Legally India reports exclusively that the Supreme Court has transferred the IIPM business school’s defamation case against Caravan magazine – often described as a classical strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPP) – from far-flung Silchar to the Delhi high court after four years. F...

“…his life was gentle; and the elements so mixed in him, that nature might stand up and say to all the world ‘This was a man’…” Mark Antony in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar Act V Scene 5

Legal services in India grew by an average of 8.2 per cent each year between 2005 and 2012, according to the 2012-13 economic survey that was prepared by the finance ministry. It also noted that “liaison offices” by foreign law firms were permitted under Indian law and recommended “exploring” greater access for foreign law firms, which would “improve the competitiveness of the Indian market”.