News Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. 15 December 2014 The Bombay High Court refused to entertain a Writ filed by an advocate challenging the imposition of service tax on advocates. So the business clients of individual lawyers and law firms will continue to pay service tax as mandated by the Finance Act. 16 December 2014 In the case of Italian Marines who are accused of killing...

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Weekly Legal Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. 8th December 2014: The division bench of Supreme Court has struck down the legality of provisions in certain circulars which banned hookah smoking and sale of cigarettes in designated smoking areas. With this three High Court (Bombay, Gujarat and Madras) decisions is overturned. The illegality of circulars was found on the basis of it being...

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A Tribute to Justice Krishna Iyer

Author: Anjana Srinivasan, (2nd Year student of IIT Kharagpur Law School) Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer has been hailed as the “judicial conscience of India” and credited with the responsibility of “humanizing law in India”. He was a ceaseless crusader of human rights and had a passion for compassion. He was a rare combination of a legislator, a minster and a judge. Justice Krishna Iyer was born on November 15, 1915 to a leading criminal...

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Legal News Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. Updates: 23rd November to 07 November 2014. The Supreme Court has constituted a Special Bench christened ‘Social Justice Bench’ to achieve the Constitutional  goal of securing ‘social justice for the citizens of the country. The bench comprising of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice UU Lalit will hear all cases in the Supreme Court falling within...

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Legal News Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. Updates: 03rd November to 22nd November 2014. In an interim order passed by the Delhi High Court, Micromax has to pay a royalty that amounts up to 1% of the selling price of its devices to Ericsson. Ericsson had alleged that Micromax had refused to enter into a licensing agreement covering its patented innovations across several wireless technology...

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Of Assignments, Licenses and other Demons thereof

Author: Narayanan MH, 3rd Year student of IIT Law School, IIT Kharagpur The title of this blog post amuses the author as much as it amuses its readers, as the author during his initial year in law school always got confronted by one question, “What is the difference between an agreement and a contract?” Being from a non legal family background the author answered: “Section 2(h) of Indian Contract Act: an agreement enforceable by law is...

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Legal Updates

We bring you the updates for last week. Hope it updates you with all the news from legal world. Updates: 2nd November to 8th November 2014. 2nd November: Delhi Police has approached the Supreme Court with the plea to modify the December 2013 order in which the Apex Court had said, “The men in uniform; operational agencies which require unhindered access to roads for performance of their duty; those engaged in emergency duties such...

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