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Written by Stuart Popham Monday, 16 August 2010 16:48
senior partner Stuart Popham recounts his UK ministerial visit to India last month, which included Ambani, best friends and mile-high parties, as first published by the UK's The Lawyer magazine.
Written by Sangmitra Sawant & Vishnu Anand Friday, 13 August 2010 03:16
The new 2010 Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill is a double-edged sword full of loopholes and unanswered questions that are more likely to cut the Indian public than protect it from disastrous scale nuclear disasters, argue advocates Sangmitra Sawant and Vishnu Anand.
Written by Sanjay Bhatia Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:19
Starting up a legal process outsourcing (LPO) business may be a perceived goldmine and en vogue these days but it takes more than just office, staff and website and most start-up LPOs are wasting their time, warns SDD Global Solutions' Sanjay Bhatia.
Written by Manthan Unadkat & Tanya Raghani Thursday, 15 July 2010 19:35
Written by H.Karthik Seshadri Thursday, 24 June 2010 12:10
As lawyers in Tamil Nadu continue their fight to make Tamil the official court language through hunger strikes and the latest public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court, Madras High Court advocate and Iyer and Thomas partner H Karthik Seshadri highlights the dangers of a regional language-based divide.
Written by Sanjay Bhatia Tuesday, 11 May 2010 20:43
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies have come under the spotlight after the the recent Balaji Chennai High Court writ petition and the Bombay High Court's decision in the Lawyers Collective v. Ashurst case. The cases have created significant uncertainty, argues SDD Global's Sanjay Bhatia, although for the most part it has been a false alarm for LPOs.
Written by Hitesh Sanghvi Friday, 05 March 2010 09:03
In respect of dissemination of credit information of borrower companies, offshore lenders have been placed at a disadvantage by the Credit Information Companies Act, argues Hitesh Sanghvi.
Written by Rahul Kothari Thursday, 25 February 2010 02:11
"Chalta Rahe, Chalta Rahe" - a catchy slogan by a popular television commercial using a court as a setting, advertises the long-lasting ability of its plywood to take a repeated battering of the Judge's gavel as the same matter goes on and on in a court for years on end. It is uncanny how this black humour which is much suited to television can make one smirk but in a real court room can bring a litigant to tears.
Written by Kriti Tannan Thursday, 18 February 2010 02:45
The Supreme Court of India has recently determined that allegation of fraud in a dispute will affect a party's ability to require that dispute to be referred to arbitration under Part I of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 in N. Radhakrishnan vs Maestro Engineers.
Written by Lalit Bhasin Wednesday, 03 February 2010 14:58
To me it appears childish to pose the query "until when can entry of foreign lawyers be prevented in India", says Bhasin & Co managing partner and Society of Indian Law Firms (SILF) chairman Lalit Bhasin in response to last week's opinion that the Lawyers Collective judgment is wrong.
Written by Sapan Gupta Friday, 04 December 2009 16:13
The draft Model Real Estate Act, while a good idea in principle, has missed the mark on many important practical points and needs work before becoming law, argues bank in-house lawyer Sapan Gupta.
The debacle of economies around the world triggered by irresponsible, uncontrolled investment in the global real-estate market has made India aware of its need to regulate the sector, despite coming out of the crisis relatively unscathed.
The Model Real Estate Act by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA) is a step in the right direction. But as it stands today, the act overlooks some practical hurdles in the way of addressing several of its objectives to protect individuals from defaults.
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