In Conversation With Ashima Obhan, Senior Partner, Obhan & Associates

Obhan & Associates and Ashima Obhan have been recognized and highly ranked by various international platforms like Chambers and Partners, asialaw, Asian Legal Business and more, for the fantastic work in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) space. How did you go about setting up the practice?Thank you to Chambers and Partners, asialaw and ALB for the recognition. I think this honour is due in no small part to the team that has worked incredibly hard over the past few years to...

'Excessive Criminalization Has Led To Stigma Of Denotified Tribes' : Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project

The Criminal Justice & Police Accountability Project (CPA Project) is a Bhopal-based litigation and research intervention project focused on building accountability against criminalisation of certain communities by the police and the criminal justice system. The project works at grassroot level focusing in specific locations, and particular communities across the state of Madhya...

Prosecution As A Rule Not Desirable In Child Marriages; Need To Re-Imagine Remedie' : Interview With PLD

Live Law interviewed Madhu Mehra, lawyer heading the research and training initiatives at Partners for Law in Development (PLD), a legal resource group on women's rights and social justice in India. Excerpts from the interview on the topics of child marriage, proposal to increase age of marriage etc: There is an increasing attention on law relating to child marriage. Could...

"Data Collection Should Be Constitutionally Valid" - Justice Srikrishna Speaks On WhatsApp's New Policy, AarogyaSetu Etc. With Seema Chishti

Yesterday, the central government has asked Facebook-owned WhatsApp nine questions on their new proposed data policy said to affect users, as data shared over the popular messaging app is expected to be tightly integrated with Facebook. According to reports, about 8,10,000 users globally installed Signal on last week, nearly 18-fold compared with the download numbers on January 6, the...

[PNB Scam] Justice Thipsay Defends Legal Opinion Given In Nirav Modi's Case; Says 'No Offence Of Cheating Made Out As Per Chargesheet'

Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday accused former Judge of the Bombay and Allahabad High Court Justice (retd) Abhay Thipsay of trying to save fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi from being extradited to India. Nirav Modi is currently undergoing extradition trial in the Punjab National Bank fraud case at London's Westminster Magistrates' Court. The issue got a political colour...

We Must Do Our Bit For Community : Sr Adv Mukul Rohatgi On Lawyers' Duty Amid COVID-19 Crisis

After having donated to the PM CARES Fund and other NGOs, Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi has now helped convert an old bus into a mobile testing laboratory for COVID-19 and funded the acquisition of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits for frontline healthcare workers. LiveLaw got in touch with the former Attorney General of India to learn more about his unique assistance to the...

Prison Sentences Should Not Turn Into Death Sentences: How APPEAL Is Leading A Fight To Protect Prisoners In UK From COVID19

Prison complexes are one of the most apparent hotspots of COVID19 pandemic. The problem of overcrowding of prisons along with poor sanitation facilities, makes correction facilities prone to the spreading of the virus. These circumstances have rendered prisoners, regardless of the nature of their incarceration, extremely vulnerable to the ongoing health crisis. While in India,...

[Interview] Anti-CAA Protestors' Posters With Address are Invitation To Mob Violence: Advocate Karuna Nundy

Advocate Karuna Nundy Speaks On Right To Privacy, MeToo Movement, Marital Rape, Fake News and More..with Avani Bansal

"We Need to Respect the Dignity of Our Children":Veteran Activist Sheela Barse in Conversation with Anurag Bhaskar

"We need to respect the dignity of our children":

Women's Day Special - Interview with Anjana Prakash, Senior Advocate (Former Patna HC Judge)

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'India's Founding Moment':The Constitution Of A Most Surprising Democracy: A Conversation With Author Madhav Khosla

In this exchange, Ananth Padmanabhan, the Dean of Academic Affairs at Sai University is in conversation with Madhav Khosla, who teaches constitutional law at Columbia Law School and Ashoka University and is the author of a new book, India's Founding Moment. Question 1: Your book argues that the making of India's Constitution was a unique moment not just in the history of...

'Criminalization Is Being Presented As A Solution To Social Problems' :Dr Prabha Kotiswaran On Women Issues And Laws

In the recent past, the only response of the Indian government to sexual violence against women and children, has been introducing newer and harsher punshments. This is evident through the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013, Criminal Law Amendment Act 2018 and this year's to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO). In this interview, Dr. Prabha...