4th Amity National Judgment Writing Competition 2019 is a combined venture of Amity Law School Gurgaon, SCC Online, and Legal Bites. This is to explore the area of legal education to increase and promote qualitative legal research by looking at practical aspects of the implementation of laws studied by Law Students. Judgment writing is not an ordinary task,… Read More »
Relevancy is the ultimate touchstone for determination of the admissibility of evidence.[1] It is due to this fundamental rule of the Law of Evidence that the terms ‘relevancy’ and ‘admissibility’ are often used interchangeably. It must be noted that both the concepts are quite distinct from each other.[2] For instance, a confession made by an accused to his… Read More »
Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code makes an act of administering cruelty by husband or his relatives on wife an offence. It prohibits torture by the husband or by his relatives on the wife by punishing them for causing harassment or torturing the wife to force her or her relatives to accept the unlawful demands related to… Read More »
There are mainly two kinds of charges that a company may allow for the creation of its assets. Floating charge and Fixed-charge. Introduction A single section i.e. Section 71 is used by the legislature to cover all the topics related to debentures in the Companies Act, 2013. Companies are required to borrow a huge amount of money very… Read More »
We are glad to inform you that the 19th National Client Consulting Competition for Justice P. Govinda Menon Memorial Trophy, hosted by the Kerala Law Academy will be held on 7th, 8th & 9th of November 2019 at the Kerala Law Academy College Campus, Peroorkada, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. We wish to invite a team comprising of two students from your esteemed… Read More »
INTRODUCTION ‘Res Gestae’ is a Latin term which can roughly be translated to ‘things done’.[1] The concept of res gestae has emerged from the belief that certain acts or statements, which may otherwise be irrelevant and inadmissible, may be admitted as evidence due to the very situation in which they were committed or uttered. The doctrine of res… Read More »
The High Court of Gujarat invites Online Applications from the Candidates with Degree in Law for filling up 20 vacancies for the post of Legal Assistant on the establishment of this High Court, on purely ad-hoc and contractual basis on fixed remuneration of Rs.20,000 per month, initially for 11 months (extendable on periodical basis up to a maximum period of 3 Years). About… Read More »
Offences which affect the public health, convenience, morals, decency and safety are dealt with in Chapter XIV of IPC. Such nuisance can be categorised into two types: Private nuisance Public nuisance A public nuisance is a public wrong and is an act of causing annoyance to all citizens or which affects the public. On the other hand, a… Read More »
The courts use the Doctrine of Alter Ego to get away with the corporate status of directors, officers or a group of stockholders in a corporation in connection to the liability that is limited to an extent. This is in order to make them personally liable for the actions done by them if they had done some action… Read More »
In simple terms, ‘Evidence’ can be said to be something that either proves or disproves the existence of a particular fact. According to the Hindu Law of Evidence, proof may be divine or human. Introduction The corpus juris or body of laws is generally divided into two types of laws- Substantive laws and Adjective laws. Simply put, substantive laws… Read More »
Offences pertinent to false evidence and offences opposing the public justice is dealt with in Chapter XI of the Indian Penal Code. Hereunder are the two division of the categories into which the offences can be divided: Giving or fabrication of false evidence (Section 191 – 200) Offences opposing public justice (Section 201 – 229A) Giving False Evidence… Read More »
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