The Hon’ble High Court of Delhi on August 5, 2016 in the case of Kritika Padode v. Union of India &…
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The High Court of Delhi by its recent decision in R.P. Luthra v. CBI (W.P. Crl.1520/2014) has had occasion to define the evidentiary value of a, “blog”. The judgement has some significance given the…
Clichés though at the cost of nuance, are often accurate in their generality. In law no other cliché is truer than history repeating itself. Legal disputes inevitable rely on the predictability of past decisions being beautifully captured in the Latin phrase Stare Decisis. Quite simply…
One of the confirmations that litigation provides is that the black letter of the law is often grey. Even when clear legal boundaries are set, attempts are made to circumvent it.
This is visible in a recent case seeking to protect news under copyright law…
Last fortnight the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting shrugged off its regulatory lethargy and issued orders prohibiting the telecast of three private television channels. One of the channels which found itself in the crosshairs was Comedy Central for…
The Delhi University copyright case (University of Oxford v. Rameshwari Photocopy Services CS(OS) 2439/2012) demonstrates that litigation’s involving issues of intellectual property go beyond mere private adjudications and involve larger issues of access to knowledge and public…
This blog post analyses the judgment lifting the blanket gag order on reporting court proceedings in the trial of the Delhi Gangrape accused.
The Delhi High Court by its judgement in Multi Sceen Media v. Vidhya Dheer and Others [FAO (OS) 119/2013], on 28th February, 2013 lifted an injunction on the telecast of a television programme reporting on the conviction of Mr. Om Prakash Chautala. The injunction…
Last week Medianama and Mint reported that following the injunction granted to Nirmal Baba which we wrote on here, the Delhi High Court has passed a similar ex-parte ad-interim injunction restraining certain defendants from publishing content alleged to be defamatory about Sri Sri Ravi…
