The results of this year’s Law School Admission Test (LSAT India 2019) have been declared on the LSAT website. Candidates may download their scorecard . LSAT India 2019 was held on June 2 at 23 centres across the country. More than 50 private law colleges
A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Uttar Pradesh government to amend the law to bring the office of Chief Minister under the purview of state ombudsman, Lokayukta. The plea said that the existing status of the ‘Uttar
In January 2018, the French Parliament formalized – as part of the 2018 Finance Act – several tax changes likely to impact companies including the repeal of the 3% additional tax on redistributions from the French Tax Code. This suppression, estimated to cost €9bn to the Government
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the State of Iowa and the Iowa Board of Medicine in the Iowa District Court of Polk County over a recently passed abortion law, Senate File 359 . The lawsuit seeks to prevent the enforcement of Section 4 of the
Judge Daniel Ottolia, of Riverside County Superior Court, ruled against California’s End of Life Option Act on Tuesday, which allowed physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients. The suit was brought by the Life Legal Defense Foundation , a Christian legal organization that opposes abortion and
The Supreme Court (SC) today quashed a Uttar Pradesh Assembly law that granted permanent accommodation to former chief ministers (CMs), saying that they aren’t eligible for government bungalows. The SC said ex-CMs can’t be granted such a facility as they aren’t holding office. Although the SC verdict is confined to the
The governor of Bermuda on Wednesday signed [press release] a bill into law that repeals same-sex marriage, reversing a Supreme Court ruling. The Domestic Partnership Act gives [text, PDF] domestic partners rights that are similar to married couples, but not the legal title. The governor said that “[t]he Act
The top five central tribunals in the country have a combined backlog of over 3.50 lakh cases with the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal alone having over 91,000 pending matters, says a latest law commission report. In its report ‘Assessment of Statutory Frameworks of Tribunals in
NEWS SCAN The Jordanian parliament on Tuesday narrowly voted to repeal Article 308[text, in Arabic] of the penal code, which permitted rapists to escape punishment if they married their victims. Rights groups applauded the decision, calling it a step forward in ending violence against women, especially in Middle
HISTORY: Law Reform has been a continuing process particularly during the last 300 years or more in Indian history. In the ancient period, when religious and customary law occupied the field, reform process had been ad hoc and not institutionalised through duly constituted law reform agencies. However,