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#BombayHighCourt begins hearing the plea of Lawyers Collective challenging the summons issued by ED for appearance of Sr Adv Anand Grover before them in the capacity of the trustee of the NGO.

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 Bench of Justices SS Shinde and MS Karnik ask ASG Anil Singh where the other Sr Advs are.

ASG: Milords had this been physical hearing, I would have located them, it is difficult during virtual hearing.

All Laugh.
Court states that the officers of ED are willing to come to Mumbai to carry out interrogation and they can proceed with the interrogation subject to the outcome of the plea.

Sr Adv Amit Desai asks the court to note certain facts from the plea.
Desai submits that ED has claimed they do not have certain documents with them. We have submitted those records, these are public records, but we will provide them with whatever additional documents they want.
Desai: So I am submitting that those documents can be sent to the ED, they can go through the documents and then take further course of action.
Court asks ASG to consider if the hearing of the ED can be deferred beyond January 6, 2021.

ASG: Milords the petitioner cannot have a choice on the investigation. This investigation is at preliminary stage. I am only talking about recording of statement.
Court: They are not saying stay the investigation, they are only deferring the hearing.

You were not there in a previous hearing, Mr. Ponda was there and Ms Gonsalves was there for CBI.

CBI had made a statement that they will complete investigation in a certain time.
Court: Thereafter they have sought for more time.

Investigation officers have full liberty to conduct their investigation.

We will hear your matter in first week of January, 2021.
ASG argues that if the hearing is deferred then it will send a wrong signal that the hearing is deferred.

Court: What we are saying is that whatever date you fix for recording their statement, just do it after January 6.
ASG: Milords lawyers are coming to court everyday, can they not go for recording statements?

I am willing to send my officers for recording statement if they cannot come to Delhi.
Desai: There are lots of jurisdictional issues. I have read the reply of Mr. Singh and he has fairly said that there are substantial questions of law which I agree.

I am also saying that they are asking me to bring the documents, I am only saying I will send the documents
Desai: You study those documents in the meanwhile and then take further course.

Desai gets disconnected from the call.

Court: Mr. Singh we will take this matter on December 22. Now time is over.
ASG: Milords I will take instructions on the date and milords can keep it tomorrow just for instructions and not for arguments.

Court: Ok we will record that and extend the earlier order till tomorrow.
Hearing will continue tomorrow only for the purpose of Mr. Singh’s reply on the issue of deferring the date for recording of statement of Sr Adv Grover on behalf of Lawyers Collective.

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Hearing to resume before Supreme Court in a short while from now.

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Senior counsel Shyam Divan begins arguments on behalf of Shapoorji Pallonji group.

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This case is about corporate governance. We have moved from corporate democracy to a much richer corporate governance under the amended Companies Act: Divan

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The management of company is the board. The most crucial obligation imposed on Director now is that the director is a fiduciary. A fiduciary's allegiance is to the company alone: Divan

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Lack of probity is much broader than financial irregularities.

The long relationship between the two groups developed over decades. It developed in the context of a statutory framework which restricted the role of private trust: Divan.
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#BombayHighCourt will pronounce its verdict in a batch of PILs filed against #mediatrials in the wake of reportage relating to the death of Bollywood actor #SushanthSinghRajput at 11 am today.


Judgment will be rendered by Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice GS Kulkarni.

Read a summary of arguments made during the hearing here:

Bench has assembled.

Bench: By mistake we have not provided link to today’s hearing. So what we will do is provide the link to today’s hearing and then pronounce judgement at 2.30 pm.

Bench will pronounce judgment at 2.30 pm today.
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Webinar on “Protection of witnesses and whistleblowers: Strengthening the Frameworks” organised by DSNLU Vishakhapatnam and Confederation of Alumni for National Law Universities (CAN Foundation) will begin shortly.

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Justice AKJ Nambiar of Kerala High Court, Justice Dr. PS Bhati of Rajasthan High Court and Senior Advocate Siddharth Bhatnagar will share their point of view.

Advocates Sriram Parakkat and Vishwajeet Singh will moderate and Prof. (Dr.) S. Surya Prakash will give welcome address.

Session begins.

Shivang Dubey introduces the topic of the session and the panelists.


A presentation is being played to give a background on the CAN Foundation.

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Prof. (Dr.) S. Surya Prakash, Vice Chancellor of DSNLU begins his welcome address.
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Retired Supreme Court Judge, Justice Kurian Joseph to shortly begin speaking on the "Significance of Constitutional Values in the 21st Century" in a virtual discussion hosted by LEX MACULA.


The event is being live-streamed on YouTube here:

Justice Kurian Joseph begins his address: Our Constitution is a unique one... It's a Constitution of, by, for the people because it is a country that exists for the people. It does not owe to anybody else - only the people.


Justice Joseph says it is akin to a building that is constructed on five pillars i.e. sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic, republic.

Justice Joseph speaks on "democracy" :

People elect their own government and the government rules the country for the people - not for anything else. The moment the government does not rule for the people, you pull them down. Because the government should be for the people.
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Tata Trusts launches 2nd edition of the "India Justice Report"

Justice Madan Lokur, former Supreme Court Judge to give a special address.

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#IndiaJusticeReport2020: Srinath N, Tata Trusts renders opening remarks.

Chief Editor of the Report, Maya Daruwala gives an overview of the report.

Druwala says the aim of the report was to assess the capacity of each State to deliver Justice.

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Maja Daruwala: We found that in most areas - vacancies, number of undertrials, overburdening of courts etc. - they remained very much as they are.

Only 30% of prisoners were convicts, the study showed, Daruwala points out, among other findings.


Last year the report had been confined to broad suggestions, but this year specific suggestions have been made since there has been a pandemic, Daruwala says.

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