Jimmy is a boy, aged 21, works at the gym for 21 hours, sweats for those 21 hours and hasn’t had a girlfriend for 21 years. He applied for an internship 21 weeks ago and got it confirmed 21 days ago. OK lets chuck 21 for a while. So on 9th of May, he arrived a 9 am, waited for 9 long hours to get wo...
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What is Training Contract? A training contract is a period of practical training in a law form for duration of 2 years for law graduates before they can qualify as solicitor in UK. Getting a training contract in law school in India is seen as one of the most attractive and alluring offer. However, t...
Internships form one of the most crucial parts of the Law School Journey. They are considered to be the practical knowledge which a student gets in his law school life. Usually, a student applies for an internship long before the forthcoming vacations. There is a very obvious question which is asked...
Upanayana. Brahmopadesha. Or by whatever name you call it. Has lost its meaning in today’s world. It basically signifies the beginning of the austere life in a boy’s life, wherein he begins his formal schooling in the Gurukula. His life at the Gurukula is highly disciplined, as in he practices stric...
We were in the Legislative House at Bangalore. We were on a journey to Trivandrum, to participate in the Moot Court Competition organized by Government Law College, Trivandrum. The train was at around nine in the night, and hence we had to halt for almost 6 hours at the House. Since we were still in...
In summer vacation, though most of us are interning, there are few who are at home. There is sea difference between home and college. Law school keeps you busy like a bee while at home you have all the time on this earth to watch all such bees! (Ok, lame joke!). College means minimal sleep, lots of ...
Law is one of the most unexplored fields of education. Neither much people know about it nor do they bother to, credited to misconceptions regarding the field. To say it in clear words, there is weird skepticism regarding this area of study. Here I am trying to throw light on few of the myths regard...
Being in the second year at the Law School, I have come a long way in dealing with life. Law School is not just a place where legal knowledge is gained and lawyers are churned out. Law School teaches certain things which are more important to being a human - it teaches us how to be a human. We are t...
Whenever the vast tracts of ‘dense vegetation’ on my arms glare at me, irritation seeps in. my eyes literally trim through them to leave behind smooth plain ‘land’, on which my mind’s senses feast. As also, when the eye brows manifest themselves as something more than neat curves of suave hair, my h...
Respected Mother/Father, It is with deep pain that I write this letter. I request you to make a few minutes available to this humble invocation. Kindly oblige. How privileged I am to have been bestowed with more than a million mothers and fathers! Hail the God! Hail All of You! Have you ever seen me...
Before reading the rest of this post, I request you to visit the link attached to footnote number one and view the video to ‘ United State of Pop 2009 ’. [1] The song is entirely made up of snippets of Billboard Magazine’s top 25 songs from 2009. Scrolling to the bottom of the page, you will notice ...
This is a modified post first published on http://glaws.in/2011/02/is-poker-gambling/ I am sure that most youngsters, especially budding corporate lawyers have played poker with friends, in casinos or at least tried it on Facebook. What has made this American card-game extremely popular among the yo...
Finally i am out of the rigours of Semester 2 , I gave my exams and with my friends i hit upon a Dhaba cum Bar. As our results clearly states that kind of aptitude we have and capacity to retain things is as good ram . My friends and myself were trying to complete the syllabus or for that matter stu...
I wish to state in the beginning itself that any references to films, characters, comments are not intended to hurt, defame or otherwise cause pain to any person, natural and legal or even … you know the undead, or to hurt their feelings, economic, religious or otherwise. After a long week of stayin...
Mooting Premier League 2010-11 - MPL2 Nalsar Hyderabad is set to compete with Australian and Canadian law schools in the ICC Trial Competition in The Hague, with a live webcast of the finals at 17:30 India time today (15 April). [[Nalsar Hyderabad]], along with Bond University, Australia and Osgoode...
As India goes crazy about Anna Hazare, a small reminder. In Manipur, a woman called irom Sharmila has been on a hunger strike for 10 years because Media does not highlight that. Let’s now do something for Sharmila…
Being a law school student means getting enlightened about various laws for a continuous period of 5 yrs, from cases where some stupid insect was found in Beer bottle that led to whole lot of hoopla regarding it and a resulting landmark case slapped on students, to cases of breach of contract, to pr...
9th April, 2011 MPL 2 Logo 22:30 Welcome to this semi-live blog which will inform you about all the recent news from the two arbitration moots being held this weekend, the 8 th [[Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot, Hong Kong]] and the 4 th [[NLSIU International Arbitratio...
We won!!! After a massive and unprecedented outpouring of public pressure, the government has given in and met all of Anna Hazare’s demands!! Over 500,000 of us signed the petition - at one point 30,000 people per hour! The petition was widely covered in the national press as evidence that the anti-...
Right now, Anna Hazare , a 73-year-old Gandhian, sits fasting in the burning sun, and he will stay until death — unless the government agrees to consider a powerful law that could rid Indian politics of the scourge of corruption. This “Modern Mahatma” is taking the utmost act of courage and determin...
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...