After few years of studying in a college outside your home town, time and again one has to put up with some prefatory questions whenever you meet anyone- be it the co-passengers on the train or family friends who come home or mentors during internship. This post is about those salutations which beco...
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Another year in law school- and another year of disappointment, dissatisfaction, lack of opportunities and a sort of helplessness which compels one to wonder whether there is an extrinsic force that controls one’s life; this coming from someone who is generally suspicious of inexplicable concepts su...
Twelve things I learnt at Law School. 1. When you uproot the human from the civilization, you also end up uprooting the civilization from the human. 110 acres of wilderness, faricical wifi, one day late newspaper, 40 minutes from the city -------> in short, a perfect recipe to bring out the worst in...
“Quiting is easy…Its carrying on that takes courage”-Anon. Read the first line my friends..no dont just read, understand it.This article is not for those who always won.Not for those who always had Lady Luck on their side.This article goes out to those who failed.Maybe failed a lot of times.Those wh...
This blog is a personal opinion/thought & purely an attempt to present a true picture of the situation only if one is ready to open up his/her mind. Anyone not capable of doing so, will be reading at his/her own risk. Also, I know that Algebra is not the favourite subject of many people, but, t...
What’s common between the CEO of ICICI banks, the MD of Apollo Hospital Enterprises, the Indian Head of Facebook or the current leaders of the three most powerful political parties. Quite simple isn’t it? The only similarity is that they are all women. They are there at the top. From healthcare to b...
19.04.2012 To, The Deputy Commissioner of Police Crimes against Bikes Cell New Delhi Sub: Complaint against Mr. Advocating Dreams, Advocate, Delhi Sir, I, Poor bike, am making the present complaint against my ‘owner’, Mr. Advocating Dreams, who has tortured and harassed me and treated me with extrem...
One thing that has virtually mesmerized the whole world these days is perhaps ‘DEMOCRACY’. Though it is not of nascent origin and has been in vogue for past couple of centuries in some form or the other in many countries, its magical spell has however made it a CATCHWORD almost in all countries and ...
Its all a poker game, where we all have our cards and we need to play. We need to keep this poker face in the game where no one should know or make out what our cards are. This is what we are suppose to do. However, I ask this question - … why so serious ? ;) What’s the game without some fun. In rea...
In recent times, the Supreme Court passed a landmark judgement in the Vodafone-Hutchison deal case which saved the international telecom giant from shelling out a whooping 11,000 crores. It has proved that the judiciary, however slow and inefficient at times is truly independent. However, something ...
Law as a Career, of late has undergone a big “U” turn for the number of students enrolling for the 5 year integrated course has risen drastically. Stakes involved are high and the expectations of the students have increased 10 folds than what the earlier generation had from their Law College and fro...
We have all heard of the story where Akbhar asks Birbal to say a word that, if heard in happiness makes you feel sad and if heard in sadness makes you feel happy. Birbal said “this time shall pass”. Similarly there is a decision, a happening that at some time made one reach cloud 9 and on the other ...
“Accept what you cannot change. Change what you cannot accept.” These are the most hauntingly curious lines I’ve ever read in my life. Isn’t everything bound by these words, because isn’t everything, in itself, bound by change? In fact, it is that same change which is making me write this article no...
As a grade VII student, I dreamt of going to a law school and the image in my head was that of a prim and proper disciplined university, where the students would be updating themselves with current affairs 24x7, where there would be truck-loads of academic tasks at hand all the time, where extra-cur...
‘Justice Delayed, Justice Denied’ The statements stare at me, sarcastically smiles showing its yellow teeth whenever i think about our society, people and courts. As a student of law, have heard enough about the need for speedy trial. Countless articles, workshops, seminars have thrown light on the ...
Soli Sorabjee Happy Birthday Soli Sorabjee, explains corporate lawyer Ashim Krishna Sood in this ode to his former senior Sorabjee. Sood is a graduate of NLSIU Bangalore and Harvard Law School’s LLM programme. He is now living in Delhi, after a stint in the USA since 2006, where he was an associate ...
Joseph Kony started the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda in 1986. It’s an army of tens of thousands of children who live in concentration camps day and night in the fear of getting abducted and being turned into child soldiers or sexual workers. Kony is not supported by anyone. “He’s not fight...
Dear Law School Administration, There are two types of students that you can meet in life, law students and others. Please be very afraid of the first kind as they are the sharpest, meanest and the most bored form of student that you will ever have to face. Why you ask? Well, here are a few reasons:...
The shackles around common myths regarding law schools broken down: What to Expect and What not to Expect from a law School (Why Law and Law School?) We all remember the day we knew we were going to be lawyers. For many, it was an inner calling, an intuition that this was not just another childhood ...
Disclaimer: (i) This post is written hurriedly so pardon the grammatical and structural mistakes (if any). (ii) The post is primarily written to highlight the true picture about what happened today at the main civil court in Bangalore. What is being projected in the media seems utterly biased. (iii)...
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...