Manchester City Ban: A Significant Moment In Regulation Of "Financial Doping" In Football

In a session organised by the Guardian in 2015 on the increasing influence of money in English Football, Duncan Drasdo, CEO of the Manchester United Supporters Trust commented, "The growth in revenue has attracted the wrong kind of owners, particularly those looking to use clubs as a cash cow". The negative influence of money was always lurking over the game but never came out as to be formally criticized until 14th of this month. The last season EPL champions Manchester City...

Hubli Bar Resolution: Denial Of Justice

On February 15th, the Hubli Bar Association in coastal Karnataka passed a resolution dictating that none of its lawyers would appear for the three Kashmiri students accused of Sedition and arrested for allegedly raising "Pakistan Zindabad" slogans. The three accused are students of Engineering in a city college and were arrested on Sunday. They have been sent to judicial custody till March 2. According to Guru F Hiremath, the General Secretary of the Bar Association, "The...

Tribunal Rules 2020 : Old Wine In New Bottle?

The problem of Executive dominance in appointment of members persists in the new Rules as well.

J&K Farmers Denied Benefits Of Fair Compensation Law

After abrogation of Article 370 , the 86 year old Jammu & Kashmir Land Acquisition Act 1934 got automatically repealed. From last many years there has been a strong demand from affected landowners, farmers and activists for enactment of a strong land acquisition law in Jammu & Kashmir. Farmers in J&K whose land is being acquired on large scale for various infrastructural projects have been demanding fair compensation but successive Governments in J&K were adamant to...

Hate Speech & Media : Lessons From Rwandan Genocide

Recent times have seen a highly worrisome trend of few popular media houses acting as platforms for spreading hate-speech and malicious propaganda against minorities and critics of the establishment.Casual but dangerous labels like "tukde-tukde gang", "urban naxals", "anti-nationals" etc, are thrown at those who do not subscribe to the majoritarian narrative. In the given context, it becomes necessary to explore the relation media has with hate speech, the extent of their...

Online Harassment: How Delhi HC Asked Facebook To Retrieve Lost Data Of A Deleted Profile?

The Petitioner in this case had filed a complaint against her in-laws for online harassment. She had also complained about receiving 'filthy messages' and pornographic pictures from a Facebook account named 'Sumit Sethi'. Due to inordinate delay in investigation, and continued harassment by threatening calls, the Petitioner filed a complaint before the ACP/Public Grievance Cell (Rohini District) against the officers of the Cyber Crime Cell (Economic Offences Wing) for dereliction of...

Remembering Enrica Lexie - Italian Marines Case On 8th Year Of Sea Firing

On February 15, 2012, when the fishing boat 'St. Antony' set sail from Neendakara harbor in Kollam district in Kerala, little did the fishermen aboard it anticipate the danger which was awaiting them in the seas.It must have felt like a regular day in their lives with the the usual toil in seas for livelihood!At about 4.30 PM, at a distance of about 20.5 nautical miles from the coastline, their fishing boat happened to pass "Erica Lexie", a tanker flying the Italian Flag. Two marines...

Women In The Armed Forces: Are We A Regressive Society?

"Women are often associated with peace and men are often associated with warfare"This deep-rooted association of gender with tight-roped, often vacuum-sealed roles has been embossed throughout most cultures in history. Since war has usually been defined as a male activity encompassed with "highly-valued" masculine characteristics, the image of women warriors has been seen as inherently unsettling, entailing a symbolic rupture with the dominant gender order based on separation of male and...

The Supreme Court's (New) Reservations Judgment And Its Discontents

This Friday, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court handed down a judgment holding that Article 16(4) of the Constitution is only an enabling provision, and does not confer a "right" to reservations. The context of the case was as follows: in 2012, the government of Uttarakhand decided to fill up the posts in the state's public services without providing reservations to Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) (paragraph 5). This was challenged, and after a round of litigation before...

[Law On Reels] 'Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho'- Of Hopes & Delays Of Judicial System

Justice delayed is justice denied- this often repeated quote has been repeated so often that it is almost mundane, ineffective and boring to quote this quote anymore. But it is hardly debatable that time and justice share a relationship, that timely delivery of justice is important factor (if not essence) in ensuring justice 'being done'. Our judicial system is struggling with issues of long pendency and delay- a fact we, law students and lawyers are very well-aware of. While National Judicial...

Domicile Reservations In National Law Universities

Reservations based on domicile in education are not unknown, however, reservations in institutes having national importance certainly call for a debate. Recently, NLU Delhi announced a 50% domicile reservation which would be implemented from the year 2020. In view of the demand by the local students, when one state introduces domicile reservations, other states are bound to follow the same. Last year, the West Bengal Government passed an amendment to provide 30% domicile reservation in...

Allowing Room For Student Activism At National Law Schools Would Be A Befitting Tribute To Gandhi

The best of academic institutions around the world have played a pivotal role in shaping public opinion and influencing the national politics. Be it the protest against the Vietnam war in the 1960s at Harvard or the protest against racial insensitivity at Yale in 2015, students across top universities have never shied away from speaking up their minds. Being intellectual hubs, top universities provide ample space – physical and mental to the students and the faculty members to take strong...