38 Years of Age, Child or An Adult? The Special Leave that might be the Torchbearer of change in interpretation Laws in India4 May 2016 10:47 AM GMTThe Apex Court on 2nd April, 2016 was faced with a peculiar yetunique case, when an SLP was filed by a mother on behalf of her mentally disabled child. The factual matrix in brief was the rape of her...
Overburdened SC: Constitution Bench refuses to restrict Scope of Article 13621 April 2016 7:17 AM GMTIn the celebrated American decision in Brown v. Allen, Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court of the United States admirably penned: “We are not final because we are infallible, but we are...
The Supreme Court on 13th July 2015, rejected a PIL application to open a branch of the apex court in Chennai. Although it said that the PIL indicated progressive thought, it said that it was not...
Since it was approved in 2013, The Right to Transparency and Fair Compensation in Land Acquisition Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (LARR) has drawn a lot of flak from farmers, who claim that...
The number of social media users in urban India would reach 302 million by Dec 2014 registering a Y-o-Y growth of 32% last year, according to a report ‘Internet in India 2014’, jointly published by...
It is no secret today that law graduates are faced with a plethora of opportunities where their legal skills are used extensively. Working for companies and as entrepreneurs is one such area. People...
The top 100 universities in the world for law, as ranked by higher education data specialists QS was released. Once again, like 2013, Harvard in the United States was ranked as the best University in...
‘Every saint has a past and every sinner a future, never write off the man wearing the criminal attire but remove the dangerous degeneracy in him, restore his retarded human potential by holistic...
IntroductionAnxiety is fluctuating within the legal community in India as the Supreme Court of India (SC) will hear a batch of similar writ petitions that challenge the National Judicial Appointments...
`GLC is a banquet, eat all you can!` This is the advice that a new entrant hears on entering the portals of this 160 year old relic. But it ain`t an ordinary banquet where there is free flowing...
As rightly expressed by Mark Rudolph MacGuigan,the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada in 1982,“Whether abortion is an expression of negative or positive conscience is a serious...
'When a woman is raped by a stranger, she has to live with a frightening memory. When she is raped by her husband, she has to live with the rapist' A Delhi trial court's recent decision acquitting a...
Transgenders are known by different names in South Asia. There is a misconception that they are 'only men who have feminine gender identity, adopt feminine gender roles and wear women's clothing'....
Having worked really hard for your CLAT exams, there are not many things to be said and done here. But then the most important aspect of actually giving your exam is coming up. Therefore, we would...
India is a country of culture, religions and traditions and at the same time a country which is developing fast and embracing the global changes faster. A country which is still enveloped in its...
Law school is a place which builds the mind. A place which teaches one not just to think but to think differently. During the 5 years here, we come across a sea of people. Whether you like or dislike...
Law students were pioneer in the matter of internship. Internship is a rather new phenomenon here. There are a few professions in which there is mandatory internship – like to become a doctor you...
