Litigation
Rajani wins for Vistar Metal over Ashok Wadhwani NCLT proceedings
Link Legal settles $761m arbitration between GMR and PE investors
Karanjawala files criminal defamation suit for ex-journo MJ Akbar over one #MeToo accuser’s tweets [READ COMPLAINT]
Karanjawala & Co has filed a criminal defamation complaint for parliamentarian MJ Akbar today against a female journalist who had alleged in Tweets on 8 October that she had been sexually harassed by him while he was her boss and a senior editor.
Phoenix, Khaitan get SC to stay NGT order for 100% CNG conversion of airport vehicles
Phoenix Legal obtained a stay, by the Supreme Court, on the National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) order that had directed all vehicles plying at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport to be converted to using only CNG as fuel.
Juice wars: ITC revises BNatural ad ‘disparaging’ concentrate, following suit from PepsiCo India’s Tropicana
Khaitan, SAM, Vedanta legal head on Electrosteel: Insolvency Code’s first of Big 12 corporate resolutions
P&A, Gopal win Delhi HC support of Rs 3,500 cr Singapore ICC arbitration for Daiichi Sankyo vs DMD, Salve for Ranbaxy promoters
India cuts down on death sentences by 27% since 2016 • Maha most aggressive judicial death dealer • Only Tripura against death penalty
India reversed its trend of death row population spike since last year, with a drop of nearly 27% in the number of prisoners sentenced to death by sessions courts in 2017, according to the second NLU Delhi Death Penalty Report.
Ex-JSAers Zerick, Somasekhar appeal SEBI jurisdiction over PwC ban before SAT, with Janak, Shyam
Zerick Dastur Advocates & Solicitors has filed an appeal before the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) on behalf of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) challenging the jurisdiction of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) order of last week banning the Big 4 consultancy from auditing work in India.
Salve, Delhi HC revising Original Side Rules: Would smack frivolous litigants with huge costs [UPDATE-1]
Senior advocate Harish Salve helped the Delhi high court approve, but not yet notify, a set of new rules which would enable it to impose a staggering and unprecedented amount of costs on litigants filing frivolous cases before it, encourage video-conferencing trials and reduce litigation time in other ways.
32% of ex-SC judges believe police torture is a necessary evil, reveal NLU Delhi talks to 60 ex-judges on the death penalty
The death penalty would stay on Indian statute books for at least another 50 years, predicted a former Chief Justice of India (CJI) in a wide-ranging study of opinions of former apex court judges conducted by NLU Delhi on the death penalty in India.
Clasis, Rohatgi, Datar win for Macquarie in SC vs AM Singhvi, Divan for ArcelorMittal
MDP for Andhra Bank’s insolvency petition against HDIL
“State-owned Andhra Bank has dragged Housing Development & Infrastructure to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in an insolvency petition because the Mumbai-based real estate developer failed to pay back Rs 55 crore invested by the bank in the company’s non-convertible debentures (NCDs),” reported The Economic Times
HSA wins back $168m for L&T from Punjab Power with Rohatgi & Vaidyanathan in SC [READ ORDER]
The Supreme Court directed the Punjab State Power Corporation (PSPCL) to pay Rs 1100 crores as refund to L&T subsidiary Nabha Power (NPL), relieving NPL from a potential loss of Rs 8000 crore over the next 22 years.
McD’s v Bakshi saga: SAM, S&R, Dua arbitrate in London CIA with Salve, Ciccu, Debevoise, Lord Goldsmith, others
McDonald’s India has approached the Delhi high court seeking to enforce a 13 September London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) partial award to appoint experts to value and sell estranged former managing director Vikram Bakshi’s stake in the North and Eastern India local franchise of the fast food giant, reported Mint, the Economic Times and others.
E-gambling company SLAPPs ex-NUJS gaming laws blogger Jay Sayta for reporting on its CAG audit
NUJS Kolkata 2015 alumni Jay Sayta, who reports on India’s gambling laws on his website glaws.in, and The Wire, are facing E-Cool Gaming Solutions’ criminal defamation case in far-flung Mizoram for Sayta’s story reporting on a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) audit of the complainant, reported Medianama.
Read Baba Ramdev petition & Juggernaut appeal vs Baba Ramdev biog injunction
A Delhi district court today heard the appeal of publishing house Juggernaut against an order restraining it from publishing the book “Godman to Tycoon: The Untold Story of Baba Ramdev”.
Legal services exempt from GST tax until government clarification, rules Delhi HC
Service tax law firm JK Mittal & Co’s founder JK Mittal won an order in the Delhi high court exempting lawyers from government action in case of non-observance of the Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act 2017, reported News18.
SAM for McDonald’s India MD Vikram Bakshi NCLT win vs Dua for McDonald’s
“In a major setback to the US- based fast food chain McDonald’s in India, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) today restored its estranged partner Vikram Bakshi as the Managing Director of Connaught Plaza Restaurant Ltd. The tribunal has said the meeting of Connaught Plaza Restaurants Ltd (CPRL) of August 6, 2013 in which Bakshi was removed as MD of the company was illegal, unjust and malafide,” reported the PTI.
AORs, Khaitan, Wadia Ghandy settle Raymond family dispute
“After fighting for over three decades for a share in ancestral properties, three branches of the Singhania family told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they had amicably settled the dispute by honouring and implementing the decision of the arbitrator who had in 2008 divided the assets in three parts.