Supreme Court

The Proceedings Held By An Earlier Arbitrator Can Not Be Nullified on Substitution of Arbitrator By The High Court: Supreme Court

In a significant ruling, the Supreme Court of India has ruled that High Courts cannot interfere with ongoing arbitration proceedings while handling applications for...

Liberty Cannot Wait: Supreme Court Flags Bail Pendency, Registrar Generals Directed to Circulate Order Among the Hon’ble Judges of High Courts for Expeditious Disposal...

In order centred on personal liberty, the Supreme Court has observed that despite repeated reminders, High Courts have “seemingly not evolved any robust mechanism...

Post-2013 Land Acquisition Awards Governed by New Act; Delay in Appeals Can Be Condoned: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has  clarified the scope and applicability of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013,...

Allegation of Forgery of Arbitration Agreement Renders Dispute Non-Arbitrable; Courts Must First Decide Existence of Agreement: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that where the very existence of an arbitration agreement is alleged to be forged or fabricated, such a dispute...

Compassionate Appointment Is An Exception Meant To Relieve Immediate Distress, Not A Deferred Mode Of Employment: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of India while considering issue of compassionate appointment has reiterated that compassionate appointment is a narrow exception to the regular recruitment...

Appointment of Arbitrator By High Court Doesn’t Oust Civil Court’s Power To Extend Time Under Section 29A: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court while considering the issue wether the original civil court has jurisdiction to extend the time in terms of Sec 29(A) of...

Supreme Court Directs High Courts To Issue Directions to Their Respective District Judiciary For Ensuring Disposal of Execution Petitions within Six Months

The Apex Court in its latest pronouncement, while deciding appeals against common judgment and order passed by the Madras High Court in two Civil Revisions filed by...

Supreme Court Lays Down The Principles Regarding The Permissibility Of Registration Of Second FIR

The Supreme Court while dealing with the question that whether the registration of the subsequent FIR is legally permissible and whether the High Court...

High Court Cannot Grant An Interim Order In A Second Appeal, Without Framing Substantial Question Of Law As Required To Be Framed Under Section...

A Bench of Justice J.B.Pardiwala and Justice R. Mahadevan while dealing with an Appeal against an Interim Order passed by the High Court of...

The Regularisation of An Employee Who has Completed Seven Years of Continuous Service As on Appointed Day in Terms of J&K Civil Services (Special...

A Bench of Justice Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha & Justice Manoj Misra had while interpreting first and second proviso of Section 5 of J&K Civil...

Judicial Review Can Neither Expand The Ambit Of The Prescribed Qualifications Nor Decide The Equivalence Of The Prescribed Qualifications With Any Other Given Qualification : SC

Supreme Court while deciding an appeal by special leave directed against the judgment rendered by the Division Bench of the High Court of Kerala whereby...

Limitation Period For Institution of A Suit For Specific Performance Will Run From The Date of Default & Not From The Expiry of Contract...

A bench of Supreme Court consisting Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Prasanna B. Varale set aside the judgement of High Court of Jharkhand which...