Month: April 2015

  • Sports Governance in the Indian legal landscape: Identifying the shortcomings

    By Aishwarya Dhakarey, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Sports has an evolved role today from a recreational one to now, a role which establishes a nation’s supremacy in the international podium. The peculiar nature of disputes arising in sports will continue to surprise us. The United Nations, in its resolution 58/5 adopted by its General Assembly on 3…

  • Online Course on Evidence Law

    Online Course on Evidence Law

    In today’s society, there is an ever increasing amount of cases piling up in various courts throughout the country and most of the people will have to, at some point in their lives, visit the courts to get their grievances redressed. Evidence becomes the most decisive factor in deciding a case and hence it becomes…

  • Media and Censorship

    By Deepti Purwar, Law College Dehradun. Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, or authorities. More often than not, there is news of something getting banned somewhere in the world for reasons that seem unreasonable to…

  • Financial Restructuring: Issue of Corporate Debt

    By Rajiv Kulkarni, IGNOU. Financial restructuring is the rearrangement of a business assets and liabilities. The process is often associated with corporate restructuring where an organization’s overall structure and its processes are reanalyzed. It helps to improve the financial stability and increases in prospects for future growth and expansion. While financial restructuring relates to changes in the capital…

  • Conversions: The Supreme Court View

    By Mahak Vijay, Raffles University, Rajasthan. Indian constitution provides for the freedom of religion in Article 25 and Article 26. A person has freedom to propagate and practice any religion. They also have freedom to manage their own religious affairs. Indian Penal Code also talks about the offences related to religion in Chapter XV. Sections…

  • Supreme Court Internships: Worth it?

    By Darshi Mehta, Government Law College, Mumbai. Here are 9 reasons why you should intern at the Supreme Court of India! Internships are an elemental portion of today’s legal education. Choosing where to intern can turn into a pickle. And interning at the Supreme Court is another affair. Here’s why?

  • Sanjay Kumar v State of Haryana: An Analysis

    By Anmol Sinha, Symbiosis Law School Everything in this world evolves. The rule and regulations governing the society has changed down the centuries, so has the mode of commission of crimes. Cyber crime is an example of it. With the advent of internet and information technology, the commission of digital crimes is the new form…

  • Equity Crowd Funding: Interface between Internet Governance & Finance

    By Aishwarya Dhakarey, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. In simple words, inviting funds from multiple investors for a specific social cause or project or undertaking and all this takes place in a web-based platform or a social networking website. Crowd funding is sub divided into various types namely, donation crowd funding, reward crowd funding, peer-to-peer lending and equity…

  • PaHaL (Pratyaksha Hastaantarit Laabh)

    By Sania Siddiqui, Amity Law School, Jaipur. The Government of India provides Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) to domestic households at heavily subsidized rates in 14.2 Kg cylinders up to the prevailing cap of cylinders per annum per household. Supplies are made by the consumer through a wide distributor network of Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs). LPG cylinders from…

  • Co-operative Federalism: The Recent Trend in India

    By Swastika Goel, Amity Law School, Lucknow. Co-operative federalism is a concept according to which the National, State and Local governments come together and work collectively so as to solve the common problems together rather than forming different policies for the same issues. The concept of cooperative federalism put forward the view that the national and…