Maintenance and its various theoriesBy Prakash Pillai A matrimonial lawyer is often flooded with lots of questions by the clients. The most common query being, the quantum of maintenance after a divorce. This particular question is often the cause of ..
Procedure for Criminal TrialBy Prakash Pillai It is believed that the Court procedure in India is very long and takes lot of your time. However, it is not so. Infact the procedure of trial is very short. The manpower which is required to speed up tri ..
In the last eleven years (1996 - 2007) 156000 husbands have been claimed by rampant domestic violence against them. In a shocking revelation of suicide statistics for the year 2007 reveals that almost double the number of married men have committed s ..
Irony defining life it seems has become a norm in today’s times. And it does not seem to spare the most controversial social institution, working as first step towards familial life, aka the INDIAN MARRIAGE. The irony here is that what starts a ..
A lot has been said and done about violence against women at the hands of their in-laws and society, however, men are also victims of intense domestic violence! But sadly, the same men fail to acknowledge the need to do something about this...ASSUMPT ..
Section 498A was introduced in 1983 to protect women from cruelty and harassment by her in-laws. Nevertheless it has undeniably morphed into an extortion racket which is only growing by the day. 3,90,397 persons (of which 87,830(22.5%) were women the ..
A court order by which an individual is required to perform, or is restrained from performing, a particular act. A writ framed according to the circumstances of the individual case.An injunction commands an act that the court regards as essential to ..
The act of temporarily stopping a judicial proceeding through the order of a court.A stay is a suspension of a case or a suspension of a particular proceeding within a case. A judge may grant a stay on the motion of a party to the case or issue a sta ..
Men’s rights activists want domestic violence laws to be gender neutral. Armed with statistics of high suicide rates among men, their wish list includes a ministry for men’s welfare, a national commission for men and a review of the anti- ..
PARALLEL IMPORT: A CONUNDRUMBy Suwarn Rajan, Advocate & Patent Agent, Managing Partner, CARE INTELLECT,NEW ..