VALIDITY OF SEDITION LAW IN INDIA VIS-A-VIS RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION: AN OVERVIEW
Author:- Daksh Jain, Research Assistant, All India Legal Forum ABSTRACT The laws pertaining to sedition in India were established by the colonial regime in its attempt to nullify and prevent the freedom movement and liberation by curbing their rights to the freedom of free speech and expression. The Sedition law mandated under the auspices of…
THE LAST WISH: FREEDOM TO DISSENT AND MEDIA OF KERALA UNION WORKING JOURNALISTS
Author:- Jigisha Khunteta Every journalist dream of being a part of the most breaking headlines, and recently the government and courts are doing a great job in fulfilling the same, except in the worst way possible. The present case of Kerala Union of Working Journalists v. Union of India & Ors. dealt with two aspects…
MODEL TENANCY ACT 2021: A WAY TO CREATE EFFECTIVE RENTAL MARKETPLACE
Author:- Vivek Mahajan, Research Assistant All India Legal Forum A Model Tenancy Act (MTA) 2021, which intends to make rent regulations more equal for both landlord and tenant and streamline the rental transaction, has been approved by the union government after years of planning and drafting. To meet the Pradhan Mantri Aawas Yojana’s goal of…
ROLE OF JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM IN INDIA
Author:- Aayushi Kashyap, Senior Associate, All India Legal Forum A youngster under the age of 18 is referred to as a juvenile. India is a country under development. These days, there are more juvenile offences. In order to offer care, protection, treatment, development, and rehabilitation to neglected or delinquent youngsters, Parliament created the Juvenile Justice…
Principle of Resjudicata Under Civil Procedure Code, 1908
Author:- Himanshu Ranjan, Senior Associate, All India Legal Forum Introduction The doctrine of Res judicata is ancient and historical worldwide. When we talk about that in India, the Civil procedure code 1908 under section 11 has defined the principle of Res judicata. After that, the administrative law accepted it. Similarly, the Indian legal system covered…
E-Rupi: A New Digital Payment Solution for Commercial Transaction
Author:- Shivam Pandey, Research Assistant, All India Legal Forum Introduction Since the COVID-19 outbreak, our country has seen a massive change in day-to-day life transactions and introduced cashless transactions to many of the citizens of our country which was initiated by our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. The UPI, Digital Banking, and different types of…
Enforceabilty of Smart Contracts in India: An Overview
Author:- Advait Panda, Associate, All India Legal Forum A legal expert and cryptographer named Nick Szabo discovered in 1994 that smart contracts, which are essentially self-executing contracts and ensure the performance of virtual agreements through blockchain technology to provide a hassle-free contract execution, could use the decentralised nature of cryptography. The distinguishing feature of blockchain…
Critical Overview of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020: Proportionality Between Religious Conversion and Privacy
Authors:- Himanshu Ranjan, Senior Associate, All India Legal Forum & Anwesh Sarangi, General Administrator, All India Legal Forum Introduction In a layman’s language, the meaning of the word ‘conversion’ is the act of changing from one form to another. ‘Unlawful Conversion’ refers to a conversion that is done without following the due course of law.…
Critical Reflections on The International Humanitarian Law in OPT
Author:- Himanshu Ranjan, Senior Associate, All India Legal Forum I shall confine my brief thoughts on the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) to the Court’s treatment of international humanitarian law (IHL) in general, and…
Enforcement of Arbitration Award via Insolvency Proceedings: Analysis of Indian Scenario
Author : – Vishal Vaibhav Singh, Associate, All India Legal Forum In India, a bankruptcy situation is not regarded as arbitrable since it involves the rights of other parties. Numerous judicial decisions, such as Swiss Ribbons Private Limited v. Union of India, P. Anand Gajapati Raju v. PVG Raju, and Booz Allen and Hamilton v.…
Trips Waiver for Covid-19 Vaccines: A Debate of Covid Vaccine Equity
Author : – Ayushi Kashyap, Senior Associate, All India Legal Forum COVID-19 a pandemic, or a precarious name on everybody’s lips at the age of 2020-21. Suddenly arises from the dust and leave everything behind in the dust. In that abysmal situation no one knows or dares to even glance at the light of life,…
Contempt of Court for Meddling in Judiciary for Media Trial: Bombay HC; Sushant Singh’s Case
Author- Ayushi Kashyap, Senior Associate, All India Legal Forum In this instance, the lawsuit is based on the period of Covid 19 when the nation was experiencing unspeakable chaos, as the blood bath of innocent peoples and some were suffering from mental anguish. The result landed as incredibly stressful environment across the whole wide world.…
Russia’s Non-Compliance Stance Regarding the ICJ Decision
Author- Gaston Ignacio Vionnet Perez Since February 24th, 2022; the Russian Federation began the second wave of “Special military operations”, as stated by Putin; to continue its annexation process under the façade of the liberation of two “subjugated republics” within Ukraine. Russian law specialists founded this stance on aggression on the existence of a Genocide…
Judiciary & Accountability: Critical Assessment of Penumbra of Collegium in India
Author: Aayush Akar Co-Author: Aditya Gautam & Advait Panda On November 4, Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju spoke out against the collegium system, which calls for the Chief Justice of India (CJI) to meet with the senior-most judges before appointing justices to the high courts and the Supreme Court. According to reports,…
Completion of 2.5 years of All India Legal Forum: Beginning of a New Innings
Swami Vivekananda’s success mantra was to “take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way…
Conspectus of Transformative Constitutionalism in India: Analysis via EWS ruling
Author: Ayush Akar Co-Author: Himanshu Ranjan The question of the indefinite continuation of reservation has arisen in the recent case of Janhit Abhiyan v. Union of India. While Supreme Court recognised the EWS quota, the major focus of the judgment focussed towards transformative constitutionalism. Hon’ble Justice Trivedi rightly pointed out towards the revisit of the…
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