Nationwide Programme for Establishing Village Legal Service Clinics; NALSA's Initiative

Legal service authorities under the LEGAL SERVICES AUTHORITIES ACT, 1987 has been constituted to provide free and competent legal services to the weaker sections of the society to ensure that opportunities for securing justice are not denied to any citizen by reason of economic or other disabilities, to fulfill such objective National Legal Service Authority has been working since 1998 from when the NALSA became properly functional for the first time.To take the initiative to all the corners of...

Three National Law Universities Coming in Maharashtra.

In the row of establishing a National Law University in each State of India, Maharashtra Government yesterday clears the way for establishing National Law Universities at Nagpur, Aurangabad and Mumbai. With the nod by the cabinet Maharashtra became the first state in India to have three National Law Universities at Koradi near Nagpur, Shendra near...

Internship in BankDRT

BankDRt provides internship opportunity for students belonging to Legal/ Law work, Financial/ Financial Analysis .EligibilityThe students applying for different fields must possess following eligibility criterion in their respective fields:For Internship in Legal/ Law Work: The applicant must be a law student or passed out of a Law college.For...

NALSAR University of Law invites contributions for Environmental Law and Practice Review

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (NALSAR) has invited entries for the 3rd Volume of the Environmental Law and Practice Review (ELPR). Environmental Law and Practice Review (ELPR) is a journal published annually by the NALSAR and is part of its ongoing endeavor. Following two successful issues of the Journal, in continuance of the effort to...

Law Students observe black day against course lag in University of Calicut

On Wednesday, around 100 students of the Government Law College, Kozhikode protested against the lagging of BA LLB and the BBA LLB (Honours) courses at various law colleges affiliated to the University of Calicut. These courses are of five years duration, but because of the course lag, they have become 6 year long courses.Students reached the...

Best Judgments of Supreme Court in 2013

Novartis A.G v. Union of IndiaDenying patent rights to Novartis, the Apex Court gave its verdict, countering the infamous ‘ever greening’ of patent rights, interpreting section 3(d) of the Patents Act, 1970. In this case, Novartis had patented imatinib, which was exemplified in Example 21 of the Zimmerman patent. Novartis argued that the claimed...

Publication of results delayed by Calicut University: 400 Law Students affected

Delay in publishing results has come in the way of the prospects of about four hundred final-year Law students studying in Calicut University. Students of 2008 batch of the University are still waiting for their results of last two semesters. The delay is crucial as contemporaneous students of Mahatma Gandhi University and Kerala University have...

Delhi HC dismisses the plea against BA LLB programme and fee structure of NLU Delhi

A plea of law student challenging rules of the recently established National Law University mandating its BA LLB programme to be residential and its fee structure has been dismissed by the Delhi High Court.Justice Manmohan rejected the contention raised by a Pulkit Khurana that the condition of mandatory residential five...

Legislations enacted/ amended in 2013: A snapshot

1.      The Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws (Amendment) Act, 2012:This Act seeks to amend the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 and the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993. The Act proposes to provide for conversion of any...

Notification released for AILET 2014-15: National Law University, Delhi

National Law University, Delhi established in 2008 by Act no 1 of 2008, is an institute of excellence striving for all round development and holistic growth to create enterprising, sensitized, socially aware legal personalities. It intends to evolve and impart comprehensive legal education including distant and continuing legal education at all...

Internship in National Judicial Academy, India

The National Judicial Academy is inviting applications for full time (residential) and part time (non residential) internships from students of B.A.LL.B (hons) with the intent to provide students with exposure to cutting edge issues facing the judiciary, and to give them a platform to engage in discussions with leader in various fields in law and...

CLAT 2014 registration Started; All you want to know about CLAT 2014 Online Registration

The online Registration for Common Law Admission Test [CLAT] has started in the official website yesterday. The CLAT-2014 Online Application Form will be accessible on the CLAT website between 1st January, 2014 and 31st March, 2014 along with the Information Brochure. No hard copy of the Application Form and Information Brochure will be sold...