The Indian judiciary and the hierarchy of courts is a perfect solution for such a huge and diverse democracy. In present case, I am talking about Punjab , Haryana and U.T. Chandigarh. The Capital of Punjab and Haryana i.e. Chandigarh, has almost all the Tribunals and appellate courts i.e. High Court...

This Article was originally published on CLATGyan.com As you all know, CLAT’s paper is divided into 5 sections. However, no one can ever be sure of what kind of questions one will have to face. In CLAT 2008, the system of differential marking was used by NLSIU, where each Legal Reasoning question ca...

Human Rights Violation “It is the obligation of the State to ensure everyone the right to adequate food, education and enjoyment of highest attainable standards of physical and mental health. These rights have to be respected and made available to the citizens by the State”. - Justice Anand, Former ...

Right to Information India is a democratic country. The head of the country is elected by the people of the country. The Government of the country possesses the authority to work for the welfare of the country on behalf of the people. The final decision making power regarding the welfare of the coun...

In the Ayodhya Verdict, it remains a confusion, whether it was a Legal Judgment or a Political Judgment. Afterall, a suit is either to be decreed or dismissed. It was nobody’s case to divide the disputed land (suit property) into three parts and allocate it to the different claimants. But the Trial ...

A pensioner who said she was “tired” of her life and “suffering from intense pain” has requested Karnataka High Court that she be allowed to end her life, according to newspaper reports today.

Legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies are giving stiff competition to law firms in the talent hunting stakes, writes the Eco Times today . The article quotes several people working at LPOs, who claim that compared to law firms the companies offer: better growth opportunities, decent working hour...

The High Court at Calcutta , formerly known as the High Court of Judicature at Fort William , was brought into existence by the Letters Patent dated 14 th May, 1862, issued under the High Court’s Act, 1861.The High Court of Judicature at Fort William was formally opened on 1 st July, 1862, with Sir ...

NO TDS ON SERVICE TAX With the advent of service tax, an interesting question has arisen whether tax is deductible at source under the IT Act even in respect of the service tax component of the professional fee/contract amount payable to the service provider/contractor. The issue of TDS on service t...

As citizens, observers and above all individuals who have the potential of being harbingers of social change, we have thoughts and avowed beliefs in the state of Indian democracy aplenty. But those vary between euphoric ideals which bind us together and the stark realities which force us to question...

An innocent girl, an avid tennis player, 14-year old Ruchika Girhotra had not the faintest idea of what fate held in store for her, when she walked into the office of the then Inspector General of Police and head of Haryana Lawn Tennis Federation, S P S Rathore. What commenced as a crime of molestat...

A group of ministers (GoM) on aviation security has recommended that hijackers should get the death penalty. “The clause on death penalty to the hijackers had been a debating point as some ministers had a view on the legal aspects of this section. But it has been cleared,” a civil aviation ministry ...

Calcutta University students are still waiting for their LLB exams as the University has not finalised its the new exams as required by the Bar Council of India (BCI). Local Kolkata paper the Telegraph wrote today that although exams were meant to be held in December 2009, the Calcutta University ha...

Panjab University law school students have called off a hunger strike after several hours as the University caved in to their demands. The Times of India (TOI) reported today that the Panjab University Student Union (PUSU) and the Hindustan Student Association (HSA) called for a hunger strike to pro...

Either the Times of India thinks that only advocates are lawyers or that law firm lawyers are just not so very top. While I certainly would not dare disagree with the calibre and legal genius of each of these individuals, could not at least one law firmite have made it to the list? Here’s TOI’s full...

The Maharashtra and Goa Bar Council polls closed yesterday (7 January), amid allegations of candidates having used “money, gifts and illegal methods”, according to a newspaper report.

Interesting opinion piece by a UK tax lawyer on the best ways of coming out in the workplace . Questions are, would this advice also work in India? Do you know of many openly gay people working in law firms? I, for one, suspect that there are few if any “equal opportunities and empowerment policies”...

off-switch_by_Spoon-Monkey Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug’s right to live with dignity by not force feeding her comatose body of 36 years has yet again brought into sharp focus the legality and morality of euthanasia after the apex court admitted a plea on merits yesterday (18 December). Yesterday’s Tim...

old_man-by_SukantoDebnath_th The Mumbai Mirror wrote about a gentleman this week who is “probably city’s oldest law student” at 80 years of age. If so, he is lucky to have slipped through the age-barrier net that has been woven by the Bar Council of India (BCI). Uddhav Alkari ( not pictured) is an e...

NLSIU_Bangalore_library_thumb NLSIU Bangalore has been ordered by the Karnataka High Court not to extend benefits under the LLB ‘reserved category’ to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) candidates out of state. The direction by the High Court last week can be viewed as drawing sub-categor...