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Legal Associates Needed

Arms Length Legal is looking to hire a Legal Associate at our physical office at Kota, Rajasthan.-Ability to draft and research-Good communication skills;-Independently handle issues/cases across different laws such as regulatory, civil, and criminal. The application can be made by emailing us at contactus@armslengthlegal.com with a CV and statement of purpose not exceeding 200 words. […]

State Of Gujarat vs Mohanlal Jitamalji Porwal

Economic offences constitute a class apart and need to be visited with a different approach in the matter of bail. The economic offence having deep rooted conspiracies and involving huge loss of public funds needs to be viewed seriously and considered as grave offences affecting the economy of the country as a whole and thereby […]

Vasu Dev Singh v. Union of India

In delegated legislation the delegate completes the legislation by supplying details within the limits prescribed by the statute and in the case of conditional legislation the power of legislation is exercised by the legislature conditionally leaving to the discretion of an external authority the time and manner of carrying its legislation into effect as also […]

Common Cause v Union of India

The Supreme Court, in this case, noted that there was a need for the Court to lay down guidelines to check misuse of public funds by the government for political advertising.

Gaya Prasad v Bhagat Singh

Legal rights and Legal procedures have been created for the convenience of people at large, but few try to surpass the same and abuse the legal procedures. Even in various criminal complaints, it can be seen that not only the person has lodged an FIR on flimsy grounds, but also made an active effort to make sure that the other person is convicted on non-existant grounds. A conundrum arises in such situations when the prosecution takes place in the name of the state, whether the person can be held liable for malicious prosecution or abuse of the legal procedures. The Privy Council clarified the position in this regard in this landmark judgment.

A. K. Kraipak v UOI

The distinction between administrative powers and judicial powers has been diminishing over a period of time. What was considered as an administrative power some years back is now being considered as a quasi-judicial power. In this landmark judgment dealing with the point, the Hon’ble Supreme Court gives a test for determining whether the power is administrative or judicial?

Rampur Fertilisers v/s Vigyan Chemical Industries

Statutory provisions are made for payment of interest to compensate a party that had suffered damages owing to a positive action or inaction of others resulting in blockade of money, which he/ she would otherwise have received.
Further, in the following landmark judgment, Hon’ble Supreme Court makes certain observations in regards to payment of Interest.

Smt. Rani Kusum vs Smt. Kanchan Devi

Supreme Court of India’s Observations in regards with Civil Procedural Code.

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N R Nair v Union of India

The rights of slaves which seems prima facie undeniable today would be a foreign concept even as late as the 19th Century. Humans based on their color of skin would be classified as property, only a long series of human rights movements would go on changing that narrative. Animals are currently being considered to be property, whether giving them certain fundamental rights, will lead to certain anamoly viz a viz human rights? This Kerala High Court judgment encounters the problem and makes the following observations.

Rameshwari Photocopy Services Case

In present times, the Right to Education has formed sine qua non to live a dignified right. At the same time importance of the Right to Education further reiterates its importance through the fact, that for society as a whole to progress, education plays a crucial role.