LAWZ MAGAZINE
Selected Stories, Interviews, and Archives from every Issue since 2001
FEATURED Interviews
Interviewing Dr. Abhishek Manu Singhvi
An exploration of high-stakes litigation, systemic judicial reforms, and the demanding intersection of a multifaceted public career.
Interviewing R. Venkataramani
A reflection on trial court roots, landmark social justice cases, and a lifelong commitment to legal evolution.
Interviewing Raju Ramchandran
A retrospective on a four-decade legal career, highlighting landmark litigation, systemic evolution, and modern professional dynamics.
Interviewing Sarosh Zaiwalla
A profile of cross-border legal pioneering, overcoming systemic hurdles in London, and securing landmark international victories.
From the Archives
BY HENRY A. KISSINGER
How Sept. 11 has Shaped the International Order For The 21st Century
Writing for LawZ, Henry A. Kissinger reflects on how the September 11 attacks fundamentally reshaped the international order, uniting former adversaries and strategic competitors, from Russia and China to Europe and India, around shared security concerns. He argued that for the first time in half a century, America had faced no strategic peer competitor, as global powers recognized their mutual vulnerability to transnational threats
Latest Articles
No service tax on maintenance of minimum bank balance as Banking Services consideration
Canara Bank v. Union of India (W.P. Nos. 10234/2020) For millions of bank customers, the requirement to maintain a minimum…
Not Every Group Allocation Is a Service: CESTAT Draws the Line on Intra-Group Taxation
Commissioner of CGST & Central Excise, Dehradun v. Dana India Private Limited, Service Tax Appeal No.50734 of 2019 The Tax…
Software Subscriptions, Specialised Services and the Limits of Treaty Taxation
Cloudera Inc., USA vs ACIT (ITA No .- 917/Del/2023) The Growing Complexity of Software-Based Revenue The taxation of cross-border software…
When a Business Advance Is Not Income: Karnataka High Court Rejects “Virtual Forfeiture” Theory
The Tax Treatment of an Unsettled Advance Tax disputes often arise when a receipt remains on the books for longer…
Lord Hartley William Shawcross – The Nuremberg Hero Extraordinaire
BY Anoop Bose. One of the greatest lawyers the world has ever known was Lord Hartley William Shawcross, the prodigious…
Healthcare Services Remain Exempt Under GST Despite Delivery Through Another Hospital
Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd. – WP No. 22236/2023 – Karnataka HC I. Introduction One of the defining features of the…
FMV of underlying companies’ shares cannot determine share valuation under the unamended Rule 11UA
ACIT v. Kanchan Markhedkar (ITA No. 713/Mum/2025 and ITA No. 784/Mum/2025) I. Introduction The relationship between tax avoidance doctrines and…
Tribunal Prefers NCLT-Determined Valuation over Mechanical Rule 11UA Computation
Rajasehar Buvaneswari v. ITO (ITA No. 3332/Chny/2025) I. Introduction The valuation of unquoted equity shares has emerged as one of…
Justice Surya Kant: A Jurisprudence at the Crossroads of Formalism and Realism
“The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” When the American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes…
LawZ Articles as Featured in the National Archives of India
Focus: Subash Chandra Bose
BY ANOOP BOSE
The Mystifying Bose Angle in the Death of Lal Bahadur Shastri
Explore the enduring mysteries, declassified intelligence files, and historical debates surrounding the life and alleged disappearance of one of India’s most iconic freedom fighters.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the Sikhs
A deep dive into Bose’s strategic relationship with the Sikh community, their instrumental role in the Indian National Army (INA), and their shared vision for an independent India.
Remembering Legal Luminaries
With the words they shared with LawZ
Featured Articles
Capital Punishment
By Karan Dhall & Anmol Jassal
Tracing the evolution of state sanctions from ancient Draconian methods to modern constitutional standards surrounding the death sentence.
Right to Die: Life, Death, and Autonomy
By Shourya Jain
Exploring the constitutional and medical boundaries of passive euthanasia following the Apex Court’s recognition of dignified death under the Right to Life.
Titanic v Costa Concordia
By Capt. A. K. Bansal
A comparative analysis of two historic maritime disasters, evaluating vessel navigation standards, statutory safety regimes, and shipmaster liability on the high seas.
P2P File Sharing under Indian Copyright Law
By Akash Vishvakarma
The clash between the dynamic decentralized online peer-to-peer protocols and traditional statutory intellectual property rights in India.