The Sixth NLU Antitrust Law Moot Court Competition is being organized and hosted by the National Law University, Jodhpur between March 20-22, 2015. This competition is being organised in association with Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., along with the knowledge partner,...
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Yesterday, in Ram Singh vs Union of India , the Supreme Court overturned a government decision to grant reservations to the Jat community in nine states (by including them in the Central List of Backward Classes [“Central List”]). The judgment has created a significant political stir . As a legal ma...
Last night I chanced upon an article published in the Times of India (link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Opinion-Indian-men-who-rape-and-how-they-rape/articleshow/46583849.cms ). This article was emailed to me by my younger sister who is presently interning with a reputed news channel of...
b2ap3_thumbnail_ff3d38872eede53f8d1569a2010b4011_20150303-110442_1.jpg (Image credit: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354869645613086364/ ) A majority of people will agree that giving a house on rent is no easy task. In fact, the process can be quite overwhelming for certain people, and can become a s...
b2ap3_thumbnail_Moot.jpg Hello, Happy Holi and welcome to the 7th edition of the NUJS-HSF National Corporate Law Moot Court Competition to be held from 6th-8th March, 2015. The competition, which is on an invitation-only basis, will be held on 6, 7 and 8 March 2015 at the NUJS campus in Kolkata. As ...
Author: Salman Waris Publisher: Getting The Deal Through, Law Business Research, London Published in: February 2015 Download: Getting the Deal Through – Cybersecurity 2015 – India Getting the Deal Through has published the 2015 edition of Cybersecutiy, a volume in the series of annual reports that p...
Welcome to the 5th Indian Vis Pre-Moot and the ICC YAF Conference 2015 at National Law University Delhi ! Follow India’s premier arbitration event of the season with us, live from the University! This year, National Law University Delhi is proud to partner with the International Chambers of Commerce...
We at RMLNLU are proud to present the 3 rd SCC Online International Media Law Moot Competition of 2015. What you missed from yesterday: The Inauguration Ceremony: This year, in the spirit of academia we’ve paired the moot with a National Seminar on Social Media, Information Technology and IPR whose ...
“If you can meet with Triumph & Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same…” As 2014 draws to an end & my FB Timeline is flooded with nostalgic statuses from friends, I reflect on the highlights of my law school life in 2014. An experience which shall remain most memorable is my...
Law School Admissions are coming up! Cheers to the prospoective law school students! We all very well know the importance of the knowledge of the credibility and standing of a law school we would like to join in our future. This blog contains a report of the same where, on the analysis of Outlook an...
As there is lack of proper ranking for NLUs so I was trying to formulate a way to rank NLUs. Also, I tried to rank NLUD with other NLUs. I ranked colleges on five criteria: 1. Placements - I based my ranking on data available on different websites and number of job offers + LLM + People opting for c...
I don’t quite get 3 kinds of people: people who watch Karan Johar movies, people who read Chetan Bhagat novels and people who surf Legally India for legal updates/news. But then I re-assess my displeasure and I realize the three of them have something in common – catering what people prefer/need. As...
When we come across with the words like ‘ Think different’ or ‘ Think outside the box’ what pops up quickly in our mind is the product of Apple Computers the best in terms of technology , or let’s say ‘ Because I’m worth it ’ ladies would with no instance say that’s L’Oreal . This is nothing but an ...
The distribution of the Prizes is as follows- Winner: Rs. 1,10, 000 Runner Up: Rs. 75,000 Best Speaker: Rs. 10,000 Best Researcher: Rs. 20,000 Best Memorial: Rs. 20,000 The 5th NLIU-Justice R.K. Tankha Memorial National Moot Court Competition is amongst the most sought after competitions in the moot...
Amity Law School, Delhi is hosting its 14th National Moot from Friday, 20th February to Sunday 22 February. b2ap3_thumbnail_DSC_0055n.jpg This year’s moot proposition requires participants to have an in depth knowledge of trademarks and anti-competitive agreements. We will get to see teams represent...
What happens when you spend 5 years of your law school having the time of your life. Like literally, time-of-your-life!!! [Time of your life- excludes any such activity that requires paying attention in classes, taking internships seriously, taking moots seriously and/or taking anyone/anything serio...
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The hall is jam-packed with the dignitaries, the participants and the other students of Government Law College for the 16th D.M.Harish Memorial Government Law College International Moot Court Competition (DMH 2015).
Hello and welcome to the live blog of the 16 th D. M. Harish Memorial Government Law College International Moot Court Competition 2014 a.k.a DMH, which is from the 12 th -15 th February, 2015. In the year 2000, Mr. Sharan Jagtiani, with the support of the D. M. Harish Foundation, conceptualized the ...
India’s only International Trade Law Moot Court Competition is back! And it is bigger and better than ever before. From today, i.e. 4-8th February 2015, 56 teams from around the world shall be at GNLU’s sprawling campus to participate in the 7th GNLU International Moot Court Competition. GIMC’s 2015...
by Kshitij Maheshwari The bifurcation of the State of Andhra Pradesh into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana happened in an unprecedented manner. When the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand were created, the assemblies of Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and UP respectively had passed resolutions reco...
The Bar Council of India (“ BCI ”), in a press release on Saturday, has said that it will file an application in the Supreme Court seeking modification of the order which allowed fresh law graduates to become judicial officers. It said that the BCI and the State Bar Councils are “strongly in favour”...
Thirty years ago, nobody could have accurately predicted the job market of today. The intervening technological progress must be blamed or credited for it. However, we seem to be able today to satisfactorily predict the job market we will have thirty years hence – plenty of machines and Artificial I...
Writing a great legal article is truly amazing. Not only it will be published in a good, well-known website or blog, thereby increasing your brand value and visibility, but also be read by many people who are in need of that information. It may help litigants, researchers, other lawyers or a reporte...
The distinguished Prof. Shamnad Basheer recently launched an online petition in the form of a poem to make a fervent appeal to the invisible CLAT powers to make the critical shift to a permanent, centralized CLAT body that will conduct the CLAT examination every year. However, every effort till now ...
CLAT 2015 will go down in the history of national competitive exams in India as the most ludicrous and incompetent examination that openly insulted the intelligence of thousands of candidates and played with their careers with an unbelievably sick mentality. The entire CLAT 2015 affair reflected an ...
Law and journalism are two fields which demand up-to-date knowledge in this proliferating world. Neither of them is stagnant and obsolete. As a first year law student,I used to think that legal profession only meant to argue in courts. It was later that it dawned upon me that legal field has no peri...
Why This Ko-Law-Very ?? The moment you enter an elite Law school campus,you will be tired of answering this question to everyone, from your Orientation day to Farewell.One simple question -“Why law?” Few oversmart kids would try to impress the first class by saying “Because I couldn’t make it to IIT...
Introduction Law has been the most variegated stream ever since it was incorporated in the human society. When one thinks of a vocation in law the first image that strike its mind is a dexterous person, dressed in black and white, going through some gigantic books, running in and out the court, figh...
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LIFE IS NOT SO FAIR AND LOVELY At the outskirts of the Metropolitan court, I begin my day with the sight of all street smart lawyers who are out for today’s hunt. The hunters instinct is still seen in them when their roving eyes are targeting their next catch cum client. Sipping the cutting chai and...
What happens when you spend 5 years of your law school having the time of your life. Like literally, time-of-your-life!!! [Time of your life- excludes any such activity that requires paying attention in classes, taking internships seriously, taking moots seriously and/or taking anyone/anything serio...
A lady (not a lawyer) Retired Justice Markandey Katju published a blog post today entitled “Lady Lawyers” . In typical Katju blogging fashion (whenever not causing a media storm about judicial corruption), it’s a trip down memory lane starting with his time as a lawyer in 1970 Allahabad. Katju is tr...
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Last year, European Union has ratified the ‘Right to Repair’ regulation. According to these regulations, the manufacturers of the household electronic appliances i.e. lighting, washing machines, dish washers, and refrigerators, will have to make it easier for the consumers to get them repaired. Thou...
by sflc_admin | October 9, 2017 According to the Cyber Laws and E-Security Group under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Group (MeitY), as many as 23,030 websites /URLs are currently blocked in India. This information was received as a reply to a Right to Information application fil...
by sflc_admin | October 4, 2017 We live in an era where human activity is producing unprecedented amounts of digital data. The popular saying these days is ‘data is the new oil’. The high value of this data along with the lack of awareness among people about rights has prompted corporations and gove...
by sflc_admin | September 27, 2017 The second Digital Citizen Summit was organised on September 21-22, 2017 by Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) and Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. SFLC.in was an associate partner of the summit. The summit aimed at fin...
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by sflc_admin | September 22, 2017 SFLC.in is organising a workshop on “Secure Communication ” in association with Sukhbir Singh, TOR Developer, on Saturday, September 23, 2017, from 11:00AM-:1:30 PM at the SFLC.in premises at K-9, Second Floor, Birbal Road, Jangpura Extension, New Delhi -110014 nea...
by sflc_admin | September 18, 2017 The ongoing Internet shutdown in Darjeeling, West Bengal completes 3 months today. This day, three months earlier, mobile Internet was shutdown in the city due to the ongoing agitation for a separate Gorkhaland. Two days later, on 20th June, the orders were extende...
Written by the Civil Liberties team at CCG A 9 judge bench of the Supreme Court of India passed a landmark judgment last week, which unanimously recognized the right to privacy as a fundamental right under the Constitution of India. The Court found the right to privacy to be a part of the freedoms g...
Today, the Supreme Court heard the ongoing matter of Sabu Mathew George vs. Union of India . In 2008, a petition was filed to ban advertisements endorsing sex-selective abortions from search engine results. Advertisements endorsing sex selective abortions are illegal under Section 22 of the PNDT Act...
by sflc_admin | September 4, 2017 On Sep 2, 2017, SFLC.in organized a discussion titled “Celebrating the Right To Be Let Alone” to commemorate the recent recognition of right to privacy as a fundamental right, discuss the privacy judgment, its key takeaways, the impact it will have on pending Aadhaa...
The sub-committee of Insolvency Law Committee (ILC) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India (MCA) in its report dated October 31, 2020 has proposed the framework for the pre-pack and prearranged insolvency resolution process which the Government may adopt with / without modificatio...
Analysis of the Condonation of Delay Scheme, 2018 of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs The Scheme is by way of a General Circular No.16/2017 dated 29 December 2017. It is in exercises of powers u/Ss. 403, 459 and 460 of the Companies Act, 2013. Who can avail the scheme? A company registered under th...
Diwali is one of the most anticipated and celebrated festivals in India. It is also a festival of giving gifts, which is often a challenge for compliance professionals who struggle with policies and nuances of law around this time, on giving gifts that might seem like bribes. Under the Prevention of...
The RBI has amended the Master Directions on Financial Services provided by Banks. This is a significant move permitting Banks to invest in Category II Alternative Investment Funds. As of June 30, 2017, Alternative Investment Funds ( AIFs ) had raised the cumulative figure of Rs. 48, 129 crores, aga...
Image credit: Scroll.in, September 26, 2017 Sociologists know that the formation and survival of civilization is conditional upon the universal adherence to a framework of acceptable norms and guidelines of human conduct and interaction. Moses therefore set out as God’s message, the directive to lov...
Financial investors in India are scared of regulatory uncertainties. Not that uncertainties are exclusive to our country but it’s a critical risk factor that is assessed by those making substantial investments. Historically, one of the most important regulatory concerns for such investors is related...
India has long recognised the right of foreign creditors to participate in the winding up of Indian companies. As early as 1961, the Supreme Court of India, in Rajah of Vizianagaram (AIR 1962 SC 500) , clarified that foreign creditors have the same right as Indian creditors in winding up proceedings...
Photo credit: Indian Express, August 23, 2017 Through its historic ruling delivered by a five-judge bench in the case of Shayara Bano and Ors v. Union of India on August 22nd 2017, the Supreme Court of India ( SC ) liberated Muslim women from the perpetual fear of arbitrary and whimsical divorce. Th...
The ability to attract large scale Foreign Direct Investment ( FDI ) into India has been a key driver for policy making by the Government. Prime Minister Modi seems to be going along the right track, with India receiving FDI inflows worth USD 60.1 billion in 2016-17, which was an all-time high. Henc...
On August 31st 2017, the Supreme Court of India in the case of Innoventive Industries Limited v. ICICI Bank Limited* delivered its first extensive ruling on the operation and functioning of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ( Insolvency Code ). The Court said that it is pronouncing its detail...