The sub-committee of Insolvency Law Committee (ILC) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India (MCA) in its report dated October 31, 2020 has proposed the framework for the pre-pack and prearranged insolvency resolution process which the Government may adopt with / without modificatio...
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The Bar Council of India (“ BCI ”), in a press release on Saturday, has said that it will file an application in the Supreme Court seeking modification of the order which allowed fresh law graduates to become judicial officers. It said that the BCI and the State Bar Councils are “strongly in favour”...
An employment contract is an agreement that discusses in detail the working rapport of a company and an employee. It helps both parties to comprehend their obligations and the stipulations of employment. Importance A good quality employment contract is valuable to both the employee and the employer....
The development of Arbitration Law in India is not attributable to the success in arbitrations, but rather to the failures of Courts. The Hon’ble Supreme Court recently in ‘ Vidya Drolia and Ors. v. Durga Trading Corporation ’ has laid down that landlord-tenant disputes governed by the Transfer of P...
We will be blogging about the first-ever Global Virtual Conference by Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, on the theme ‘Reimagining & Transforming the Future of Law Schools and Legal Education: Confluence of Ideas During & Beyond COVID-19’ on 25th, 26th and 27th Novemb...
INTRODUCTION: The four statutes covering the four concepts under Intellectual Property Law are: i. The Patents Act, 1970 ii. The Copyright Act, 1957 iii. The Trade Marks Act, 1999 iv. The Designs Act, 2000 The instant write up analyses the confusion that existsbetween Trade Mark and Design. The anal...
Last year, European Union has ratified the ‘Right to Repair’ regulation. According to these regulations, the manufacturers of the household electronic appliances i.e. lighting, washing machines, dish washers, and refrigerators, will have to make it easier for the consumers to get them repaired. Thou...
Hello everyone! We are delighted to announce the XIII Edition of the NLS-Trilegal International Arbitration Moot [NLSTIAM]. NLSIU has maintained a long-standing reputation as the leading institution in the field of legal education in India. Established in 1987 NLSIU is a primer institution that stri...
Introduction b2ap3_thumbnail_IMG-20191018-WA0047.jpg Hidayatullah National Law University is pleased to host the 11 th Justice Hidayatullah Memorial National Moot Court Competition, HNMCC’19. The Justice Hidayatullah Memorial National Moot Court Competition was started as a part of the centenary cel...
With the successful conduction of the three editions of a competition which nurtures the art of building, defending and arguing a case in the courtroom, National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi is all geared up for hosting the fourth edition of the National Trial Advocacy Competition...
GNLU brings to you the 5th edition of the GNLU Moot on Securities and Investment Law. In keeping with tradition, the media team will provide you with updates in real time about moot related developments. This edition has a whopping 46 teams battling it out over three days for the following prizes - ...
b2ap3_thumbnail_images.png National Law University, Delhi in collaboration with Herbert Smith Freehills LLP is set to organise the 6th edition of the International Negotiation Competition from 06-08th September 2019. INC is a first-of-its-kind competition in India which brings together students of t...
The Moot Court Association (MCA) of National Law Institute University, Bhopal (NLIU) is delighted to present to you the 2nd NLIU Link - Legal National Client Counselling Competition, 2019 in collaboration with Link Legal India Law Services. Further, for this edition, we have Manupatra as our Officia...
SUMMARY OF DECISION BY THE HON’BLE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA IN THE CASE TITLED “ BIKRAM CHATTERJI & ORS. v. UNION OF INDIA & ORS. [1] ” (- BY ASHISH GARG, ALBA LAW OFFICES) *** Please note that the discussion herein below (for the aforementioned case) is only concerned with regards to the va...
To download the Primer in PDF format, click here - GNLU-Primer-2019_20190620-075534_1.pdf . What is Jury’s Out, GNLU? Jury’s Out is GNLU’s in-house magazine run entirely by its students. We host the JO blog where students routinely voice their thoughts on GNLU life, law, entertainment, sports and ev...
Hi, My name is Natasha Maheshwari and I am a third-year student of Maharashtra National Law University Mumbai. I’m writing this article on behalf of the entire MNLU Parivaar, and on an issue that my tightly knit family of 220 - odd students feels very strongly about. In the weeks leading up to the C...
Hey everyone! We’re the Moot Court Society of NLSIU and we’re organizing the XII National Law School - Trilegal International Arbitration Moot, 2019 between 17th and 19th May 2019. With the rounds scheduled to commence from tomorrow, we’re excited to bring you the live updates from the Moot! A busy ...
1939C v 1904R Respondents Speaker 1: 15:19 – Due to some co-ordination errors, I must apologize in announcing that the first few minutes of the round haven’t been covered! Five minutes left. The respondent cites articles to substantiate on his claim of jurisdiction. The arbitrator questions him on t...
Live Updates – Court Room 10 - 1907C v 1921R Respondents: Speaker 1: 12: 42 – The speakers exchange notes. The speaker representing the respondents seems to be confident and eloquent in his approach, not for a moment referring to his notes, but the Arbitrator cuts him short and asks him to arrive at...
Hey everyone! We’re the Moot Court Society of NLSIU and we’re organizing the XII National Law School - Trilegal International Arbitration Moot, 2019 between 17th and 19th May 2019. With the rounds scheduled to commence from tomorrow, we’re excited to bring you the live updates from the Moot! A busy ...
The Bar Council of India (“ BCI ”), in a press release on Saturday, has said that it will file an application in the Supreme Court seeking modification of the order which allowed fresh law graduates to become judicial officers. It said that the BCI and the State Bar Councils are “strongly in favour”...
Thirty years ago, nobody could have accurately predicted the job market of today. The intervening technological progress must be blamed or credited for it. However, we seem to be able today to satisfactorily predict the job market we will have thirty years hence – plenty of machines and Artificial I...
Writing a great legal article is truly amazing. Not only it will be published in a good, well-known website or blog, thereby increasing your brand value and visibility, but also be read by many people who are in need of that information. It may help litigants, researchers, other lawyers or a reporte...
The distinguished Prof. Shamnad Basheer recently launched an online petition in the form of a poem to make a fervent appeal to the invisible CLAT powers to make the critical shift to a permanent, centralized CLAT body that will conduct the CLAT examination every year. However, every effort till now ...
CLAT 2015 will go down in the history of national competitive exams in India as the most ludicrous and incompetent examination that openly insulted the intelligence of thousands of candidates and played with their careers with an unbelievably sick mentality. The entire CLAT 2015 affair reflected an ...
Law and journalism are two fields which demand up-to-date knowledge in this proliferating world. Neither of them is stagnant and obsolete. As a first year law student,I used to think that legal profession only meant to argue in courts. It was later that it dawned upon me that legal field has no peri...
Why This Ko-Law-Very ?? The moment you enter an elite Law school campus,you will be tired of answering this question to everyone, from your Orientation day to Farewell.One simple question -“Why law?” Few oversmart kids would try to impress the first class by saying “Because I couldn’t make it to IIT...
Introduction Law has been the most variegated stream ever since it was incorporated in the human society. When one thinks of a vocation in law the first image that strike its mind is a dexterous person, dressed in black and white, going through some gigantic books, running in and out the court, figh...
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LIFE IS NOT SO FAIR AND LOVELY At the outskirts of the Metropolitan court, I begin my day with the sight of all street smart lawyers who are out for today’s hunt. The hunters instinct is still seen in them when their roving eyes are targeting their next catch cum client. Sipping the cutting chai and...
What happens when you spend 5 years of your law school having the time of your life. Like literally, time-of-your-life!!! [Time of your life- excludes any such activity that requires paying attention in classes, taking internships seriously, taking moots seriously and/or taking anyone/anything serio...
A lady (not a lawyer) Retired Justice Markandey Katju published a blog post today entitled “Lady Lawyers” . In typical Katju blogging fashion (whenever not causing a media storm about judicial corruption), it’s a trip down memory lane starting with his time as a lawyer in 1970 Allahabad. Katju is tr...
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Last year, European Union has ratified the ‘Right to Repair’ regulation. According to these regulations, the manufacturers of the household electronic appliances i.e. lighting, washing machines, dish washers, and refrigerators, will have to make it easier for the consumers to get them repaired. Thou...
by sflc_admin | October 9, 2017 According to the Cyber Laws and E-Security Group under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Group (MeitY), as many as 23,030 websites /URLs are currently blocked in India. This information was received as a reply to a Right to Information application fil...
by sflc_admin | October 4, 2017 We live in an era where human activity is producing unprecedented amounts of digital data. The popular saying these days is ‘data is the new oil’. The high value of this data along with the lack of awareness among people about rights has prompted corporations and gove...
by sflc_admin | September 27, 2017 The second Digital Citizen Summit was organised on September 21-22, 2017 by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. SFLC.in was an associate partner of the summit. The summit aimed at fin...
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by sflc_admin | September 22, 2017 SFLC.in is organising a workshop on “Secure Communication ” in association with Sukhbir Singh, TOR Developer, on Saturday, September 23, 2017, from 11:00AM-:1:30 PM at the SFLC.in premises at K-9, Second Floor, Birbal Road, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi -110014 nea...
by sflc_admin | September 18, 2017 The ongoing Internet shutdown in Darjeeling, West Bengal completes 3 months today. This day, three months earlier, mobile Internet was shutdown in the city due to the ongoing agitation for a separate Gorkhaland. Two days later, on 20th June, the orders were extende...
Written by the Civil Liberties team at CCG A 9 judge bench of the Supreme Court of India passed a landmark judgment last week, which unanimously recognized the right to privacy as a fundamental right under the Constitution of India. The Court found the right to privacy to be a part of the freedoms g...
Today, the Supreme Court heard the ongoing matter of Sabu Mathew George vs. Union of India . In 2008, a petition was filed to ban advertisements endorsing sex-selective abortions from search engine results. Advertisements endorsing sex selective abortions are illegal under Section 22 of the PNDT Act...
by sflc_admin | September 4, 2017 On Sep 2, 2017, SFLC.in organized a discussion titled “Celebrating the Right To Be Let Alone” to commemorate the recent recognition of right to privacy as a fundamental right, discuss the privacy judgment, its key takeaways, the impact it will have on pending Aadhaa...
The sub-committee of Insolvency Law Committee (ILC) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India (MCA) in its report dated October 31, 2020 has proposed the framework for the pre-pack and prearranged insolvency resolution process which the Government may adopt with / without modificatio...
Analysis of the Condonation of Delay Scheme, 2018 of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs The Scheme is by way of a General Circular No.16/2017 dated 29 December 2017. It is in exercises of powers u/Ss. 403, 459 and 460 of the Companies Act, 2013. Who can avail the scheme? A company registered under th...
Diwali is one of the most anticipated and celebrated festivals in India. It is also a festival of giving gifts, which is often a challenge for compliance professionals who struggle with policies and nuances of law around this time, on giving gifts that might seem like bribes. Under the Prevention of...
The RBI has amended the Master Directions on Financial Services provided by Banks. This is a significant move permitting Banks to invest in Category II Alternative Investment Funds. As of June 30, 2017, Alternative Investment Funds ( AIFs ) had raised the cumulative figure of Rs. 48, 129 crores, aga...
Image credit: Scroll.in, September 26, 2017 Sociologists know that the formation and survival of civilization is conditional upon the universal adherence to a framework of acceptable norms and guidelines of human conduct and interaction. Moses therefore set out as God’s message, the directive to lov...
Financial investors in India are scared of regulatory uncertainties. Not that uncertainties are exclusive to our country but it’s a critical risk factor that is assessed by those making substantial investments. Historically, one of the most important regulatory concerns for such investors is related...
India has long recognised the right of foreign creditors to participate in the winding up of Indian companies. As early as 1961, the Supreme Court of India, in Rajah of Vizianagaram (AIR 1962 SC 500) , clarified that foreign creditors have the same right as Indian creditors in winding up proceedings...
Photo credit: Indian Express, August 23, 2017 Through its historic ruling delivered by a five-judge bench in the case of Shayara Bano and Ors v. Union of India on August 22nd 2017, the Supreme Court of India ( SC ) liberated Muslim women from the perpetual fear of arbitrary and whimsical divorce. Th...
The ability to attract large scale Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ) into India has been a key driver for policy making by the Government. Prime Minister Modi seems to be going along the right track, with India receiving FDI inflows worth USD 60.1 billion in 2016-17, which was an all-time high. Henc...
On August 31st 2017, the Supreme Court of India in the case of Innoventive Industries Limited v. ICICI Bank Limited* delivered its first extensive ruling on the operation and functioning of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ( Insolvency Code ). The Court said that it is pronouncing its detail...