Influential lobby groups, business houses have taken up the issue with various govt arms.
Industry is seriously concerned that the new Competition Act, passed by Parliament in September but not yet fully notified, could impact local and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and curtail business activities by placing substantial discretionary powers in the hands of the thinly-staffed Competition Commission of India (CCI).
The AIDS Bill was passed two years back. And since then many Parliament sessions have taken place but the bill has yet to see the light of the day.
‘I don’t know what is the delay about. The government hardly cares,” says an HIV positive patient, Raju Nagar.
Thirty-seven-year-old Raju is a worried man. Being an HIV positive and like the 2.5 million odd HIV patients in India, he has been waiting for the AIDS Bill to be introduced in the Parliament.
But it has been more than two years now and there is no sign of the Bill.
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New Delhi, Jul 12: The Supreme Court today set up a a two-member panel headed by a former judge of the apex court to examine the maladies afflicting the public distribution system (PDS) in the country and suggest remedial measures.
A Bench of Justice Arijit Pasayat and Justice S H Kapadia, which asked the committee to submit a report to it in four months, observed that it was an accepted fact that there was widespread corruption in the PDS and the foodgrain was not reaching the common man.
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As many as 37.1 lakh cases were pending in India’s 21 high courts as of June 30, 2007.
On the same day, 2.5 crore cases were pending in lower courts.
Of the 792 posts of judges sanctioned for high courts, 206 are vacant. Of the sanctioned strength of 15,399 judges in lower courts, 3,031 are vacant.
NEW DELHI: Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan has worked out a figure of additional judges that would be required to clear the judicial backlog. According to him, if 1,539 new judges were added to the existing 792, all pending cases in high courts would be cleared in a year. And if they are to be cleared in two years, 770 additional high court judges would be sufficient.
NEW DELHI: In an instance of the law taking its own time to catch up with prevalent social norms, the Supreme Court last week said, “there is nothing wrong in a girl eloping to get married according to her choice if she has attained 18 years the legal age for marriage.”
Nothing wrong with that, barring for one small thing: Once a girl is 18, she automatically attains legal sanction to get married. So whether she elopes for matrimony or chooses a partner to live in with, it comes to the same thing.
NEW DELHI: A close scrutiny of the recent performance report made public by CJI K G Balakrishnan on the status of the judicial system shows that the judiciary itself is not blameless for prolonged vacancies in the judiciary that has heightened the larger problem of delay and arrears in the disposal of cases.
The reports shows the vacancy situation is bad not only in the subordinate judiciary, where the appointments are made by the respective state governments, but also in the high courts, where the superior judiciary calls the shots in the appointment of judges.
Few years ago it would have been unheard of. But thanks to outsourcing, engineering graduates have yet another interesting career option to explore – working in a law firm.
Some legal process outsourcing (LPO) firms in India have been recruiting engineers in recent times, primarily to work in the area of patents and intellectual property rights (IPR).
“Patents are for technological innovations and unless one understands technology, it is not possible to produce a quality work product,” says Mr Ajay Agrawal, Chief Solutions Officer, UnitedLex Corporation.
Tech innovation
Joining their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh, lawyers in several parts of the country on Monday struck court work to protest against Friday’s terror strikes in Lucknow, Faizabad and Varanasi that took 14 lives.
While judicial work came to a standstill in UP, lawyers across Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh boycotted courts in the wake of a strike call given by the Bar Council of Uttar Pradesh. Some lawyers were among those killed in bomb blasts on November 23 in the court premises at the three places in UP.