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  • Quasi Judicial Bodies: An Explanation

    By Arsh Singh, Army Institute of Law, Mohali. A Quasi Judicial Body is an entity such as an arbitrator or a tribunal, generally of a Public Administrative Agency, which has powers and procedures resembling that of a Court of Law or Judge, and which is obliged to objectively determine facts and draw conclusions from them so as…

  • A Commentary on the Biography ‘Cornelia Sorabjee: India’s Pioneer Woman Lawyer’

    By Sandhya Shyamsundar, WBNUJS, Kolkata. On reading the biography ‘Cornelia Sorabjee: India’s Pioneer Woman Lawyer‘, one is bound to fall in love with Suparna Gooptu’s take on the legal luminary Cornelia Sorabji who was the first woman to study law in Oxford and, India’s second woman advocate. Cornelia, though being a pioneer in multiple ways at…

  • Sedition: Critical Interpretation

    By Anshika Juneja, Symbiosis Law College, Pune. KENNY- the Law of Sedition relates to the uttering of the seditious words, the publication of seditious libels, and conspiracies to do an act for the furtherance of a seditious intention. The Bombay High Court on Tuesday 22nd September,  directed the State not to implement its circular issued by the Home Department…

  • E-Courts in India: A much needed initiative

    By Vartika Aggarwal, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies. Disputes and litigation have increased to such an extent in India that they have overburdened the Indian Judiciary. Courts have to struggle hard to cover the backlog of cases but the backlog keeps on increasing on a daily basis. Many of such disputes can be either avoided…