Legal Snippets

Hon’ble Supreme Court on refund of un-utilized stamp. In the present case, the event of charge of collecting court fee has not occurred as the petitioner claims that he did not file the Suit for the purposes of which the e-stamp paper was purchased. Therefore, there was no authority with the State to retain the […]

Hon’ble Supreme Court on limitations of the digital system, and the inability of masses to reach the ground. Wherein marginalized are people worst affected due to limitation of digital means reaching them. “There exists a digital divide in India, particularly between the rural and urban areas. The extent of the advances made in improving digital

Hon’ble Supreme Court on whether Bribe Giver could be considered an accomplice in a corruption case? What is the evidentiary value of the Bribe Giver in the trial? The correct rule is this : if any of the witnesses are accomplices who are particeps criminis in respect of the actual crime charged, their evidence must

Hon’ble Supreme Court on refund of money by taxing authority. Providing for payment of interest in case of refund of amounts paid as tax or deemed tax or advance tax is a method now statutorily adopted by fiscal legislation to ensure that the aforesaid amount of tax which has been duly paid in prescribed time

The Hon’ble Supreme Court taking cognizance of the malaise of constant abuse of procedural provisions which defeats justice, i.e. frivolous attempts by unsuccessful litigants to putting up spurious objections and setting up third parties, to object, delay and obstruct the execution of a decree. Directed following guidelines. For More Information Contact Advocate Prakhar Gupta

Hon’ble Supreme Court on Compassionate Appointment. The whole object of granting compassionate appointment is to enable the family to tide over the sudden crisis which arises due to the death of the sole breadwinner. The mere death of an employee in harness does not entitle his family to such source of livelihood. The authority concerned

Hon’ble Court of Justice European Union on Court’s power to compel intermediaries to remove content from website. Given that a social network facilitates the swift flow of information stored by the host provider between its different users, there is a genuine risk that information which was held to be illegal is subsequently reproduced and shared

The provision contained in this rule that the plaint shall be rejected in the four cases mentioned in the rule is mandatory. In a case, therefore, where the relief claimed was properly valued, but the plaint was written upon paper insufficiently stamped, and the plaintiff, on being required by the court to supply the requisite

Hon’ble Supreme Court of India on Arbitration Agreement. “It is trite to say that the arbitrator being a creature of the agreement between the parties, he has to operate within the four corners of the agreement and if he ignores the specific terms of the contract, it would be a question of jurisdictional error on