In brief: SC hammers Nokia with guarantee | ML Sharma strikes again, hits Ranbaxy | more ...

Friday, 14 March 2014 By Legally India Legally Wired

Nokia forced into Rs 2,250 cr tax guarantee by SC: The Supreme Court today ordered Nokia to give a Rs 2,250 crore ($368m) guarantee before it can transfer one of its mobile phone factories to Microsoft, which bought the Finnish mobile maker last year with the acquisition held up by the tax dispute with the Indian government [Bloomberg]

ML Sharma strikes again, hits Ranbaxy: Controversial advocate and serial petitioner Manohar Lal Sharma has succeeded in getting the Supreme Court to issue notice to Ranbaxy Laboratories in a PIL against the pharma company alleging it sold tampered and ineffective drugs in India. Sharma cited a recent order in the US against Ranbaxy [Mint]

Law students fast for action against Sri Lanka: 12 Tiruchi government law college students have begun an indefinite fast demanding that India move a resolution in the United Nations against Sri Lanka, for alleged war crimes [The Hindu]

Dec 16 convicts to hang: Del HC: The Delhi high court upheld the death sentence of the four Delhi December 16 gang rape convicts, dismissing their appeal for commutation of the sentence to life term [The Hindu]

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Comments

X 15 Mar 2014, 20:49
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NR Madhav Menon: "Furthermore, alumni must be given representation in the Academic Council (AC) as well as the Executive Council (EC). The involvement of alumni, according to me, is the foremost governance measure to address governance and other related concerns in National Law Schools. "
http://jilsblognujs.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/conversation-with-prof-madhava-menon-former-vice-chancellor-nlsiu-and-wbnujs/

Please tell us, Prachi and Kian, why are you ignoring this important statement from the father of legal education? Why are you not asking all the VCs this question? It is sad that LI has ceased to do investigative journalism and proper reporting like the old days. Nowadays all you do is copy-paste law firm press releases about deals.
Curious 16 Mar 2014, 23:45
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[quote name="X"]NR Madhav Menon: "Furthermore, alumni must be given representation in the Academic Council (AC) as well as the Executive Council (EC). The involvement of alumni, according to me, is the foremost governance measure to address governance and other related concerns in National Law Schools. "
http://jilsblognujs.wordpress.com/2014/03/13/conversation-with-prof-madhava-menon-former-vice-chancellor-nlsiu-and-wbnujs/

Please tell us, Prachi and Kian, why are you ignoring this important statement from the father of legal education? Why are you not asking all the VCs this question? It is sad that LI has ceased to do investigative journalism and proper reporting like the old days. Nowadays all you do is copy-paste law firm press releases about deals.[/quote]

Wow interesting info. It is a well known fact that ECs and ACs in premier law schools including NLS have ceased to function and the VCs there are running amok with their power. In the hands of these "stalwarts" like Venkata Rao, NLS has gone into a downward spiral with mass exodus of faculty and abuse of power
Guest 16 Mar 2014, 05:09
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X, thanks for this information. LI, please look into this issue? The EC of most of the law schools (I'm saying most, but it could be all the law schools) consists of BCI members who do not understand the way how a law school functions, and they're the ones who elect the VC. A classic case of a top-down approach in decision making, eh?
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