By now all those millions of android and apple lovers must have expressed their anger and disappointment at the weekend launch of bbm, popularly know as the blackberry messenger. On Friday night, there existed two fake apps in Google play store, that increased to around 14 by midday on Saturday and ...
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The Companies Act 1956 governs and defines the law in relation to conduct of company affairs in the country. It defines a company, what shall constitute a company and how it shall be formed and the manner in which the affairs of the company shall be conducted. The act also provides for rights and du...
A very interesting question has been raised before the Honorable High Court of Karnataka. Whether right to conceive is a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution? A Writ Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed before High Court of Karnataka challenging th...
It was the sunny morning on 25th august 2013 which was awaited by thousands to bid for there fate. The day of ALL INDIA BAR EXAMINATION- V, the easiest to see but rudest to be. No material, No course structure, No guidelines, only a rule - Carry the books for ready reference, everything Seems EASY t...
He looked at me and my mother intently for a minute, and then asked if I could read Kannada. He was a sturdy dark man who looked hardened after years of being exposed to criminals. I gulped and shook my head. My answer affirmed what he thought about me. I was a rich English speaking brat just done w...
Loopholes in Rape Laws Law is meaningless when all men are good and useless when all men are bad. Fortunately or Unfortunately, Man is a mixture of the two which has necessitated the birth of law. Does it mean law is flawless because it happens to monitor, limit and control human behaviour to an est...
On 8 th August, 2013, the upper house of the Indian Parliament (Rajya Sabha) gave its nod for the new Companies Bill. It was first introduced as Companies Bill 2009 in the Lok Sabha on August 3, 2009, and was then referred to standing committee on finance. It came back to the house as Companies Bill...
The past twenty four hours have been buzzing with “”NLIU Bhopal Placement Forecast Bleak”. In a single page of much discussed piece of “news”, a lot has been claimed and quoted and well, slammed on the University. Out of a batch of 82 students from the graduating year 2014, 34 appeared for recruitme...
Analyzing the situation and legal protection given to the senior citizens in India, India being the Most LAWFUL country has got constitutional as well as Legislative protection (which no one knows) The Basic protection given to a senior citizen, Now for India a senior citizen is a person more than t...
DAY ZERO Hello! Respected and not-so-respected members of the legal fraternity, tolerant law students and other vela people who have taken time out to read this blog. I am not a seasoned blogger like most people on this site. I have been a freeloader of entertainment from Legally India and I think i...
The year is 2004. Its quite crowded for a weekday at this Andheri (East) dance bar. He’s been here for an hour and a half and now the 4th round of that cheap double-whisky is getting to him. A female approaches. Comely features. Easy on the eyes. Probably from the countryside…trying to make some ext...
The reviews for Calcutta Chronicles’ were not only unexpected - they were elating and above all humbling - I always thought of myself as someone who could draw sad faces better than happy ones (I actually can!). So for my readers (at least the 400 of them who seem to have read the previous one - and...
I’m sure all of you are quite familiar with various posts where lawyers have ranted about their lives (yes, their only means of escape is writing blogs under pseudonyms and finding solace in the comments section). There have been some particularly intriguing pieces of literature giving insights of t...
* There are two reasons for writing this despite the hectic schedule and the tremendous workload this semester. First being – the storm clouds. The ones that you see in the month of June - just beyond the spires of the Calcutta High Court and realize the beauty of the old lady. As I wake up in Raipu...
Over the years, LegallyIndia’s Mooting Premier League has successfully managed to reach out to the mooting community and has provided incentives for students to moot. With LegallyIndia’s excellent mooting initiative comes a caveat. Readers can pit their colleges against each other on an year by year...
IN THE WIZENGAMOT CRIMINAL DIVISION DEPARTMENT OF MAGICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT LONDON WEDNESDAY, 17th JULY 1982 B e f o r e: CHIEF WARLOCK MINISTER MILLICENT BAGNOLD SIRIUS ORION BLACK - V - LILY JAMES POTTER Mr. Albus Percival Wulfric Bryan Dumbledore appeared on behalf of the (now deceased) applicant J...
They say if you want to die of poverty, struggling to make ends meet, with no money and even less of a reputation, then choose your profession wisely because there are very few professions which can make you into an irritating, socially ridiculed, annoying destitute as law. Of course things have cha...
It happens with almost all law students (taking in general not for them who have preset goals). A time comes when you get confused about where to go (I am not talking about places because that we very evidently know). Now some serious talk I am talking about the confusion regarding the field to sele...
You must be surprised to see the word National in inverted commas, after reading this article; you’ll get to know why it is so. About 30000 students prepare and appear for CLAT and other law entrance exam every year, just to get admission in a National Law University. Some of them even take drop(s) ...
Congratulations. You have gotten through to a law school. It may or may not be the one that you aimed for but the good news is, in the long run, it doesn’t matter. Now, a lot of you will be starting college from Monday. A few of you might have already started. So I am going to tell you a few things ...
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...