September 09, 2020 Sterlite closure: Vedanta accuses Madras HC of ‘favouritism’ in SC petition; later files amendment petition [ by Legal Era News Network ] The special leave petition filed by Vedanta Limited before the Supreme Court has accused the Madras High Court of ‘favouritism’ while delivering the judgement in the Sterlite case. However, the
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September 09, 2020 Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) System for Digital Payments [ by Legal Era News Network ] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 6 August, 2020,introduced the Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) system for resolving customer disputes and grievances pertaining to digital payments using a system-driven, rule-based mechanism with minimal or nil manual intervention.
... Continue Reading.[Sridutt Mishra is a 5th year student and Parthsarthi Srivastava is a 4th year student, both at National Law University Odisha] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (‘IBC’) has always witnessed friction with respect to claims arising out of arbitration. In 2018, the Supreme Court settled the highly contested issue of whether an arbitral award
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In simple term Firm means an organisation which provides service for which common people pay for it. According to Section 4 of Indian Partnership Act , 1932 defines ‘Partnership, Partner, Firm and Firm-Name’ – When two or more than two members carry on their business to share profit and loss equally or proportion of capital
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Last Updated : 35 mins ago This article deals with the Concept of Divorce under Hindu law and specifically, under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. Divorce is an official decree of a judicial body invalidating the marriage between two persons. The article will look into the meaning, types, and grounds of divorce in India. I.
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September 09, 2020 Ashok Arora informs Delhi HC that issue of his removal from SCBA post referred to Committee of retired Judges for mediation [ by Legal Era News Network ] While the Delhi High Court was hearing Advocate Ashok Arora’s challenge to his removal from the post of Secretary of Supreme Court Bar Association
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About the Organizers RGNUL Financial and Mercantile Law Review (RFMLR) is a bi-annual, double-blind peer-reviewed law journal published by the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab. The journal was first published in the year 2014 and gives an opportunity to the legal academia, legal professionals, and law students to contribute cutting-edge, doctrinal, theoretical, and empirical research
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The NLS Act spells out fairly explicitly that the AC, not the EC, is responsible for admissions tests NLSIU Bangalore may have violated its own establishing act by launching the National Law Aptitude Test (NLAT) admissions test without getting the sign-off of the academic council (AC), which we understand has not met since February of
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Last Updated : 3 hours ago The case of Colombia v. Peru or commonly known as the Asylum case is a landmark in Public International law for several reasons, inter alia, its expansion of laws on extradition and political asylum, development of customary international law and concept of sovereignty in International law. The case, having
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Image from here This time, I want to discuss recent judgement from the Federal Court of Canada – Yves Choueifaty v. Attorney General of Canada, 2020 FC 837 – available here. I found it interesting because it concerned the patentability of computer-related inventions (CRI) and addressed a situation where the Court found the Patent Office
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