The court ruled in a judgment running to over 100 pages that the commission can order an investigation into a complaint of an anti-competitive agreement or abuse of dominant position in the market.
The judges in criminal courts also suffer from tunnel vision and focus on the sentence to be given to the offender. If they are sensitive, they can award compensation to the victim while sentencing the lawbreaker. But it is rarely done, and the Supreme Court has often wondered why.
The SC laments that they spend most of their time in covering their back rather than in achieving their goals.
High courts should replicate for states what the Supreme Court has done for Delhi's environment, says M J Antony.
The rate of road accidents in India is so high that the chances of getting run over by a motor vehicle are higher than those of winning a bet at the club.
Borrowers can move civil courts to stall recovery proceedings as they have few other choices.
The accident compensation formula ignores inflation and the rise in life expectancy.
The principle of equal pay for equal work, made enforceable so far, that too by a Supreme Court fiat, is all but buried, says M J Antony.
The original MRTP Act did not contain the phrase UTP; it was introduced in 1984 through an amendment. The phrase is open to interpretation yet, though the Supreme Court bench differed on its definition, the issue has not been sent to a larger bench.
The Supreme Court junks technicalities in international arbitration agreements.
With rising consumerism, future feuds will be over the appearance of products.
It has the discretion to adjudicate disputes by itself or send it to an arbitrator. The use of 'and' posed such a difficulty for the Supreme Court in a recent case and it ruled that 'and' is an equivalent of 'or' in a clause in the Electricity Act and 'or' could mean 'and' in some cases. The judges traversed the English decisions and the Mimamsa principles in Sanskrit texts to harmonise provisions in the Electricity Act and the Arbitration & Conciliation Act.
Unless the law specifies, top executives are not liable for the fault of their employees.
Political heavyweights may be still recovering from the tectonic changes brought about by the Delimitation Commission headed by Justice Kuldip Singh after about six years' labour, but to those who have watched this barrister who came from Chandigarh to be elevated almost immediately to the bench of the Supreme Court in 1988, it was not a surprise.
The Supreme Court has tightened the rule against the drawers of cheques which are dishonoured for want of sufficient balance in the bank account.
Though there are several laws enabling banks and financial institutions to recover bad loans, the ingenuity of the debtors have always surpassed those of the legislators and the creditors.
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