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Date of submission of Offline Applications for Pre-Matric Scholarship for minority students extended to 15 October, 2015(25.08.2015)
The date of submission of Offline Applications under the Pre-Matric Scholarship Scheme for minority students has been extended to 15 October, 2015 fro.....
Tags : Education, deadline, minority, pre-matric
Blast from the Past
Banks’ implied duty of secrecy to its customers(25.01.2016)
The United Kingdom Court of Appeal in 1923 determined that the duty of confidentiality owed by a bank to its clients was not absolute. Rather, it was .....
Tags : Banker, duty to confidentiality, qualifications
Statute
Education Loan Bill, 2016(11.03.2016)
The Education Loan Bill, 2016, a private member bill introduced in th.....
Tags : education loan, refusal, waiver
Bill developments in Parliament(02.05.2016)
The Lok Sabha passed the Regional Centre for Biotechnology Bill, 2016. The Bill encourages education, training and research in the field of biotechnol.....
Tags : biotechnology, scheduled caste, bill, passed
SC/ST Act, 2015 in force from 26 January 2016(18.01.2016)
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has notified 26 January, 2016 as the date on which the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Preve.....
Tags : Scheduled caste, tribe, act, 2015, effective
The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2014(30.09.2015)
The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill proposes establishment of National State Advisory Boards for the regulation and supervision of .....
Tags : Surrogacy, reproduction, assisted, technology, bill
Sugar Cess (Amendment) Act, 2015 effective 1st February, 2016(28.01.2016)
The Sugar Cess (Amendment) Act, 2015 has been notified as effective of 1st February, 2016. The Act amends Section 3 of the Sugar Cess Act, 1982, incre.....
Tags : Sugar cess, amendment, duty
Budget: It’s that time of 2016(22.02.2016)
The Parliament’s 2016 Budget Session may prove a misnomer yet what with 16 Bills waiting in the wings and another two to be introduced. Amongst the ne.....
Tags : Budget 2016, bills, pending, introduced
More Bills to add to Parliament's backlog(05.12.2015)
The government introduced an additional 11 Bills to Parliament: four in the Lok Sabha and seven bound for the Rajya Sabha. The Bills are in addition t.....
Tags : Parliament, backlog, introduction, bills
International Cases
Fraudulent claims rule does not defeat a claim wholly good in law, even if a lie is told in support of it(20.07.2016)
Duty of utmost good faith applied not only in making of contract but in course of its performance. In facts of present case, insurance claim was relat.....
Tags : Fraudulent claims rule, Applicability, Insurer’s Liability
There must be weighty reason for reduction of degree of offence from murder to lesser offence of manslaughter(30.11.2016)
Appellant was convicted by a jury of murder of his partner. Appellant admitted in Court that he had killed deceased, and sole issue at his trial had b.....
Tags : Offence, Degree, Reduction
Tribunal has no jurisdiction to interpret agreement, it can only amend statutory statement to ensure that, it corresponds with agreement(04.06.2017)
Claimant in present claim complained that, he had suffered an unlawful deduction from wages arising out of Respondent discontinuing its practice, afte.....
Tags : Wages, Deduction, Jurisdiction
There was no requirement for any investigation or time to let the dust to settle before reaching a concluded view(11.06.2018)
The Claimant's case was that, she was dismissed on or about 10th August, 2017 from her employment as a counter assistant at one of the Respondent's fr.....
Tags : Conduct, Dismissal, Legality
A Court has discretion to take into account time spent in custody and can give credit by either reducing term or backdating sentence(10.09.2019)
Present two appeals against sentence are related and involved the failure to take into account time that, the Appellant spent in custody on remand. Th.....
Tags : Sentence, Imposition, Reduction
Production of notice of assessment is conclusive evidence that the assessment is properly made(07.08.2020)
An application is made by the Plaintiff, the Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, for judgment to be entered against the defendant pursuant to the Rules o.....
Tags : Debt dues, Payment, Recovery
A trustee has a fiduciary duty to act with due care and diligence in administering property on behalf of another(06.01.2021)
The appeal has its genesis in an urgent application in the High Court, launched by the Appellant. The main relief sought was the removal of Mr. Fronem.....
Tags : Misconduct, Trustees, Removal
A public procurement contract concluded in breach of the legal provisions is invalid and cannot be enforced(15.09.2023)
Present appeal concerned a dispute arising from an addendum to a service level agreement duly concluded between the Appellant, Kunene RampalaInc.(KR I.....
Tags : Addendum, Agreement, Legality
Reliance on headings and explanatory notes, when classifying goods must be understood as providing explanations and guidance; they were not intended to override or contradict legislation(09.10.2023)
The appeal revolved around the classification of imported bicycle parts destined for assembly and the related customs duty payable on such imports. Th.....
Tags : Import, Product, Classification
To succeed in obtaining relief in terms of Section 163 of Companies Act, the applicant must prove to the court that the relevant conduct complained was of oppressive or unfairly prejudicial(28.02.2024)
Present litigation emanates from an acrimonious relationship between two directors and shareholders of a small private company. The applicant, who is .....
Tags : Powers, Director, Conduct
Dismissal of claimant automatically unfair due to non-completion of statutory dismissal procedure(21.02.2017)
Present case deals with claim of unfair dismissal. Issue to be determined by tribunal was whether the claimant was an employee of Respondent. In claim.....
Tags : Dismissal, Statutory Procedure, Compensation
Distribution of false or misleading information that is capable of harming the business interests of another undertaking' shall be deemed to constitute a deceptive marketing practice(30.03.2018)
The Complainant is a company incorporated under the Companies Ordinance, 1984 in Pakistan since 19 February 1970. It is engaged in the business of pro.....
Tags : Product, Similarity, Contravention
Defective passage plan requires a want of due diligence to make the vessel seaworthy(10.11.2021)
Present appeal concerns the scope of a shipowner’s obligation to exercise due diligence to make a vessel seaworthy. The seaworthiness obligation is fu.....
Tags : Due diligence, Seaworthiness, Obligation
Location of conduct of business of company quintessential to jurisdiction(11.11.2015)
Hearing a petition against the prejudicial conduct of business by a stakeholder in the company, the Hong Kong High Court