The law's objective is to help the people. But more often than not, legalities of end up confusing the public rather than help them. NR Chandran demystifies the Land Acquisition Act The Land Acquisition Act has been enacted to provide for compens ..
The expression 'unfair trade practice' is one which is elaborately defined in the Consumer Protection Act and the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act. However, much of the litigation in both forums centres around it. When the MRTP Commissi ..
Law has to be interpreted according to the intention of the legislature and in consonance with the needs of the time .To enforce equitable justice where legislature and executive are found lacking . People can not left remediless because the act d ..
The Indian Succession Act came into effect on 30thSeptember, 1925. As per S. 4, Part II of the Act shall not applyif the deceased was a Hindu, Muhammadan, Buddhist, Sikh orJaina. Section 20 of Part III of the Act is not applicable to anymarriage cont ..
SHOULD LAWYERS BE BROUGHT UNDER THE COPRASujata Iyengar*Gautam Narasimhan *A three Judge bench of the Supreme Court in Indian Medical Association v. y.p. Shanta1 affirmed the growing activity in the field of consumerism and consumer protection. The C ..
By a process of judicial interpretation the provisions of S. 375, IPC cannot be altered so as to include all forms of penetration such as penile/vaginal penetration, penile/oral penetration, penile/anal penetration, finger/vagina and finger/anal pene ..
There has been an urgent need in India to reform various sectors of law and torts continue to be ignored, mostly for the reasons of high costs of tort litigation. Tort is the area of law where in response to a private or civil wrong or injury the cou ..
Injunction matters :1. One very peculiar problem is phased in injunction matters where interlocutary order has been passed in favour of plaitiff and suit has been dissmised in default. What will be the fate of that interlocutary stay order after ..
held by allahabad highcourt : 2005(59) ALR 413 :that even though there has been a entery in favour of the state in revenue records without taking action to take actual possession u/s 10(5) ,10(6). actual owner can not be deprived of the benifit of th ..
INTRODUCTION. There are certain justifications which point to a particular wrong or to certain class of wrong. There are justifications which are common in all kinds of wrongs and to prevent repetition of these under every wrong they are collective ..