Search Results for Tag : High Courts
Notifications & Circulars
Judges appointed to various High Courts(06.04.2016)
The President approved appointments of numerous Judges and Additional Judges to the Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Allahabad.....
Tags : Appointment, judges, high courts
News
SC: High Courts Are Duty Bound To Issue Writ Of Mandamus For Enforcement Of A Public Duty(10.08.2020)
Supreme Court observed that the High Courts not only have the power to issue a Writ of Mandamus or in the nature of Mandamus, but are duty-bound to ex.....
Tags : Supreme Court, High Courts, Writ of Mandamus
SC To HCs’: Dispose Sec 11(5) & 11(6) Applications Pending For Over 1 Year Within 6 Months(25.05.2022)
SC while emphasising the need for High Courts to decide applications for appointments of Arbitrators has observed that if the arbitrators are not appo.....
Tags : Supreme Court, High Courts, Arbitration, Appointment
SC Agrees to Hear Centre's Plea Seeking Stay on Proceedings Before Various HC Against Demonetisation(17.11.2016)
Supreme Court has agreed to hear a fresh plea of Centre seeking stay on proceedings before various High Courts and Other Courts, apart from Apex Court.....
Tags : Supreme Court, High Courts, stay, Demonetisation, Rs 500, Rs 1,000
Supreme Court on Demonetization: “We Cannot Stop Shut Courts for Aggrieved People”(18.11.2016)
Supreme Court has refused to stay proceedings against scrapping of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes filed in various High Courts across country.
Tags : Supreme Court, Demonetization, Rs 1000, Rs 500, High Courts
Delhi HC: Party Can't Exhaust Alternate Remedy in SC Before Approaching HC U/Art. 227(03.05.2022)
Delhi High Court has ruled that a party cannot be bound for exhausting the alternate remedy available before the Supreme Court before approaching the .....
Tags : Delhi High Court, Supreme Court, High Courts, Articles 226, Articles 227, Constitution
SC Seeks Reply on Plea Seeking Setting Up of Separate Pay Commission for Judges(15.09.2015)
Supreme Court has issued notice to Centre, State and Registrar General of all high courts on a petition filed by All India Judges Association, seeking.....
Tags : Supreme Court ,Centre, State,Registrar General of all high courts
Aarti Industries Gets Approval from Bombay, Gujarat High Court for Amalgamation Scheme(22.09.2015)
Chemicals & pharma firm Aarti Industries has received approval from High Courts of Bombay and Gujarat for a scheme of amalgamation of Gogri and Sons I.....
Tags : High Courts of Bombay and Gujarat ,Aarti Industries
SC: Subsequent SC Decisions Which Have Considered & Distinguished Earlier Judgments Binding on HCs’(18.07.2022)
Supreme Court has held that its subsequent decisions which have considered and distinguished the earlier decisions are binding on High Courts.
Tags : Supreme Court, Judgments, Binding, High Courts
SC: High Courts Shall Not Pass Order of 'No Coercive Steps' While Dismissing Petition u/s 482 CrPC.(14.04.2021)
Supreme Court has stated that while dismissing/disposing of the quashing petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and/or und.....
Tags : Supreme Court, High Courts, Order of 'No Coercive Steps'
President Promulgates Constitution of Commercial Courts , Arbitration and Conciliation Ordinanences(26.10.2015)
President has signed ordinances to amend Arbitration and Conciliation Act and bring into force Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial A.....
Tags : Arbitration and Conciliation Act, Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Bill, 2015
Government Increases Threshold Limit for Appeals in Service Tax, Customs Cases(18.12.2015)
Government in order to reduce litigations related to indirect taxes has raised threshold limit for filing appeals before CESTAT and High Courts to Rs .....
Tags : Government, CESTAT, High Courts
SC: HCs Can Issue Additional Directions Under Article 226/227 While Considering Bail Pleas(16.05.2023)
Supreme Court has held that High Courts can issue directions by virtue of powers under Article 226/227 while considering bail pleas and observed that .....
Tags : Supreme Court, High Courts, Constitution, Bail, Directions
President Gives Nod to SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act and others(08.01.2016)
President has given nod to Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act; Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Ac.....
Tags : Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act; Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act; Commercial Courts,Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Act; Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Act, 2015
SC: HC Can Only Exercise Jurisdiction Over State of Which It is the High Court(06.04.2020)
Supreme Court has observed that the jurisdiction of a High Court is limited to the territorial jurisdiction of the States of which it is the High Cour.....
Tags : Supreme Court, Jurisdiction of High Courts
President Kovind Says 'Unacceptably Low' Number of Judges from Weaker Sections in Higher Judiciary(29.11.2017)
President Kovind Says 'Unacceptably Low' Number of Judges from Weaker Sections in Higher Judiciary
Tags : Telling the higher judiciary that it was its "sacred duty" to "groom" district and sessions judges and raise their skill so that more and more of them can be elevated to High Courts, President Kovind said "We need to take long-term measures to remedy this situation."
7th Pay Commission: Pay Hike for 3610+ Judges of SC & HCs Approved(29.11.2017)
7th Pay Commission: Pay Hike for 3610+ Judges of SC & HCs Approved
Tags : The decision will directly impact the computation of salaries, gratuity, allowance structure, and pension of the in-service as well as retired judges of Supreme Court as well as High Courts across the country.
Rajasthan HC: Power of Judicial Review Vested in High Courts is Basic Feature of Constitution(18.01.2022)
Rajasthan High Court has reiterated that power of judicial review vested in High Courts under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is one of the b.....
Tags : Rajasthan High Court, Power of Judicial Review of High Courts
SC: No Power on Supreme Court to Exercise Superintendence Over High Courts(22.02.2024)
Supreme Court while refusing to direct High Court to decide a criminal matter expedetiously, has observed that there is no provision in Chapter-IV und.....
Tags : Supreme Court, High Courts, Part-V of COI
SC Put Stay on Cases against Miners’ Payment towards Additional Royalty(17.08.2016)
SC has stayed all cases at various High Courts across the country relating to miners having to pay additional royalty under the amended Mines and Mine.....
Tags : SC, High Courts , Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957
SC: High Courts Not Precluded from Entertaining Writ Petitions Even if Disputed Questions of Facts(17.02.2020)
Supreme Court has observed that a High Court is not precluded from entertaining a writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, 1949 e.....
Tags : Supreme Court, High Courts Jurisdiction Where Disputed Questions of Fact