Category: Blog
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Foreign Direct Investment in Retail: II
By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. SEGMENT 2 This write-up seeks to examine the economic progress made by the country in the field of FDI in retail. This article seeks to examine the socio-economic constraints in introducing FDI in Retail in India. Also the impact that FDI has on the Indian Sub-continent particularly its markets will be…
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Extent of validity of Non-Compete Clause in India
By Apoorva Mandhani, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. A clause in an employment agreement that restrains an employee from working with a competitor or carrying out a competing business is called a Non-Compete clause. An agreement in restraint of trade has been defined as “one in which a party agrees with any other party to restrict his liberty…
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Railways and Privatisation: FDI is the Name of the Game
By Neelanjana Paul, KLE Society’s Law College, Bangalore. Understanding Privatisation and FDI The economy of India had undergone significant policy shifts in the beginning of the 1990s. This new model of economic reforms is commonly known as the LPG or Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation model. The primary objective of this model was to make the economy of…
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Saradha Scam: A Critical Analysis
By Mula Sneha Goud, JSS Law College, Mysore. Limited access to formal banking system has made room for another scam. The greed for money and limited knowledge on banking has created a web of informal banking, by moneylenders. However failure to curb the role of these moneylenders and mitigate informal systems gave rise to devious…
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CRPF Act & Rules: The voyage that lost its way in the sea
By Apoorva Mandhani, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Early History The premier armed force for internal security of the Union of India, the Central Reserve Police Force was initially constituted as the Crown Representative Police in 1939. It holds the distinction of being one of the oldest Central Para Military Force. CRPF was raised as an…
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Judicial Supremacy vs. Parliament: Why NJAC is better than the Collegium System
By Sanya Darakhshan Kishwar, Central University of Bihar, Gaya. ANALYSING WHAT COLLEGIUM IS It is a system under which appointments and transfers of judges are decided by a forum of the Chief Justice of India and the four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court. It has no place in the Indian Constitution. [1] What does the…
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Foreign Direct Investment in India: I
By Aashna Jain, National Law University, Jodhpur. SEGMENT 1 FDI in Defence- Recent Development It was December 2014 and the debate on the topic of FDI in Defence got heated up. “The biggest and the most immediate fallout from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States should be this: India allows 100 per…
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Uber Case: A Critical Analysis
By Archit Gupta, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. A woman was allegedly raped by the driver of a cab she had booked using the app based tax service, Uber[i]in Delhi. Uber is one of those smart app radio taxi services which have given new way of traveling for Indian women. These services are generally considered…
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Analysis of the Xiaomi Injunction Case
By Ahona Chakrabarty, KIIT School Of Law, Bhubaneswar. This case relates to an application filed by a company called Ericsson against a Chinese company called Xiaomi. The case is being heard in the Hon’ble High Court at Delhi and recently the Court has passed an injunction order on the defendants, which by another order has…