We’re pleased to bring to you a guest post by Justice (Retd.) Prabha Sridevan on the shutting down of IPAB (our recent series of posts on which can be viewed here). Justice Sridevan needs no introduction – she served as a judge of the Madras High Court from 2000 to 2010 and as the Chairperson
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April 21, 2020 High Court of England and Wales dismisses Vijay Mallya’s appeal against extradition order [ by Legal Era News Network ] The High Court of England and Wales (High Court) dismissed Vijay Mallya’s (Appellant) appeal against the order of his extradition to India in relation to the Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) fraud and related
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Image from here I am compelled to draft a reply to Prashant’s response to my post (which in turn was a response to the initial post by him and Prannv arguing for the shutdown of IPAB). The bulk of my ire is against the allegation that I have written my last post only because I
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On 17-04-2020, the Reserve Bank of India (#RBI) issued certain measures to revive the struggling economy of India. The Governor of RBI, Shri. Shaktikanta Das, announced the following measures, through an online address, to overcome various challenges that have arisen due to the #Covid19 outbreak and the #Lockdown situation in the country: 1- Targeted long-term
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Vanshika Jain At a time when the health care centres are at verge of collapsing in Brazil, the ventilators and beds in the emergency room of Amazona are over 95 percent occupied, the renowned soccer stadium of Rio De Janerio has been converted temporarily into a hospital, the gravediggers of the largest country of South
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April 21, 2020 Delhi HC restrains Vedanta from invoking Bank guarantees of Halliburton Offshore Services [ by Legal Era News Network ] Delhi High Court restrained Vedanta Ltd. (Respondent) from invoking eight Bank guarantees of Halliburton Offshore Services Pvt. Ltd. (Petitioner) of which five were due to expire on June 30, 2020 and three on
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Jimit Shah joins Link Legal for capital markets Link Legal India Law Services has hired independent lawyer Jimit Shah as Mumbai-based associate partner in its capital markets practice. The 2005 GLC Mumbai graduate with an MBA in finance from SP Jain School of Global Management, had begun his career at Dave Girish & Co, joined
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CLAT hopes for a semblance of normal to return by 21 June (for now) The 2020 Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) has been postponed for the second time now by another month this time, to 21 June, because to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and extended lockdown. The Consortium of National Law Universities (NLU) has decided
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Image from here Last month, I had blogged about the feasibility of a sub-license under the Indian copyright law. In this blog post, I will examine the issue whether the Indian Trade Marks Act, 1999 (“the TM Act”) permits sub-licensing of trademarks. An oft-discussed issue while working on corporate deals which involve IP licensing is
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April 21, 2020 Makers of Netflix show ‘Hasmukh’ slapped with legal notice over defamatory content against the legal profession [ by Legal Era News Network ] A legal notice has been sent to the makers of a Netflix web series ‘Hasmukh’ for the false portrayal and disparaging comments against lawyers and the related defamatory content
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