Bliss according some definition means a state of satisfaction. Now how can anyone be in this state , if they are studying at an “NLU” ??? To contradict myself , I was in a state of Bliss in my NLU ,now how can that be possible for anyone who is studying law anywhere , whether he/she be a lawyer or a...
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PANGEA3 PRE-PLACEMENT TALK Date: 29.7.2011 Time: 12.00 PM Venue: Video Conferencing Room, Dr. Madhu Limaye Library, RMLNLU Speakers: Mr. Varun Kedia, Senior Manager, Pangea3 Ms. Mandeep Kaur, Senior Executive, HR Department, Pangea3 The Pre-Placement Talk and interaction with the 5 th year batch sta...
I was completely jobless at night so I thought to go to my friend’s room and fetch some movies to watch. Hence I got an opportunity to watch this SPLENDID, IMPECABLE and EXQUISITELY directed movie, STANLEY KA DABBA. The movie starts with a peachy morning where Stanley is enjoying the morning as he g...
First and foremost I must thank or congratulate anyone who has the time , the spirit and the courage to read this nonsensical work . I would like to disclose another thing that I’m not going to give the tiniest details of things that happened to me at the NLU for who has the time ,right ??? The day ...
Indian constitution is said to be federal, then why not India is a federation but Union. It is mainly for two reasons viz. (a) that the Indian Union is not the result of an agreement by the states and (b) the component states have no freedom to secede from it. Though the country and the people may b...
Finally the thing I had been waiting for since last three years now was accomplished. It was hysterical. An internship with the man himself: DJ Jazzy Joe. I was ecstatic beyond imagination and had no words to describe the thing I was going through. The thing was too huge for me and I was in no way g...
First year at law school was not just an ordinary year. It was 1000 hours of lecture, 120 hours of mooting, 60 hours of debating/arguing, 1500 hours of sleeping and 360 hours of internship. When a pilot with experience of 200 hours can get a license to risk hundreds of lives, imagine your efficiency...
Born in year 1985 as minor and lived so for major period of 18 years. When born, had no idea that I was like some random commodity that needs to be registered in the log book as it goes for sale or enter into the market. Such registration of humans, when grown up, discovered was called birth registr...
We had an interactive moot court orientation program at the Institute of law, Nirma university. It was all very informative. The students who have won the international moot courts and one lawyer of the Gujarat High court spread knowledge among us which I would like to share with the world.
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Well, a sense of curiosity, excitement, nervousness and fear…this is what any psychologist would find in me now!.. And its never untrue that am a good psychologist for myself..Before confusing anymore, i would justify my opening sentence as, yes finally am into legallyindia.com and posting my first ...
The suits were crisp and the ties coloured bright, the risk of monotony was my fright. A huge pay check was on my way, But for it, had I sold my Say..?? Where could I speak and make things Right.. Where could I win Wars, and not just a Fight??? The Bar came calling, and the Bench felt surreal I put ...
Finally the first year results are out and the same is now reflecting the hard work , luck and prayers that are answered by All Mighty:) Apun speaking on behalf of myself stating the fact that yeh Duniya badi suhani hai!! My group entire KT GANG were waiting for the results and we had made plan A an...
Mumbai reeled yesterday under three bombs that killed, injured and shook the confidence of the city. Reporting a tragedy of such a scale is a difficult task for any journalist but one story that appears irresponsible in the face of evidence has taken hold of the mainstream media.
Construction projects invariably get delayed for variety of reasons in India and also elsewhere. Under the well settled law, a contractor is entitled to compensation for the delayed completion, if the delay is caused by breaches of contract conditions committed by the Employer. Claims of compensatio...
Public Private Partnership (PPP) Contract: Infrastructure development projects in the past were thought of as a way of providing infrastructure at no extra cost to the public. For this reason the projects used to be generally investigated, designed and financed by the Public Works Department of the ...
Read Chap. 1 Read Chap. 2 Read Chap. 3 CHAPTER 4 We kept a safe distance between ourselves and the bottle as though we feared it might come to life, leap at us and pour itself into our bloodstream. “Oh, come on!”, said Medha exasperated, “I can’t believe you are such saints”. Indrani was quiet. “Can...
“Should you marry for love or for money?” This is a question which has elicited diverse answers from various people. Envying another’s wealth and trying to achieve the same status has always been a very natural psychological response for most people. And there are die-hard romantics who’d rather say...
The Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh has once again come to a standstill. With nearly around 100 MLAs resigning from their posts and calling on a region-wide bandh , the region has joined the choir to voice the platitudinous jingle of ‘ Telangana – The State’. As I flipped through the headlines in...
I remember the first ever Parliamentary Debate I had participated in. It was an Intra in my University (RMLNLU holds intras for every debate to fairly decide who gets to go). I had a faint idea, if at all, of the rules and had memorised the timings of the speakers as 7-7-8 so that I wouldn’t forget ...
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...