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 »
In the landmark case of Bachan Singh v. the State of Punjab,[2] the court observed that death sentence may be awarded in the “rarest of rare cases in which the alternative sentence of life is unquestionably foreclosed.” INTRODUCTION Pronouncing a judgment awarding capital punishment has always been a pressing issue for debates. After the making of the Constitution… Read More »
Section 22-25 of the Code of Civil procedure provide the provisions as respect to transfer and withdrawal of suits, appeals and different procedures starting with one court then onto the next. Introduction When in doubt, a plaintiff has an option to pick his very own adjudicating authority as arbiter litis or dominus, where a suit can be instituted.… Read More »
Whenever a public company is willing to invite the applications for its debentures or shares, it is a mandate for it to issue prospectus. This requirement does not apply to private companies. Sec 2(70) of the Companies Act, 2013 provides for the definition of prospectus, such as, prospectus includes all those documents that are issued or described as… Read More »
Doctrine of Attribution’, which helps to simplify the problem of making companies criminally liable and then sentencing them to imprisonment. Introduction One of the thing that is gaining importance in the field of criminal law is the question of putting liability over the officers, managers, directors and other employees of the organisation whenever there is some wrong done… Read More »
Offences related to marriage are dealt with in Chapter XX, IPC. The offences enumerated in this chapter are in one way or the other related to infidelity in the institution of marriage. The Criminal Law (Second Amendment) Act, 1983 inserted Chapter XX-A which contained Section 498A that dealt with cruelty meted out to wife.[1] MOCK OR INVALID MARRIAGES… Read More »
By uniting, it is possible to begin a fight that is against hunger. By uniting, it is possible to bring a tomorrow, for all the children across the world, which is better than the present day by the way of feeding them. It is important for all the people to come together and make a promise to themselves… 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 »
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