By Aditya Krishna Introduction The fight against COVID-19 in India has been severely stifled by individuals violating the quarantine and lockdown enforced. There have been many cases of people either absconding from quarantine centers (which have been criticized for being unhygienic and mismanaged) or disregarding their home quarantine.[1] In the wake of the ongoing global […]
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By Ananya Singh The patent regime in India ensures protection for certain inventions and as an implicit rule, also grants certain exclusive rights and privileges to the patentee with respect to his invention. This protection vests monopoly rights in the creator to use, manufacture, and sell his invention. The same provisions extend to pharmaceutical products […]
By Ayush Mehta and Samkit Jain Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 [“the Act”] lays down a time limit under which a tribunal is to render its award. In this article, the authors aim to discuss the problems which were present in the 2015 amendment and how effectively the 2019 amendment rectifies […]
By S Sivakumar Introduction The article presents an analysis of how promoters of listed entities use ‘Rights Issue’ to circumvent the regulatory mechanisms under the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulation, 2011(herein after referred to as the SAST Regulations).[1] Rights Issue increases the shareholding of the promoters without attracting the mandatory open offer […]
By Rohin Goyal On 20th June 2019, one of India’s pioneer airlines which used to be “THE” airline in India, officially began the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process [“CIRP”] by order of the National Company Law Tribunal [“NCLT”], Mumbai [1]. Soon after, similar proceedings were initiated in Amsterdam as well [2]. Jet Airways has been plagued […]
By Akshat Bhushan Introduction In India, there are twenty states and two union territories that have enacted anti-beggary laws, criminalising the act of begging.[1] A 2018 Delhi High Court order struck down certain provisions of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (that was extended to the union territory of Delhi) which criminalised involuntary begging […]
By Vikram Chandrasekhar Introduction India, as an apt example, has been a country which since the dawn of the Vedic liturgical tradition has accepted and harmonized with the notions of gender fluidity and queerness centuries before the Western world had even attempted to reconcile with these terms.[1] The crux of the gender inequality crisis, denial […]
By Anmol Ratan John F. Kennedy in his 1961 inaugural speech said, “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hands of God”[1]. It is this presumption about the metaphysical origin of human rights that makes it problematic for this internationally recognised regime of law to claim absolute […]
By Shivangi Pandia and Prateek Charan Background The word company has no technical meaning attached to it. It simply means a group of individuals who have come together for a common goal. The individuals may associate themselves either for an economic or for a non-economic cause. Chief Justice Marshall defines company to mean that a […]
By Simran Kaur India’s constitutional mandate on its cherished promise of free speech has withstood several upheavals of time. The jurisprudence spanned over seven decades has been interpreted in the light of the principles of a democratic political society. The underlying basis of this entails exercising the fundamental right to free speech as a citizen, […]
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