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May 30 2012 (FN)

Assange Vs. the Swedish Prosecution Authority

Court : UK Supreme Court

..... species and in endangered plant species and varieties, - facilitation of unauthorised entry and residence, - murder, grievous bodily injury, - illicit trade in human organs and tissue, - kidnapping, illegal restraint and hostage-taking, - racism and xenophobia, - organised or armed robbery, - illicit trafficking in cultural goods, including antiques and works of art, - swindling, - racketeering and extortion, - counterfeiting and piracy of products, - forgery of administrative documents and trafficking therein, - forgery of means of payment, - illicit trafficking in hormonal substances and other growth ..... rightly identified as being of general public importance for the purposes of an appeal to the supreme court is whether a warrant of this nature issued by a public prosecutor is "a valid part 1 warrant issued by a 'judicial authority' within the meaning of sections 2(2) and 66 of the extradition act ..... the protection provided by article 5 is that the individual arrested is brought promptly before a judge or other officer authorised by law to exercise judicial power and that he is able to take proceedings by which the lawfulness of his detention is decided quickly by a court and his ..... between the original commission proposal of 25 september 2001 (com(2001) 522 final/2) and the redraft which was agreed by the council of ministers at a meeting of 6-7 december 2001, recorded on 10 december 2001 as council document 14867/1/01 rev 1 and agreed by the european parliament on 6 february .....

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Mar 09 2012 (HC)

Nuziveedu Seeds Pvt. Ltd Hyderabad Vs. the Protection of Plant Variety ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

..... a writ of mandamus is solicited for declaring the advertisement of the 2nd respondent's applications in respect of mrc-7918, mrc-7041 bgii and mrc- 7160 varieties in the "plant variety journal of india" without following the due procedure specified under the provisions contained in sections 19, 20, 21 read with rule 29 and 30 of protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights act, 2001 as illegal and unconstitutional and for other allied reliefs. 2. ..... in accordance with the provisions of protection of plant varieties and farmers rights act, 2001, the 1st respondent authority came to be constituted for enabling registration of plant varieties and essentially derived varieties. ..... the division bench clearly held that a farmer or a breeder, therefore, need not wait till the competent authority completes the registration of a plant variety in violation of his rights before approaching the competent court. ..... (2) if a part of cause of action arises within the territory of the state, the jurisdiction of this court can be invoked though the authority who took the decision may have been stationed beyond the territorial limits of the state. ..... although the origin of this doctrine in anglo-american law is somewhat obscure, however, most authorities are in agreement that this doctrine found its earliest expression in scottish estate cases. ..... 8031 of 2010 that a writ of certiorari cannot be issued to the competent authority as the same is not situated within the territorial limits of the state. .....

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Jan 24 2012 (HC)

Nuziveedu Seeds Pvt. Ltd.,rep. by Its Dy Vs. Protection of Plant Varie ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

..... these cases arise against the backdrop of the protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights act, 2001 (for brevity, 'the act'). ..... , the protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights authority (hereinafter, 'the competent authority') to entertain and process applications from plant breeders, farmers or persons claiming through them for registration of the plant varieties over which rights are sought to be asserted. ..... this legislation was promulgated by the parliament for protecting the intellectual property rights of plant breeders and farmers over plant varieties developed by them. ..... the respondent company has its registered office at mumbai and its applications for registration of its plant varieties were filed in new delhi where the competent authority has its head office. ..... house of lords explained the ambit of the principle 'forum non conveniens' for issuing an order of stay: "(1) the fundamental principle applicable to both the stay of english proceedings on the ground that some other forum was the appropriate forum and also the grant of leave to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction was that the court would choose that forum in which the case could be tried more suitably for the interests of all ..... it may be noted that under section 10 of the companies act, 1956, the registered office of a company incorporated under the said act would determine the high court which would have jurisdiction for the purposes of that act. .....

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Jan 24 2012 (HC)

Nuziveedu Seeds Pvt. Ltd.,Rep. by Its Dy Vs. Protection of Plant Varie ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

..... these cases arise against the backdrop of the protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights act, 2001 (for brevity, 'the act'). ..... , the protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights authority (hereinafter, 'the competent authority') to entertain and process applications from plant breeders, farmers or persons claiming through them for registration of the plant varieties over which rights are sought to be asserted. ..... protection of plant variety & farmers'rights authority, the registrar, national academy of agricultural sciences,(n.a.s.c.complex), opp. ..... the respondent company has its registered office at mumbai and its applications for registration of its plant varieties were filed in new delhi where the competent authority has its head office. ..... house of lords explained the ambit of the principle 'forum non conveniens' for issuing an order of stay: "(1) the fundamental principle applicable to both the stay of english proceedings on the ground that some other forum was the appropriate forum and also the grant of leave to serve proceedings out of the jurisdiction was that the court would choose that forum in which the case could be tried more suitably for the interests of all ..... it may be noted that under section 10 of the companies act, 1956, the registered office of a company incorporated under the said act would determine the high court which would have jurisdiction for the purposes of that act. .....

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Jan 16 2012 (SC)

Ms. National Seeds Corpn. Ltd. Vs. M. Madhusudhan Reddy and anr.

Court : Supreme Court of India

..... they have no idea about the seeds act and the rules framed thereunder and other legislations, like, protection of plant varieties and farmers' rights act, 2011. ..... considered from this perspective, we hold that though the district forum, state commission and national commission are judicial authorities, for the purpose of section 34 of the arbitration act, in view of the object of the act and by operation of section 3 thereof, we are of the considered view that it would be appropriate that these forums created under the act are at liberty to proceed with the matters in accordance with the provisions of the act rather than relegating the parties to an arbitration proceedings pursuant to a contract entered ..... the appellant's plea that the district forum could not have awarded compensation to the respondents without complying with section 13(1)(c) of the consumer act was negatived by the national commission by observing that after having used all the seeds for sowing the respondent was not in a position to provide sample for testing and the report of the horticulture officer was sufficient for proving that the foundation seeds supplied by the appellant were defective. ..... this court referred to sections 74 and 75 of the employees state insurance act, 1948, the definition of the `consumer' contained in section 2(d) of the consumer act, referred to the judgments in spring meadows hospital v. .....

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Jun 21 2010 (FN)

Monsanto Co. Vs. Geertson Seed Farms

Court : US Supreme Court

..... in deciding whether to grant nonregulated status to a genetically engineered plant variety, aphis must comply with nepa, which requires federal agencies to the fullest extent possible to prepare an environmental impact statement (eis) for every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major federal actio[n] significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. 42 u. s. c. ..... in determining whether to grant nonregulated status to a genetically engineered plant variety, aphis must comply with the national environmental policy act of 1969 (nepa), which requires federal agencies to the fullest extent possible to prepare a detailed environmental impact statement (eis) for every major federal actio[n] significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. 42 u. s. c. ..... 108a, yet also to find that a partial stay of the vacatur was appropriate to protect the interests of those farmers who had already acted in good-faith reliance on aphis. ..... 202, 218 (1869) ( [a] court of equity ha[s] unquestionable authority to apply its flexible and comprehensive jurisdiction in such manner as might be necessary to the right administration of justice between the parties ). ..... 483 , 497 (2001) ( [a] court sitting in equity cannot ignore the judgment of congress, deliberately expressed in legislation (internal quotation marks omitted)). ..... 18 (ca9 2001) (internal quotation marks omitted)); 570 f. .....

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Apr 27 2010 (HC)

Alarmelu Mangai Vs. the Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, Pub ...

Court : Chennai

..... he said that the right of freedom of speech and press includes not only the right to utter or to print, but also the right to distribute, the right to receive, the right to read and that without those peripheral rights the specific rights would be less secure and that likewise, the other specific guarantees in the bill of rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance, that the various guarantees create zones of privacy, and that protection against all governmental invasion ..... , 1973 or without warrant only when any police officer having authority to arrest has reason to believe that the person to be arrested has entered into or is within any place and any person residing in or being in charge of such place on demand of the police officer would not allow him free ingress thereto and afford all reasonable facilities for a search therein as in section 47 of the crpc and as earlier discussed to seize certain properties under section 102 of the crpc in the circumstances enumerated therein ..... if any of such employees commits an act of tort, the union government, of which they are the employees, can, subject to other legal requirements being satisfied, be held vicariously liable in damages to the person wronged by those employees. ..... the majority said that 'personal liberty' in article 21 is comprehensive to include all varieties of rights which go to make up the personal liberty of a man other than those dealt with in article 19(1)(d). .....

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May 25 2009 (HC)

Suo Motu Vs. the State of Karnataka Represented by the Chief Secretary ...

Court : Karnataka

..... state advisory board fro wildlife constituted under section 6(1) of the wildlife (protection) amendment act, 2002, and among them the member secretary, karnataka state legal services authority, who shall file periodical report before the high court legal services committee and the karnataka state legal services authority at least once in three months, for their constant monitoring, as to the implementation of short-term and long-term measures framed and proposed to be framed, as undertaken by the government referred to above ..... in other words, bio-diversity can be defined as the total number of species and the genetic variability within each species and it is nothing but variety and variability. ..... wildlife, environment, ecology and wealth of animal life and natural habitats and in the interest of public at large, in our considered opinion, it is appropriate to direct that the state board for wildlife shall hold periodical meeting at least once in two months, review the issue relating to the protection of wildlife, animals, birds and plants with a view to ensure ecological and environmental security in the state of karnataka in general and particularly the conservation of and protecting the elephants from unnatural death and to review the situation .....

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Jan 18 2007 (HC)

Cattle Remedies and anr. Vs. Licensing Authority/Director of Ayurvedic ...

Court : Allahabad

Reported in : 2007(2)AWC1093

..... (vi) the protection of plant varieties and farmers rights act, 2001. ..... drug ; or(b) if it is an imitation of, or is a substitute for, another drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive, or bears upon it or upon its label or container the name of another drug, unless it is plainly and conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of identity with such other drug; or(c) if the label or container bears the name of an individual or company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or company is fictitious does not exist; or(d) if it has been substituted wholly ..... the authorities should consider requiring such an applicant to submit an official search report from the trade mark office pertaining to the trade mark in question which will enable the drug authority to arrive at a correct conclusion.42. ..... in the united states, article i section 8 of the constitution authorises congress to create a national patent system to promote the progress of science and useful arts : by 'securing for limited times to...inventors the exclusive right to their respective...discoveries'. ..... the drugs act defines the word patent or proprietary medicine in sub-section (h) of section 3 (section 3(h) of the drugs act (see appendix-i). ..... the drugs act defines the words 'ayurvedic, siddha and unani drugs' in sub-section (a) of section 3, section 3(a) of the drugs act (see appendix-i). .....

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Jul 17 2002 (HC)

D. Srinivasa Raju Vs. District Forest Officer and ors.

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2002(5)ALD252

..... respondent in these writ petitions directed all the field officers like assistant directors to destroy the catfish as and when they come across in the water bodies and to take all steps to ensure that the culture of catfish is not taken up by the fish farmers and the rearing type of culture systems. ..... government or the state government in exercise of their powers either under section 3 or in relation to section 4 of the act is also law which can impose restrictions on the exercise of right to carry on trade or business.22. ..... destroyed and banned for its specific qualities of being predatory in nature and to avoid cross breeding with indian species and to protect the fish fauna in kolleru lake and other areas. ..... variety of indian species of fish are also carnivorous or omnivorous, that there is no definite scientific evidence that african catfish is predatory in nature and cannibalistic and hence, the decision to ban and destroy clarias gariepinus from india is arbitrary and ..... the farmers are having their fish ponds of african catfish culture far away from kolleru lake and therefore, the conclusion arrived at by the authorities that there is likelihood of escape of african catfish into kolleru lake resulting in cross-breeding with indian species is unscientific and not supported by any evidence and therefore ..... 2001(2)ald260 (db), balco employees ..... the exotic animals and the exotic plants fascinated the human beings since the beginning of civilization for various reasons like satiation of .....

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