A full judge bench of the Bombay High Court holds that a scheme settled by two companies is not a document chargeable to stamp duty. Rather, an order passed by the Court sanctioning such a scheme under Section 394 of...
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The IDIA Charitable Trust was selected by the Vienna based Zero Project as one of 86 winners from across the world for “Innovative Practices 2016” at this year’s Zero Project Conference on Inclusive Education and Information and Communication Technology (ICT)...
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The final version of the Maharashtra Protection of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act of 2016 contains a few key departures from the draft bill (available here) The most important is the scope of the word “victim”...
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A year ago, a group of sixteen Delhi-based lawyers from diverse backgrounds made a commitment to provide free legal services to disadvantaged children who have survived sexual abuse, through iProbono, an organization working towards access to justice.
As the coordinators of...
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Advocate K.V.Dhananjay raises a question here; a question that he was asked – men perform the role of priests in Hindu temples; women have been traditionally and customarily barred from this role. Do women have a constitutional right to demand assignment...
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by sflc_admin | April 18, 2016The number of internet blackouts in India is on a rise over the last few years. In the first quarter of 2016, mobile internet services were suspended on four different occasions, out of...
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It is unfortunate to see that Indian courts have started interfering in Hindu religious customs and traditions. It is surprising to note that being atheist institutions themselves, our courts including The Supreme Court of India are ruling over religious matter which...
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In an important development, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India has allowed the petitions seeking review of the 2013 judgment of the three-judge bench of the court which had ruled that the Medical Council of India’s (MCI)...
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Advocate K.V.Dhananjay argues here that a number of judges, including judges of the Supreme Court, have invented or imagined a crime that simply does not exist in the penal statute at all; these judges have been ignorantly punishing young men who...
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Sabarimala – the debate Featured
The Conundrum of an ancient relic—Sabarimala and its women visitors The issue of women’s entry into the shrine of Sabarimala in Kerala has been in the eye of a raging storm that refuses to die. The controversy has snowballed today, to...
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Certifying Caste Discrimination Featured
As Rohith Vemulla's last missive started to catch people's imagination and his experience of discrimination left people red faced, an excercise in damage limitation was initiated. Rohith, it was said, could not be a victim of caste discrimination because he was...
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The long standing battle between Swedish telecom giant Ericsson and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) took an interesting turn on 30th March when the honorable Delhi High Court, ruling in favour of the CCI upheld the Commission’s right to probe...
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When the joke is on you... Featured
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RESULTS
Here are the results of the 3rd NLUO IMAM, 2016:
WINNERS: GNLU, Gandhinagar
RUNNERS-UP: ILS, Pune
BEST MEMORIAL: National Law School of India University
BEST SPEAKER: Ms. Digyasha Sharma, RGNUL, Patiala
We congratulate all the winners and teams that chose...
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
We at Chanakya National Law University, Patna (CNLU) have the honour to present to you the 1st P. A. INAMDAR INTERNATIONAL MOOT COURT COMPETITION, 2016. The objective of this moot is to develop an awareness about rights of minorities and to provide a...
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