Author: Shreya Pandey Abstract In the golden age of drug addiction, where people are passing into a persistent state of relapsing disorder, Marijuana, being a drug itself, promises a flicker of light at the end of tunnel owing to its medicinal properties. Marijuana offers a therapy to relieve one’s ailment by subsuming its use inContinueContinue reading “LEGALISATION OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA- WILL THE DAWN OF MYTH TURN INTO A STARK REALITY?”
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An Overview of the Banking Ombudsman Scheme in India
With the liberalisation, privatisation, and globalisation (“LPG”)surge engulfing India in the ’90s, an immediate need to make Indian banks competent and internationally viable was felt.
USA Survived a Demagogue, But What About Other Countries?
It seems that USA has exported so much of democracy that only a little has been left for home.
The BCI is Mistaken in Proposing Three Years of Experience for Judicial Services
Before making three-year compulsory practice for judicial services, the BCI must look into the matter as to who will the have the luxury of spending three years at the bar and also preparing for the judicial services. The advocacy is a noble profession, it must not become a luxury profession.
Domestic Violence: A Termite to Flesh, Minds and Values
INTRODUCTION “Violence is never domestic; it roars wild where every day she serves dinner to the carnivore in a porcelain made out of her broken bones.” By Monika Swain Domestic violence, which is in itself an epidemic across the globe spiked when couples were placed under mandatory lockdown restraining them to their homes in confinedContinueContinue reading “Domestic Violence: A Termite to Flesh, Minds and Values”
Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award in India
Introduction International Trade and commerce has always held an important place in the economy of any country, hence exchange of contract between inter-state parties is the norm. It becomes tricky to hold other parties liable for not fulfilling their obligations when it comes to litigation in a foreign court. Therefore the existence of arbitration agreementContinueContinue reading “Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Award in India”
SCORES – Analysis of Complaint Making Mechanism in SEBI
Introduction In India, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was set up with a mandate to protect the interest of investors, to regulate and to promote the development of the securities market. Since 1992-92, it has operated the securities customer complaint systemwhich was renamed as the SCORES system (SEBI Complaints Redress System)with theContinueContinue reading “SCORES – Analysis of Complaint Making Mechanism in SEBI”
Arbitrability of Fraud in India
Arbitration is a process of resolving disputes without knocking the doors of courts, rather by appointing an independent and impartial person by mutual consent of both the disputants. This process is much easier, time and cost effective than the traditional litigation system. Moreover since the parties themselves have consented to the procedure of arbitration andContinueContinue reading “Arbitrability of Fraud in India”
Corporate Compliance: A Cutting-Edge Topic in Corporate Governance in China
Corporate compliance originated from the corporate governance practice aiming at mitigating risks related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the United States, via the practices in other common law countries, but also some civil law countries, has been introduced to China and recently become a buzzword of corporate governance. An ever-increasing amount of peer-reviewContinueContinue reading “Corporate Compliance: A Cutting-Edge Topic in Corporate Governance in China”
Enforcement of BIT Awards in India
Recently, the Indian Government lost an arbitration dispute invoked by Vodafone International Holding BV (“Vodafone International”)under the India – Netherlands Bilateral Investment Treaty, at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). The PCA held[1] that the retrospective application of capital gains tax by the Indian Government on the company was a breach of the fair andContinueContinue reading “Enforcement of BIT Awards in India”
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