A pensioner who said she was “tired” of her life and “suffering from intense pain” has requested Karnataka High Court that she be allowed to end her life, according to newspaper reports today.
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Crazy fast writing big books Only three more days to bash out prize-winning fiction for the NUJS fiction writing competition , which closes on Sunday midnight (18 April). The theme for this year: “Choose one of the five famous fiction novels (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde/Robinson Crusoe/Five Point Someon...
Legal process outsourcing (LPO) companies are giving stiff competition to law firms in the talent hunting stakes, writes the Eco Times today . The article quotes several people working at LPOs, who claim that compared to law firms the companies offer: better growth opportunities, decent working hour...
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...
The last few days have been sadly violent ones, also for the legal fraternity. But in both cases so far not much is really clear. Three days before the bomb blast in Pune’s German Bakery , criminal lawyer and 26/11 defence counsel Shahid Azmi was shot dead in what appears to have been a targeted ass...
Almost half of the final-year batch of Nalsar Hyderabad want to work for a top five corporate law firm when they graduate, with only 9 per cent wanting to work for a litigator at the Supreme Court, according to a survey. Legal industry services provider Rainmaker conducted a survey of 62 fifth-year ...
NLSIU Spiritus 09-10 - Basketball Today’s guest blogger is Spiritus convenor Shravan Kochhar NLSIU’s annual, inter-collegiate sports festival Spiritus 2009-2010 began with a rush of excitement after national-level badminton champion Arvind Bhat’s motivational speech at the inaugural ceremony on Thur...
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled that the Bar Councils of India too are subject to Right to Information Act (RTI), following hot on the heels of the Office of the Chief Justice of India last week falling under the Act last week . Various papers reported that the Bar Councils would ...
An Indian law student has taken up the baton to defend Indian legal process outsourcing (LPO) against an onslaught of anti-Indian-lawyer comments on self-styled US legal tabloid AboveTheLaw . Although the majority of comments on ATL are intentionally offensive and ironic, it has been a while since a...
A group of ministers (GoM) on aviation security has recommended that hijackers should get the death penalty. “The clause on death penalty to the hijackers had been a debating point as some ministers had a view on the legal aspects of this section. But it has been cleared,” a civil aviation ministry ...
Calcutta University students are still waiting for their LLB exams as the University has not finalised its the new exams as required by the Bar Council of India (BCI). Local Kolkata paper the Telegraph wrote today that although exams were meant to be held in December 2009, the Calcutta University ha...
Panjab University law school students have called off a hunger strike after several hours as the University caved in to their demands. The Times of India (TOI) reported today that the Panjab University Student Union (PUSU) and the Hindustan Student Association (HSA) called for a hunger strike to pro...
Either the Times of India thinks that only advocates are lawyers or that law firm lawyers are just not so very top. While I certainly would not dare disagree with the calibre and legal genius of each of these individuals, could not at least one law firmite have made it to the list? Here’s TOI’s full...
Interesting opinion piece by a UK tax lawyer on the best ways of coming out in the workplace . Questions are, would this advice also work in India? Do you know of many openly gay people working in law firms? I, for one, suspect that there are few if any “equal opportunities and empowerment policies”...
Read about all the important changes in Indian corporate laws in the past year, in this comprehensive round-up of the latest laws and regulations by the as-ever excellent Indian Corporate Law Blog . Covering everything from LLPs, Satyam-fallout-related changes in corporate governance, SEBI reforms, ...