In response to http://laworlogic.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/the-age-of-consent/ and http://www.legallyindia.com/Blogs/Entry/is-it-laws-business-to-see-who-i-sleep-with In a 2007 study conducted by Ministry of Women and Child development, it was found that more than 53 % of children in India faced one ...
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India’s polity is a fine example of the modern governmental system modelled on the principle of trias politica , commonly called as the ‘separation of powers’ where each branch, the legislature, executive and the judiciary, hold distinct powers and areas of responsibility. The role of the executive ...
More than 70 people have died across 11 countries. [1] Four American including one senior diplomat killed in Libya and US warships are already on the coast of Libya. [2] Western Countries including US, UK and France are shutting down their embassies in Islamic Countries due to the threat of more ret...
If you’ve never experienced the fire of inferno, experience it now. Draw up a cartoon. And unless your drawing skills are absolutely hopeless, you’ll most probably end up in jail. That is exactly what has been happening lately. First the arrest of a Jadavpur University professor over cartoons depict...
In the recent past a lot of dithering has taken place over blocking internet and regulating the net content. However one dare not imagine a world without internet today. That world would be equivalent to a world with no competent courts. In order to emphasize the importance of openness and internet ...
This week saw several knee jerkers. Two knee jerkers came straightway from the Apex Court. While the overruling of the Bhatia judgment has led to the cooling of several simmering fair criticisms of the judgment, legal eagles have left no stone unturned to speculate on the aftermath of the judgment. ...
Its been almost an year in law school. And it feels like hell . Actually it’s a mixed feeling. I still remember the day when I first went to the law prep classes. I had just passed my boards but had’nt scored well and had also not been selected anywhere so decided to take up CLAT. When you drop a ye...
The discussion as to the use of red beacons by bureaucrats and politicians on the top of their cars has always sparked controversies and aroused curiosity. Whether all dignitaries are allowed to use the red beacon? Who are the privileged ones who can use the beacon? Are there any guidelines for usin...
The coal scam which is burning down every newspaper’s front page these days is becoming an ostensible niggle for the ruling party. The ruling party is facing harsh allegations not only from the opposition but media and general public are also providing a hard time to them. How do we put this scam or...
I just came to know through a friend that the parliament through a bill had raised the age for consenting sex from 16 to 18!! Imagine that!! I had sex when I was 17! And I was called a late bloomer by my friends..so I guess if this bill had been passed 10 years ago I would be a criminal in the eyes ...
Disclaimer 1: The title for this post has nothing to do with Opal Mehta. Kaavya’s got the all the intellectual property for that one (snigger snigger!) Disclaimer 2: This post was conceived a couple of months ago. Recent occurrences have no impact on its content. As stated earlier, resemblance to re...
In this small world, lawyers are stacking up just like we find buildings in Mumbai. The way mumbaiites have been used to the buildings and noise in the vicinty in the same manner people are getting use to rising strength of lawyers numericaly. DO WE HAVE ANY REGULATORY AUTHORITY GOVERNING the ever i...
The moment you enter the last year of your graduation, the only thing that matters is the JOB! People tend to ask your parents about you and parents ask you the dreaded question - ‘ Have you thought of anything ?’. That is when you forget about everything and pounce on the first opportunity you get....
MAHENDRA SONI (LL.M., NLIU) The Answer Key Issued by UGC for June 2012 NET JRF Exam has incorrect answers for 10 Questions (4 in Paper-1 and 6 in Paper-2) UGC- NET LAW PAPER-2 10. Match List-I (Jurist) with List-II (Assumption) and select the correct answer using the codes given below the lists : Li...
What takes a lawyer to become a sucessful lawyer in terms of money and fame ?? and the answer is i dont know, because getting into corporate and running along the guidelines of the company you work with doesn’t make any head or tail to me . Well, still hail the corporate law for transforming the law...
Derek Bok, a noted American lawyer and educator once said, “Law is the oldest of the arts and youngest of the professions.” His words definitely fit into the current scenario of legal education India. India, opening doors to the neo-liberal economic polities in the early 1990s, also opened doors to ...
Law schools are producing law firm associates, corporate lawyers, litigating lawyers, social workers and what not. There are so many fields that are now open to law students. Sometimes I wonder if the reason for low recruitment figures in some of the good colleges is because people over estimate the...
Today the world scenario holds the position in which crime against woman is doubling with passage of time. In primal times, women were regarded inferior to men and were subjected to some pitiful acts which are continuing since time immemorial. Be it a girl child or fully grown women, most of them ar...
July 10, 2012. Law City, Legally Weird News Network The day finally arrived when the High Court of Lawland State delivered the judgment on the much followed case of Apple Inc. v. Poonam Pandey. In an maajor relief to the respondent, High Court refused to grant an injunction against the usage of Twit...
Published At http://thestandingcoin.blogspot.in/2012/07/y-u-no-touch-me.html Today’s episode of Satyamave Jayte is probably the best one till date. Hitting on India’s Achilles’ heel, Aamir Khan has brought to our notice the unethical, disruptive, idiotic system which cannot be described even by the ...
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...