Weekly Legal Updates (1 January 2023 to 7 January 2023)

Weekly Legal Updates

Weekly Legal Updates main objective is to update the legal knowledge of law students, lawyers, academicians and other professionals. If we do not update our legal knowledge regularly, our knowledge become redundant. Supreme Court upheld the demonetization process (Vivek Narayan Sharma vs. Union of India 2023 SCC) In a 4:1 verdict the Supreme Court upheld … Read more

What is First Information Report (FIR) ?

First Information Report (FIR) is the information given to the officer-in-charge of a police station regarding the commission of a cognizable criminal offence. Under Section 154 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the officer in charge of police station records that information. The information given to the SHO should be in respect of a cognizable offence. It … Read more

Suits by or against Government or Public Officers

Code of Civil Procedure

Section 80 of Civil Procedure Code, 1908 deals with suits by or against government or public officers. However this section declares that no suit shall be instituted against a public officer in respect of any act, purporting to be done by such public officer in his official capacity, until the expiration of two months notice … Read more

Mischief Rule of Interpretation

The mischief rule of statutory interpretation is the oldest of the rules. The mischief rule is a rule of statutory interpretation that attempts to determine the legislator’s intention. Its main aim is to determine the “mischief and defect” of the statue.  The mischief rule was established in Heydon’s Case in 1584. It was held the … Read more

‘Lease’ under the Indian Stamp Act, 1899

Lease [Section 2(16)]: Lease means a lease of immovable property and also includes: (a)  a patta; (b)  a kabuliyat or other undertaking in writing, not being a counterpart of a lease to cultivate,  occupy or pay or deliver rent for, immovable property; (c)  any instrument by which tolls of any description are let; (d)  any writing on … Read more

Test Identification Parade

The purpose of Test Identification Parade (TIP) is to find out whether he is preparator of the crime. This is necessary where the name of the offender is not mentioned by those who claim to be eyewitness of the incident, but they claim that although they did not know earlier, they could recall his features … Read more