The Controversy When the two sports stars (Sania Mirza and Shoaib Malik) would tie the knot, it is believed that the two countries India and Pakistan would also share a common-bond. But the marriage between the Indian tennis star and former Pakistani Cricket Captain, scheduled on April 15, 2010 has ...

National Judicial Service has been one of the most political-legal contentious issues in the judicial history of India. The debate has continued for years. On one hand the law ministry and the legislature intends to introduce the National Judicial Service in the country where as on the other hand th...

“ There is a moment that comes in your life, if you’re queer. It’s a moment of utter loneliness, when you realize that the world isn’t exactly designed for people like us. At this point, we scavenged. We took the novels we read and changed the pronouns of the protagonists. We saw films and changed t...

HIGH (in) COURT: A Drunk Mooter Prays For A Flowing Stream of Fun If it may please the honourable court I would like to proclaim: The counsel is not ‘feelin’ well, He swears in God’s name. The night before was a trail too long, Singing li’l life’s crazy song While each and every bit of me Went ‘roun...

Suppose you have hired a wheeled vehicle drawn by animals in any municipality or cantonment area in India where such transportation is as common as wheeled vehicles (and as all of us are aware that such places are plenty in ‘Incredible India’, not in consideration of our efforts to save the world bu...

It started with Foucault. “Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same … let us leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order.” A good way, we felt, to headline the invitational notice of a forum whose primary aims include questioning the identities w...

Hi folks, Those of you who may missed today’s TOI may not have come across an article discussing , among others , two interesting question which are pending adjudication in a PIL before the Delhi High Court. You may read the article http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Can-retired-SC-judges-advi...

Hi guys! I am Priyam….I belong to that category of unfortunate students who have always found Logical Reasoning, Critical Reasoning and verbal reasoning, massively elusive. Not only would I be confused between answer options, sometimes I would arrive at the conclusion that the question itself was wr...

Its that time of the year when suddenly the attendance sheets are almost perfect, the collars crisper, the spirits well guarded and the efficiency or the visuals of professional motion much more swifter. It’s the end of the financial year and thus the time for enhancements in the paypack. And this y...

District court lawyers in Delhi are observing a token day-long strike today to protest against increasing corruption in the judiciary as they gear up to meet UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Law Minister Veerappa Moily to discuss the issue. Co-ordination committee chairman and spokesman of all Delhi...

If you have noticed that whenever one sees the usage of the word “Client”, one knows that there just has to be lawyer or an architect involved since no one else in the ‘white collar’ business game ever seems to refer to anyone as “clients”. On a train/plane you are a passenger (unless you are flying...

Did you notice? You sit on your computer thinking of doing something productive, and end up spending a lot of time on the internet – maybe on Facebook, maybe reading tweets, watching videos, looking at funny images and advertisements, sending mails, befriending and chatting with people or even readi...

Narco Analysis a need of the hour In modern times with the advent of technology and increasing knowledge of the same, the criminals are gaining a lot from it. To catch up to the standards of such technically advanced and intelligent criminals, who leave no evidence, Narco Analysis has come as a reli...

A lawyer issued a legal notice to quit on behalf of his client. He posted it through registered AD and courier. Since he did not receive any AD card, h filed a complaint with the Post office .In the meantime, he sought for the proof of delivery from the courier company. He entrusted his clerk with t...

The judgment of the Supreme court in Sundaram Finance Ltd v. NEPC India Ltd., reported in (1999) 2 SCC 479 observed at para 12 thereof that though section 17 gives the arbitral tribunal the power to pass orders, the same cannot be enforced as orders of a court and it is for this reason only that Sec...

I began to write this about three weeks ago. A lot has changed since then. Terror has shaken our relatively sleepy city from its sense of security. “And yes, we need peace more because we have a good thing going in India and we have more to lose” says Bhagat and in a way that sums up what he is tryi...

R ajani Associates, a Mumbai based law firm has concluded private equity deal whereby New Silk Route has invested in Nectar Lifesciences Limited, listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange. Nectar Lifesciences Limited a fast growing pharmaceutical company with ambitious plan...

A few days after the Lawyers’ Collective judgment last December, Ashurst Asia emailed out “Season’s Greetings from Ashurst offices around the world”, with 13 shiny balls for each country it operated in. Next to the US and France, the Indian liaison ball was the smallest of them all. Now that Ashurst...

http://business.rediff.com/report/2010/jan/15/govt-proposes-test-for-budding-lawyers.htm#write I have a mixed feeling. It definitely is a positive step of the Govt to choose Quality over quantity. However, it is pertinent that the govt also provides job opportunities and set up more courts with bett...

It is interesting to note that the constitutional validity of section 36 of the Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 was challenged before the Delhi High Court in the matter of The Cooperative Store Limited, New Delhi v. O.P.Dwivedi, P.O.Industrial Tribunal –II & Others, reported in 1988 1 LLJ 135.In ...