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Covid-19: Environment impact, law and lessons to be learnt

The countries across the globe are facing unprecedented impact on humans as well as businesses due to outbreak of coronavirus/ COVID-19. It was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation... Read more »

The Commercial Courts Act: A brief review and opinion

While the Act makes mention of constituting commercial courts, in practice it seems to mean the mere designation of existing courts as commercial courts. It does not seek the creation of new... Read more »

The rights of victims and criminal justice system

The victimology movement, which has emerged in many parts of the world, insists on making victims an integral part of the criminal justice administration by giving them opportunities to be heard at... Read more »

Decriminalising Section 138, Negotiable Instruments Act: A half-baked solution

Decriminalising Section 138 without a robust individual insolvency and bankruptcy regime or without any substitute for the creditors would further add to the miseries of the Indian credit market. Read more »

Mediation: A practical option in the time of Covid-19

Mediation allows parties to reach a half-way house which can often work to preserve the relationship. Read more »

Need for disclosure-based data exclusivity norms in the time of pandemic

The outbreak of Covid-19 has set the eyes of the world towards finding a suitable vaccine for the virus. Undoubtedly, the vaccine will have a huge global demand once it is prepared.... Read more »

The Hindu Undivided Family and Coparcenary: A critical analysis

The Hindu Undivided Family is, as Hindu jurisprudence and law recognise, the normal condition of a Hindu family. Hindu Undivided Family: Known by its popular acronym HUF, a joint Hindu family consists... Read more »

Decriminalisation of cheque bouncing: A boon or bane?

One ground for this decision is to circumvent the surge of financial failures which under the current rules can get treated as frauds, even though they are attributable to the economic distress... Read more »

Protecting a civilisation in the age of mercantilism and global citizenship

There has never been a greater need to address the larger and deeper issues which are eating into the vitals of this land’s civilisational consciousness. Read more »

Covid-19: When home becomes unsafe

In Spain, the government had exempted women from fine if they left home to report abuse. France had opened pop-up counselling centres. In Britain, domestic abuse services received an extra £2m to... Read more »