As they say sticks and stones may break my bones but words won't hurt me. They can scream as much as they want about Khalistan and nobody cares or at least I personally do. It has as much of a chance of happening as the British, Ottoman or Mongol Empires coming back. People can suffer from hallucinations and delusions and they are entitled to that as long it is not violent. However, once it becomes violent then all bets are off.

Let me give you just a sample of terrorist activities done by Khalistanis.

A) Downing of Air India Flight 182 on route from Montreal to London killing all 329 on board.

B) Another such act was planned simultaneously. Even though two baggage handlers at Tokyo lost their lives when the bomb exploded prematurely it saved a lot more lives.

C) Assassination of Indira Gandhi

D) Assassination of Retired General Vaidya

E) Assassination of DIG Police Punjab, JS Atwal

F) Assassination of Nirankari Chief Baba Gurbachan Singh

G) Assassination of Punjab Kesari Editor Jagat Narain.

F) Ethnic cleansing on night buses of non-Sikhs

So if they are violent they will get violence. Except they will be at the receiving end.

CPI(M) has released its candidates' list partially today in Bengal and Sabyasachi Chatterjee, practising advocate in Calcutta High Court, an LLB grad from CU and LLM grad from NUJS, has been given the ticket to contest from Howrah constituency. He has been appearing in the media on behalf of the Left for quite some time now.

LiveLaw reports that the Gujarat HC (led by the CJ) is serious about pursuing the matter and intends to make the fact-finding report available to the GC/EC of GNLU. Specifically, the HC queried the AG o the powers of the Visitor (CJI) and the dodgy role of the Registrar till date.

Why is the venerable DYC so quiet about the state of affairs in GNLU?

Here’s a shocker for us all, and this bears relevance with names like Reliance, Adani, and Ambani being tossed around ad nauseam by those (rightfully now) castigating the electoral bonds scheme; the list of electoral bond buyers published by the Election Commission of India bears no mention of "Reliance", "Adani" or "Ambani".

Don't believe me? Well, here's the link - https://www.eci.gov.in/eci-backend/public/api/download?url=LMAhAK6sOPBp%2FNFF0iRfXbEB1EVSLT41NNLRjYNJJP1KivrUxbfqkDatmHy12e%2FzBiU51zPFZI5qMtjV1qgjFmSC%2FSz9GPIId9Zlf4WX9G%2FyncUhH2YfOjkZLtGsyZ9B56VRYj06iIsFTelbq233Uw%3D%3D

How is this even possible!!? This list has practically every one else!!Wtf!

Side note - no "TATA" on this list either!! Wondering what happened behind the scenes in the legal departments of these firms. Did they decide on not using this funding route because of the scheme being unconstitutional?

Dear moderators of LI - please show some editorial spine and publish this. Thanks 🙏🏼

Don't know if this is a right place to ask this question and really apprehensive about posting it because my background is hard to explain. But looking for guidance from experienced lawyers on this.

I am 32 and I have a Bsc & MSc in biology from a decent central university in india and when I was 25 went to Australia to study another Masters also in a stem field after which I worked there till I was 31 in data related roles - such as data analyst/data scientist etc. Another relevant bit about my background is that I am really good at canvassing research papers, excellent programmer, used to build computational models and simulations at one point. My background generally helped me alot in understanding the science, models behing climate change.

As of late I have become super interested in climate change and considering pursuing environmental law or policy (leaning a bit more to the law side). I have a valid visa for Australia for another 3 years, but would like to understand my options about pursuing law in Australia vs India & between pursing LLB/JD or an LLM instead. Where will these options take me? I have been reading books on international environmental law, climate change law, climate change litigation in the south/south east asian countries etc. I would like to broadlly focus on either legal research or practising environmental law or a combination of both mostly with a south asian focus.

Since I don't know how law career options progress and the investment it would take, would like a clear picture as I am more familiar with stem career paths. Clearly I am in this because I am passionate, please be kind in your responses. Thanks.

Its ridiculous to assume that people whove gone to said university wouldnt even have opened the statute once. But no one was making some legal point here, only an ethical one.

Whatever the statute may say- this is how academia has worked since ages. In india and elsewhere. Administrative duties are just an add on responsibility- youre supposed to deal with other academics as colleagues. Senior and Junior and VC and Dean having power and all is indian feudalism at play. Its a government university. Your job is to serve the people. Not to chase status for yourself.

If any VC wants to actually be successful and leave behind a legacy he will learn to delegate tasks, consult with a wide variety of stakeholders, and trust his faculty and invest in them so they in turn invest in the institution. Thats what the good ones, Menon and MPS etc did.

What is "a democrat"? Menon and MPS were incredibly egalitarian persons who hired people who were good scholars without being territorial and encouraged them to do their best work. Thats a far cry from FM, AD etc.

SC- its difficult to say how much he volunteers for with admin work and how much not- but it is clear that he was a substantial part of the administration, many of the universities initiatives would be in serious peril once he leaves. I dont trust the remaining folks to be as fair as he has been with student related activities either.

He might have encouraged students to lobby for what he saw as the lesser of two evils, but I dont think at any point of time hes been an FM fanboy at all. If you spoke to SC once youd know he has some pretty harsh criticisms for AD and FM both on their work as scholars and their behaviour as administrators. Hes one of the few who would raise questions at faculty meetings and such and generally be a loyal opposition looking out for the institution. The institution will suffer without him.

I am interning in t1 Indian firm in the Corporate and M&A team. I have to choose a presentation topic. I know I can't get very academic in internship presentations and they're more about making a brief of the current legal position on a topical area which would hold the attention of the seniors. Please help with a topic!

You are a student at a law college, who has heard some gossip from someone and are asking silly questions here. No law firm peeps I know do this. Do they buy expensive stuff when they have money - yes. Thats personal choice. No one does it to make a point that he is in a law firm. You see, when you have spent so many years in a law firm, you realise (a) there is more to life than the job, job is just means to an end, (b) the pay is great but not as if it will make you multi millionaire in a few years, (c) with hard work comes humility.

If you can get people to pay you for your services, and if that payment is enough to pay for your costs and have a little on the top to pay yourself - then it can be done. Getting clients to pay is not only a function of quality but many other other things like having deep market connections. So whether this is possible or not, depends on who you are.

Lets look at it another way. Can your law firm provide high quality legal services? The answer to this question is pretty much a no, without any doubt. So the bottom line is, can your law firm provide other services to compensate for the lack of quality in your legal service. If yes, you have a law firm.

This is a significant ruling in gender rights jurisprudence, especially trans rights. Canada’s Supreme Court Justice Sheilah Martin has ruled that it was problematic for a lower court judge to refer to a sexual assault victim as a “woman" and instead used the term "person with a vagina.”

The citation is R v Kruk, 2024 SCC 7. Link to full case report and exact quote given below:

Para 109: "Where a person with a vagina testifies credibly and with certainty that they felt penile‑vaginal penetration, a trial judge must be entitled to conclude that they are unlikely to be mistaken. While the choice of the trial judge to use the words “a woman” may have been unfortunate and engendered confusion, in context, it is clear the judge was reasoning that it was extremely unlikely that the complainant would be mistaken about the feeling of penile‑vaginal penetration because people generally, even if intoxicated, are not mistaken about that sensation."

https://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/20315/index.do

News coverage:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/supreme-court-decision-say-word-woman-is-confusing-unfortunate

https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-top-court-judges-take-on-woman-is-no-joke

I've been around the block a bit and different things work for different folks but the following two things work best for me:

1) I split work into long focussed sessions and short agile sprints.

Long sessions for drafting / reviewing / structuring / strategic thinking. These require uninterrupted time, no social media or phone interruption and i generally do them in stretches of 1-3 hours (with very limited breaks). This only happens once a day.

Short agile sprints to respond to mails with quick fire comments / delegating / delaying / denying things. These are bulk of the day but all small small things.

2) Second thing that has worked for me best is music. I have music that helps me stay focussed (and it's not some special music / is the usual bollywood, pop etc). So that helps me a lot.

That’s because foreign nationals are the most jobless and don’t want to study. They join these committees for the acad leaves. Don’t paint their wealth as a sign of their reputation. If they’re smart, they’ll be respected but NLUD would be just fine even without their contribution.

So I got into a decent nlu this year I was a brilliant student my whole life good at studies good at extra curriculars good at basically everything but 10th standard crushed my confidence I got 99 in all the subjects except maths (somewhere in 50s) but still for some reason I took up maths I performed below avg had panic attacks during maths exams now in 12th boards I fucked up maths again might pass might fail don't know what to do what will happen, will I lose my seat(which I know I will), how to face family society (everyone expects highly from me) what to do next how to prepare for the worst please help

Hi

If possible, could you please elaborate as to why do you say so? (Ofc anonymously, but still)

I have been considering applying there as an Associate, not an intern, tbh

However, i don't know anyone having worked there, and have no clue about the culture

So much vitriol against one of India's most eminent counsels simply because he is pro-Modi. How come you all are silent about controversies involving AMS, Sibal, Nalini + P Chidambaram and Pinaki Mishra? The left-wing mentality of LI's readers blind them to facts and objectivity.

Maybe your professor is socialist minded, but I disagree with his view. If I had his money I would def buy high-end clothes, a Merc and a couple of Rolexes. I just can't understand why someone who has so many crores of money would buy cheap things. I got Rs 5,000 during an internship and I immediately spent Rs 7,000 on a Masaba shirt + Rs 3,000 on treating my parents and friends (the excess Rs 5,000 will be made up after my next internship). What's the point in saving money if you don't spend it on nice things? YOLO.

I am a 4th Yr BBA LLB student a 1st gen lawyer

I need help desperately in following things:-

1. Most of the internship done in courts

2. I don't like litigation

3. I want to General Corporate

4. I want to secure an assessment internship or PPO before college ends

Please guide me through this difficult situation.

Thanks

Hey thanks for reverting me back here are contact details:
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Hi,

ELP has an indirect tax vacancy at its Mumbai office for a person with PQE 4 to 6 years. I want to see how much does ELP pay before applying to the job.

I have 8 years of experience in Indirect tax litigation and advisory along with little bit of experience in commercial disputes, i want to move to Delhi or Mumbai, preferably Tier 1 LF, what are my options ?

Depends on your overall use tbh. If you're already integrated into the entire apple ecosystem with a Macbook, iPad and the apple smartwatch; then certainly go for it. The software and UI is amazing. The only con to an iPhone is the absolute drop in battery life that comes with usage. Expect heavy drops within a year or two that will come with future software upgrades as the hardware will suck more juice out of the battery to maintain similar levels of performance. On that note, one thing you can stay rest assured is that the performance levels won't dip, ever. Even though I use an Android now (purely battery reasons) I still have my first iPhone (5s 16gb) which I use to listen to music sometimes. And it works like a charm. Bottom line is, if you don't use your phone a lot and already have other apple products, go for it. Otherwise you're better off with an Android

So your argument is CLAT- an exam in which the questions are often wrong and taken at the age of 17 after all the help one can get from coaching centres- is so good at picking out brilliant legal minds that they dont actually need good faculty to teach them the law? are you high?

I was in college in Veer Singh era- standard slipped considerably, it became a dispiriting place to be, and the only reason it retained status is because he paid india today for the rankings and because other institutions were in their first years. VS by the way- was thrown out because students hated the state of affairs and the corruption so much sent petitions to the chancellor and got a probe that looked into his corruption. It wasnt students who rested on "status" who made the university a tiny smidge better- it was students who actually worked, and risked bad grades and risked not being hired and took time out of their lives to do so.

NLS was heading in a downward spiral- again it was students who protested and wrote petitions to get a new VC who they may not like all the time- but NO ONE can allege that he has not improved the university by bringing in new faculty or by refusing to participate in grade inflation/ corruption. that is what will save that institution.

Theres no- fixed mentality at work here- "i was best at clat so ill continue to be best" doesnt work. You have to work hard to be a good lawyer and to be a credit to your institution, and when you join law school- thats the beginning and not the end of your journey, you have to leave the place better, not worse, than you found it.

Theres that identity is destiny crap again. Do you know who the post is referring to? do you honestly think they dont have privilege enough to go elsewhere ? why abroad ? why not go to other universities in India? has JNU fallen? have any of the other NLUs or IITs or TISSs?

Privilege actually works the other way here- you only stick on at one institution for your entire academic career if you are privileged enough to be in the good graces of those with power. everyone else has to go prove themselves in other institutions, but not the favorites.

well, those two definitely did have the privilege of going elsewhere, not even abroad- could they have gone to NLS? could they have tried to get exposure to any other academic environment? or did they stay on at nalsar because they had a benefactor and they wanted to get the easy way out? did they benefit from said benefactor? I think allegations about impropriety in hiring at least should be taken seriously.

You cant keep redefining words and adding qualifications because you dont like the definition. If a person gets their bachelors, masters, and doctorate all at the same institution and then gets a job at the same intitution- that is by definition academic inbreeding. We dont know how people outside nalsar would recognise these people because theyve been too afraid to step outside nalsar in their academic careers.

Apropos! What does the BCI even think? it has been more than 3 months sincethe exam has been conducted after repeated postponement. Foreign qualified lawyers' exam results are out but domestic lawyers are yet to be given the blessing. All of us are going to pass anyway. Why not declare it and move on and make life easy.

Hi everyone. I am a 3rd year student of a non-NLU in a Tier 2 city of South India. Before reappearing for CLAT I would like to know whether is there any NLU except NLSIU, which is worth joining at this age when you are taking into account the corporate placements?

Note: This is a honest query of mine as I am hearing various downfall stories of various top NLUs on LI since past few months

Law as a profession will be completely digitised and artificial intelligence will be the judge , jury and executioner. Corporations will require you to have a LLB+ca+cs+tech hybrid degree of 5 years. LLM will become the new norm for minimum requirement everywhere. PhD will still not get a job.

All this makes me appreciate of my NLS professor. Was a partner making crores in a law firm and still has a practice of his own. But travels in metro . The clothes he wears one friend made fun of it saying "600 k 2 shirt". He just doesn't give a heck about all this and that makes him so popular amongst my non-elite Hindi speaking middle class peers.

1. Keeping schedules and timesheets (Not the official one). I keep a timesheet on excel because it helps me track how I'm spending my day.

2. Keeping well named, properly sorted, highlighted / bookmarked judgements, so that refering back to them becomes easy.

3. Keeping notes of each matter so that if I have to pick up a file after a long period, I can read the notes and recap the matter fast

4. Keeping several notes for To Do Lists, Billing, Follow Ups, etc