Legally Speaking Desk

Public morality, public opinion and policymaking

In a 2007 paper titled ‘How Policymakers View Public Opinion’, Prof Francois Petry, a political scientist, presumed that in a…

4 years ago

Legislative policies regulating foreign subsidiaries in Indian startups

Government has thought of an extensive approach on empowering new businesses/startups in India through various strategies and guidelines such as…

4 years ago

Emoji and IPR

The word ‘Emoji’ originally meant pictogram, which was an acting symbol to convey meaning with physical object usually seen in…

4 years ago

Limitation under Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code: A tale of two judgements?

“…It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….” (Charles Dickens, a Tale of Two Cities, 1859)…

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Ram Janmabhoomi case: A glimpse into the contest of historic narratives emanating from court records

The Hindus were depending on the narrative of historians and archaeologists who based their opinions on Indian tradition of passing…

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SPIRIT OF SECTION 156 (3) CRPC, 1973: SC’S INTERPRETATION

While drafting the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973, the Authors had kept three considerations in mind, which were, an accused…

4 years ago

How personality matters in intellectual property

What justifies an author in alienating his copies of work while keeping the exclusive right of reproduction of further copies…

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Law, Latin and lawyers

The constant use of the Latin maxims in cases, textbooks, treaties and scholarly works related to the legal field has…

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Arbitrability of insolvency petitions in India: An unsettled phenomenon

Recently, National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Mumbai, in a unique judgement passed in Kotak India Venture Fund- I vs Indus…

4 years ago

Free speech and its impact on policymaking

A democracy places a premium on maximising good for the maximum number of people, but what makes it different is…

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