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A blog about legal developments, spanning several fields. The subjects covered include constitutional law, taxation, intellectual property, commercial laws, criminal law...
- Author: Mihir N.
- Listed in: Law & Legal
- Tags: law criminal law intellectual property taxation constitutional law legal developments
Recent Posts
Distinguishing between a Lease and a Licence
In an earlier post, I had considered some of the principles regarding the interpretation of documents. I had discussed the leading case of Sundaram Finance v. State of Kerala, AIR 1966 SC 1178. In that case, the majority held that the Court has t...
\'Practice\' of law under the Advocates Act: Does it include non-litigation work?
In this post, I had mentioned that the Bombay High Court has ruled that even non-litigation practice would come within the purview of “practice of law”; and that foreign firms could not be allowed to engage in non-litigation practice or to open ...
Foreign law firms and the \'practice\' of law: Bombay High Court judgment
The Bombay High Court (Swatanter Kumar C.J. and J.P. Devdhar J.) has ruled yesterday that foreign law firms are not eligible to practice law in India. Furthermore, the drafting of opinions on legal matters amounts to practice of law. Foreign law fir...
Call for Papers: Subrata Roy Chowdhury Essay Competition
The Subrata Roy Chowdhury Memorial Essay Writing Competition is being co-organized by the National University of Juridical Sciences, the Society of International Law and Practice (“SILP”), NUJS and the NUJS ILSA Chapter in association with ...
Issues in Oppression and Mismanagement
I have written two posts on Indian Corporate Law, discussing issues arising under Section 399 of the Companies Act, 1956. The first post deals with issues under Section 399(1); the second deals with Section 399(3). In the latter post, I mentio...
Multiple Derivative Actions
Over at Indian Corporate Law, Shantanu Naravane highlights a very interesting decision of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal. The case, Waddington Ltd. V. Chan Chun Hoo Thomas, highlights ‘multiple derivative actions’. Since Foss v. Harbo...
