Month: February 2018

  • Of Law and Internships…

    Of Law and Internships…

    By Tanya Chandra, Founder, LexQuest Foundation. Law School is a tough time for many, as my own experience along with that of those around me, has taught me that the eternal issue everyone is faced with when pursuing a degree in law is this: How to land a good internship? With the institution I am…

  • LexQuest’s 1st National Corporate Law Essay Writing Competition, 2018

    LexQuest’s 1st National Corporate Law Essay Writing Competition, 2018

    With the aim and objective to promote the interests of the students and professionals in the arena of Corporate Law, LexQuest, a Research and Action Organisation, in collaboration with CorpComm Legal, a Full Service Corporate Law Firm, with its head office in New Delhi, hereby present to you the very first edition of our National…

  • Acid Attack: The Ageless Horror

    By Sunidhi Singh, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. “Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society.”-Pope John Paul II Acid attacks have become a frequent phenomenon in the present day world. ‘Woman staves off molestation attempt, attacked with acid’, ‘Unidentified men threw acid on a 35 year old woman’,…

  • Self Help Groups in India: A Messiah for Rural Women?

    By Anmol Kaur Bawa, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. Self-Help Groups (SHGs) have pioneered the idea of microfinance investment in the Southeast Asian countries in the realm of globalisation. A Self-Help Group, as the term suggests, is a collective of borrowers at a micro-level, which takes loans from the bank under the combined representation of a…

  • Goods and Services Tax: A New Era

    Goods and Services Tax: A New Era

    By Nitesh Jindal, Dr Ram Manohar Lohia National Law University, Lucknow. Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an indirect tax which will bring transparency and effective governance in the country. It is a destination-based tax levied at multiple stages, starting with the manufacturing stage, to the sale of goods stage, whose overall burden has to…

  • Trademark: A Sign of Recognition?

    By Vignesh Ganesh, G.J. Advani Law College, Mumbai. “What is in a name?” I am sure you would have heard these immortal lines by the famous playwright, Shakespeare. This line sounds cool in the literary sense, but if Shakespeare knew of the exclusive value this line held in terms of intellectual property rights, he would definitely…

  • Regional Rural Banks in India: Explained

    By Tanya Patwal, Amity Law School, Delhi. In India, especially the rural areas, majority of the population had no basic banking facility and had no financial services provided to them. Despite 14 private banks being nationalised in 1969, commercial-turned-national banks couldn’t cater to the rural credit needs. Thus, under an ordinance passed in 1975 on the…

  • Decrypting Cryptocurrency

    By Anmol Kaur Bawa, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. Virtual Currency: the How and What The modernistic approach to virtual currency often called “crypto”currency is the evolution of digital, intangible and computational currency which individuals can use for online purchases and in  a plethora of digital transactions. The flabbergasting concept as such has thrived,  on the notion of…

  • Contradiction of Reservations under the Indian Constitution

    Contradiction of Reservations under the Indian Constitution

    By Jhalak Nandwani, Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar. Indian Constitution gives us the right of equality, and the freedom to exercise this right. However, in today’s time, one of the major hindrances to this equality is the Reservation System. This reservation system was worked on, at the time of the drafting of our Constitution, and…

  • Case Note: Hawkins Cookers Limited v Murugan Enterprises

    Case Note: Hawkins Cookers Limited v Murugan Enterprises

    By Teesta Lahiri, National Law University, Odisha. I. A Basic Introduction to Trademarks and Passing Off For us, beginners at IP, before we proceed further to deal with a landmark judgement in the Trademarks Jurisprudence in India, it is essential that we become slightly better acquainted with two terms, ‘Trademarks’, the chief bone of contention and ‘Passing…