Opportunity for students studying law has arisen almost 5 fold with the emergence of LPO. On a daily basis I am asked by students eager to know more about this opportunity and I have tried my best to show them a glimpse of the new world so as to enable them to take an informed decision. Traditionall...
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Day 2, 7:45 pm The closing ceremony has finally begun! We are nearing an end to the fifth edition of the NUJS-HSF National Corporate Law Moot Court Competition. It has been two wonderful, busy days for not only the super NUJS Moot Court Society but also the participants, judges and of course, the ti...
By Ashwin Mathew India’s growth since 1992 is a result of two complementary factors – a relaxed regulatory regime and the Indian entrepreneurial spirit reflected in successful private enterprise. The Satyam scam and a few other unfortunate instances of corporate greed driven by individual compromise...
A When I’d just begun studying law, people often asked me if I had learnt different ways in which to murder a person without being held criminally liable. I thought it was merely an over-done joke. Three years into law school, I find it deeply insightful. Naïveté would have you presume that the law ...
Indian Judicial system, just like our country has come a long way from a system that had many flaws set up during the British rule, to the modern day watchdog of both the ‘legislature’ as well as the ‘executive’ of India; a country which is predicted by many to become a economical powerhouse by 2030...
I got another email from a law student asking me to remove the internship experience he had shared on Lawctopus. The law firm had asked him to do so. Why? Because among the 400 good words he had written about the firm, there were 50 not so good words. This has happened earlier too. Law firms guard t...
Love: Sames attract Guest post by an anonymous lawyer and several talented non-lawyer collaborators who’ve had their fair share of legal ‘experience’. Disclaimer: If you have a sensitive heart and/or soul, you may be offended. Please no blaming or suing. Seriously, we mean it. Okay. So you meet this...
Introduction- A new chapter in the form of Chapter XX-A was added in the Indian penal Code, 1860 with only one section, Section 498-A by the Criminal law (Second Amendment Act), 1983 with the main object to keep a check over the rising instances of sufferings inflicted upon a woman which reads as un...
Introduction- A new chapter in the form of Chapter XX-A was added in the Indian penal Code, 1860 with only one section, Section 498-A by the Criminal law (Second Amendment Act), 1983 with the main object to keep a check over the rising instances of sufferings inflicted upon a woman which reads as un...
It is trend. In first semester when I was supposed to be studying Torts, I used to feel like reading Public International Law. Then when I was doing a PIL moot I felt like reading landmark Constitutional Law judgements. When it was the deadline for moot memo submission neared, I spent a great amount...
Hi, Welcome to the Liveblog of the 2013 GNLU International Moot Court Competition. This year’s moot is going to see participation from 42 teams. We will be giving live updates for the Semi- Finals and Finals of the competition on Saturday and Sunday live from Gujarat National Law University, Gandhin...
” A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ” - Ayn Rand All through my life, I’ve always had a penchant towards discovering myself and polishing the curious side of me. The desire to grab every opportunity and ensuring that those very chances helped me ...
Welcome to the Live Blog on the 14th D.M. Harish Memorial Government Law College International Moot Court Competition 2013! “An experience, filled with intensity, nerves and intellectual brilliance, all tempered with warmth, hospitality and comfort. Simply put, an experience like never before. Legal...
b2ap3_thumbnail_Nandy_ashis1.jpg Ashis Nandy is not simplistic with his words. His way of presenting his thoughts and ideas is rather overloaded with symbolism. He has a way with using paradoxes, aphorisms, riddles, ironies, metaphors, imagery, and personifications to take his readers by surprise. H...
He wears the Gandhi topi, the white clothes, the frugal lifestyle (according to medical reports, Anna only eats one major meal a day), usually seen in police stations and of course, the giant black and white poster of M.K.Gandhi as a background wherever he is spotted and he claims he is not Gandhi! ...
If an extremist enables a mass killing but later provides valuable information, what should his sentence be? In the November of 2008, as world watched the horror unfold, more than 160 people were mercilessly killed and at least 308 were ruthlessly injured in the twelve coordinated shootings and bomb...
At last, I am living my dream of interning at the Trial Court at my home place, Dharwad. Otherwise, every vacations would see me off to Bangalore for an “elite” internship. A trial court internship comes at a discount of being “unglamorous”, as judged by my peers at the law school. But, I thought I ...
The Final Rounds of the 19th M C Chala Memorial National Moot Court Competition were held on the 13th of January at Indian Merchant Chambers, Churchgate between School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore and Government Law College, Mumbai. The Bench comprised of Hon’ble Smt Justice R.S Dalvi, Hon’b...
I recently had an opportunity to be a part of a “literacy program”, as it was called, on girl students’ exploitation and protection. It was organized by the Dharwad District Legal Services Authority, in association with the Children’s Academy, the Women and Child Development Department, the Police D...
The Rakshasa epitomizes the bad guy in Indian mythology. Often portrayed as an evolutionary throwback, he has fangs, claws and a thirst for human blood. He can grow large at will and is often a shapeshifter. He is shown wearing garlands of human skulls around his neck and the good guys routinely ear...
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...