The principle of colourable enactment depends on the adage that what is impossible straightforwardly is impossible by implication. The regulation becomes relevant when a governing body looks to ...

In his article, The needless resurrection of a buried issue ( The Hindu, March 29, 2021), Dushyant Dave, senior advocate of eminence, has articulated why he opposes the challenges on constitutional ...

One does not see too many instances of the Indian judiciary with the opportunity to construe and pass a verdict on the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy as formulated by the Government of India, ...

Exemption from dividend distribution tax on buyback amount, the Authority held, is not on when the buyback scheme is a colourable device to avoid payment of distribution tax. The Authority was not ...

Panaji: Public interest litigation has been filed in the high court alleging an illegal change of zone of an Aldona property, authorised by chief secretary Puneet Kumar Goel — also the TCP secretary — ...

President Arif Alvi on Saturday returned to parliament a bill aimed at clipping the powers of the chief justice of Pakistan and giving the right to appeal in all suo motu cases with retrospective ...

The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA) on Tuesday stated that presidential reference on Senate polls was a 'colourable exercise' of power designed to advance the political objectives of the ...

Back in the cramped (but suitably inexpensive) lodgings in the Edinburgh Old Town, manservant, Mr Horse couldn’t help but laugh: ‘…and when you get to court, Mr K, you can get that old dead father out ...

On the Le Morne issue, I refer to a certain number of positions voiced and published here and there of which some, I believe, may rightly be construed as offensive to the intangible heritage (and ...

In his article, “The needless resurrection of a buried issue” ( The Hindu, March 29, 2021), Dushyant Dave, senior advocate of eminence, has articulated why he opposes the challenges on constitutional ...