October 2024

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Incentivising Murder? The Unintended Consequences of the Aparajita Bill

/ Blog, Criminal Law and Justice, Featured Posts /

Introduction The Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill, 2024 (“Aparajita Bill”) is a legislative response to the brutal rape and murder of a trainee doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata and the uproar that followed it. Passed unanimously in the West Bengal Assembly, the bill introduces significant […]

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Understanding Parties Intention Beyond Contracts: Incorporation of Arbitration Agreements via Reference

/ Blog, Arbitration, Contract, Featured Posts /

Introduction As a process centered around party autonomy, the consent of the parties plays a pivotal role in Arbitration. In furtherance of that, we must ask ourselves, does the previous conduct of parties supersede and override present consent and intention to arbitrate or not? This issue is particularly significant in the context of Section 7(5)

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Ticket Scalping Fiasco: Need for a change in the Law

/ Blog, Competition Law, Featured Posts, Uncategorised /

Introduction Concerts are a great way to relieve oneself but recently concerts have opened new avenues for hoarding, black-marketing and reselling of tickets as a large scale. On 22nd September’ 2024, Coldplay announced its concert scheduled in India next year and the tickets for the albeit initially being sold in the price range of 2,500

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Constitutional Rights vs Heatwave Reality- Are HAPs Enough?

/ Blog, Climate Justice, Featured Posts, Healthcare /

Introduction “We do not have a Planet-B.” Justice Anoop Kumar Dhand gave this statement while passing a reportable order in Re: Save the Planet Earth and the Future Generation of this Universe. The idea brings to the forefront the dire need to preserve the only home we can live in. Suo-moto cognisance is needed when

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In Defence Of The Proposed Ex-Ante Competition Law Reforms In India – An Attention Economy Perspective

/ Competition Law, Antitrust Law, Featured Posts /

Introduction After much anticipation, the draft of India’s ex-ante competition law reforms targeted towards preventing and remedying anti-competitive practices in big tech is finally out. This piece, post an in-depth analysis, offers a defence of the same, from a perspective of attention economy. Attention Economy The attention economy refers to the management of human attention

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