Legal Articles Legal Education and its Challenges July 25, 2014 / March 16, 2016 by Abhishek Anand | Leave a Comment Chief Justice Burger in his address to the American College of Trial Lawyers in Columbia observed: “In some jurisdictions, up to half of the lawyers who appear in court are so poorly trained in that they are not properly performing their job and that their manners, their professional performance and their professional ethics offend a […] Read more » Abhishek Anand legal education Legal Education and its Challenges
Legal Articles Ding Zui to Ding-Dong Zui July 12, 2014 / July 12, 2014 by B.Vinod | Leave a Comment B.VINOD The practice of hiring impostors or body doubles to stand trial and receive punishment in one’s place is a relatively common practice among China’s wealthy elite, There is even a term for it: ding zui. Ding means “substitute,” and zui means “crime”; in other words, the term translates as “substitute criminal”. Centuries before, westerners have noted the practice of […] Read more » Ding Zui
Environment Law Legal Articles Only Fire No Safety July 12, 2014 by Rishabh Shrivastava | Leave a Comment Rishabh Shrivastava and Abhimanyu Shrivastava On the night of 26 January, 2001 at 8:46 P.M. state of Gujarat was quaked down by the earthquake of 7.6 and 7.7 magnitudes with its epicenter as Chobni village in Gujarat near Bhuj, as a result this earthquake came to be known as Bhuj Earthquake. This earthquake was one […] Read more » ONLY FIRE NO SAFETY
Environment Law Legal Articles An Era of Mafiaism July 12, 2014 / July 12, 2014 by Rishabh Shrivastava | Leave a Comment Rishabh Shrivastava “There is enormous and large scale multi-state illegal mining of iron ore and manganese ore running into thousands of crores every year, having several pernicious and evil effects on the national economy, good governance, public functionaries, bureaucracy, public order, law and order. It has encouraged huge corruption at all different levels in public […] Read more » An Era of Mafiaism illegal mining
Legal Articles Gone in 30 DAYS July 12, 2014 / July 12, 2014 by Rishabh Shrivastava | Leave a Comment Rishabh Shrivastava Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) – the most stereotyped and the cynical party- was witnessed as the outstanding and the only party after almost 20 years to form the non-coalition party in the general elections of 2014. The BJP led the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to a sweeping victory taking 336 seats and overthrowing […] Read more » Gone in 30 DAYS
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Legal Articles An overview : Intellectual Property Rights July 12, 2014 / July 12, 2014 by Aashka Shah | Leave a Comment Aashka Shah What is Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Intellectual property rights are the rights given to persons over the creations of their minds. They usually give the creator an exclusive right over the use of his/her creation for a certain period of time.[1] Intellectual Property Rights are legal rights, which result from intellectual […] Read more » ◦Trademark Confidential Know How Copyright Design Geographical Indication Intellectual Property Rights Patent Trade secret Traditional Knowledge What is a property
Legal Articles Crime and Politics June 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Divya Kathuria Thank God.. we have finally got time to look at something else other than Mr. Modi, general elections and our imaginations of so called Achhe Din. But, this indeed required a great sacrifice of 2 sisters who unfortunately were born in a dalit family of U.P, and had to pay heavily for it. […] Read more » Crime and Politics
Legal Articles When are the coveted principles of Natural Justice applied in Administrative Law? June 4, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Goutham Krishna Gujaral B.A.LL.B (Hons.) Natural justice is indeed a humanising principle for it seeks to ensure that law is fair and just and that there occurs no miscarriage of justice. The phrases ‘substantial justice’, ‘fundamental justice’, ‘universal justice’ or ‘fair play in action’ also alludes to the notion of natural justice. It functions on […] Read more »
Legal Articles Privacy and the Media: A Critical Analysis April 23, 2014 / March 16, 2016 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Sahina Mumtaz Laskar “There are laws to protect the freedom of press, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press”………………Mark Twain. The media in India enjoys a great deal of freedom and when it is threatened, the response is vociferous. Nevertheless, there is the need to maintain a balance between […] Read more » a critical analysis of media A Critical Analysis of privacy critical analysis on Privacy and the Media Privacy and the Media
Legal Articles Sociological, political, moral and legal implications of surrogacy April 23, 2014 / March 16, 2016 by Drishti Parnami | Leave a Comment Sriansh Prakash and Drishti Parnami “Surrogacy contracts alienate a woman from her love for the child and frequently involve exploitation. Surrogacy leads to the weakening of the link between parent and child”. Elizabeth Anderson ABSTRACT Indian society is considered to be economically feeble, but ethically and traditionally it is very potent. It is a society […] Read more » implications of surrogacy legal implications of surrogacy moral implications of surrogacy political implications of surrogacy sociological implications of surrogacy surrogacy