Cyriac Joseph

SC to take up programme to popularise mediation

Hindu (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

BMC has overtaken centres in other States in all aspects: Cyriac Joseph

Mediation process needs to be endorsed by Judges, people

Hindu (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008

ChennaiMediation process needs to be endorsed by Judges, people Special Correspondent Only then will common man opt for it: Supreme Court Judge CHENNAI: Mediation process needs endorsement from Judges and people, Justice Cyriac Joseph, Supreme Court Judge, said here on Saturday.Speaking at the Madras High Court on ‘Mediation’, organised by the Tamil Nadu Mediation and Conciliation Centre...

NRIs too have the right to information

People for Social Cause (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008

In 2008 the Supreme Court granted all overseas Indians the right to seek information from any public authority, organisation or institution under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005, saying the right is available to all persons of Indian origin (PIOs) who have obtained the status of Pravasi Bharatiya. The ruling was made by a bench comprising Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph on...

Homoeopaths to take out march

Hindu (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008

... Bill for checking fraudulent practice of the system of medicine is still not in place. Dr. Britto Cyriac Joseph, general secretary of IHK; Dr. G. Ernest, vice-president, Dr. Sundaram Velayudhan, public relations officer of IHK and Dr. Sadath Sait, district office-bearer addressed the press meet.

Stamp on Alphonsa

Hindu (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008

Stamp on Alphonsa New Delhi: A postal stamp on St. Alphonsa, India’s first woman saint, was released at a convention of the Syro-Malabar Church here on Sunday.Chief Post Master General (Delhi) P.K. Gopinath released the Rs.15 stamp and handed it over to the Supreme Court Judge Cyriac Joseph, a church official said.Bishops of dioceses in Kerala and Delhi, led by Thrissur Archbishop Andrews...

Use contempt power with care, SC tells courts

Times of India (Free subscription) | 28/10/2008

... proceed against persons as if they are petty criminals," a bench of Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph observed. In this case, the Calcutta high court initiated contempt proceedings against director and another employee of the production house Three Cheer Entertainment Pvt LTD on the basis of a complaint by the Calcutta Electricity Company Ltd.

• Courts cannot invoke contempt powers arbitrarily, says Supreme Court - rediff News
• Use contempt powers judiciously, says SC - Daily News Analysis

Use contempt powers judiciously, says SC

Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008

... proceed against persons as if they are petty criminals,” a bench of justices SB Sinha and Cyriac Joseph observed.In this case the HC had initiated contempt proceedings against director and another employee of the production house Three Cheer Entertainment Pvt Ltd on the basis of a complaint by the Calcutta Electricity Company Ltd (CECL). CECL had earlier filed a Rs20-crore defamation...

Courts cannot invoke contempt powers arbitrarily, says Supreme Court

rediff News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008

... proceed against persons as if they are petty criminals," a bench of Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph observed.In this case the Calcutta high court initiated contempt proceedings against the director and another employee of the production house Three Cheer Entertainment Private Limited on the basis of a complaint by the Calcutta Electricity Company Ltd.The CECL had earlier filed...

Another GO quashed; relief to schools

Hindu (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008

... relating to medium of instruction. On July 2, 2008, a Full Bench comprising the then Chief Justice Cyriac Joseph, Justice Manjula Challur and Justice N. Kumar, quashed several provisions of a 1994 GO relating to teaching in Kannada-medium.The 1994 GO had made it mandatory for private primary schools to teach in Kannada-medium from the first to the fourth standards. The 2002 GO, issued...