Kolkata: President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday praised public interest litigations (PIL) for helping in delivering justice, but urged the judiciary to "observe self discipline" to "maintain the balance with the executive and legislature". "I would like to compliment the Indian judiciary for one innovation: PIL. A man staying in the remotest part of the country can write a postcard to the chief justice of this largest functional democracy and can get justice," Mukherjee said during the sesquicentennial celebrations of Calcutta High Court here.
"A small news item published in the media can draw the attention and the trusted judicial system can initiate action to provide justice," said Mukherjee. Stressing that the success of parliamentary democracy depended on "maintaining a fine balance" among the executive, legislature and the judiciary, he called upon the judiciary to "observe self discipline" to hold the balance.
"It is responsibility of the judiciary to innovate a mechanism to self-discipline itself and maintain the balance," he said. Observing that people's expectations from the judiciary are very high, Mukherjee asked judges to think of how they could meet these expectations.
Mukherjee also expressed concern over the fact that only 10 women have so far become so far judges of the Calcutta High Court and asked the judiciary to think about how more women can be encouraged to come to the forefront. Addressing the function, Supreme Court Chief Justice Altamas Kabir asked for deliverance of justice "tempered with sensitivity and social cause"....
05:10 AM, May 06, 2013
Mumbai: Shares of Lanco Infratech Ltd on Monday surged 18 per cent in morning trade, after its Australian subsidiary, Griffin Coal, said the protracted litigation for a claim of AUD 3.5 billion initiated by Perdaman Chemicals against it has been settled. Cheering the news, shares of the company shot-up by 17.88 per cent to Rs 12.39 on the BSE. At NSE, the scrip jumped 18 per cent to Rs 12.40....
01:26 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Hyderabad: Griffin Coal, a subsidiary of Lanco Infratech Ltd in Australia, on Monday said the protracted litigation for a claim of AUD 3.5 billion initiated by Perdaman Chemicals against it has been settled. According to a release issued by Lanco, the Australian coal miner has agreed to pay Perdaman a nominal amount of AUD 7.5 million, plus legal costs to be taxed by the Court, without admission of any of...
10:37 AM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday raised the demand for a separate High Court for the state to strengthen the judicial system. Hooda was addressing a conference of Chief Ministers of states and Chief Justices of the High Courts, held at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Sunday. The conference was presided over by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while Chief Justice of India Justice Altamas Kabir...
03:40 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: Film and Television Producers Guild (FTPG) has sought the Centre's intervention to discourage frivolous litigation challenging the content of films that have been certified for exhibition by the CBFC. In a letter to the new Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tiwari on November 9, Guild president Mukesh Bhatt said the judicial process has been ill-treated by political parties and fake interest groups to achieve self advertisement. "Even kickstarting a...
01:01 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Amsterdam: A Dutch court has again ruled against Apple in a suit against South Korea's Samsung Electronics, saying that Galaxy tablet computers don't infringe an Apple patent on touch screen interfaces. The Dutch case is one of many Apple is pursuing against Samsung in their reciprocal patent war. If Apple had been successful in the Netherlands, it could have disrupted Samsung's ability to distribute in Europe through the port of...
06:32 PM, Oct 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court has taken up a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed against Robert Vadra over the allegations made by Arvind Kejriwal against Vadra and DLF. The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has asked the Central government to reply as to why Vadra should not be investigated. The PIL has been filed by social activist Nutan Thakur. The PIL asks the Prime Minister to order...
01:38 PM, Oct 11, 2012
Tokyo: A Tokyo court ruled on Friday that Samsung Electronics' mobile devices did not violate an Apple Inc patent, awarding the South Korean firm a victory a week after it lost a landmark patent case in the United States. The Tokyo District Court's ruling on an Apple patent dealing with transferring media content between devices comes after a US federal jury found last week that Apple did not infringe on...
10:30 AM, Aug 31, 2012
San Jose: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd abused its "monopoly power" and demanded an unreasonable royalty from Apple Inc for the use of wireless patents in the iPhone, hurting the device's commercial prospects, Apple experts testified. Richard Donaldson, a former lead patents attorney for Texas Instruments Inc, told the court on Friday a 2.4 per cent royalty Samsung wanted on the price of the iPhone was discriminatory because the patents in...
01:54 PM, Aug 18, 2012
San Jose: A Samsung Electronics Co Ltd expert witness testified on Tuesday that Apple Inc's iPhone and iPad violate three of Samsung's patents, as the South Korean electronics company went on offence in the third week of a high stakes trial. Dr Woodward Yang, an electrical engineering professor at Harvard, said Apple's products use Samsung-patented features for mobile devices, including the process for seamlessly emailing photos. He was one of...
11:25 AM, Aug 15, 2012
San Francisco: Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc sued Zynga Inc on Friday, accusing the social gaming company of copying key elements of EA's The Sims Social game for Zynga's own title, The Ville. EA's lawsuit is the latest in a series of copycat accusations levelled against Zynga, a company that has shrugged off similar litigation in the past as it grew into the dominant publisher of games on Facebook....
12:20 PM, Aug 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) on Tuesday told the Supreme Court that the Presidential reference in the 2G spectrum case to review the apex court's order cancelling 122 licences was not maintainable. The CPIL said that the review of the Supreme Court's verdict in the 2G scam was not permissible by way of a Presidential reference. The Attorney General for India, however, argued that the apex...
02:26 PM, Jul 10, 2012
London: Samsung Electronics defeated Apple in the latest spat in the rivals' patent wars when a British judge ruled Samsung's Galaxy tablets did not infringe the US company's designs for the iPad because they were "not as cool". In Monday's High Court judgment Judge Colin Birss said that Samsung's Galaxy tablets belonged to the same family as the Apple design when viewed from the front, but the Samsung products were...
06:50 AM, Jul 10, 2012
San Francisco: Facebook and Yahoo have agreed to settle a months-long patent dispute, averting a potentially expensive battle over the technology running two of the Internet's most popular destinations. In dropping the lawsuits, the companies agreed to license their patents to each other and form an advertising and content-sharing alliance that expands their existing partnership. Friday's settlement involves no exchange of money. Now that the antagonism is dissolving into an...
06:19 AM, Jul 07, 2012
New York: Thousands of authors can sue Google Inc in a class-action lawsuit over its plan to create the world's largest digital book library, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. US Circuit Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan also rejected Google's bid to dismiss claims by The Authors Guild and several groups representing photographers and graphic artists, which would have forced their members to sue individually. Plaintiffs in the seven-year-old case...
12:58 PM, Jun 01, 2012
Menlo Park: Facebook has acquired patents from IBM as it girds itself for litigation, including a lawsuit by Yahoo. A company spokesman on Thursday confirmed the purchase but did not provide details. Earlier, Bloomberg News said Facebook acquired 750 patents covering technologies dealing with software and networking. It cited a person with knowledge of the transaction who was not named in the report Thursday. Last week, Yahoo Inc. sued Facebook,...
12:31 PM, Mar 23, 2012
New Delhi: Concerned over huge revenues in form of customs, services and excise duties locked up in litigations, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has constituted a committee to suggest steps to bring down such cases. "Rising litigation with taxpayers is matter of serious concern for the government. A need for reducing the litigation has been emphasised by the Finance Minister. As per the directions of the Finance Minister, a Standing Committee...
06:35 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Los Angeles: Apple sued Motorola Mobility in a US court on Friday in an attempt to stop Motorola from asserting some patent claims against Apple in Germany, according to the lawsuit. The suit, filed in a San Diego federal court, argues that Motorola's German lawsuit against Apple breaches terms of a patent licensing agreement between Motorola and Qualcomm. Apple and Motorola are engaged in global patent litigation, part of a...
10:59 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday that a German court has ruled against it in a patent suit with Apple Inc over mobile technology, the latest verdict in an intensifying global legal battle between the two technology giants. The ruling by the court in Mannheim covered one of three patents Samsung claimed Apple violated and follows Samsung's defeat last week. The court will decide on the third patent...
02:54 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: CBI and Enforcement Directorate on Friday placed before the Supreme Court fresh status reports on the progress of probe into the 2G spectrum scam which also contained their responses to allegations of interference of an influential minister in the investigation against some firms. "I have two status reports from ED and CBI in sealed covers on each issue raised by the petitioners. Our full reply is by way...
07:22 PM, Jan 20, 2012
