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LAW AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS - June 2022

Jun 2022

Apr 30, 2023

Supreme Court Invites Public Suggestions after Releasing Draft List of Neutral Citations of over ...

A list of over 10,000 judgements from January 1,2 014 to March 31,2023 was released by the Supreme Court. The judgements are proposed with neutral citations to facilitate crowdsourced checking.
The exercise is to check for any missing or incorrect items that can be addressed with the help of legal professionals and publishers.
As per the notice, the inputs on the same should be sent to the Registrar of the top court's Library and Editorial Section within 15 days.
One may compare the list of cases and neutral citations with their own database and accordingly make suggestions regarding any missing or incorrect data, if any, in the list of judgements.
A final list of judgments with neutral citation will be published by the Registry after the suggestions are received and recorded.

Apr 29, 2023

Central Government Appoints Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal as Judge of Chhattisgarh High Court

The Central government gave a green signal to the appointment of judicial officer Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal as a judge of Chhattisgarh High Court.
The Supreme Court Collegium had recommendation the appointment of judicial officer Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal as judged of Chhattisgarh High Court on April 12, 2023.
The Chhattisgarh High Court at present, is functioning at a strength of 14 judges as opposed to a sanctioned strength 22 of with a vacancy of 8.
It was established on 1 November 2000 with the creation of New state of Chhattisgarh upon the reorganisation of the state of Madhya Pradesh. The High Court of Bilaspur is the 19th High Court of India.

Apr 28, 2023

Madras High Court Tells Courts Not to Use Wikipedia as Source for Legal Dispute Resolution

The Madras High Court directed the courts to refrain from using crowd-sourced websites such as Wikipedia in legal dispute resolution.
Setting aside an NIA Court order, which rejected the discharge plea of a man booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the Division Bench of Justice M. Sundar and Justice Nirmal Kumar quoted the Supreme Court verdict in the Acer India case and Hewlett Packard case, wherein the Apex Court had cautioned against the courts using sources like Wikipedia in legal dispute resolution.
It said that the Apex Court had put in a caveat and caution against use of such sources (Wikipedia) in legal dispute resolution.

Apr 25, 2023

CJI Chandrachud Inaugurates New Judges Library at Supreme Court

The Chief Justice of India Justice D. Y. Chandrachud, formally made the New Judges library in the Additional Building Complex of the Supreme Court functional.
The Chief Justice of India also inaugurated the Soli Sorabjee's Bibliotheca by unveiling his portrait in the library.
The new library has four floors, which includes the circulation section, reference section, information management section, legal research and legislation section and acquisition section.
As per the available data, the total books and reference material in the library is about 3,77,000 out of which 2,40,000 are placed in the new library.
It is important to note that the library also has a huge collection of legal commentaries, law reports, biographies and general books, along with a Judges Lounge and a Judges Conference Room.
To commemorate the 50 years of the Kesavananda Bharati judgement, the Chief Justice of India has also released a webpage dedicated to the judgement. This occasion was graced by Judges of the Supreme Court, along with senior officials of the Registry.

Supreme Court Says Courts Should Not Interfere with Arbitral Proceedings Till an Award is Passed

The Supreme Court has said that the courts usually should not interfere with the arbitral proceedings, especially till the time an award is not passed.
The top court disapproved the practice of filing applications in disposed of Special Leave Petitions (SLPs) for side stepping the arbitration process, and added that the said applications must not be entertained by the court.
The bench comprising of Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Sanjay Karol was dealing with an application filed in an SLP disposed of by the court by referring the parties to arbitration under an MoU executed between them.

Apr 22, 2023

Collegium Proposes Justice Gangapurwala as Chief Justice of Madras High Court

With the government yet to act on its September 22, 2022, proposal to transfer Orissa High Court Chief Justice S. Muralidhar to Madras, the Supreme Court Collegium recalled the same and instead recommended that Acting Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Justice Sanjay V. Gangapurwala as Chief Justice of Madras High Court.

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