Supreme Court of India

All India Reporter Karamchari Sangh & Ors. v. All India Reporter Limited and Ors.

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Reported as [1988] 3 S.C.R. 774
Bench E.S. Venkataramiah J.
Decided 2 May 1988

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the law reports published by the Ist respondent are neW$JJapers and the employees employed by the Ist respondent in their production or publication of the said law reports should be extended the benefit of the orders passed by the Central Government on the basis of the recommendations made by the Palekar Award.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Working Journalists and other Newspapers Employees (Condi­ rions of Service) and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1955 (Act No: 45 of 1955 )-Whether law reports-All India Reporter, Criminal Law Journal, Labour and Industrial Cases, Taxation Law Reports, Allahabad Law Journal, U.P. Law Tribune published by All India Reporter Ltd. are newspapers as defined-in-And whether employees of All India Repor­ /er Limited engaged in production of publication of these law reports are entitled to benefits conferred upon employees of newspaper est­ ablishments by the above Act. The question which arose for

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