CHALLENGES AHEAD IN LEGAL SECTOR POST COVID 19
INTRODUCTION It’s conceivable that the coronavirus risk will in the end blur, as the Ebola, Zika, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) infections have as of late. The last episode of the coronavirus presents a disturbing wellbeing emergency that the world is thinking about. Notwithstanding the human effect, there is likewise a noteworthy business sway […]
APPEALS UNDER THE CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE, 1908 – A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
Introduction Appeal as a concept has been imbibed in the Civil Procedure Code under Section 96 which goes onto state that “Save where otherwise expressly provided in the body AP of this Code or by any other law for the time being in force, an appeal shall lie from every decree passed by any Court […]
OFFICE OF CJI NOW COMES UNDER THE RTI ACT: IS IT JUSTIFIED?
INTRODUCTION After almost a 12-year protracted battle for accountability and transparency in the judiciary, the Supreme court on 13 November 2019, in a landmark judgment titled Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), Supreme Court Of India vs. Subhash Chandra Agarwal[1] held that the office of Chief Justice of India (CJI) is a ‘public authority’, that falls within the […]
THE POOREST PAYS: HAS INDIA BEING FAIR TO THE POOR DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC?
“We are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some of us are on superyachts, some of us have just the one oar.” – Damian Barr The central government on May 4th launched a special train service with the aim of repatriating stranded people to return to their home states. […]
IMPACT OF CORONA OUTBREAK ON COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS
INTRODUCTION Corona virus Disease (COVID-19) was proclaimed as a general wellbeing crisis of global distress by the World Health Organization on 30 January 2020. It has required governments, and especially social insurance frameworks, to react quickly and in a planned method to guarantee that they are appropriately lessening and reacting to the developing circumstance to […]
ABOLITION OF DEATH SENTENCE: THE PREVAILING NEED IN THE INDIAN SCENARIO
Introductory Remarks Powerful argument for the abolition of death penalty is based on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment. “There is no clear evidence … that the abolition of capital punishment has led to an increase in the rate, or that its reintroduction has led to a fall.”[1] In pursuance of this […]