A. Intellectual Property — Trademark — Trade Marks Act, 1999 — Passing off — What is — Passing off in common law is considered to be a right for protection of goodwill in the business against misrepresentation caused in the...

Excise — Excise duty — Cellular telephones were imported by the assesses — Valuation of — Assessees had sought to clear the goods by classifying them under Custom Tariff Heading 8525.20.17 — Along with the cellular phones, the...

It is not in dispute that the respondent-assessee is a Small Scale Industrial Unit (SSI Unit). It claimed the benefit of Exemption Notification No. 1/93 dated 28.02.1993 and the successor notification as per which the SSI Units...

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000 — Ss. 2(a), 62 — Constitution of the Advisory Boards in various States and Union Territories — Additional Solicitor General submitted that steps are being taken in this...

Narcotics and Intoxicants — Possession of contraband — Conviction confirmed — Appreciation of evidence — Allegation that appellant was selling opium and was roaming in the village in search of customers — Contention that that the...

The issue raised in these appeals pertains to the discretion exercised by the Revisional/Appellate Authority with regard to the percentage of forfeiture on surrender of plots.

Service Law — Promotion — Date of promotion — Appeal — It is contended by the appellant that the respondents ought to have put in 8 yrs’ regular service for the grant of senior scale and the period from 1-7-1975 till 25-10-1977...

A. Interpretation of Statutes — Construction of word and phrases — Particular word and phrases — Means and includes — Reiterated that word ‘means and includes’ indicates that definition is a hard-and-fast definition, and no other...

Local Government — Town Planning — Development Plan — Construction of Bus Depot — Case of the respondents that the construction in question amounted to encroachment on river flood plain/river front resulting a change in the land...

A. Civil Procedure Code, 1908 — S. 98 — Travancore-Cochin High Court Act, 1125 — S. 23 — Two statutes — Subject matter of — Main object and purpose of statutes — If similar — Held, Code of Civil Procedure does not correspond to...