I. Introduction The SEBI Circular of June 26, 2025, requiring Industry Standards to have minimum information to be disclosed to the Audit Committee and shareholders to authorize related party transactions, has revived the interest in the structure of the shareholder approvals and the responsiveness requirements of that approval. In the modern world, omnibus approvals, i.e., […]
Introduction and Position of Interventions in ICJ Proceedings Hitherto The interventions before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have historically been rare, treated more as an exception than a norm. The ICJ Statute allows it in two narrow circumstances. Under Article 63, any State party to the treaty under interpretation may intervene and present its
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Introduction The Karnataka High Court’s recent decision in X Corp. (formerly Twitter) v. Union of India has thrust India’s digital regulation framework into the constitutional spotlight. At the centre of the litigation is the Sahyog Portal, launched in October 2024 as an online system to centralise government takedown requests to intermediaries. The court upheld Sahyog,
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Introduction The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act”) is India’s first dedicated data privacy law. The Act applies only to digital personal data, leaving out other categories of data from its ambit. However, even in this limited category, the meaning of personal data is not entirely clear. Section 2(t) of the act defines
Introduction The fundamental purpose of copyright law is the protection of original expressions of ideas, stemming from principles of fair play. But copyright law is not restricted to just such protections. It also involves a bargain between the need to foster innovation by incentivising the producers of intellectual property, and the interests of the public
Introduction: The Everyday Struggle for Justice In the courtroom, it is often seen the silent fatigue on the face of a woman waiting for her maintenance order, sometimes clutching her child’s hand, sometimes sitting alone with eyes fixed on the floor. For her, justice is not an abstract principle, it is the means to secure
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If you follow India’s capital markets, you know it’s a constant balancing act. On one side, you have the drive to grow, innovate, and attract big money. On the other, you have the absolute need to protect everyday investors and keep the system fair. The market regulator, SEBI, lives on this tightrope. And on September
Introduction Novel accountability and liability questions, as the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes a new reality, have become important issues to be addressed. One such possibility lies in the area of taxation. Numbers, Data, Filing, and Compliance are a few of the myriad terms when one talks about taxation, coincidentally, most of them collide
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From Cinemas to OTT: The Shift and the Legal Gap With technological advancement, the world has shifted from traditional television and cinema to the digital medium of OTT (over-the-top) platforms providing video-on-demand services and publishing online curated content. The increasing access to these platforms by users and their effect on society have compelled the government
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Introduction Recently, approximately 1.5 million regular users of the mental health chatbot ‘Woebot’ were confronted with the platform’s termination. Founder Alison Darcy cited regulatory hurdles coupled with the immense disparity between the pace at which Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) and legal frameworks are evolving as reasons for Woebot’s discontinuation. While accessibility and timely responses are being
