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Source: Bar & Bench (legal reporting)
The Bombay High Court has observed that public money cannot be expended to secure celebrity endorsements for civic awareness initiatives.
Subject: Court developments
Area: Judgments & legislation
Source: Bar & Bench (legal reporting)
The Calcutta High Court has ordered a ban on the online streaming of Sabeer Bhatia's video titled 'The Friendship Files| How Modi and Adani Stole India'. The interim direction was issued in proceedings concerning Adani Enterprises.
Subject: Court developments
Area: Judgments & legislation
Source: Bar & Bench (legal reporting)
The Jharkhand High Court has held that a husband compelling his wife to live alongside the woman with whom he is having an extramarital affair constitutes mental cruelty.
Subject: Court developments
Area: Judgments & legislation
Source: SCC Online (legal reporting)
The Kerala High Court has directed the UIDAI to compare fingerprints collected from a double-murder crime scene with records in the Aadhaar database.
Subject: Court developments
Area: Judgments & legislation
Source: SCC Online (legal reporting)
The Calcutta High Court held that a dispute cannot be referred to arbitration under Section 45 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 where doing so requires treating an existing consent decree as non-binding on a charterer.
Subject: Court developments
Area: Judgments & legislation
Source: SCC Online (legal reporting)
The DIFC Court of Appeal in Kapova v Makovini has clarified that DIFC Courts can enforce settlement agreements in stayed proceedings even if the underlying consent order does not strictly adopt the conventional Tomlin order format.
Subject: Court developments
Area: Judgments & legislation
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