As the Indian food safety regulator has just announced that it would finally draft new norms for maximum lead and other heavy-metal content in foods, Advocate Kunal Kishore explains why food regulation has been neglected for far too long.

There’s a crisis in the packaged food market after Hindustan Unilever Ltd followed Nestle India Ltd in pulling its instant noodles off the shelves. Tata Starbucks Ltd, too, has withdrawn some of its products.

Amarchand Mangaldas and J Sagar Associates (JSA) led DLF and its top officials to a Rs 86 crore Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) penalty yesterday. Amarchand Delhi managing partner Shardul Shroff briefed senior advocate JJ Bhatt for DLF, its executive chairman KP Singh, vice chairman Ra...

Economic Laws Practice (ELP), J Sagar Associates (JSA) and Aggarwal Law Associates (ALA) respectively advised telecom operators Aircel and Dishnet, Tata Teleservices, and Reliance Communications in their challenge before the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) to the Departmen...

Delhi high court advocate Sudipto Sircar argues that the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) surprisingly deficient market research before approving the Jet-Etihad combination on 11 December, has put an otherwise desirable investment into jeopardy by exposing the combination to inevitable litigation.

The Reserve Bank of India proposed in a statement yesterday that it would allow foreign banks’ wholly owned subsidiaries to open branches anywhere in India as local banks have been allowed to do. Most foreign banks in India operate as branches as not wholly-owned subsidiaries at the moment, reported...

J Sagar Associates (JSA) advised Adani Power, part of the Adani business conglomerate, which obtained a favourable ruling from the power sector regulator Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC).

The American Bar Association (ABA) has ruled that foreign qualified lawyers may work as in-house lawyers in all 50 US states with limited authority. In India in-house lawyers have to surrender state bar council registrations, meaning they can effectively work without oversight of the legal regulator...

The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Authority (TDSAT) is now practically defunct, after the body’s only serving member PK Rastogi retired, as predicted in a column on Legally India in January . According to an Economic Times’ telecommunications ministry source, the appointment process for ...

PK Malhotra – the last of the two present members in the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), and currently presiding over the body – was appointed as secretary of the legislative department. The other member – SSN Moorthy – is set to retire this month. [ PTI ] The tribunal has had no presiding offi...

The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) got a new chairman in former Supreme Court judge Cyriac Joseph. Joseph who retired from the SC on 27 January after three-and-a-half years on the roster, succeeds former SC judge SB Sinha at the chair after Sinha’s retirement last month. ...

Breaking: The Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has carried out an undercover investigation into the “chilling effects” of new information technology laws on freedom of expression online, with six out of seven major websites removing innocent content online without proper investigation, creating a “private censorship regime”.

The notification of the Information Technology Rules 2011 in April 2011 include new privacy and online publishing regulations, which could pose significant roadblocks for business operations with restrictive handling of personal data and information and introduction of stringent guidelines for intermediaries and cyber cafes.

Exclusive: The Bar Council of India (BCI) has requested comments on the new draft code of ethics for advocates, which introduces rules on conflicts of interests, bans conditional fee arrangements (CFAs) and continues to restrict advertising and business interests of lawyers.

Trilegal co-founding partner Rahul Matthan has drafted a proposal for the department of personnel training a create an Indian privacy and data protection law that would regulate the storage and disclosure of personal information.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has gone to the Supreme Court to curtail the powers of its own appellate tribunal in the case of SAIL v Jindal Steel, with senior advocates, Economic Laws Practice and Amarchand Mangaldas representing the parties.

The Supreme Court has held that the legislative functions of a regulatory commission are beyond the jurisdiction of the quasi-judicial powers of its appellate tribunal and should be dealt with via judicial review.