im sorry. didnt mean to annoy anyone. [Originally a short blog entry from a student hating law school, which was deleted a short while late. For readers’ information so the comments are not just on an orphan post, we have pasted the original below again. -Ed “national law unis are SO over rated. the...
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SCBA Elections are being held on May 7th, 2010. It would be great to discuss people’s thoughts/views on how the SCBA should move forward this year. Clearly, a lot of trust has to be re-built and greater transparency and accountability needs to be reinstated. So please do share your ideas and thought...
OPEN LETTER TO CHAIRMAN, BAR COUNCIL OF INDIA Dear Mr. Subramaniam, Recent media reports(Hindustan Times, 03/05/10) suggest that the Bar Council of India is introducing a qualifying bar examination from September,2010. We are writing this mail to draw your attention to some of the concerns of final ...
The ever-enlightening Wikipedia tells us that the phrase “ Face value” is the value of a coin, stamp or paper money, as printed on the coin, stamp or bill itself by the minting authority. While the face value usually refers to the true value of the coin, stamp or bill in question (as with circulatio...
A dead body was found in a remote village of Madhya Pradesh. It had been discovered in a well after seven days of the death of the deceased. It was in a heinous condition and the people were even scared to look at it. The matter was reported to the police. The constable went running to the house of ...
27 th April, 2010 9.20 A.M. Court of the Metropolitan Magistrate. Punctuality being the virtue of the Bored, Chandi Agreywal, LLM, reaches courtroom no 12 situate in a huge palatial Brit built building tastelessly modified in the interests of justice. The measured steps on the near empty corridors w...
Soon you will have the census enumerator knocking your door! The massive exercise involving a billion plus people has finally begun! But this time the modus operandi would be little different! The surveyor can knock your door even in the early morning or late in the evening unlike last year when you...
It happened in the middle of a particularly stressful assignment. There I was, sitting at my laptop, at the desolate hour of 2.20 AM, when I decided. Enough. Nyet. Nimph. Nope. No More. I’d had it. And before I knew it …. I was ….. Composing Poetry. Yes, you read that right. I was spewing down line ...
The first one dates back to the first date of hearing of the landmark decision of Kesavananda Bharati by the Hon’ble Supreme Court***.*** The legendary, Mr. Palkhiwala, who then was a young lawyer rose to argue the matter before the largest ever constituted Bench in the Supreme Court. Since thirteen...
NALSAR, like any other law school worth its salt, comes with its own bundle of ridiculous neuroses. What would be special about a place where the machinery gears towards making things convenient for you ? Of course, there’s inconvenience, and then there’s evil. The college’s system of surprise tests...
Crazy fast writing big books Only three more days to bash out prize-winning fiction for the NUJS fiction writing competition , which closes on Sunday midnight (18 April). The theme for this year: “Choose one of the five famous fiction novels (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/Robinson Crusoe/Five Point Someon...
The human right to food has its contemporary origin within the U.N. Universal Human Rights framework. The main reference point is located within the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights (UDHR) (U.N. 1948), Article 25, which states, “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the he...
The following is a hilarious story of a legal proceeding initiated against one of the greatest ruling super heroes of our times on a question as ancient as the one which arose in the second century with Clement of Alexandria ( whether Apostle Peter and Cephas of Antioch were the same person? ) The E...
The large part of law consist of various behavioral perspectives in the form of ‘Duty’ that is, mode of conduct to which people must confirm and by which their actual behavior is judged. Thus, the very concept of ‘is’ law is composed of ‘ought’. it is the ought that acquires the character of law, wh...
In the case of S.K. Alagh Vs. State of U.P. and Ors. reported in (2008) 5 SCC 662 the Hon’ble Supreme Court, at paragraph 20 thereof, observed as under: “… We may, in this regard, notice that the provisions of the Essential Commodities Act, Negotiable Instruments Act, Employees’ Provident Fund (Misc...
The forensic technology has played an integral role in solving criminal cases. D.N.A (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) tests, first discovered by Prof. Alec Jeffreys in 1985 in England has now become a credible source for identifying a person with the help of his blood, hair, sperm, muscle, nerve or tissue sa...
Imagine yourself dealing with a case where your client has been accused of murder. The Prosecution story states that your client was found with the murder weapon in his hand when the police arrived having been sitting calmly in front of the deceased for hours and showing no emotion whatsoever. Furth...
News Link from BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7132124.stm | Last Updated: Friday, 7 December 2007, 09:08 GMT | E-mail this to a friend | Printable version | |---|---| | |---| | Hindu gods get summons from court | |---| | | By Amarnath Tewary Patna | | Painting of Lord Ram and Hanuman The gods have...
The two female suicide bombers who were responsible for the metro attacks in Moscow, were the widows of former terrorists. It is believed that about 30, “black widows” were trained by the Russian Bin Laden to carry more of such attacks in future. The presence of suicide bombers has become a matter o...
The High Courts in India are Courts of records. A Court of record generally has the following attributes: 1. generally has a seal 2. power to fine or imprison for contempt 3. keeps a record of the proceedings 4. proceeds according to the common law (not statutes or codes) 5. is independent of the ma...