UPBEAT

a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous

cusine

Itz not an English word, Cuisine is a French word used for "manner of preparing food".

Importance of P.I.L.

1. Bonded labour
2. Child welfare
3. Protection of prostitute and their children
4. Care taker house
5. Protection of environment
6. In force of public duty
7. C.B.I. and central vigilances
8. Code of conduct and medical profession
9. Blood bank
10. Pain harassment and uncommon behavior
11. Fabricated war
12. Breach against human rights
13. Rape victimized
14. By sex harassment breach of provision 14 and 21 of the working women
15. People
16. Protection of court status

Union Budget: 28-2-2011

• Exemption limit extended from 1,60,000 to 1,80,000
• No change in women tax exemption limit i.e. 1,90,000
• Senior citizen exemption 2,50,000; age now 60 years not 65
• Citizens over 80 years have exemption limit of Rs. 5 lacs

Powers and Functions of State Bar Council:

Sec 6 of Advocates Act 1961 deals with the Powers and Functions of State Bar Council:

(a) to admit persons as advocates on its rolls;

(b) to prepare and maintain such rolls;

(c) to entertain and determine cases of misconduct against advocates on its roll;

(d) to safeguard therights, privileges and interests of advocates on its roll;

(e) to promote and support law reform;

(ee) to conduct seminars and organize talks on legal topics by eminentjurists and publish journals and papers of legal interest;

(eee) to organize legal aid to the poor n the prescribed manner;

(f) to manage and invest the funds of the Bar Council;

(g) to provide for the election of its members;

(h) to perform all other functions conferred on it by or under this Act;

(i) to do all other things necessary for discharging the aforesaid functions.

Judicial Activism

Judicial Activism may be taken to mean the movements of the judiciary to probe into the inner functioning of the other organs of the Government (i.e. the executive and legislature). The Judicial Activism is, no doubt, the result of inactiveness on the part of the executive and legislature.

The main object of Judicial Activism is to maintain the rule of law in the country.

Definition:P.I.L.

The words 'Public Interest' has been defined in Black's Law Dictionary (6th Ed.) as something in which the public, the community at large has some pecuniary interest or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected. 

In Janata Dal v/s H.S.Choudhary, P.I.L. has been defined as a legal action initiated in a court of law for the enforcement of public interest or general interest in which the public or a class of the community have pecuniary interest or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are affected.