Archive for the Category ‘Legal Articles’



CHILD WITNESS

CHILD WITNESS BY:ANUJA AIYAPPAN  CHAPTER 1 1.1 Witness: Meaning and Scope Witnesses and document are the chief sources of evidence. A witness is a person who gives testimony or evidence before any court. As a matter of fact every person is competent to give evidence but in certain circumstances he may not be compelled to ...

Environment Protection : A Challenge Before Legal System : by – D.B. THENGADI

Environment Protection : A Challenge Before Legal System : by - D.B. THENGADI INDEX  1. ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION (Speech of D.B. Thengadi) 2. ANNEXURE  (i) Major Treaties  (ii) Selective Legislations, Remedies to Public & Some Important Cases  (iii) Common Convictions in Stockholm Proclamation  (iv) The Scope - Environmental Law  (v) Education 3. THE WOUNDED EARTH - Story on Rio Earth Summit      ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION    The Government of India is conscious of this fact that is ...

Cruelty Against Husband in India

Cruelty Against Husband in India DHAWESH PAHUJA In India where marriage is the union between man and woman to get social status in the society and marriage is nothing but procreation and caring of the child. According to Westmark Marriage has been often like as an institution made by itself. As there is increase in number ...

TORT OF PASSING-OFF

TORT OF PASSING-OFF  CHAPTER 1 THE CONCEPT OF PASSING OFF Passing off is a wrong, a common law tort which protects the goodwill of a trader from misrepresentation. Misleading the public into believing falsely, that the brand being projected was the same as a well known brand is a wrong and is known as the ...

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA In India where almost half of the population are women, they have always been ill-treated and deprived of their right to life and personal liberty as provided under the constitution of India. Women are always considered as a physically and emotionally weaker than the males, whereas at present women have ...

Bill that will allow foreign law firms through back door (Comment)

Bill that will allow foreign law firms through back door (Comment) Manoj Kumar, IANS  Relatively unnoticed amid the scams and agitations haunting the government, Law Minister Salman Khurshid set a time bomb ticking. Earlier this month, exactly 50 years after the Advocates Act, a bill was placed by the minister, a legal practitioner himself, for wide consultations that seeks to set up ...

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DOCTRINE OF LEGAL PRECEDENTS

A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE DOCTRINE OF LEGAL PRECEDENTS ADITI GHOSH  INTRODUCTION: Judicial methods are the techniques adopted by the judges in deciding cases. Judicial method plays an important role in the development of law, irrespective of the fact whether a community lives in rural simplicity or modern complexity, or whether it follows case laws to decide cases or codified laws. ...

‘WILL’ UNDER INDIAN LAW

‘WILL’ UNDER INDIAN LAW Will is the legal declaration of a person’s intention which he wishes to be performed after his death and once the Will is made by the testator it can only be revoke during his lifetime. A person cannot give his ancestors property in the form of a Will but he ...

Anti-Terrorism Laws – Distinguishing Myth or Reality

Anti-Terrorism Laws – Distinguishing Myth or Reality “Every man when driven to the wall by a murderous assailant will override all laws to protect himself and this is called the great right to self defence” by ABRAHAM LINCOLN. It is the ‘great right of self defence’ from which the moral justification to all anti-terrorism laws is derived. The ...

“Patent of Inventions, Innovation in Softwares: Patinformatics

A comparative analysis of Global players Ankit Kumar Singh A. Background: The practice of granting monopolies by patent has a long history of over 600 years. The term patent can be traced to the term Letters Patent, a grant in the form of a document rolled up with the King’s or Queen’s seal ...