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Legal News Shots- The Best Shots of the Day
Legal News Shots- The Best Shots of the Day

INDIA – After CBI Files Violation Of FCRA, Lawyers Collective Says ‘No Basis In Fact And Law’

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has lodged a case against NGO Lawyers Collective and senior lawyer Anand Grover on allegations of breaking laws under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010. The complaint cites a rally for the HIV / AIDS bill. It further says that during the period 2006-07 to 2014-15, the NGO “received foreign contribution amounting to Rs 32.39 crore.” The CBI says that Grover used foreign contributions for private advantages and spent them outside India, which is a breach of FEMA. “The Lawyers Collective believes that the FIR does not have any basis in fact and law. It is aimed at the Lawyers Collective and its office bearers to silence them as they have taken up sensitive cases in the past and continue to take them up,” the NGO stated in a released statement.

INDIA – In UP Draft Law: “No Anti-National Activities On Campus,” Govt. Clears Law for all UP Universities

The Uttar Pradesh (UP) cabinet’s draft of a new ordinance has proposed that it be made compulsory for all existing and new private universities to submit an undertaking that will not allow any anti-national activities on their campuses. The government cleared the new draft ordinance of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday, June 18, 2019. The UP government also indicated that, among other things, it should be the universities’ goal to foster national integration, secularism and social harmony. According to a press release from the cabinet, if they indulge in anti-national activities or enable them in the name of varsity, the state government will take action against those universities.

INDIA – Law Panel For A Tough Legislative Framework To Hold Concurrent Polls

As the government toys with the concept of holding concurrent elections for Lok Sabha and state assemblies, the Law Commission has proposed a solid legal framework for such a giant exercise. The law panel proposed amendments to the Constitution and the Representation of the People Act to guarantee simultaneous elections in its draft guidelines issued last August. The Commission had recommended that simultaneous polls to Lok Sabha and state assemblies be held in two stages, provided that at least two provisions of the Constitution are amended and ratified by a majority of countries. The report proposed amending the Constitution (Articles 83(2) and 172(1) dealing with the Lok Sabha’s tenures and state assemblies) and the People’s Representation Act to extend the terms of state legislative assemblies to effect the move.

USA – Despite Near-Total Ban On Abortions, Planned Parenthood, Is Building A Women’s Clinic In The State

Planned Parenthood is building a new state-of-the-art women’s clinic in downtown Birmingham as a near-total ban on abortion looms. “We are a doctor that Birmingham has been counting on for centuries, and we are committed to continuing to provide that care,” a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman said. The project started in January and has not come to a stop, even in the face of the enactment of the Alabama Human Life Protection Act by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature, which will prohibit abortion unless the mother’s life is on the line. Planned Parenthood and the American for Civil Liberties Union are among organisations that sue to halt the law’s implementation because it is unconstitutional and a danger to women’s health.

INDIA – India’s Demand For Traceability Of Messages To WhatsApp Could Have An Effect On Personal Privacy

The Indian government wants WhatsApp to able it to snoop on its encrypted messaging platform. The government’s reason is that it wants to check the spread of misinformation that has led to several lynchings in the country over the past year. WhatsApp, for now, has refused to fall in line and has declined to monitor messages saying that they are encrypted end-to-end. The Indian government’s demand comes right on the heels of the Australian government passing legislation that enables the country’s authorities to spy on messages from applications like WhatsApp. Singapore has also enacted anti-fake news legislation (Online Falsehood Protection and Manipulation Bill) that enables the state to police messaging applications and personal chat organizations. However, if India manages to force WhatsApp to loosen its product safety for law enforcement, then that secret access path can also be readily accessed by hackers and governments far beyond India.

INDIA – Origin Law Firm In India Resolves The Iranian Case Against The UK Government

A law company established by an Indian lawyer, obtained a resolution of USD 1.6 billion for its client, Iran’s Bank Mellat, against the UK government to settle a ten-year legal conflict in British judiciary. Zaiwalla & Co LLP, a London-based penalty prosecution company, earned the awards in Bank Mellat vs HM Treasury case going back to 2009 when the British state introduced penalties prohibiting Iran’s most prominent private bank from doing business with the UK’s economic industry due to supposed connections to the country’s nuclear program. The sides have now reached an ‘ amicable consensus ‘ where all of the disputes exceptional issues, including failures, have been resolved and the claims of Bank Mellat have been resolved on conditions that are private to the two sides.

USA – How Law Schools Fared On The February 2019 Bar Exam In California

Law school graduates from San Diego University and Southern California University beat the median pass rate on the February 2019 bar exam by more than 20% points, according to school-based figures published by the state bar on Tuesday 18 June 2019. However, the February exam administered months after most law school graduates typically have a higher proportion of repeat test-takers.

INDIA – Bill For Disability Proposed By Indian-American N.J. Lawmaker, Others, Become Law

Legislation sponsored by New Jersey (N.J.) State Assembly Democrats Raj Mukherji, Shavonda Sumter, Eliana Pintor Marin and Benjie Wimberly establishing a partial return to job program for residents receiving temporary disability insurance was signed into legislation (A-1980) June 17. “The law’s purpose is to enable employees to return to work by initially working on a part-time basis and to provide cost savings by decreasing the cost of benefits during those transitions,” says Mukherji (D-Hudson), the only lower house Indian-American lawmaker, in the press release. The law requires the part-time TDI advantage to be the full-time TDI benefit sum minus the salaries paid to the employee during a week. Furthermore, the law allows such partial advantages only after an employee has been unable to work owing to disability and has been receiving full TDI advantages for at least seven days.

CANADA – Canada Prohibits The Import And Export Of Shark Fins As Amended By The Fisheries Act To Become Law

Senators on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, voted not to insist on amendments eliminating “fish-frequented water” from the definition of fish habitat in the Act and enabling third-party habitat banking, a compensation instrument intended to offset the effect on the environment and wildlife induced by human activity. With the vote, Bill C-68 is now moving towards royal assent, ensuring that it becomes law before the House and Senate rise at the end of June for the summer break. Parliament is not anticipated to resume sitting before the writs are issued for the federal election in October. Once the writs are issued, all legislation that has not obtained royal assent will be scrapped. Several environmental and conservation advocacy organizations applauded the passage of the bill, specifically provisions protecting fish habitat, new development efforts and banning the import and export of shark fins in Canada.

INDIA – India Bullies Twitter Banning American, British Students Accounts Thousands of Kilometres Away

A Texas university student is banned among other Westerners after a crusade against Pakistani trolls went wrong — and trapped unwitting students thousands of miles away. The notice given to 21-year-old Ryan Barenklau on Saturday is component of a crackdown on a group of open-source investigators who spend their days sifting through information and imaging to gain insights into national disputes around the globe. Barenklau’s focus is mainly on Crimea and North Korea, but in May a newspaper in India incorrectly claimed that his account was part of a Pakistani disinformation ring. This month, according to interviews and copies of several of the Twitter notices shared with The Daily Beast by the recipients, the Indian government officially requested Twitter block Barenklau and other users named in the report under India’s strong domestic safety censorship legislation. Since then, Twitter has suspended four of the accounts for unrelated violations of the company’s terms of service.

INDIA – Commercial Suits: Compulsory Timeline For Filing Written Statement In 120 Days Under CPC Not Applicable: Bombay High Court

A single Hon’ble Bombay High Court judge (S.J. Kathawalla, J.) (Court) in Reliance General Insurance Co vs Colonial Life Insurance Co (Comm Suit No. 29 of 2013) held that a compulsory 120-day time limit for filing a written statement in a commercial suit would not extend to lawsuits lodged prior to the enactment of the Commercial Court Act, 2015 (the Act). In a suit filed prior to the adoption of the Act and consequently transmitted as a ‘ commercial Suit ‘ to be heard by the appointed commercial tribunal (Transferred Commercial Suits), it would fulfill the compulsory timeline, for filing its published declaration within 120 days of the date of serving a writ of summons on the defendant.  Given the fact, argument, question and the reason of the Court. The Court noted that the primary purpose and purpose of the Act was to ensure the rapid removal of commercial conflicts to reduce the pendency of instances and facilitate company facility in India. The Court noted that the primary purpose and purpose of the Act was to ensure the rapid removal of commercial conflicts to reduce the pendency of instances and facilitate company facility in India.

DUBAI – Know The Law: No Fines If You Stay Up To 30 Days In The UAE

If a person’s residence visa expires, a one-month grace period of stay will be provided to, and no overdue penalties will be charged. For further information on this matter, you may contact the Dubai General Directorate of Residency and Foreign Affairs.

INDIA – Viewpoint: How The British Reshape The Caste System In India

A Google search for fundamental information on India’s caste system lists many sites that outline three common tropes on the phenomenon with differing degrees of emphasis. First, the caste system is the Hindu’s fourfold categorical hierarchy faith-with Brahmins (priests/teachers) on top, followed, in order, by Kshatriyas (rulers/warriors), Vaishyas (farmers/traders/ merchants), and Shudras (labourers). There is also a fifth group of “Outcastes” (individuals who do the dirty job and are outside the four-fold system). Second, this system is ordained by the sacred texts of Hinduism (particularly the alleged source of Hindu law, the Manusmriti), it is thousands of years ancient, and it ruled all the main elements of life, including marriage, occupation and place. Third, caste-based discrimination is now illegal, and instead of caste-based affirmative action (or beneficial discrimination) policies are in place. These ideas, even seen in a BBC explainer, are reportedly the conventional wisdom.

INDIA – Sexism in the Indian Judiciary Is So Profound That We Are Destined to Get Our First CJI Female

The Indian Supreme Court issued important decisions on gender identity, marital orientation, admission into the temple of Sabarimala, and adultery. But Indian judiciary’s real advancement should be evaluated by the measured of high-ranking women. India has had a female chairman, prime minister, prime ministers, senators, but no female chief justice since independence. It took nearly 40 years for Justice Fathima Beevi, the first woman judge, and 68 years for the Supreme Court to have the first woman judge directly nominated, Justice Indu Malhotra, among six male judges. Despite three women judges currently sitting in the Supreme Court, there seems to be no likelihood that we will have the first woman Chief Justice in the near future. There are already five male judges lined up to succeed in the present CJI until 2025.

AUSTRALIA – Australian State Legalizes Voluntary Euthanasia For Terminally-Sick Patients

An Australian state has implemented euthanasia legislation to allow terminally ill patients to end their life with deadly medication. The first death could take place in three weeks. Voluntary euthanasia became legal in Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria on Wednesday (June 19), more than 20 years after the nation abolished the terminally ill’s first law of mercy-killing. Assisted suicide in most nations is illegal. Victoria was the first Australian state to legalize it.

INDIA – Rogue Lawyer Imprisoned For 14 years For Theft Of $3 Million From Porn Pirates

In one of the weirdest cases of copyright violation ever, a Minnesota-based lawyer has been convicted to 168 months or 14 years in jail for raking $3 million from porn pirates. The case, however, is not new and it came to light almost three years ago in 2016 when an indictment was lodged in the Minnesota federal court alleging how two lawyers – Paul R Hansmeier and John L Steele – used the country’s current copyright laws to extort money from individuals who downloaded porn videos. The lawyers formed many shell companies to acquire copyrights for porn movies, some of which they even filmed themselves. They uploaded these videos to file sharing sites and then file infringement cases against all those who downloaded them.

INDIA – Mukherjee Nagar Incident: Delhi High Court Hearing PIL About Car Driver, Son Assault By Police

On Wednesday (June 19, 2019) the Delhi High Court decided to hear a PIL (Public Interest Litigation) on suspected police attack on an authorickshaw driver and his daughter in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar. A street fight took place in Mukherjee Nagar region between Delhi police officers and a Tempo rider after an issue about parking took an unpleasant twist.  Update report on the matter is awaited as the time of this report.

UNITED KINGDOM – Adidas Loses European Court Battle Over Three-Stripe Trademark

Adidas was unsuccessful in expanding its three-stripe trademark design in the EU after a court ruled it was not “unique” enough. The firm did not “prove that the mark has gained unique personality throughout the EU land following the use made of it,” the EU’s general court said on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. The three-stripe logo was first registered on a football boot on August 18, 1949, by Adidas ‘ founder, Adi Dassler, but the court said it was not adequate to define the products as originating from the brand. The verdict is part of a long-running conflict between the German sportswear manufacturer and the Belgian Shoe Branding Europe Corporation.

INDIA – Chennai Water Catastrophe: Madras HC Is Slamming Tamil Nadu Govt., CM Claims Press Are Building A Scarce Illusion

While the High Court of Madras has criticized the government of Tamil Nadu for failing to take appropriate action to tackle the state’s water crisis, CM Palaniswami said the problem is being cut out of proportion. The court had previously requested an answer from the government of Tamil Nadu on the steps made to deal with the water crisis. The HC noted that the government did not bring appropriate measures even though the water crisis was anticipated in the aftermath of unsuccessful monsoons. The chief minister of Tamil Nadu, K Palaniswami, also said that drought and deficient monsoon had led to the depletion of groundwater concentrations, but retained that the problem was not large. The CM said the state depended mainly on groundwater to satisfy the demands until the northeastern monsoon began in October.

JAPAN – Japan Is Revising The Law Prohibiting Parents From Physically Punishing Children

Japan adopted legislation on Wednesday (June 19) to prohibit parents and guardians from physically punishing children, Japan Today reported following several deadly instances of disciplined abuse. Effective in April of next year, there are no penalties for perpetrators, although the amended law prohibits parents, foster parents and heads of child welfare centres from physically punishing children. Under the modifications, schools, local education boards and child welfare centre representatives will be required to maintain case information confidential. Regional child consultation centres and associated organizations were also encouraged to share information quickly so that assistance can be supplied adequately even if a child moves to a separate region. Coordination with domestic violence centres is also mandated.

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