Legal Articles Native dress code ‘moral policing’, alien a ‘virtue’ May 12, 2016 by Amba Charan Vashishtha | Leave a Comment By Amba Charan Vashishth What an irony that when people are advised to dress property as per Indian traditions, there is a hoarse cry of ‘moral policing’. But these very people are religiously obeying the dress code imposed by our alien British masters. The National Commission of Women (NCW) on April 27, 2016 issued a […] Read more » moral policing National Commission of Women Native dress code NCW
Legal Articles The Use of Force against Terrorism: Does International Law fall Victim April 9, 2016 by Prashanti Upadhyaya | 1 Comment on The Use of Force against Terrorism: Does International Law fall Victim Post 9/11 ‘use of force’ in international law and much of the understandings towards it has undergone great evolution. The international world is at the hinge of the history as many of the old regime falls and new threats emerge. The challenges this have created for the traditional system have been unparalleled. The ghastly act of bombing […] Read more » Convention Against International Terrorism Criminal Law Strategy Defensive Nature of Right International Law Prohibition of Use of Force Right to Act Unilaterally Role of security Council Rule of Attribution Self- Defence in International Law Terrorism The Use of Force against Terrorism Use of Force against Terrorism Victim
Legal Articles Necessity for the Enactment of Space law in India April 3, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment INTRODUCTION One of the most challenging and interesting areas of law is the jurisprudence of space activities. Space, as a subject, a domain and a paradigm, fundamentally challenges collective human consensus worth several hundreds of years on subjects as elemental as sovereignty and ownership. What compounds the problem is that addressing space from a policy-making perspective […] Read more » Enactment of Space law in India Necessity for the enactment of Space Law in India Space Law in India
Legal Articles Legality of AD Block Software in Websites March 21, 2016 / March 21, 2016 by Kaushik Moitra | Leave a Comment Kaushik Moitra BRIEF BACKGROUND: The judgment of the Hamburg District Court in Germany in the case of Eyeo GmbH, a Germany based start-up firm that developed the software “Adblock Plus”, which has garnered increasing popularity over the years for blocking several advertisements on websites that internet users find intrusive and annoying, created quite the stir […] Read more » AD Block Software AD Block Software in Websites COMMERCIAL SKIPPING: COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OF A WEBSITE Cost of Ad Blocking Legality of AD Block Software Legality of AD Block Software in Websites LEGALITY OF COMMERCIAL SKIPPING
Banking & Insurance Law Legal Articles KYC NORMS : AN Overview March 21, 2016 / March 21, 2016 by Bhavya Botta | Leave a Comment INTRODUCTION Way back to the second half of 2002, it is then RBI directed all the banks to implement the KYC guidelines for all the new accounts that will be further getting into operation. The main purpose of KYC norms was to restrict money laundering and terrorist financing when it was introduced in the late […] Read more » 1949 BREACH OF KYC NORMS : KYC guidelines KYC norms risks involved in KYC Section 35A of the Banking Regulation Act
Legal Articles Whether laws of Sedition have any place in a Democracy or should it be Repealed ?? March 21, 2016 by Prashanti Upadhyaya | Leave a Comment Kanhaiyya Kumar, young student leader from JNU Delhi, hailing from a poor family in Bihar is the latest victim of the charge of sedition. News reports suggest that the police has no record to show that he shouted any anti-national slogans. Yet he was arrested and put behind the bars. During the past two […] Read more » DISAFFECTION TOWARDS THE GOVERNMENT Kanhaiyya Kumar in sedition case PRIVY COUNCIL Section 124 A of the Indian Penal Code 1860 Sedition SUPPRESSING THE INDIAN VOICE
Legal Articles Necessity for the enactment of Space Law in India March 18, 2016 by Prashanti Upadhyaya | Leave a Comment INTRODUCTION One of the most challenging and interesting areas of law is the jurisprudence of space activities. Space, as a subject, a domain and a paradigm, fundamentally challenges collective human consensus worth several hundreds of years on subjects as elemental as sovereignty and ownership. What compounds the problem is that addressing space from a policy-making perspective involves […] Read more » enactment of Space Law jurisprudence of space activities Necessity for the enactment of Space Law in India Space Law Space Law in India
Legal Articles Privy Council : An Overview March 17, 2016 by Prashanti Upadhyaya | Leave a Comment INTRODUCTION If we overview the history of Indian Legal System, it clearly reveals that the Indian Legal System is more or less based on the English Legal System. In fact, the systematic development of Indian judicial institutions, judicial principles, laws etc. has occurred during British regime itself. Besides this, the British regime in India has […] Read more » Abolition of jurisdiction of Privy Council Appeals from Courts in India to the Privy Council Appeals from Federal Court in India to Privy Council Appeals to Privy Council from High Courts Composition of Privy Council Drawbacks of Privy Council history of Indian Legal System judicial institution Origin and establishment of Privy Council Role of Privy Council
Legal Articles Khap Panchayats : An Overview March 16, 2016 by Prashanti Upadhyaya | Leave a Comment INTRODUCTION In India, the Panchayati Raj system was introduced with the aim of decentralization and democratization. Yet there remain certain mysteries. Khap Panchayats, the self proclaimed courts of caste lords in a village, enjoy full legitimacy and authority among the section of their caste as custodian of honour. It is through them that most regressive […] Read more » Honor Executing by khaps Indian Legal system Khap Panchayat khaps in South India Method of reasoning Behind Khap Activism Origin of Khap Panchayat sources of Khap Panchayat: TOUGH LAW AGAINST KHAPS what is khap panchayat
Legal Articles Understanding the Law of Sedition March 15, 2016 / March 15, 2016 by Siddharth Sijoria | Leave a Comment Siddharth Sijoria The Famous American Judge ,Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes had declared in 1929 that “If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate.” Our Constitution too accommodates […] Read more » breach public tranquility Law of Sedition Sedition The offence of sedition in India
