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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Appointment of Provisional Liquidator - Factors to be considered

Darshan Anilkumar Patel v. Gitaneel Hotel Pvt Ltd, [1994] 81 Comp Cases 805

Parallel Remedies - Stay of proceedings

Jai Singh v. Union of India, AIR 1977 SC 898

a litigant cannot pursue two parallel remedies in respect of the same matter at the same time.


See also:


Awadh Bihari Yadav  v. State of Bihar, AIR 1996 SC 122
Arunima Baruah v. Union of India, (2007) 6 SCC 120
Manish Goel v. Rohini Goel, 2010 (3) BomCR 44

BMC 'person' required to take license

Manibhai Tulsibhai Patel v. MCGM, 1965 MhLJ 458: (1964) 66 BomLR 677

A person required to take a license, could be landlord or tenant.

Stamp Duty at Interim Stage is relevant

K.B. Jayram v. Navineethamma, AIR 2003 Kant 241 (para 4)


the court below would have been justified in first insisting upon the payment of the stamp duty and the penalty on the agreement to sell before it could issue an injunction in favour of the appellant on that basis. 




Also see 


Conwood Agencies v. Namdeo Pandurang, 2005(1)ALLMR335, (2005)107BOMLR319



[A] Civil Procedure Code, 1908 - Order 18, Rule 4 - Order 7, Rules 3, 4 -- Bombay Stamp Act, 1958 - Sections 33, 34, 37 -- Registration Act, 1908 - Sections 17, 18, 49 -- Admissibility of document in evidence - Admissibility objected to on the ground that it is insufficiently stamped - Court must at the outset determine the question of its admissibility before allowing the party to rely on such document even for collateral purpose.



Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Company court and civil court

CDS Financial Services v. BPL communications, 2004 121 comp cas 374

If the right is traceable to the general law of contracts or it is a common law right, it can be enforced through the civil court, even though the forum under the statute also will have jurisdiction to enforce that right.

Section 397/398 provide a convenient remedy for minority shareholders under certain conditions and the provisions therein are not intended to exclude all other remedies.




Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Arbitrability of landlord tenant dispute

Follows nataraj studio and central warehousing
2010 (4) Bom C. R. 394
Ravindra Vithalrao

Cheque bounce compounding procedure

2010 4 Bom C. R. 45 (SC)

Damodar prabhu v. Sayed babalal.