Candidates preparing for the Odisha Judicial Services Exam should solve the Odisha Judicial Services Mains 2022 Paper II (Procedural Law) and other previous years’ question papers as part of their preparation for the Prelims and Mains. Practicing these papers helps aspirants understand the syllabus better and prepare strategically by focusing on the types of questions
... Continue Reading.Proactive Pathways To Navigate Emerging Carbon Taxes
Proactive Pathways To Navigate Emerging Carbon Taxes A carbon tax constitutes a fiscal mechanism designed to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by imposing a levy on such emissions. This policy measure incentivizes businesses and individuals to adopt environmentally sustainable production methods and lifestyle practices. Its primary objective is to mitigate the adverse effects of
... Continue Reading.Analyzing SEBI’s Informal Guidance on Related Parties in Corporate Groups
[Sikha Bansal and Avinash Shetty are with Vinod Kothari & Co] The regime surrounding related party transactions (‘RPT’) under the SEBI (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015 (as significantly amended in 2021) (the ‘LODR Regulations’), is very wide and includes cross RPTs across the group. That is, transactions of a listed entity with related
... Continue Reading.S&R Associates Advised Vodafone Group
S&R Associates advised Vodafone Group S&R Associates represented Vodafone Group, a multinational telecommunications company in the approximately INR 28 billion sale of 79.2 million equity shares representing 3% of the share capital of Indus Towers Limited, a listed telecommunications tower company, on the NSE. S&R Associates is also representing Vodafone Group in a proposed approximately
... Continue Reading.Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co advised Torrent Power
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co advised Torrent Power Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. advised Kotak Mahindra Capital Company Limited, Jefferies India Private Limited and JM Financial Limited, the book running lead managers on the QIP by Torrent Power Limited (“Torrent”) aggregating to INR 3,500.00 Crores (approximately USD 413.29 million). Torrent is one of India’s leading
... Continue Reading.Role of Family Courts in Intellectual Property Disputes: Looking at the Calluna Dispute before the Kerala High Court
[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Kaustubh Chakrabarti. Kaustubh is a second year BA.LLB. (Hons.) student at Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.] On 10th October 2024, an intriguing question regarding jurisdiction of a family court over a trademark infringement claim came up (pdf) in front of a division bench of the Kerala High
... Continue Reading.Case Summary: State of Maharashtra & Ors. v. Pradeep Yashwant Kokade & Anr. (2024) | Death Row Convicts and Article 21
The case reaffirms the balance between upholding the rule of law and ensuring the humane treatment of convicts on death row. Case Title: State of Maharashtra & Ors. v. Pradeep Yashwant Kokade & Anr. Court: Supreme Court of India Case No.: Criminal Appeal Nos. 2831 and 2832 of 2023 Bench: Justice Abhay S. Oka, Justice
... Continue Reading.Contraband Smuggled In By Drones From Pakistan, Masterminds Behind Illegal Trafficking Can’t Be Granted Bail: Punjab and Haryana High Court
While taking a very serious view of illegal trafficking of contraband smuggled in by drones from Pakistan, the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest oral judgment titled Sher Singh vs State of Punjab in CRM-M-54048-2024 and cited in Neutral Citation No:=2024:PHHC:162853 that
... Continue Reading.Arrest Must Be Rational, Fair And Based On Admissible Evidence: MP HC
It is definitely a very defining moment to see that the Single Judge Bench comprising of Hon’ble Mr Justice Prakash Chandra Gupta of the Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest judgment titled Asif Hanif Thara
... Continue Reading.SC Issues Guidelines On Death Penalty Executions And Mercy Petitions To Avoid Delay In Process
It is most imperative to know that while ruling on a very significant legal point pertaining to death penalty executions and mercy petitions, the Supreme Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest judgment titled State of Maharashtra & Ors vs Pradeep Yashwant and Anr with Connected Case in Criminal Appeal No.
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