Editorial Team 
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court set aside the Armed Forces Tribunal’s dismissal of the widow’s second application as repeating a previously decided cause.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court modified the Tribunal’s direction for regular appointment of casual workers engaged after donating land for tube wells.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court partly allowed the employee’s compensation appeal by remitting only the question of penalty under Section 4-A(3)(b) of the Employees’ Compensation Act.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld regularisation of an ad hoc Junior Assistant on parity with three colleagues, rejecting the department’s insistence that he produce a typing-speed certificate at initial appointment.
In the connected minimum-wage disputes, the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court held that contractual responsibility for disbursing wages did not isolate the principal employer from statutory obligations; operational control, overtime deployment and AFCONS’s settlement of identical claims were material.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court directed the Power Development Corporation to consider retrospective regularisation from completion of two years’ contractual service, under the policy used to regularise these engineers.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court dismissed the Union’s challenge to an Armed Forces Tribunal award of the service element of disability pension, with arrears restricted to three years before the application.
A Division Bench of the Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court upheld the Tribunal’s restraint against recovering wrongly paid amounts from the employees, including its direction to refund sums already recovered.
The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court dismissed an Article 227 challenge to a Munsiff’s order requiring correction of suit valuation and court fee, after declining immediate rejection of the plaint.
The Division Bench dismissed review of its earlier direction to pay salary for a period during which the employees had actually continued working, notwithstanding retrospectively effective voluntary retirement.
