BILATERAL INVESTMENT TREATIES VIS-À-VIS INDIAN LEGAL SCENARIO: DOES IT REQUIRE A CHANGE?
Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are written understandings between two nations/states for the reciprocative upliftment and guarding of investments in each other's sovereign jurisdictions by individuals and companies situated in either nation/state. Briefly, the...
Female Genital Mutilation: Human Rights Violation Under The Garb Of Culture
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a series of procedures concentrated in Asia and the Middle East that affect, alter and cause injury to the genital organs of females without any medical reason.
Individual Insolvency: Need for Robust Mechanism
In the fall of 2019, the MCA notified provisions dealing with Insolvency and Bankruptcy for Personal Guarantors to Corporate Debtors present in Part III of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. The overarching Code is slowly increasing its hold in...
A Discussion on Section 498A IPC in Present Social Scenario
It was in the year 1983 when section 498A IPC was introduced and made a statute with the objective to protect married women from being subjected to cruelty by the husband or his relatives. The provision provides for a punishment which may extend to 3 years and...
The Unpaid Legal Internship Saga
Many students from lower or even middle income background feel financially stressed taking on unpaid internship but take it anyways just to compete with their peers. On an average a law student does 1.5 to 2 internships in one academic year.
A WHIP TO PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
INTRODUCTION The past few months have plagued our nation with viruses. The first was the coronavirus that brought us to our knees by exposing our unequipped and neglected healthcare system. Another virus continued to brew amidst the pandemic in State legislatures of...
A Brief Analytical Critique Of The Judgment – Ong Ming Johnson Vs Attorney General: Departure From Navtej Singh Johar Vs Union Of India
Introduction Since time immemorial, homosexuality has been caught in a mire of societal, legal and moral ethos. The regressive discrimination against homosexuals in several nations has been a matter of grave concern, much contention and detailed discourse. The...
CUSTODIAL DEATH: JAYARAJ AND BENNICKS CASE | SECTION 176 CrPC AND RELEVANT DATA
John Adams once quoted, “a government of laws, and not of men.” This understandably means that in a society that considers itself free, the government has to rule according to laws and principles, not their whims and fancies and they must be held accountable for their...
