Death due to delay in reaching hospital caused by road blockage; MP HC directs compensation and appreciates Law Student who won the PIL [Read Order]

“We also appreciate the valiant effort made by a student of law as a responsible citizen of Indore and also make a request to the general public that such negligence should not re-occur and it should be more sensitive to the critical cases of such nature and priority should be given to such patients in the traffic”.In a Public Interest Litigation filed by Shri Abhishek Gilke, a law student from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyala, Indore praying compensation from various authorities of the state...

Symbiosis Law School, Pune wins the 2nd IIT Law School National Moot Court Competition

The second edition of the IIT Law School National Moot Court Competition was held at the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur from 6th Nov to 8th Nov 2015. The objective of the competition was to introduce law students to important issues arising in Intellectual Property Rights Litigation. This year the Moot preposition was primarily based on contemporary copyright and digital rights questions of law.Thirty Law Schools from across the country...

The 1st KIIT National Conference on International Law

The International Law Society of School of Law along with School of Law, KIIT University and International Law Students Association (ILSA) is organizing 1st KIIT National Conference on International Law from 15th TO 17th January, 2016. The everyday newspaper is filled up with issues which need to be discussed by the young minds. Keeping this in mind, the International Law Society at KIIT School of Law is organizing the   Conference with the intent to provide the young generation with a platform...

NALSAR Hyderabad wIns the 9th Pro Bono Enviro’ National Moot Court Competition

Recently The School of Excellence in Law, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai in association with the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board organized the 9th Pro Bono Enviro’ National Moot Court Competition  from 30th October to 1st November 2015 in which team from NALSAR, University of Law, Hyderabad won the competition and RMLNLU, Lucknow finished up as runners up.Twenty four teams from all over India participated in the competition. The competition was judged by sitting judges from...

Food Panda India alleged to be levying inflated VAT: Delhi HC directs investigation on NLU Delhi Students’ Petition

The Delhi High Court Single Bench, Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, in a Writ Petition filed by two law students directed the Delhi government to investigate the charges levelled against Food Panda India Ltd., one of the leading food market-place in India, that the latter was levying an overstated Value Added Tax on customers using its services.The petitioners Pranav Jain and Aroon Menon who are final year students at National Law University, Delhi are the founders of the website www.kitnatax.com...

Prof. V.K. Unni becomes first Indian, IP academician to receive Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship

Prof. V.K. Unni, Associate Professor at the Public Policy and Management Group of IIM Calcutta has become the first Indian IP academician to receive the prestigious Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship 2016-17 from the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP) at George Mason University School of Law, Virginia, USA.The fellowship is a year-long non-resident fellowship program that brings together a group of IP scholars who will develop research papers on patent law and policy. It...

Mooters Speaking ; In Conversation with Best Speaker of 9th Edition of NALSAR’s The B. R. Sawhny Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2015

The 9th Edition of NALSAR 's flagship moot The B. R. Sawhny Memorial Moot Court Competition is one the prestigious Moot Court competition in India. The finals rounds were on 4th October, 2015. In this moot competition were 71 teams registered and only 32 teams were selected through memorial elimination.Final round was judged by experienced Senior Counsels like Mr. D. Prakash Reddy, Mr. L Ravi Chander, Mr. P. Sree Raghuram, Mr. Raghunandan Rao and Mr. S. Niranjan Reddy.The team comprising of...

In Conversation with Jasdeep Randhawa, Lawyer and Public Policy Analyst with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme

Jasdeep Randhawa is a Lawyer and Public Policy Analyst with the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) in Nairobi, Kenya.  She has previously consulted for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Government of India, the World Bank, Gates Foundation, and the Water Security Initiative at Harvard. She has also served as a Law Clerk in the Supreme Court of India and as a Judicial Marshal in the High Court of Hong Kong. In 2013, she represented India as...

A Decade of Right to Information Act in India: Reflections and Perspectives for Good Governance

“From being always overpowered, he actually felt powerful.”                                                                                    -Mr. Shailesh GandhiIntroductionIn the backdrop of slogans like “Hamara paisa, Hamara hisab” and “Ham Janenge, Ham Jiyenge”, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (Association for the Empowerment of Workers and Peasants), a People`s Organisation undertook the bold initiative to arouse the common people about their right to seek information which eventually led...

NLU Bhopal wins the Amity International Moot Court Competition 2015

Amity Law School Noida recently organized the Amity International Moot 2015, an E-Moot to show support for our honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative of Digital India in which The National Law Institute University, Bhopal bagged the competition and Army Institute of Law Mohali finished up as Runners Up.38 teams from across the Country including an international team from Nepal participated in the competition. Out of which teams from Army Institute of Law Mohali, Rajiv Gandhi...

Law Students highlight inconsistency of Delhi High Court RTI Rules with the RTI Act

In a representation made to Delhi High Court Chief Justice G. Rohini, four law students Aastha Sharma, Ishwin Mehta, Paras Jain and Kumar Shanu have highlighted the inconsistency of the Delhi High Court's RTI rules with the Right to Information Act, 2005. The students have claimed that the discrepancies and incompatibility have worked against the purported objective of the Right to Information Act, denying access to information and affecting Fundamental Rights of citizens.Rule 10 of the High...

Institute of Law, Nirma University wins the NALSAR Justice Bodh Raj Sawhny Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2015

NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, in association with Justice Bodh Raj Sawhny Memorial Trust, recently organized the NALSAR Justice Bodh Raj Sawhny Memorial Moot Court Competition, 2015 from October 1 to October, 4 , 2015 in which the winning trophy was bagged by the Institute of Law, Nirma University and School of Law, Sastra University finished up as runners up.Out of 71 registered teams, 32 teams participated in the final rounds. The final round of the competition was judged and presided...