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Online messaging platform, WhatsApp on Thursday informed the Madras High Court today that its encryption software is such that it is not possible to track down the original sender of a message,...
View ArticleMadras HC hears challenge to constitutionality of GST Appellate Tribunals...
The Madras High Court is hearing a batch of writ petitions challenging the constitutionality of the GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT). The petition filed in this regard by the Revenue Bar Association...
View ArticleEssential reading for Indian artists: The Madras HC’s judgment in the...
While putting an end to a long-standing copyright dispute involving music maestro Ilaiyaraja, the Madras High Court recently made pertinent observations regarding the allocation of copyright when it...
View ArticlePre-Trial Injunctions in Defamation cases can only be resorted to in rarest...
The Madras High Court recently had occasion to reiterate that pre-trial injunctions gagging the freedom of speech can only be granted in the rarest cases. The Court highlighted this while dismissing a...
View ArticleJustice KK Sasidharan recuses from Vedanta’s plea to reopen Thoothukudi...
Justice KK Sasidharan of the Madras High Court today recused from hearing the plea filed by Vedanta to reopen its Sterlite copper smelting plant at Thoothukudi. The matter was listed today before a...
View ArticleBail cannot be conditional upon deposits beyond financial capacity of...
The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that bail cannot be made conditional upon heavy deposits beyond the financial capacity of an applicant for bail. A Bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi...
View ArticleMadras HC orders disciplinary action against 7 advocates, condemns...
The Madras High Court on Tuesday had some harsh words about the pernicious field of motor accident claims practice while directing disciplinary action against seven advocates accused of filing...
View ArticleLawyers have no right to be appointed as judges of GST Appellate Tribunals,...
Arguments in the challenge to the constitutionality of GST Appellate Tribunals under the Central and State GST Acts continued yesterday before the Madras High Court. Lawyers have no right to be...
View ArticleAmend Section 174 CrPC to mandate inquiry into “Man missing” cases: Madras HC
The Madras High Court has directed the Central government to respond to a proposal to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973 to statutorily require investigation into “man missing” cases. A...
View ArticleRecalling witnesses through casual invocation of Section 311 CrPC must be...
The Madras High Court recently emphasised that trial proceedings cannot be prolonged unduly under the guise of recalling a witness. Expressing disapproval for the casual invocation of Section 311 of...
View ArticleApprehension of Mobile Phone Tower Radiation without scientific backing,...
The debate over cell phone tower radiation recently made its way into a Madras High Court judgement prompted by a writ petition filed by Reliance Jio. The case before Justice N Anand Venkatesh emerged...
View ArticleWhy has the Madras High Court been overlooked in appointments to the Supreme...
NL Rajah The last appointment of a judge of the Madras High Court to the Supreme Court was in 2014, when Hon’ble Justice R Banumanthi was elevated. There is a general anguish and feeling at the Bar...
View ArticleIntercaste Marriages must be accepted to uproot the Caste System: Madras High...
The Madras High Court has sent out a message endorsing intercaste marriages, opining that such marriages must be encouraged to uproot the caste system. In the order passed on Tuesday, Justice N Anand...
View ArticlePlea in Madras HC calls for issuance of Censor Certificate before airing Bigg...
The Madras High Court has issued notice to the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) in a PIL calling for the regulation of Television reality shows such as Bigg Boss by a censor body akin to the...
View ArticlePrivate Bodies with Public Duties subject to Article 226 Writ Jurisdiction,...
The Madras High Court recently ruled that private entities discharging public functions would also be subject to the Court's writ jurisdiction under Article 226. To this end, a judgment passed earlier...
View ArticlePuducherry: Supreme Court defers hearing in power tussle between LG and CM to...
The Supreme Court today deferred the hearing in the case relating to the power struggle between the Lieutenant Governor and the elected government of the Union Territory of Puducherry to July 10. The...
View ArticleRape victim should not unnecessarily be made to knock the doors of the court...
The Madras High Court recently emphasised that rape victims should not be made to run from pillar to post for abortion of a pregnancy caused due to the rape, particularly when the pregnancy is less...
View ArticleIllegal Migrants, Article 21 and Indian Citizenship: What Madras HC held...
A case involving a plea for the grant of Indian citizenship by 65 Indian-origin refugees who had escaped from Sri Lanka decades ago recently led Justice GR Swaminathan of the Madras High Court to make...
View ArticleMadras High Court reserves judgment in challenge to constitutionality of GSTAT
The Madras High Court on Friday reserved its judgment in the petitions challenging the constitutionality of the GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) under the prevailing GST regime. Arguments in the matter...
View ArticleStudent Suicides: Teacher disciplining student in good faith not abetment of...
The Madras High Court recently cautioned that teachers cannot be blamed for student suicides merely on account of disciplinary acts carried out by them in good faith. To this end, Justice RMT Teekhaa...
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