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Refugees On The International Scene
BY Capt. A. K. Bansal According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), if any person in fear of being persecuted for reasons of religion, nationality, race or political opinion, is outside his country and is unable or unwilling to return owing to such fears, he is a refugee. However, before any person…
Birth Rights?
BY Kripa Sriram Should Children Born Disabled Be Entitled To Compensation? A severely disabled French boy won a landmark case against medical authorities for allowing him to be born rather than aborted. Nicolas Perruche was born deaf, part-blind, and with mental disabilities in 1983 after a doctor and a medical laboratory failed to realize that…
Sir Henry Maine
By Somesh Mahajan Sir Henry Maine was born on August 15, 1822, in Scotland. He received his education at Christ’s Church and Pembroke College in Cambridge, receiving his degree in 1844. After serving a time as a tutor and teacher, most notably of civil law at Cambridge, he began practicing law in 1850. Brought up…
Indian Wildlife And Law
BY Sudhir Mishra India has inherited a great wildlife treasure. This treasure contains Tibetan antelopes of the Himalayan region, magnificent elephants and turtles of the southern coast of Kanyakumari, innocent rhinoceros from the northeast region, with royal Bengal tigers in the Sunderbans to lions of Gir, musk deer and black bucks in Rajasthan, and many…
What Is Public International Law?
BY Sudipto Bose What is Public International Law? International Law, which in most other countries is referred to as Public International Law, concerns itself only with questions of rights between sovereign states or nations and the citizens or subjects of other nations. In contrast, Private International Law deals with controversies between private persons, natural or…
Intellectual Property Rights
BY Arvind Ranganathan Intellectual property rights is after all the creation of the human brain and ingrained in creative works like books, music, designs, inventions of products and processes, computer software, distinctive designs or marks and the likes. There had been attempts for integration of IPRs in instruments like the Paris and Berne Conventions. But…
Interviewing Raju Ramchandran
I STILL DESPAIR AT THE LAW’S DELAYS One of the leading Senior Advocates in the Supreme Court and presently Vice President of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Mr. Raju Ramachandran always wanted to become a journalist, but he was destined to become a lawyer. Although he had no legal background, it was out of his…
Entry Options For Foreign Investors
BY Qaiser Lone The Government of India’s new liberalisation policy and economic reforms has encouraged Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) into India by simplifying the legal and regulatory framework thereby making FDI into India attractive for foreign investors. A foreign company or individual proposing to invest in India has the option of setting up either a…
Interviewing M. N. Krishnamani
I HAD NO IDEA AT ALL HOW A LAWYER WOULD FUNCTION Maharajapuram Natarajan Krishnamani was born on April 26, 1948. He received his education from Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ High School, Vaishnav College, Presidency College, and Law College, Madras. He had a brief political career and was a trade union leader from 1969-1975. In 1971 he…
WHY THIS APPREHENSION OF POTO
BY Armin Wandrewala Hard cases make bad laws is a truism generally acknowledged by lawyers. Hard times make for bad laws, it would appear. Our lawmakers have been experimenting with a series of them. After the manipulation of MISA, the terror of TADA, the mockery of MCOCA, we now face: Pulverizing POTO! Even saner voices…