Corona and economic woes will definitely not end by Diwali but at least CAM salary lockdown will Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has announced internally that it would pay out by Diwali the 10% to 30% of fee-earners’ salaries that had been deferred since May 2020. “Whilst the economic situation is challenging, the need for quality legal
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The Supreme Court issued notice in a plea seeking permission to open all religious places PAN India that have remained closed or have had restricted access due to the ongoing pandemic. A bench comprising of Chief Justice SA Bobde, Justices AS Bopanna & V. Ramasubramanium sought response from the Centre and issued notice to the
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In recent times, we have come across so many news regarding sexual assault and sexual crimes against women and this makes us to turn and search for the legal remedies provided by various legislations like POSH Act, Indian Penal Code 1860, etc., It is very important for us to know such legislation not because we
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In a well-reasoned, well-researched, well-analysed and well-articulated judgment titled Muhammad Abbas Vs The State in Jail Petition No. 499 of 2015 (On appeal against the judgment dated 8.9.2015 passed by the Lahore High Court, Lahore in Criminal Appeal No. 300-J/2013 and Murder Reference No. 138/2011), the Supreme Court of Pakistan just recently
... Continue Reading.[Harsh Srivastava is a 5th year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) student at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore] For long, India has been seen as a ‘non-arbitration friendly’ jurisdiction owing, inter alia, to the length, costs and inefficiency of the proceedings. Efforts have been made to improve the arbitral framework of the country by incorporating
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September 09, 2020 Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) Regulations, 2016, amended [ by Legal Era News Network ] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Insolvency Resolution Process for Corporate Persons) (Fourth Amendment) Regulations, 2020 are notified by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI). Currently, the
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It cannot be laid down as a rule of universal application that when the death occurs on account of a single blow, Section 302 IPC is ruled out. The Supreme Court has observed that even in cases when death occurs due to single stab injury section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (Murder) can be
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The meaning of defamation is well known to legal professionals but to an ordinary or common person defamation is something new even though it is something that they face in everyday in their day-to-day life either by knowing that this statement provided by another person about them or someone else is defamatory in nature or
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted 10 days to airlines and other stakeholder to file their reply to the Centre’s affidavit stating that tickets booked by passengers in domestic and international carriers for air travel between March 25 to May 3, will be fully refunded. A bench comprising of Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy
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September 09, 2020 Joint DGFT not empowered to review his own orders: Madras HC [ by Legal Era News Network ] The Madras High Court has held that the Joint Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) is not empowered to review his own orders. The petitioner who is an Export Promotion and Capital Goods (EPCG)
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