Lok Adalat ‘Lok Adalat’ is a system of conciliation or negotiation. It is also known as ‘people’s court’. It can be understood as a court involving the people who are directly or indirectly affected by the dispute or grievance. ‘Lok Adalat’, established by the government settles dispute through conciliation and Read more
RULE OF EQUITY In law, the term “equity” refers to a particular set of remedies and associated procedures involved with civil law. These equitable doctrines and procedures are distinguished from “legal” ones. A court will typically award equitable remedies when a legal remedy is insufficient or inadequate. In modern practice, Read more
RULE OF LAW Rule of law means “the law rules”. Rule of law refers to “a government based on the principles of law and not of men”. In its ideological sense, the concept of rule of law represents an ethical code for the exercise of public power, the basic postulates Read more
About Legal Vidhiya Legal Vidhiya intends to provide legal awareness by providing general content on law, legal system, legal news, and other updates relating to legal field. The idea behind Legal Vidhiya was to provide in- depth and brief analysis of law field to student of law and any legal Read more
PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION Some of the matters which are entertained under PIL are: Genesis and Evolution of PIL in India: Some Landmark Judgements The seeds of the concept of public interest litigation were initially sown in India by Justice Krishna Iyer, in 1976 in Mumbai Kamagar Sabha vs. Abdul Thai. Read more
CHAPTER 4: MAJOR LEGAL SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD CHAPTER 4: MAJOR LEGAL SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD There are five basic types of legal systems in the world. They are civil law, common law, customary law, religious law, and hybrid or mixed systems. Today, mixed or hybrid systems are common. Common Read more
DEFINITION OF LAW, ITS KINDS AND CLASSIFICATIONS Introduction: The term ‘law’ denotes different kinds of rules and principles. Law is an instrument which regulates human conduct or behaviour. The term law has been derived from the Latin term ‘Legam’ which means the body of rules. LAW= DERIVED FROM LATIN WORD Read more
The Bombay High Court decided to grant the compensation of ₹15 lakh to the kin of the deceased. In the case of Sunita Kalyan Kute v. State of Maharashtra, the petitioner, her son Pradip and his wife Sunita were the sugarcane harvesters and labors. For the crushing season of 2018-2019 Read more
Section 24 of the Hindu marriage act entitles not only the wife but also the husband to claim maintenance pendente lite on showing that he has no independent source of income. However, the husband will have to satisfy the court that either due to physical or mental disability he is Read more
A Bench comprising Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice A.S. Oka, on Monday, observed that there is no provision in the Constitution of India which prohibits lawyers practicing in the Supreme Court to be appointed as judges of High Courts. The petitioner, an advocate, Mr. Ashok Pandey, argued that a person Read more
