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Supreme Court Says Technical Lapses Cannot Defeat Justice, Stresses Duty to Ensure Quality Legal Assistance

Introduction: The Supreme Court has reaffirmed that constitutional courts must not allow procedural or technical shortcomings to defeat a litigant’s substantive right to have a ...
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Bombay High Court Draws Clear Line Between Outraging Modesty and Sexual Harassment

The Bombay High Court has drawn an important legal distinction between the offences of outraging the modesty of a woman and sexual harassment, holding that an act may prima facie attract Section 354 ...
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Open-Category Fees Protect Student’s Right to Academic Recognition Despite Cancellation of ST Certificate

The Supreme Court of India, in Cynthia Julious Charlie v. The Vice Chancellor & Ors., 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 827, has provided important relief to a pharmacy student whose academic results and degree ...
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Supreme Court Clarifies When an Agreement to Sell Can End a Subsisting Tenancy

The Supreme Court of India, in Nazim Shaikh Hasan v. Nasir Mushtaq Shaikh & Others, 2026 LiveLaw (SC) 803, has clarified an important question concerning the relationship between a subsisting tenancy ...
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Madras High Court Holds Senior Citizens Act Cannot Be Invoked by Persons Below 60 Who Are Not Parents

The Madras High Court has clarified the statutory limits of the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007, holding that a complaint under the Act can be maintained only by a ...