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Repeal or Retain Section 377 IPC
By Prashant Chandra, Advocate An LGBTQ person may claim under his freedom of expression a right to cross dress, which is fine as freedom of expression still allows a person to wear anything subject to decency. Homosexuality became an unnatural offence under Section 377 IPC when Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay drafted Indian Penal Code in…
GST and its Advantages
By Dr. Sailaja Petikam India currently has a dual system of taxation of goods and services, which is quite different from dual GST. Taxes on goods are described as “VAT” at both Central and State level. It has adopted a value added tax principle with an input tax credit mechanism for taxation of goods and…
Interviewing Matthew Sadler
University’s Law School and a specialist in Business and Commercial Law with a focus on the Law of Obligations, namely Contract Law & Problem Solving and Tort Law & Civil Liabilities, Matthew Sadler is very passionate about diversity in Higher Education as he feels that a wide range of individual personalities, experiences, cultures and beliefs…
The English Language – Our Wonderful Erratic Tongue
By Anoop Bose, Advocate, Supreme Court of India English is the most universal language in the world, employed in some way or the other by at least one out of every seven members of the human race around the globe. In 1962, the internationally acclaimed American scholar, writer and linguist Lincoln Kinnear Barnett aptly remarked…
India on the Road to Become a Hub of International Commercial Arbitration
By Advocate Khushbu Sahu It is expected that the Arbitration Amendment Bill will be passed soon i.e., in the next session of the Parliament. Whether the Bill will bring about much awaited change or will it be whittled down by the rigours of parliamentary debate is yet to be seen but if the bill is…
Uniform E-Way Bill System for Collection of Central Sales Tax
By Shivali E-commerce is the new flourishing form of trade in the country which requires subsequent changes in the existing legal regime. A waybill is a form issued by Sales Tax Department to the person who wants either to purchase goods from other states or to sale goods to dealers of other states. It is…
Interviewing Sriram Chakravarthi – Senior Director, Singapore Academy of Law
The Singapore Academy of Law is the promotion and development agency for Singapore’s legal industry, with the vision of making Singapore the legal hub of Asia. The Academy aims to drive legal excellence through developing thought leadership, world class infrastructure and legal solutions. Its work focuses on building up the intellectual capital of the legal…
Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
By Megha Arora The Asian Human Rights Charter clearly states that ‘all states must abolish the death penalty’. But keeping the realities in mind it goes on to add, ‘Where it exists, it may be imposed only rarely for the most serious crimes.’ The death penalty has been outlawed in most of the major democracies…
National Green Tribunal – The Green Way
By Akshara Sharma, Advocate Introduction The National Green Tribunal (NGT) was established on 18th October 2010 under the National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 for effective and expeditious disposal of cases relating to environmental protection and conservation of forests and other natural resources. It is a specialized body equipped with the necessary expertise to handle environmental…
Indo British Relations — The Quantum Leap from Sir Thomas Roe to Narendra Modi
By Anoop Bose, Advocate, Supreme Court of India In 1497, the Portuguese King Manuel I commissioned the legendary explorer and navigator Vasco da Gama to lead a voyage to India to discover a viable maritime route from Western Europe to the East. On 8th July, 1497, Da Gama sailed from Lisbon aboard his flagship São…