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201.
First appearance!
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(Blog: About legal practice)
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Last week (around 10.00 am)
Nervous. Excited.
After almost 2 months of sitting at office, staring at window, reading case bundles, drinking countless teas, researching case laws, I am going to appear ...
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Created on 09 February 2016
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202.
Live blog: 8th GNLU International Moot Court (GIMC) -- 3th to 7th February 2016
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(Blog: Mooting Premier League)
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... on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Agreement on Trade Related Investment Measures, Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and the Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights. You can ...
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Created on 03 February 2016
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203.
One ignorantly given SC judgment is wreaking havoc across India.
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(Blog: Criminal law)
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... our Bar too has failed the public by trending towards severe ignorance of even elementary criminal procedure. Dhananjay says that these worries also raise a fundamental question over the worthiness of ...
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Created on 31 January 2016
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204.
Tallinn Manual 1.0 – A Primer
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... Discussions at the Harvard-MIT–University of Toronto Cyber Norms Workshops, 2O11 and 2O12, https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/uncategorized/GAO/2015apr14_acalltocybernorms.authcheckdam.pdf (last ...
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Created on 25 January 2016
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205.
Guest Post: Secret Laws and Retrospective Punishment – on the Unconstitutionality of the Official Secrets Act
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(Blog: Constitutional Law)
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... it public. The Police arrest X, suspecting him of having secret information, and ask the Government whether such non-public legislative bills form information of the kinds barred by the OSA. Here is the ...
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Created on 21 January 2016
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206.
What were the past judgments of our future Lokayukta?
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(Blog: Constitutional Law)
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... judge dealt with corruption cases – investigation and trial? A judge who frequently and rather, unjustifiably, interferes with criminal investigation in corruption cases despite a statutory bar cannot ...
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Created on 21 January 2016
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207.
Dirty Picture Project: Bajirao Mastani
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... son. The movie barely passes the Bechdel test but the idea of it being a feminist film is ludicrous. It could be argued that Bajirao Mastani is a period drama, and one cannot judge a movie set in the 1600s ...
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Created on 18 January 2016
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208.
Counter Comments: TRAI Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... regulatory forbearance, measures that promote competition in the local telecommunications market, or other regulating methods that remove barriers to infrastructure investment. #SaveTheInternet Comments ...
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Created on 14 January 2016
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209.
Kesavananda Bharati vs Kerala: 40 years on, what the landmark case means for India
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(Blog: Constitutional Law)
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Against this ranging Durga — made even more powerful by her victory in the 1971 war — there was pitted an intrepid band of constitutional lawyers, many of whom were enrolled at the Bombay Bar. Many were ...
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Created on 14 January 2016
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210.
T. Sareetha vs T. Venkata Subbaiah: Remembering a Revolutionary Decision
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(Blog: Constitutional Law)
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... with respect to Article 14. Section 9, of course, was facially neutral: the remedy, in theory, was open to both husbands and wives. But, Justice Choudary held, ” “Bare equality of treatment regardless ...
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Created on 13 January 2016
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211.
Conversation with Prof. Tom Ginsburg, Professor and Deputy Dean at the UChicago Law School
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(Blog: Analysis)
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Prof. Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Deputy Dean at the University of Chicago Law School as well as a Professor of Political Science at the University. He is a prominent ...
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Created on 13 January 2016
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212.
Guest Post – Difficult Conversations: On why the Supreme Court’s judgment in the Kerala Liquor Ban Case represents a lost opportunity to examine tough questions on discrimination
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(Blog: Constitutional Law)
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... underwhelming judgment, in The Kerala Bar Hotels Association & Anr. v. State of Kerala & Ors.. This judgment is disappointing not so much for its outcome, but because of a glaring omission. This case ...
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Created on 12 January 2016
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213.
A terrifying judgment from a High Court in a corruption case!
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(Blog: Constitutional Law)
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... the Karnataka Lokayukta as the most corrupt anti-corruption watchdog in this country.
Over a recent conversation at the Bar cafeteria at the Karnataka High Court, a private prosecutor in a different ...
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Created on 12 January 2016
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214.
C for Commercial, D for Data
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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A visibly agitated man once entered the American retail giant Target to inquire why his teenage daughter had been receiving coupons of baby products. A few days later, when the manager of the store called ...
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Created on 11 January 2016
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215.
BRICS and Internet Governance: India’s Chance to Lead the Way
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... Jinping’s iteration of ‘cyber-sovereignty’ would be on one end while John Perry Barlow’s famous Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace from 20 years ago would be on the other end. Barlow’s version ...
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Created on 09 January 2016
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216.
Comments on TRAI Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... pricing distorts competition by discriminating between various websites and services. This creates an entry barrier for new websites and services as they have to negotiate with TSPs and in some cases content ...
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Created on 08 January 2016
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217.
What does the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 do?
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(Blog: Litigation, arbitration & dispute resolution)
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... from the order of such Commercial Court is directed to Commercial Appellate Division of the concerned High Court.
BAR ON REVISION APPLICATIONS
The Act puts a bar on civil revision application ...
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Created on 08 January 2016
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218.
SFLC.in At Global IP Congress 2015
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... as a part of the group that went beyond the traditional structure of copyrights and made their material available with a license that was open to further development. The panel consisted of Asaf Bardov, ...
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Created on 06 January 2016
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219.
Dirty Picture Project: Shaandaar
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... coercion knew no bounds, as they happily bartered away their daughter’s (and grand daughter, respectively) happiness for a business deal. One that they clearly hadn’t done their research for, as it turned ...
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Created on 06 January 2016
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220.
Tamasha: Imtiaz Ali’s attempt at creating a modern love saga that is unlike any other
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(Blog: Technology, Media & Telecommunications)
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... In response our heroine unabashedly removes the shrug and flings it in true filmy style, causing Ved to jokingly cover his face in a pretense of embarrassment. There are equally problematic sexual stereotypes ...
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Created on 05 January 2016