment of acquittal, an appellate court must consider the…

  • STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONSThe rapid expansion in industrial infrastructure and transportation sectors and increasing urbanisation in recent years have given rise to new pressures on our natural resources and environment. There is a commensurate increase in environment related litigation, involving multidisciplinary issues, pending in varisous courts and other authorities. The risk to human health…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • “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…

  • 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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