The law ministry has advised against the setting up of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to chair which recently retired Supreme Court justice KS Radhakrishnan’s name had been recommended, reported the Express . The reported reason for this advice was that the National Company Law ...

The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) has written to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) against the newly notified Companies Act sections, some of which are potentially “fatal to the profession of Company Secretaries” in India.

J Sagar Associates (JSA) partner Lalit Kumar has set out the important new sections of the Companies Act that were yesterday announced by the MCA and would be notified and come into force on 1 April.

Indian Corporate Law blog’s V Umakanth just reported that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) has notified several further provisions of the Companies Act to take effect from 1 April [ Indian Corporate Law Blog ] [ Notification (mirror link since original MCA link unreliable at the moment) ] Com...

The Supreme Court has ruled today that all Indian company-related cases should be transferred to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) from high courts and company adjudication bodies throughout the country, by upholding the validity of a 2002 amendment to the 1956 Companies Act.