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Election dispute, An election dispute is not a private feud between one individual and another. The whole constituency is intimately involved in such a dispute. Shaky and wavering oral testimony of a handful of witnesses cannot still the dominant voice of the majority of an electorate, Kanhaiyalal v. Mannalal, (1976) 3 SCC 646: AIR 1976 SC 1886: (1976) 3 SCR 808....
Right to elect
Right to elect, a right to elect, fundamental though it is to democracy, is, anomalously enough, neither a fundamental right nor a common law right. It is pure and simple, a statutory right. So is the right to be elected. So is the right to dispute an election. Outside of statute, there is no right to elect, no right to be elected and no right to dispute an election. Statutory creations they are, and therefore, subject to statutory limitation, Jyoti Basu v. Debi Ghosal, AIR 1982 SC 983: (1982) 1 SCC 691: (1982) 3 SCR 318...
Election
Election, the word 'election' means any and every act taken by the competent authority after the publication of the election notification, Manda Jaganath v. K.S. Rathnam, (2004) 7 SCC 492: AIR 2004 SC 3601 (3604).The act of selecting one or more from a greater number for an office.The exercise of his choice by a man left to his own free will to take or to do one thing or another. It is the obligation imposed upon a person to choose between two inconsistent or alternative rights or claims. Thus, in Scarf v. Jardine, (1882) 7 App Cas 345, the House of Lords held that a customer could not sue a new firm after having elected to sue a retiring partner.Electio semel facta et placitum testatum non patitur regressum. Quod semel placuit in electionibus amplius displicere non potest. Co. Litt. 146, 146 a.--(Elections once made and plea witnessed suffers not a recall. What has once pleased a man in elections cannot displease him on further consideration.) See also Re Simms, Ex p. Trustee, 1934 Ch...
Collective litigation
Collective litigation, a phrase coined by Justice Iyer to denote and classify election disputes. According to him election disputes are not strictly disputes between two parties. The whole electorate is vicariously before the court. [Mohinder Singh v. Election Commissioner, AIR 1978 SC 851 (861), para 15]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Election Commission
Election Commission, 'Election Commission' means the Election Commission referred to in Article 324. [Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi Act, 1991 (1 of 1992), s. 2(d)]Means the Election Commission appointed by the President under article 324. [Representation of the People Act, 1950, s. 2 (d)]The Chief Election Commissioner can be removed only in the like manner and on the like grounds as a Judge of a Supreme Court; his conditions of service cannot be varied to his disadvantage after his appointment. An Election Commissioner or Regional Commissioner can be removed from office only on the recommendations of the Chief Election Commissioner. [Constitution of India, Art. 394(5)]Is a Constitutional body in India, created for the pur-pose of holding elections to Parliament, State Legislatures and Offices of President and Vice-President. [Constitution of India, Art. 324]Can disqualify a person for six years from voting on ground of conviction for certain offences. [Representati...
Arbitration
Arbitration, the determination of a matter in dispute by the judgment of one or more persons, called arbitrators, who in case of difference usually call in an 'umpire' to decide between them.Means a method of dispute resolution involving one or more neutral third parties who are usually agreed to by the disputing parties and whose decision is binding, Black Law Dictionary 7th Edn., p. 100.Means any arbitration whether or not administered by permanent arbitral institution. [The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, s. 2(a)]An arbitrator is a disinterested person, to whose judgment and decision matters in dispute are referred, Termes de la Ley.The civilians make a difference between arbiter and arbitrator, though both found their power in the compromise of the parties; the former being obliged to judge according to the customs of the law: whereas the latter is at liberty to use his own discretion, and accommodate the difference in that manner which appears most just and equitable.An ar...
Industrial dispute
Industrial dispute, means any dispute or difference between employers and employers, or between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which is connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of employment or with the conditions of labour, of any persons. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947, s. 2 (k)]The words 'Industrial disputes' in the Industrial Disputes Act include also disputes that might arise between municipalities and their employees in branches of work that can be said to be analogous to the carrying out of a trade or business, D.N. Banerjee v. P.R. Mukherjee, AIR 1953 SC 59: (1953) SCR 302. [Constitution of India Sch VII, List III, Entry 22]A dispute between an employer and single workman does not fall within the definition of Industrial dispute' under the U.P. Industrial Disputes Act, 1947. But though the applicability of the Act to an individual dispute as opposed to dispute involving a group of workmen is excluded, if the workmen as a body or a con...
arbitration
arbitration [Latin arbitratio, from arbitrari to judge, arbitrate, from arbiter onlooker, arbitrator] : the process of resolving a dispute (as between labor and management) or a grievance outside of the court system by presenting it to an impartial third party or panel for a decision that may or may not be binding compare mediation final offer arbitration : interest arbitration in which the arbitrator must accept or reject the final offer of any party and may not decide to compromise grievance arbitration : arbitration of a dispute over something in an existing collective bargaining agreement called also rights arbitration compare interest arbitration in this entry interest arbitration : arbitration of a dispute over the provisions to be entered in a new contract compare grievance arbitration in this entry rights arbitration : grievance arbitration in this entry ar·bi·tra·tion·al [Ä r-bə-trā-shə-nəl] adj ...
Dispute
Dispute, The meaning of the word 'dispute' is, 'a controversy having both positive and negative aspects. It postulates the assertion of a claim by one party and its denial by the other', Canara Bank v. National Thermal Power Corporation, (2001) 1 SCC 43.The term 'dispute' means a controversy having both positive and negative aspects. It postulates the assertion of a claim by one party and its denial by the other, Gujarat State Corporation Land Development Bank v. P.R. Mondkad, (1979) 3 SCC 123: AIR 1979 SC 1203 (1207).There should be dispute and there can only be a dispute when a claim is asserted by one party and denied by the other on whatever grounds. Mere failure or inaction to pay does not lead to the inference of the existence of dispute. Dispute entails a positive element and assertion in denying, not merely inaction to accede to a claim or a request, Inder Singh Pekhi v. D.D.A., AIR 1988 SC 1007 (1009): (1988) 2 SCC 338.Once such a claim is made prior to invocation of arbitrati...
Trade dispute
Trade dispute, means a dispute between two countries arising from tariff rates or other matters related to international commerce, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1500.This expression is defined in s. 5 (3) of the (English) Trade Disputes Act, 1906, as follows:-'Trade dispute' means any dispute between employers and workmen, or between workmen and workmen, which his connected with the employment or non-employment or the terms of the employment, or with the conditions of labour, of any person, and the expression 'workmen' means all persons employed in trade or industry whether or not in the employment of the employer with whom a trade dispute arises.By s. 1, 'An act done in pursuance of an agreement or combination by two or more persons shall, if done in contemplation of a trade dispute, not be actionable unless the act, if done without any such agreement or combination, would be actionable.' But the provisions of the Act shall not apply to any act done in contemplation or furthera...
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