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Everything you do as a lawyer, and everything your stuff does for you and your clients, go on to shape your brand. It goes without saying that doing things well is key to building a brand. However, it is important to understand just doing your job well doesn’t build a brand. A strong brand in […]
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The Supreme Court today held that minimum period of six months stipulated under Section 13B(2) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (Act) for a motion for passing decree of divorce on the basis of mutual consent is not mandatory and can be waived by courts depending on the facts and circumstances of the case. The […]
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It seems you cannot be kept away from the news. You are hitting the headlines almost every day. I speak my mind on issues that matter. Since so few speak the truth, I get more space than others do. How can I stop answering questions? As long as you are in public life, you cannot […]
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Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Kerala and Chandigarh are the five where the courts have managed to dispose of almost all cases pending for a decade or more Delhi, Assam, MP, Andhra and Karnataka are not too far behind and have brought down pendency of 10-yr-old cases to almost 1% of total pending cases For the first […]
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SPECIAL MENTION- Yes the maverick himself, we know you must have heard about various interesting cases that he has fought and many controversies he has been into. But did you know when Ram Jethmalani got his Law degree he was just 17 years of age and was not allowed to practice Law according to the […]
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The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the proceedings pending before a trial Court at Dehradun against filmmaker Rakesh Roshan in a case pertaining to copyright issues involved in his movie Krrish 3. The matter came up for hearing before the Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chadrachud. Senior Advocate Mahesh Jethmalani, along with advocate Ravi Sharma and Dua Associates appeared on the […]
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The Delhi High Court will continue to hear the petitions filed by various parties to get marital rape declared as an offence after Advocate Gaurav Agrawal informed the court today, that the issues before the Supreme Court and the High Court did not overlap with each other. The court also requested Senior Advocate Raju Ramchandran to assist the Court […]
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Labour law was one of the subjects that really intrigued me when I was in law school. There so many new issues around labour and employment law, but why do they teach us a bunch of mostly irrelevant and extremely outdated things in name of labour law in law school? Sure, we need to know […]
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1993 Mumbai blasts- A special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) Court in Mumbai has sentenced Abu Salem to life imprisonment in connection with the 1993 blasts that rocked the city, according to various news reports. Another accused, Karimullah Khan, has also been handed a life sentence, while two others – Tahir Merchant and Firoz Abdul Rashid Khan – have been awarded the death […]
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The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has taken suo motu cognizance of the deadly Blue Whale Challenge in public interest, after coming across news that the game claimed the life of a 19-year-old college student. A Division Bench of Justices KK Sasidharan and GR Swaminathantook up cognizance of the matter last week, observing, “There is no proper mechanism as of now […]
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Students of Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU), Lucknow are protesting the state of affairs at the University. The students have been up in arms over the administration’s arbitrary policies and inaction in a number of matters for some time now. And the straw that broke the camel’s back was the recent incidents of […]
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Eve teasing Eve teasing is a euphemism used throughout South Asia, which includes (but is not limited to) India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. for public sexual harassment or molestation (often known as “street harassment“) of women by men, where Eve alludes to the very first woman, according to the Biblical creation story. Considered a problem related […]
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