S. Basavaraj, Senior Advocate & Member, Karnataka State Bar Council. Bengaluru. The recent order of the Karnataka High Court is sought to be sensationalised and criticised for the reasons which are completely unacceptable. In the order, the division bench of Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice Vijaykumar A Patil referred couples whose marriage in trouble …
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The Karnataka State Bar Council has addressed a letter to the Chief Justice of India, Prime Minister of India and the Law Minister of India demanding inclusion of Judge/s from Karnataka in the Karnataka High Court collegium. Speaking to S. Basavaraj, Senior Advocate and Member, Karnataka State Bar Council, Justice Santosh Hegde, former judge, Supreme …
Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. I. Arun celebrates his 54th birthday today. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Maralur Indrakumar Arun was born on 24.04.1970, studied SSLC from MES High School, Jayanagar, Bengaluru; PUC from Mari Mallappa Junior College, Mysore; Graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in the year 1993. He enrolled as an Advocate …
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S. Basavaraj, Senior Advocate & Member KSBC, Bengaluru 1. The Hon’ble Supreme Court in Vinay Chandra Mishra, Re (1995) 2 SCC 584 was dealing with the contempt of court committed by Mr. Vinay Chandra Mishra, Advocate. The Supreme Court found Mr. Vinay Chandra Mishra guilty of committing criminal contempt of court ‘for having interfered with …
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Hon’ble Mr. Justice C M Poonacha celebrates his 50th birthday today. Justice C M Poonacha was born on 6th April 1974. He completed Law from University Law College, Bangalore and enrolled as an Advocate in October 1997.He joined the chambers of Sri. S.K.V. Chalapathy, Senior Advocate and later his father Sri C. M. Monnappa, Advocate. …
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Hon’ble Mrs. Justice Kannankuzhyil Sreedharan Hemalekha celebrates her 49th birthday today. She was born on 28th March 1975 at Belgaum to Late Sreedharan who was serving in Airforce and Late Chandramati who was homemaker. Passed S.S.L.C. from Divine Providence Convent School, Belgaum in the year 1990. Awarded with Student of Indian Classical Dance and practised …
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K.G. Raghavan, Senior Advocate, Bengaluru Suti March 8th is observed as International Women’s Day. An observance of great significance and merit as it recognizes two facts. First, women occupy an exalted position in the society and as a category require special attention and recognition. Second, women are a neglected and oppressed lot and therefore need …
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S. Basavaraj, Senior Advocate and Member, Karnataka State Bar Council “Judicial function cannot and should not be permitted to be stonewalled by browbeating or bullying methodology, whether it is by litigants or by counsel. A lawyer is under obligation to do nothing that shall detract from the dignity of the Court, of which he is …
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Justice T G Shivashankare Gowda celebrates his 61st birthday today. Hon’ble Mr. Justice Talkad Girigowda Shivashankare Gowda was born on 1:2:1963. Native of Talakad, T. Narasipura Taluk, Mysore District. Enrolled as Advocate and practiced at Srirangapatna. Appointed as Munsiff on 08.02.1995. Appointed as District Judge on 06.07.2009. Served as Prl. District & Sessions Judge at …
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The Karnataka High Court has expressed its deep concerns about the widespread use of social media among youngsters, particularly schoolchildren. The Karnataka High Court suggested that it might be in the nation’s best interest to restrict access to social media platforms for this demographic. The idea is to potentially set a threshold age of either …
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