On the process of criminal prosecution for offences under the IBC and the problems created by the NCLAT judgment in Amtek case.. “YOUR WORD IS YOUR HONOUR. IF YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO DO SOMETHING, THEN YOU NEED TO DO IT.” Joyce meyer While honour and morality guide the higher man, for everyone else…
Books have meant different things to me – at different points of time in my life. At times, I’ve read to understand and interpret the world. On others, to simply impress and charm. I’ve also read – sometimes – to experience otherness and with a genuine desire to know what it means to be somebody…
A great conversation with Beyond Law CLC team and young lawyers/law students from P&H, and across the country on issues relating to White Collar Crime (WCC) defence. The conversation ranged from : What really is ‘White Collar Crime’? and the criminology behind it, to a brief overview of principles of corporate criminal liability and salient features of…
First published on Bar and Bench A call from the High Court is a big thing, whoever and wherever one is – in life. Especially when you are a 25-year-old Magistrate, and it is your parent High Court. It fills you with excitement and dread. One late afternoon, during my stint as a Magistrate at Dwarka Courts,…
I distinctly remember. This was 2011. This was one of my first mandates, as a freshly minted 21 year old lawyer. I read and prepared for days. The research was reasonably good. I also had a proper speech in place. The speech had a beginning, a middle, and an end; it was also full of…
Well, they are not. Supreme Court says so in the very lucidly written – State of Jharkhand & Ors v. Brahmputra Mettalics Ltd. Ranchi & Another (2020 SCC OnLine SC 968) that all students of administrative and civil law should absolutely read. The occasion to clarify this arose in a case where a company (let’s…
Had a great time chatting with Debosmita Nandy (MentorSpeak), who, btw, is doing an extraordinary job helping law students/young lawyers navigate the profession better. A free-wheeling conversation on books, reading law, justice, writing, publishing legal columns, life of a young judge, partner-ing at a law firm, counsel practice, and a lot more……
This is a guest post by Sushant Kumar (undergraduate student at Dr. RML National Law University, Lucknow) Section 357 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) replaced its predecessor, Section 545 of the erstwhile Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898, based on the recommendations of the Law Commission (41st Report). An important distinction was that the…
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Bharat Chugh 