Lex Lata - The Law As It Exists

JURISDICTION OF SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court is the highest appellate Court of the land. It has the following kind of jurisdiction: 1.       Original jurisdiction (Arts. 71 & 131) 2.       Appellate jurisdiction (Arts. 132 - 134) a.        Constitutional jurisdiction b.       Civil jurisdiction c.        Criminal jurisdiction 3.       Special Leave to Appeal (Art.136) 4.       Review Jurisdiction (Art.137) 5.       Advisory jurisdiction (Art.143) 6.       Writ jurisdiction (Art. 32) 7.       Curative Petition (Judicial innovation) ORIGINAL JURISDICTION Article 71 vests all types of disputes arising out of or in connection with the election of a President or Vice-President on the Supreme C...

RENT CONTROL ACT – OBJECTIVE & PURPOSE INTRODUCTION What is Rent Control? The practice of imposing a legal maximum (rent ceiling) upon the rent in a particular housing market, below the equilibrium rent is called rent control. So basically, Rent Controls prevent prices from rising up to the equilibrium level and thus it alternatively rationalizes the mechanism. A 1986 U.N. study estimated that about 42 percent of the world’s urban dwellers were renters. It was not known how many of those 150 million households lived under rent control regimes, but preliminary research suggested that the proportion is as high as 30 percent [1] . These numbers can reasonably be expected to have increased with the passage of time. Thus, it necessitates seeing why rent control laws came into being and why it has been persisting for such a long time. While the proponents of rent control laws suggest that they prevent landlords from charging exorbitant rents and evicting tenants at will,...