Section 36 (4) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 mandates both the consent of the opposite party and the leave of the Tribunal will have to be secured to enable a party to seek representation before the Tribunal through a legal practitioner qua legal practitioner. This is a clear, significance of...
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Section 36(4) of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 states that in any proceeding before a Labour Court, Tribunal or National Tribunal, a party to a dispute may be represented by a legal practitioner with the consent of the other parties to the proceeding and with the leave of the Labour Court, Tribu...
The consumer awareness in India is still at a nebulous stage. The Consumer Protection Act was legislated in 1986 and consumer disputes redressal forums erected pursuant to the Act. However, the practice and procedure followed in these forums id perhaps not what was intended bythe legislature. Sectio...
Lawsuits from asbestos exposure in many countries is a big issue. People who have been exposed are able to sue manufacturers who knowingly sold products that could result in a deadly cancer called mesothelioma . The fact is that these companies, and the government, knew about the dangers of asbestos...
The last few days have been sadly violent ones, also for the legal fraternity. But in both cases so far not much is really clear. Three days before the bomb blast in Pune’s German Bakery , criminal lawyer and 26/11 defence counsel Shahid Azmi was shot dead in what appears to have been a targeted ass...
According to draft Overall Public Satisfaction (OPS), data compiled by the Magsaysay awardee Arvind Kejriwal-led NGO Parivartan as part of an initiative to promote people’s right to access information from government organisations. West Bengal is at the bottom of the heap, scoring just 6% in OPS whi...
The Times of India, on 14th December 09, carried a piece titled ‘Legalise Prostitution? Then Why Not Graft?’ by Dhananjay Mahapatra based on a recent observation by two Supreme Court Judges asking the Government if the worlds oldest profession could not be controlled, then why not legalise it. The a...
In my last blog, I wrote about the disparities existing in our country and proposed a solution for the backward India by promoting Micro Finance, following the concept of Grameen banks and socialBusiness. I thank everyone for devoting their time to my blog and sharing your opinions. In this blog, I ...
Something has been troubling for a while. The print media has vast readership in India. The daily with the highest circulation has a readership of 1.33 crores. The ability to affect public opinion is of course then immense. Newspapers sometimes carry articles which are unjustifiably uninformed or ex...
Hello people Law as has defined by numerous scholars but to no awail. Everybody has a different definition of law and everybody perceives law in a different sense. However, for everbody one aspect of law is common ie laws govern a society. It is for the people. However, i would like to draw the atte...
NLSIU Spiritus 09-10 - Basketball Today’s guest blogger is Spiritus convenor Shravan Kochhar NLSIU’s annual, inter-collegiate sports festival Spiritus 2009-2010 began with a rush of excitement after national-level badminton champion Arvind Bhat’s motivational speech at the inaugural ceremony on Thur...
Let me begin by enunciating that life at a national university of law isn’t exactly a bed of roses. More so when one is part of one of the new nationals, yet to form a formidable impression within the legal fraternity (further continuing the process of clarification- even the oldest nationals akin n...
In a shocking incident of alleged ragging in Pune, a second year student of Deccan Education Society Law College committed suicide on Sunday after allegedly facing harassment by a group of students of the same college. 22 year-old Prashant Chitalkar ended his life by jumping into a well near his hom...
Hi I have summarized information that I have gathered (after extensive research) about doing an LL.M from UK into one blog. I hope this blog helps the Indian students in taking the right decisions on whether or not to do a LL.M and also becoming aware of how things stand in general. 1. CONDITIONAL A...
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that the Bar Councils of India too are subject to Right to Information Act (RTI), following hot on the heels of the Office of the Chief Justice of India last week falling under the Act last week . Various papers reported that the Bar Councils would ...
Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar is organizing the 2 nd GNLU International Moot Court Competition (GIMC) from February 3-7, 2010. The first edition was organized in 2009 from April 2-5 and was appreciated by all concerned. This year’s edition promises to be even better and bigger than th...
LuthraLuthra-Vijay-Sondhi Luthra & Luthra billings will have seen a dent on Wednesday as a legion of the firm’s lawyers patrolled the Delhi High Court during the Delhi Bar Council elections garnering last-minute support for their candidate Vijay Sondhi (pictured) . Contesting lawyers, commuters...
