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Passive Euthanasia - Medicine has its limits, and that prolonging life in ways a person would not choose for themselves is not always true care. Allowing someone to pass on their own terms and alleviating their suffering affirms their dignity in its truest…

Legal Maxim -Commodum ex injuria sua nemo habere debet - No one should derive a benefit from their own wrong. [Context: The case concerns MBBS students originally admitted to Sardar Rajas Medical College (SRMCH), Odisha, whose academic future was jeopardized…

Preventive Detention Unwarranted When Ordinary Law Suffices and No Cogent Public-Order Breach Is Shown

Loan Label Irrelevant: Supreme Court Says Substance, Not Nomenclature, Determines a “Deposit” Under MPID Act

Heinousness of the crime cannot be the sole ground for denying remission.

Pleadings, Bona Fide Need and Alternative Accommodation Under Bombay Rent Act

Mediclaim/ Medical Insurance Payouts Cannot Be Deducted From Motor Accident Compensation

Section 6(5) Hindu Succession Act Does Not Create A Jurisdictional Bar On A Partition Suit

Order XV Rule 5 CPC: Courts Must Avoid Mechanical Striking Off of Defence; "First Date Of Hearing" Clarified

Constitution of India- Article 226 - Practice and Procedure -Litigants and lawyers to place on record all facts germane to or connected with the litigation before the Court. It is for the Court concerned to decide and rule as to what, in a given set of facts…

Constitution of India - (i.) As per Article 269(1) of the Constitution of India, the Union Government has the competence to levy and collect tax on sale and purchase of goods in the course of inter-State trade or commerce. (ii.) Article 286(1) of the Constitution…

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482- Criminal law cannot be used to further the cause in a purely civil dispute. [Context: The Supreme Court quashed an FIR in a land dispute]



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Case name: Sunisha Anand…

Supreme Court flags serious delays in High Courts’ bail hearings affecting undertrial liberty.

Motor Accident Compensation - No legal aspects discussed in this judgment- The Supreme Court restored the MACT calculation for loss of earning capacity, upheld the High Court’s amounts under other conventional heads but deleted the Rs. 50,000 for amenities…

Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 - Section 482 - The appellant, originally appointed to State service in 1984 as a ‘Mallah’ (backward class), later produced a 1993 caste certificate (Annexure P4) claiming to belong to the Scheduled Tribe ‘Majhwar’, which was…

Matrimonial Appeal - Divorce Suit - The husband’s suit for divorce was decreed by the Family Court on 01.03.2017, but the High Court, in appeal (C.M.A. No. 3566 of 2019), dismissed it solely because arrears of maintenance had not been cleared. SC held: Even…

Kerala High Court Act, 1958 - Section 5 ; Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 - Section 19 - Appeal against an interlocutory order of a Single Judge of the Kerala High Court in contempt proceedings, where the High Court had only found a prima facie case of civil…

SC sets aside Delhi HC’s sewer-line directions, says courts can’t step into admin’s shoes

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Section 2(2) - Partition Act, 1893 - Section 2– 4 - An Order made under Sections 2 to 4 of the Partition Act is also a deemed Decree within the meaning of Section 2(2) of the CPC. There is no need to