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INTRODUCTION Corporate disputes are rarely confined to financial ledgers; they often expose deeper struggles of power, trust and fairness. The Supreme Court’s ruling in the matter of Mrs. Shailja Krishna v. Satori Global Limited & Ors. (Civil Appeal Nos. 6377–6378 of 2023) (Date of Judgement 2 September 2025) (Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice K. Vinod

Introduction In a significant Judgment delivered on September 1, 2025, a Three-Judge Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice B.R. Gavai, Justice K. Vinod Chandran, and Justice N.V. Anjaria in Kiran v. Rajkumar Jivraj Jain & Anr. (SLP (Crl.) No. 8169 of 2025) reinforced the statutory bar on anticipatory bail under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled

The Supreme Court, in a recent judgment in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. M/s G & T Beckfield Drilling Services Pvt. Ltd. [Civil Appeal No. 11324 of 2025], has clarified the scope of the Arbitral Tribunal’s power to award interest pendente lite (during arbitration proceedings), particularly when the contract contains clauses related to

Introduction The Supreme Court Judgment in Ramesh Chand (D) through Legal Representatives v. Suresh Chand and Anr. (Civil Appeal No. 6377 of 2012) delivered on September 1, 2025, by the Bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice Sandeep Mehta, stands as a definitive pronouncement on property transfer law in India. This ruling definitively settles the

[Payal Agarwal is a Partner at Vinod Kothari & Co]  The mandatory dematerialisation provisions under the Companies Act, 2013 require companies to issue their securities and facilitate transfer requests in dematerialised form. For private companies, the mandate has become effective since 30 June 2025. Hence, every private company (barring a small company) is now required to

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[Anmol Jain is a fourth year B.Com LLB (Hons.) student at Institute of Law, Nirma University] On 6 May 2025, the Supreme Court in Arabian Exports Pvt. Ltd. v. National Insurance Co. Ltd. delivered a judgment that decisively strengthened India’s pro-arbitration stance. The case dealt with a practical but contentious issue: whether signing a discharge voucher in “full

About the Organiser The Legal Services Committee of NLUO, since its very inception, has been working with the sole aim of bridging the gap between what the law promises to offer and the actual realities of the law. The concept of community outreach has been of paramount importance in the committee which it satisfactorily has

[Harpreet Kaur is Vice-Chancellor, National Law University, Jodhpur] The Indian corporate governance landscape has once again witnessed resignations by independent directors in what was a seemingly promising startup. Soon after an interim order was passed by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) against the promoters of the Gensol Engineering Limited (GEL), who are also the founders of BluSmart

[Aparna Ravi  is a Partner and Divyanshu Sharma an Associate at S&R Associates, Advocates] In the past few years, the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) has issued directions to regulate investments by banks, non-banking financial companies and other regulated entities (collectively, “REs”) in alternative investment funds (“AIFs”). These regulatory measures have been primarily intended to curb evergreening of