High Court Chief Justice

Edit NDTV 29 Feb 2016
The Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court, Justice N Paul Vasanthakumar, on Sunday said the judiciary would have to intervene if the government fails to fulfil its responsibilities. ....

PSPOs: Councils using new powers to ban and punish legal activities

Edit The Independent 29 Feb 2016
Councils are using new powers to ban and punish legal activities including rough sleeping, busking and “loitering in groups”, as campaigners warn of a curbing of civil liberties....

Bershidsky: The U.S. should have legalized election betting

Edit Denver Post 29 Feb 2016
But he also made it clear that he's busy calculating the odds ... If that's how it's going to be, there's every reason to legalize betting on election outcomes in the U.S ... Betting on elections is legal in the U.K., where elections are less like show sports ... ....

Odisha to have legal aid centres in panchayats

Edit The Hindu 29 Feb 2016
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday announced that his government will take steps to establish legal aid centres in every panchayat of the State from next year to provide free legal aid to the poor. He said these centres would be named as ‘Madhu Babu Legal Aid Centre’....

Group calls for better gun laws following Dayton church shooting

Edit Dayton Daily News 29 Feb 2016
Group calls for better gun laws following Dayton church shooting ... ....

Debate rages in courts over 'high-sensitivity' DNA analysis

Edit Topix 29 Feb 2016
In this March 8, 2010 file photo, Lil Wayne is handcuffed at Manhattan criminal court in New York, after being sentenced to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007. The rapper pleaded guilty in the case in which prosecutors tried to use a technique, called low copy number DNA testing, to tie him to the gun ... ....

John Hopoate to take NRL to court over Manly Sea Eagles coaching standoff

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 29 Feb 2016
John Hopoate is set to begin action against the NRL in the Supreme Court in an effort to revive his coaching career ... ....

Lawyers fear northern Tasmania's Federal Circuit Court judge will not be replaced

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 29 Feb 2016
The legal community is worried northern Tasmania's only Federal Circuit Court judge may not be replaced when he retires in the middle of the year ... ....

Supreme Court Nominee. Must Not Bruise Easily

Edit New York Times 29 Feb 2016
Would you apply for a job when the process includes attacks so vicious that your spouse weeps and the hiring committee refuses to consider candidates? ... ....

Sushil Modi hits out at Nitish over law and order situation

Edit The Hindu 29 Feb 2016
Senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday hit out at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over his comment that rule of law “prevailed in the state under the secular alliance government” asking if it was so then why did he hold five review meetings on the issue ... “If the rule of law prevails in Bihar then what happened ......

National scene: Court orders re-election in five regions

Edit Jakarta Post 29 Feb 2016
The Constitutional Court has decided that re-elections must take place in several areas across five regencies after the discovery of election fraud in last year’s elections. Court spokesman Fajar Laksono said the regions were Mamberamo Raya in Papua, South ......

Investors lose life’s savings; they can’t get justice

Edit Detroit news 29 Feb 2016
You should do something meaningful, like volunteering at a soup kitchen, contemplating your true calling in life or binge-watching cable TV to test my own personal theory that, at any moment among the 300 channels piped into the Funny Money household, there is at least one “Law and Order” rerun somewhere, even if it’s during rain delays on the Hungarian curling channel. ‘In the arbitration justice system ...’....

High Court amends its RTI rules

Edit The Hindu 29 Feb 2016
In a landmark decision, the Delhi High Court has amended its Right to Information Rules, 2006, regarding the rate of application fee and exemption to persons living below poverty line, following a public interest writ petition moved by a group of law students ... Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath, disposing of the writ petition filed by students Aastha ......
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