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Articles by BAPOO M. MALCOLM

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Who will guard the Guardians?

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   18 July 2014 at 13:03

�Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?� .... asked Juvenal, 2,000 years ago Consider these facts: � A court acquits two accused who were charged with acts of terrorism, citing falsely created evidence. � A large number of case ..


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Every Man should protect his property

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   09 July 2014 at 11:38

PROPERTY in law means anything you own and the basic means of ownership is, of all things, including the right to destroy. If one can destroy something, without causing harm to anyone else, then that, to our mind, is the supreme fact of ownership. ..


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How an American woman won $2 million from a matrimonial site

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   08 July 2014 at 12:21

DO I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE NOT MADE A MONKEY OF? Yes. You do............... Last week, we asked if job-seekers, when sent off on smoke-and-mirror interviews, are entitled to judicial relief. Most Moneylifers must have said, �So what?�. It ..


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Hamlet and His Will

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   02 July 2014 at 11:46

To register or not to register that is a question Moneylife has been conducting sessions on how to draft a Will. The three sessions were not only well attended but the interactions were simply wonderful. If truth be told, we learnt more from the ..


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The Noose or the Caboose?

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   24 June 2014 at 11:31

Can society gather the wisdom to decide on a punishment as irrevocable as death? In a previous issue, we carried an article on this page dealing with the death penalty. We had promised Moneylife readers that we would keep our ears to the ground fo ..


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Is Trapping & Entrapment the Same?

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   24 June 2014 at 11:31

No, it is not. A simple example will bring clarity. Suppose a thief enters your home at night. You hear him. So, you shut and lock the bedroom door, get out of the window, lock the front door from outside, and voila. The thief is trapped inside. Eve ..


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Silence is Not Always Golden!

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   23 June 2014 at 11:55

This is a personal story. Everyday, we used to park our old Rajdoot (1972 model) below the KC College, (Churchgate, Mumbai) at about 7 in the morning, to be duly collected at 11o�clock afterpayment to the attendant. One morning, there was a ..


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Love thy neighbour

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   19 June 2014 at 12:13

Let�s see how the law applies to neighbourly relations. The biblical injunction of �Love Thy Neighbour� is, unfortunately, not a common occurrence. Probably, because familiarity often breeds contempt. Two neighbours, Mr 1 and Mr 2, ..


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When Shakespeare was wrong

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   30 May 2014 at 11:18

Who steals my purse steals trash; ................... But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. (Othello 3.3) When the Bard of Avon wrote Iago�s mouthful, he did not foresee t ..


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Anyone for banning Capital Punishment?

  BAPOO M. MALCOLM   28 May 2014 at 11:51

Hamlet, once again To �kill� or not to �kill�, that is the question Execution, for a capital crime, means snuffing out a life. By now, readers must have known that this author is no fan of Capital Punishment. No moral issue ..


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