By: Pranav Tanwar & Saurabh Pandey “Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey’s end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth”. … Continue reading DNA Technology Regulation Bill, 2018: Prospective Issues and Challenges
By: Ahkam Khan & Alok Chaurasia In this final part of this editorial series, the authors explain the arguments presented by the parties objecting to the deal. The post seeks to analyse the merits in the arguments raised against the acquisition and tries to find out their validity while highlighting the effects that the combination is likely to have on the Indian retail industry. INTRODUCTION: … Continue reading Understanding the Walmart-Flipkart Deal: Part III (Pondering Over the Arguments Against the Acquisition)
By: Ahkam Khan & Alok Chaurasia In Part I of this editorial series, the authors had explained the business model of the two parties to the acquisition. Based on the model, the CCI had observed that the parties had a certain degree of horizontal overlap with respect to their operations. However, it concluded that a vertical overlap was not possible due to restrictions on Walmart … Continue reading Understanding the Walmart-Flipkart Deal: Part II (CCI’s Evaluation of the Acquisition)
By: Ahkam Khan & Alok Chaurasia This blog post is the first in the forthcoming 3-part editorial series concerning the Walmart-Flipkart deal. In the first post, the authors seek to analyse the parties to the deal, their business models, and restrictions on foreign players under India’s FDI policy. INTRODUCTION Over the last few years, the struggle to secure consumer market has intensified with big corporations … Continue reading Understanding the Walmart-Flipkart Deal: Part I (Parties and their Business Models)
By: Sudipto Hambir INTRODUCTION In July 2018, the Law Commission of India Report No. 276[1] recommended that sports betting, where the outcome majorly depends upon the skill of the participants, should be legalised. Fantasy sports have evolved with the emergence of Daily Fantasy Sports (hereinafter ‘DFS’) games in the recent times. The future of sports betting in India relies vastly on how the nation reacts to … Continue reading A Game of Blatant Luck? – An Analysis of ‘Skill’ Element in Fantasy Sports Games in India
By: Saranya Mishra INTRODUCTION Fédération Internationale de Football Association (hereinafter ‘FIFA’) was established in 1904, under Swiss law,[1] as a body to oversee the competitions of “the beautiful game”,[2] football, among the national associations (member countries) of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Today it has 211 associations,[3] which almost makes it the “United Nations of Football”[4]. FIFA World Cup like other … Continue reading FIFA, Russia and Human Rights
By: Rishabha Meena INTRODUCTION The issue here is with regard to the legality of the tariff imposed by the United States on imported washing machines and solar cells. It is inconsistent with the Agreement on Safeguards (hereinafter ‘AoS’) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 1994 (hereinafter ‘GATT’). The Agreement on Safeguards and Article XIX of GATT deal with the application of safeguard measures … Continue reading Is Imposition of Tariffs by the U.S. on Imported Washing Machines and Solar Panels Legal?
By: Vani Kaushik INTRODUCTION The general principle followed in the law of limitation is that the limitation commences from the earliest possible time a suit can be instituted.[1] However, an exception to this is laid down under section 23 of the Limitation Act, 1963 (hereinafter ‘the Act’), which states that where there exists no independent cause of action, the limitation starts running from the time … Continue reading Harmonious Construction of Sections 22 and 23 of the Limitation Act, 1963
By: Ayush Chaddha Under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (hereinafter ‘COPRA’), home buyers are regarded as consumers, thereby providing the remedy to approach the consumer court in case of a default by the builder in the delivery of the real estate project. Over the years, home buyers had the remedy exclusively under COPRA and were treated at par with consumers of other goods and services. … Continue reading Evolution of the Status of a Home Buyer: Consumer Protection Act, 1986 to Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Amendment) Ordinance, 2018
By: Chitresh Baheti & Krati Sharma “Subtitling conventions are not set in stone and only time will tell whether these fansub conventions are just a mere fleeting fashion or whether they will… become the seed of a new type of subtitling for the digital space.” – Diaz Cintas and Munoz Sanchez, 2006 Audio-visual translation represents an area where the tussle between the professional norms and … Continue reading Fan Subbing: The Void of Speaking in Subtitles
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