Month: January 2022

Amazon sued by tornado victim’s family Twenty-six-year-old Austin McEwen was killed when an EF-3 tornado struck the Amazon facility in Illinois The family of a former-Amazon worker has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Amazon in Illinois state court. The lawsuit alleges that Amazon failed to provide workers with proper protection or warning before a

Launch of Linklaters’ Singapore funds practice with Morgan Lewis partner Following the hiring of two partners in December 2021 in Hong Kong, Joel Seow has become a partner as well A Partner from US competitor, Morgan Lewis & Bockius has been recruited by Linklaters to establish an investment funds practice in Singapore, Linklaters’ third Asia

Centre complains to Supreme Court on starvation deaths data While the government had devised a policy, not a single state provided statistics The Supreme Court has asked the Central government to work in conjunction with the states to provide data on starvation deaths, hunger and malnutrition across the country. A bench of Chief Justice of

Almost 21 years after the half-sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit had been sentenced to death for the kidnapping of 13 children and murdering at least 5 of them, and sixteen years after the Supreme court had upheld the verdict, that the Bombay High Court had commuted their sentence to life imprisonment. The Court also

The Supreme Court had very recently commuted a death sentence onto a man who was convicted of rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. The court, however, considered the extremely savage manner in which the rape and murder were committed and the accused was thus sentenced to life imprisonment for a period of 30 years

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas advised MedPlus Health IPO Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas acted as legal counsel to MedPlus Health Services Limited (MedPlus) and to Premji Invest. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas advised INR 1,398 crore Initial Public Offering (IPO) for MedPlus. This is the first IPO in India by a company engaged in the business of pharmacy retail. MedlPlus

Last Updated on 53 mins by Admin LB Meet Ms Smeeksha Pandey who completed her under graduation BA.LLB. (H) Specialization in IPR from Amity Noida. She went on to practice in Indore High Court. She did masters from Hidayatullaha National Law University, Raipur in IPR. Pursued certified courses in posh from IALM Delhi, Courses from

Soumitro Mukerji joins Mayer Brown as partner The banking and finance expert earlier worked at Hogan Lovells Global law firm Mayer Brown has welcomed banking and finance expert Soumitro Mukerji as a partner in its Singapore office. The firm now has 11 partners in Singapore. Mukerji will also be co-chair of Mayer Brown’s India practice.

Former Supreme Court judge accuses the ruling party of endorsing hate speech Justice Rohinton Nariman was speaking at the inaugural function of DM Harish School of Law in Mumbai Retired Supreme Court judge Justice Rohinton Nariman recently expressed concern over the rising instances of hate speech and calls for genocide against minorities in the country.

Last Updated on 15 mins by Admin LB “e-Nyayaganga” – a Pan-India Digital Legal Literacy Project of National Law Institute University, Bhopal, under the aegis of the Department of Justice, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India, amiably call for the National Short Story Writing Competition on the glorious occasion of the National Girl