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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 ...
September 12th, 2011 | 706 views | No Comments »
Posted in Category: Legal Articles, Miscellaneous Legal Articles | Tags: Admissibility of Child Witnesses, Assessment of Voir dire, Child witness, Credibility of Child Witness, Indian Evidence Act 1872, Need for Corroboration, witnesses

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 ...
August 27th, 2011 | 2,990 views | 1 Comment »
Posted in Category: Environment Law, Legal Articles | Tags: Articles on Environment Law, D.B. THENGADI, Environment Law, Environment Law of India, Environment Protection

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 ...
August 26th, 2011 | 2,165 views | 5 Comments »
Posted in Category: Legal Articles, Miscellaneous Legal Articles | Tags: 498-A of IPC, CRUELTY AGAINST HUSBAND, CRUELTY AGAINST HUSBAND IN INDIA, Domestic Violence Act', cruelty

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 ...
August 22nd, 2011 | 919 views | No Comments »
Posted in Category: Corporate & Commercial Law, Legal Articles | Tags: TORT OF PASSING-OFF

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 ...
August 22nd, 2011 | 4,564 views | 3 Comments »
Posted in Category: Legal Articles | Tags: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDIA, Domestic Violence Act 2005, Domestic Violence’, NCRB, National Crime Records Bureau, The Protection Of Women From Domestic Violence Act 2005, bride burning, child marriages, domestic violence against women, foeticide, forced marriages, infanticide, medical neglect, prostitution, rapes, sexual abuse of girl child, sexual harassment

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 ...
August 18th, 2011 | 262 views | 2 Comments »
Posted in Category: Advocates & Judges News, Legal Articles, Legal News | Tags: Advocates Act, Bar Council of India, Law Minister Salman Khurshid, bar councils, foreign law firms, foreign law firms through back door

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. ...
August 17th, 2011 | 947 views | 2 Comments »
Posted in Category: Corporate & Commercial Law, Legal Articles | Tags: ADVANTAGES OF THE DOCTRINE OF JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS, AUTHORITATIVE OR BINDING PRECEDENT, BINDING PRECEDENT, DISADVANTAGES OF THE DOCTRINE OF JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS, JUDICIAL PRECEDENTS, Judicial methods, PERSUASIVE PRECEDENT, STARE DECISIS, common law, original precedent, precedent, statute 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 ...
August 12th, 2011 | 2,120 views | 1 Comment »
Posted in Category: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Legal Articles | Tags: Attestation of the ‘Will’, Bequeath In A ‘Will’, Codicil, Execution of A ‘Will’, General Procedure To Make A ‘Will’, Hindu Law (Hindus Personal Law), Indian Registration Act 1908, Indian Succession Act 1925, Involuntary Revocation, Muslim Law (Muslims Personal Law), Privileged ‘Wills, Probate, Registration of ‘Wills’, Revocation of ‘Wills’, Statutes Relating To ‘Wills’, Unprivileged Wills, Voluntary Revocation, WILL, Wasiyat, ‘WILL’ UNDER INDIAN LAW, ‘Wills’ By Muslims Under ‘Mohammedan Law’:

“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 ...
August 12th, 2011 | 159 views | No Comments »
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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 ...
August 7th, 2011 | 256 views | No Comments »
Posted in Category: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Legal Articles | Tags: Arguments against Patenting, Arguments in Favour of Patenting, Copyright, European Patent Office, Indian Patents Act 1970, Innovation in Softwares, Patent, Patent of Inventions, Patents, Patents (Amendment) Act 1999, Patents (Amendment) Act 2002, Patinformatics, Protection of Softwares, TRIPS, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Trademarks, World Intellectual Property Organization, article on IPR, article on Patent