Did you notice? You sit on your computer thinking of doing something productive, and end up spending a lot of time on the internet – maybe on Facebook, maybe reading tweets, watching videos, looking at funny images and advertisements, sending mails, befriending and chatting with people or even readi...

Narco Analysis a need of the hour In modern times with the advent of technology and increasing knowledge of the same, the criminals are gaining a lot from it. To catch up to the standards of such technically advanced and intelligent criminals, who leave no evidence, Narco Analysis has come as a reli...

A lawyer issued a legal notice to quit on behalf of his client. He posted it through registered AD and courier. Since he did not receive any AD card, h filed a complaint with the Post office .In the meantime, he sought for the proof of delivery from the courier company. He entrusted his clerk with t...

The judgment of the Supreme court in Sundaram Finance Ltd v. NEPC India Ltd., reported in (1999) 2 SCC 479 observed at para 12 thereof that though section 17 gives the arbitral tribunal the power to pass orders, the same cannot be enforced as orders of a court and it is for this reason only that Sec...

I began to write this about three weeks ago. A lot has changed since then. Terror has shaken our relatively sleepy city from its sense of security. “And yes, we need peace more because we have a good thing going in India and we have more to lose” says Bhagat and in a way that sums up what he is tryi...

R ajani Associates, a Mumbai based law firm has concluded private equity deal whereby New Silk Route has invested in Nectar Lifesciences Limited, listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. Nectar Lifesciences Limited a fast growing pharmaceutical company with ambitious plan...

A few days after the Lawyers’ Collective judgment last December, Ashurst Asia emailed out “Season’s Greetings from Ashurst offices around the world”, with 13 shiny balls for each country it operated in. Next to the US and France, the Indian liaison ball was the smallest of them all. Now that Ashurst...

http://business.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/15/govt-proposes-test-for-budding-lawyers.htm#write I have a mixed feeling. It definitely is a positive step of the Govt to choose Quality over quantity. However, it is pertinent that the govt also provides job opportunities and set up more courts with bett...

It is interesting to note that the constitutional validity of section 36 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was challenged before the Delhi High Court in the matter of The Cooperative Store Limited, New Delhi v. O.P.Dwivedi, P.O.Industrial Tribunal –II & Others, reported in 1988 1 LLJ 135.In ...

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...

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...