Last Updated : 2 hours ago This article attempts to explain the concepts of Hindu joint family and coparcenary rights among the members of such families, through case studies and an analysis of various facts associate with the two schools of thought. A Hindu Joint Family is an extended family arrangement which has enormous legal
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This article deals with the different schools of Hindu Law and describes how they are distinct in their own forms of existence. These schools of thought evolved to have a higher strength of force than the original text of the Smriti. These schools have also left major impacts on the development of the Hindu Law, as
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In this post, I would like to discuss a recent judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Brompton Bicycle (C-833/18). This judgment is relevant in the context of Section 52(1)(w) of the Copyright Act which provides as follows: “The following acts shall not constitute an infringement of copyright, namely:- (w)
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Last Updated : 3 hours ago RBS (RGNUL Book Series) is pleased to announce its first Workshop on Competition Law (“Workshop“), in collaboration with the Rooh Nirman Foundation. About the Workshop on Competition Law | RGNUL Book Series Competition law is vital in regulating the market and plays a key role in promoting economic growth. It has
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It has to be stated right at the outset that in a major and significant development, the Bombay High Court in a recent, remarkable and righteous decision titled “Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited Vs Teleone Consumer Product Pvt. Ltd. & Ors.” in exercise of its ordinary original civil jurisdiction in its commercial division delivered
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In a remarkable, righteous and recent judgment titled “Shailendra Swarup vs The Deputy Director, Enforcement Directorate” in Criminal Appeal No. 2463 of 2014 delivered just recently on July 27, 2020, the Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice R Subhash Reddy minced just no words to
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Image from here The world’s attention was first drawn to the copyrightability of tattoos when Victor Whitmill, the artist behind Mike Tyson’s face tattoo, sued Warner Bros for an imitative tattoo worn by an actor in Hangover II. Since then, I find that there has been a raging discussion regarding tattoo artists’ copyright over their
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Kanika Singh is a highly reputed, independent, first-generation lawyer. She practices at Delhi High court and has tremendous experience in the field of arbitration, insolvency, commercial and civil litigation. She is also Member Executive at the Delhi High Court Bar Association. She has also authored several articles, which have been published by esteemed platforms. She
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July 28, 2020 SC reserves order on plea for transfer of funds from PM CARES Fund to NDRF [ by Legal Era News Network ] The Supreme Court has reserved its order on a plea seeking a direction that the funds received by the PM CARES Fund be credited to the National Disaster Response Fund
... Continue Reading.[Rohan Deshpande practices as a Counsel at the Bombay High Court, and Karan Kamath is a 2020 B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) graduate from Symbiosis Law School, Pune] The Bombay High Court in its judgment dated June 5, 2020 in Quick Heal Technologies Ltd. v. NCS Computech Pvt. Ltd. was concerned with an application for appointment of
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