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Plight of Ship Masters
By Capt. A.K. Bansal Shipping by its very nature is international in character, concerned as it is with ships engaged in the transportation of personnel and goods from country to country. International shipping connections are a manifestation of the global economy and globalization, which have an immense impact on the way commercial shipping is conducted.…
Delegated Legislation with Specific Reference to Taxation
By Deepak Vyas The power of taxation is an inherent and an essential attribute of sovereignty which primarily rests on necessity. Modern constitutions of nations recognise this power by making express provisions therein. The sovereign attribute of taxation is the authority of the sovereign to compulsorily impose burden or charges upon persons or property to…
Cyber Law, an Analysis – Transboundary Cyberterrorism’s Legal Loopholes Analysed
By Mahendra Singh The involvement of cyber warfare from a theoretical possibility to an imminent threat has put a challenging task to international law experts. The cyber-attack on the servers of Sony Pictures Entertainment and cyber incursions by Pakistani hackers on the Kerala government’s website are a few such incidents. The alleged malicious North Korean…
A Shop or a Factory – Tests for its Determination
By Anirudh Shastree The Maharashtra Shops and Establishments Act, 1948, is a legislation to regulate the conditions of work in shops and commercial establishments and has been in force in the State of Maharashtra for the last 57 years. The first Shops Act was enacted in the year 1939. The application of the Maharashtra Shops…
Muslim Law – Need for Codification
By Pranusha Kulkarni Recently, the Prime Minister’s Office referred the matter of Uniform Civil Code (hereinafter “UCC”) to the Law Commission of India, asking it to look for the feasibility of implementing the same in India. Even as Article 44 of our Constitution urges the State to endeavour to implement a UCC applicable to all…
Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov: The Man Who Saved the World
By Anoop Bose, Advocate, Supreme Court of India The most dangerous and yet the most fortuitous day in the annals of human history! It was on that day that Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov, a Soviet Navy officer, single-handedly averted World War III during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis when the United States and the…
Commercial Courts – New Benches
By Dr. Sailaja Petikam Commercial Courts Appellate Division shall the new Act on December 31st 2015, namely The Commercial Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Act, 2015 (Act No.4 of 2016). This Act extends to the Recentlythe Presidentofindiaapproved endeavour which a Commercial Court has been vested to dispose of jurisdiction, if…
Interviewing Justice Vijender Jain
Always a rebel, and constantly in the eye of the storm, Justice Vijender Jain was the Acting Chief Justice of Delhi High Court and later was appointed as the 27th Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court. He is credited with taking suo motu cognizance in the Jessica Lal Murder Case of the decision…
The Law on Stalking
By Kanishk Agarwal Some may say that if a person follows the other person wherever the person goes it can be termed as Stalking. Some might hold the view that a person trying to harass the other person by using electronic means like hacking emails, Facebook accounts, Whatsapp messages, phone calls or keeping an eye…
New Forms of Corruption
By Sudhir Deshpande On this Earth, there is enough for everyone’s need but the prime Act that deals with corruption in India. The investigation is carried out in corruption cases under the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. If the case if handled by the CBI then the Delhi Police Establishment Act, 1946 comes into play.…