The NLU Delhi LLM- The Opaque Hostel Allocation Process and the Rest
All may seem good and rosy in NLUD, yes the National Law University, Delhi but there are some rots in the system and they are significant ones. This post...
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The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has by majority adopted Opinion No. 54/2015 holding that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was arbitrarily detained by the Governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland....
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Observing that ethics and morals have taken a back seat in the modern India’s scheme of things and that corruption can be beaten if all work together, Justice AB Chaudhary of the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court has observed in an order:To...
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The Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT) vide its order dated 11th December 2015 has set aside the Rs 6,316.59 crore penalty imposed on 11 cement companies by Competition Commission of India (CCI) for partaking in cartelization. COMPAT has remanded the matter back...
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India's only International Trade Law Moot Court Competition is back!
From 3rd to 7th February 2016, 42 teams from 8 around the world shall be at GNLU's sprawling campus to participate in the 7th GNLU International Moot Court Competition.
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In a significant move, Supreme Court of India has referred the batch of curative petitions seeking ‘curing of the defects in the 2013 judgment on section 377 of Indian Penal Code’ to a five-judge constitution bench. The December 11, 2013...
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A Little (Less) Research? Featured
by Vasujith RamIn paragraph 160 of the judgment striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission as unconstitutional, Justice Khehar writes:“A little personal research, resulted in the revelation of the concept of the “legitimate power of reciprocity”, debated by Bertram Raven...
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'With due respects', 'With the greatest of respects', 'In deep reverence' and 'In all and every humility', it is necessary now to say - "One ignorantly given SC judgment is wreaking havoc across India". The prefatory salutations are dispensed with in...
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Laying down Competition Law Jurisprudence
The Chairman of the CCI has stated recently that the architecture of CCI is different from that of legal architecture in judicial system per se. The Economic Times in its report on 27th December 2015, quoted...
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(In this guest post, Vikram Hegde, a Delhi-based Supreme Court lawyer, discusses how Section 66A of the IT Act, which was struck down by the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal’s Case, nonetheless continues to exist insofar as non-citizens are concerned)—For those who...
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Supreme Court of India has refused to stay the contempt notice issued to author Arundhati Roy issued against her by the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court. However court has issued notice in her special leave petition to appeal against...
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Cryptoparty – January 2016 Featured
by sflc_admin | January 22, 2016SFLC.in will be organizing a cryptoparty on 30th January 2016 at 3pm in its office in Jangpura, Delhi. It will be a hands-on workshop where we teach and learn basic cryptography tools to...
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What were the past judgments of our future Lokayukta?
Supreme Court Advocate K.V.Dhananjay points to increasing tension in several States in the matter of appointment of their Lokayuktas. Dhananjay says, if one were to raise the question, ‘What were the past...
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Free Basics Investigation Featured
by sflc_admin | January 20, 2016So while all of us were busy turning the consultation paper on differential pricing of data services put out by TRAI into a battle ground for Net Neutrality in India, on the sidelines, we...
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Part I
Buildup to Bharati
This year marks an unlikely milestone in the history of India’s judiciary. It is the 40th anniversary of both the Emergency and of the review petition that sought to overturn the most famous case in India’s judicial...
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