Madras High Court dismisses SpiceJet appeal It reasoned no bona fide defence found on behalf of the airline The Madras High Court has dismissed an appeal by SpiceJet airline challenging the order of a company court admitting a winding-up petition and appointing an official liquidator. The division bench of Justices Paresh Upadhyay and Sathi Kumar
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Last Updated on 17 mins by Admin LB Question: What are the effect of (a) mistake of fact and (b) a mistake of law on a contract? Illustrate your answer. Find the answer to the mains question only on Legal Bites. [What are the effect of (a) mistake of fact and (b) a mistake of
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International arbitration and litigation specialist joins Fieldfisher Shivani Sanghi is on board as a partner and head of India practice An international arbitration and litigation specialist, Shivani Sanghi has joined Fieldfisher as a partner and head of the firm’s India practice. She will be with its commercial disputes team in London. Commenting on her appointment,
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Last Updated on 9 mins by Admin LB Question: What is Fraud? What are its essential ingredients? Is silence amounts to Fraud? [MPJS 2017] Find the answer to the mains question only on Legal Bites. [What is Fraud? What are its essential ingredients? Is silence amounts to Fraud?] Answer Consent is said to be so
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Green-coloured signboard with text “rejection just ahead”. Image from here. We recently came across two decisions by the Indian Patent Office (IPO) in which patent claim applications concerning two nicotine delivery devices were rejected on the ground of the same being affected by section 3(b) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970. Section 3(b) provides that
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Last Updated on 21 mins by Admin LB Question: Fraud | ‘A’ man by the name of ‘N’ called at a jeweller’s shop and chose a costly ring. He tendered payment through a cheque which he signed in the name of a person of credit. He took the ring and pledged it to ‘B’, who
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Last Updated on 2 hours by Admin LB Want to find out about the world’s 5 longest prison sentences? This article will help you to know all the details. The crime rate in the world keeps increasing and decreasing from time to time. However, justice and jurisdiction do their job very well and ensure that
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Last Updated on 25 mins by Admin LB Question: Enumerate the essentials of a valid contract. What is the distinction between void and voidable agreement? [Punjab JS 2003] Find the answer to the mains question only on Legal Bites. [Enumerate the essentials of a valid contract. What is the distinction between void and voidable agreement?]
... Continue Reading.[Mihir Deshmukh is an Associate at Finsec Law Advisors, Mumbai and Bhavya Solanki is a 4th-year student at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai.] Coined by Mehta, Reeb, and Zhao, shadow trading is a theory of insider trading, which postulates that confidential information of a company could also be relevant for other economically-linked companies, and insiders
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We’re pleased to inform you that Lexis Nexis has introduced new legal issue analysis for PTAB ex parte decisions in LexisNexis PatentAdvisor. For further details, please see their announcement below: LexisNexis introduces new legal issue analysis for PTAB ex parte decisions in LexisNexis PatentAdvisor, enabling search issue-tagged decisions and locating effective arguments at every interaction
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