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Author: Joysree Das, Student at Presidency University, Bengaluru, Karnataka. ABSTRACT According to John Austin, “Law is the aggregate set of rules set by a man as politically superior or sovereign to men, as political subjects.” According to Hans Kelsen, “Law is a normative science.” Thus, there are different definitions of the term ‘law’ given by various philosophers and jurists. In simple terms, law can be defined as a set of…
Author: Shriya Santosh Awale, Student at ILS Law College, Pune. INTRODUCTION Most of the countries in the world guarantee the ‘Right to Religion’ to its citizen. This right presumes special importance in a multi-religious country like India. India owes religious diversity where religion is a volatile issue and religious conversions make it more volatile. The Government has enacted various anti-conversions laws with the sole purpose of preventing forceful, coercive, and…
Author: Hardik Bansal, Student at National Law University, Lucknow. INTRODUCTION Latin maxims are an important and a very integral part of the legal system throughout and in all parts of the world. They have been developed after years of observation and different developments both ideologically as well as theoretically. They are utilised in the ambit of every kind of law be it local, state level, national level or even at…
Author: Rashmi Bansal, Student at Banasthali Vidyapith. INTRODUCTION: Surrogacy in simplest term, a husband and wife want a child and in today’s society women don’t want to go through pregnancy just because it affects their body, their lifestyle, the comfort zone, etc. and now it is too common in developed countries as well as in India too. they do not go for pregnancy on their own rather they for a…
Author: Savio P Xavier, Student at NMIMS School of Law, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. Co-Author: Lenna Joshy, Student at Government Law College Thrissur, Kerala. INTRODUCTION The problem of intestate succession to a hindu female got some importance before 1956 because in the majority of the cases only a limited interest in property was enjoyed by women back then. Even though few exceptions existed, mostly known as stridhana as described in Shatri…
Author: Lenna Joshy, Student at Government Law College Thrissur, Kerala. Co-Author: Savio P Xavier, Student at NMIMS, Navi Mumbai. Shockingly such calls have been a new trend at various non-profit organizations amid this lockdown period in India. At this crucial time when the world was toiling this unprecedented situation named COVID-19, India witnessed a surgical rise in the cases of domestic violence. Violence against women is so deeply embedded in…
Author: Megha M, Student at Kerala Law Academy, Thiruvananthapuram. Government of India banned 59 Chinese applications on 29th June 2020 citing data security and national sovereignty concerns. The Centre has blocked these apps through its Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology invoking its powers under section 69A of Information Technology Act ,2000. Border tensions have been rising between the two countries since early May 2020 leading to the first violent…
Author : Shrutimanjari Singh, Student at KIIT School of Law. ABSTRACT Tort is also known as an unliquidated damage, a wrongful act, a civil wrong and a breach of legal right just like the breach of contract or trust. If A and B are in a contract and as a breach of contract on the part of A, injuries B, then A has a tortious liability with regards to B.…
Author: Surbhi Ranjan, Student at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Legal Studies, Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan. INTRODUCTION Trial can be defined as a formal review of evidences by a judge, usually before a jury, for the purpose of determining guilt in criminal or civil cases. Or else can be defined as a judicial review and assessment of facts and legal issues that arise between parties to a civil or criminal action. Media…
Author: Shriya Awale, Student at ILS Law College, Pune. INTRODUCTION “The real Swaraj will come not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of capacity by the all to resist authority when abused.”[1] – Mahatma Gandhi When Mr.Gandhi stated this he may not have imagined that one day India would have to make a law to empower people for something as basic as seeking information…