Tag: HC

Six new judges for Madras HC

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHENNAI: Six more new judges have been appointed for Madras high court, where the sitting strength will go up to 54, as against the sanctioned strength of 75. On Tuesday, the six selected candidates wrote their names in Devanagari script, as per custom. The hand-written names will now be cut out and pasted

One-night stand not marriage under Hindu law: HC

Source:- timesofindia.indiatimes.com MUMBAI: A one-night stand or a physical relationship between a man and a woman does not fall under the definition of marriage under Hindu laws, the Bombay high court said recently in an important order. A child born out of such an encounter may not have any rights over the father’s property, if

HC rules: You’re not an advocate if working anywhere full-time (including probably at law firms on retainer loophole)

Source:- legallyindia.com A lawyer consulting full time with a public sector undertaking (PSU), who had been unsuccessfully trying to get enrolled with the Gujarat bar council (BCG) since 2012, is not allowed to do so and therefore practically not an advocate, ruled the Gujarat high court according to the Times of India. The long-running saga of

Historical Win for Transgender Software Engineer. HC Allows Change of Sex & Name on School Documents

Source:- thebetterindia.com Born a woman, S Rekha Kaliamoorthy identified as female in her early years, but always felt and lived like a man. Justice Pushpa Sathyanarayana passed the order on the petition filed by him under his current name K Gowtham Subramaniam. Rekha, as she was known then, graduated from Anna University with BE (computer

HC: Divorce given to NRI by Dubai court invalid here

Source – indiatimes.com MUMBAI: Divorce given by a Dubai court to an NRI man against his wife who has moved back to Mumbai was not valid and could not be enforced in India, ruled the Bombay high court. Striking down a Bandra family court‘s order dismissing the Worli woman‘s plea for divorce and maintenance for the couple’s two children, a division bench of