MSPDCL held accountable for safety negligence; Manipur High Court awards compensation to the electrocution accident victims
Manipur High Court: In a writ petition filed challenging the compensation awarded by the Lower Court, the division bench of
compensation
Bombay HC |A bonafide train passenger being forced to walk on the railway tracks due to absence of overbridge cannot be said as ‘negligent’
A person who comes from a village looking for a job, boards a passenger train holding a valid journey ticket, alights from the train and is trying to exit the Railway Station in the absence of overbridge being forced to walk along the tracks and gets hit by another train and dies, cannot be said to be intentionally careless or negligent.
Explained| Land Acquisition Act,1894: Will Section 11A apply if, under Section 17(3A), 80% of estimated compensation is tendered and paid?
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of SA Nazeer, AS Bopanna* and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ has explained the scope of Section 11A of
Pulling the dupatta of a girl amounts to offence under S. 354 IPC; Bombay Special Court directs compensation of Rs 15000 to the minor victim
POCSO Special Court, at Fort, Gr. Bombay: In a case where charge sheet is filed against the accused for offences
Advocates must exercise discretion while annexing objectionable photographs of parties with the petition; Bombay HC imposes cost of Rs 25000 on the advocate
Bombay High Court: In a case where the Court came across highly objectionable photographs annexed by the counsel for the
FIR registered for non-payment of advocate professional fee; Parties arrived settlement; Delhi High Court directs client to distribute sanitary napkins and advocate to undertake pro bono work
Delhi High Court: In a case filed by Shilpi Chaudhary (‘petitioner’) seeking quashing of FIR, which was registered alleging offences
Tripura High Court| 28-year-old woman to get Rs. 2.5 lakh compensation in custodial torture case
Tripura High Court: In a public interest litigation concerning custodial torture on a 28-year-old woman in the police lockup, the division bench
Madras High Court directs State to pay compensation to the detenue who has been kept in illegal detention for 128 days
Madras High Court: In a petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a writ
Death due to attack by wild animal is violative of Article 21; Bombay High Court directs compensation of 10 lakhs to the wife of the deceased
Bombay High Court: In a petition filed by petitioner-wife praying for quashing and setting aside the impugned communication dated 18-03-2019
“Hospitals are vicariously liable for the acts of negligence committed by their doctors”; NCDRC grants compensation of Rs 1 crore to the parents who lost their only child in a corrective surgery for squint eye
Human life is most precious; therefore, it is extremely difficult to decide on the quantum of compensation in medical negligence cases, it is highly subjective in nature.
Karnataka HC | Can Insurance Company’s liability be absolved in cases where the insured vehicle’s driver dies due to cardiac arrest while the vehicle was parked at the time of death?
Karnataka High Court: While deciding the instant appeal wherein the issue was whether the liability of the Insurance Company is
Delhi High Court| MCD being a public body established for the benefit of the public at large cannot shirk off its responsibility by citing financial constraints
Delhi High Court: In two cross letter Patents appeal, one by the petitioner/appellant for the enhancement of costs imposed upon the Municipal
Chhattisgarh High Court sets aside compensation granted to a woman upon failure of the Laparoscopic Tubectomy operation
Chhattisgarh High Court: In an appeal filed challenging the impugned judgment passed by the lower court, wherein the court awarded Rs 51,000
High Court Roundup: August 2022| Revisiting the top stories on Bigamy, POCSO, Cruelty, Deceased’s Right to dignity, Non-payment of GST, & more
The High Court Roundup brings a curated list of the top stories of the month to ensure readers do not miss any
Time of court and investigation agency both has been consumed; Delhi High Court directs Rs 25,000 as compensation towards “Green Highways Fund”
Delhi High Court: In a case pending for 5 years before Court, the parties finally reached compromise and sought quashing
Duty of the claimants to prove negligence under S.166 of the Motor Vehicles Act; Madras High Court set aside the award
Madras High Court: In an appeal filed against the ruling of the Motor Accident Claims Tribunal, granting compensation to the three deceased
Unfortunate death of 7-year-old girl by collapse of newly constructed kitchen wall in school; Orissa High Court directs compensation to the family of the deceased
Orissa High Court: In a case where a father (‘petitioner') is seeking compensation on the death of his seven-year-old daughter,
Himachal Pradesh High Court | Inability to produce documentary evidence of deceased’s income may not justify adoption of lowest tier of minimum wage for computing Motor Vehicle Accident compensation
Himachal Pradesh High Court: While deciding an appeal against award of Rs. 15,85,000/- compensation to the deceased’s mother, Jyotsna Rewal Dua, J.
Bombay High Court grants bail to Nigerian national who spent 2 years in jail on NDPS charges due to a typing error in forensic report; asks State to come up with compensation proposal
Bombay High Court: Bharati Dangre, J. directed to release a Nigerian National on bail who was arrested in 2020 under the Narcotic
Employee or Independent Contractor? Supreme Court of New Jersey decides the issue for East Bay Drywall, LLC; holds that workers were misclassified
“A business practice that requires workers to assume the appearance of an independent business entity — a company in name only — could give rise to an inference that such a practice was intended to obscure the employer’s responsibility to remit its fund contributions as mandated by the State’s employee protections statutes”