Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug vs Union of India (2011) Does a terminally ill person have the right to hasten his/her death by asking for either his medical treatment to be withdrawn or for a lethal injection to be administered to end his/her suffering? After the case of Aruna Shanbaug, the position of euthanasia in India is
Madras High Court Chief Justice V K Tahilramani is all set to resign after she was transferred to Meghalaya High Court. It is unlikely that a judge from a bigger High Court is transferred to a smaller High Court. At the dinner with her colleagues, she announced her decision to quit. The Decision to transfer
In a major decision, the Bar Council of India considering the rapid increase in the number of law colleges in India have unanimously decided to stop giving affiliation to new law colleges from the academic year 2019-20. The decision was taken in the meeting on 11th August 2019 and announced through a Press Release. The
What if one day while you’re surfing the internet, you find an indecent image of your minor relative going viral? Or what if you being a minor, find a photo you sent to a specific person, not to be shared with anyone else but him/her, going viral on the internet? With the development of new
Have you ever caught a man in a public place, staring at you and masturbating? Is the desire to avoid being masturbated to a constant thrum of thought? Did you say yes? Well, every victim would, because we live in a society where people in their chaotic households try to find a quiet corner to do
This incident popularly known as the ‘Kathua Rape Case’ where a nomadic minor girl was kidnapped on January 10, 2018, and allegedly gang raped in captivity in a small village temple in Kathua district of the state of Jammu and Kashmir after being kept sedated for four days was followed by a massive nationwide outrage. The mutilated
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR; known in some countries, such as India, as external dispute resolution) includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. It is a collective term for the ways that parties can settle disputes, with (or without) the help
When a Company fails, the standard of the audit is often called into question. The Auditors are then called into question that they allowed inappropriate accounting treatments and their independence has been compromised, because either they have become too close to the Company they are auditing (the “familiarity” threat) or, more directly, because their objectivity
On 19 July 2019, lawyers Menaka Guruswamy and Arundhati Katju acclaimed their relationship as a couple. They came out together after the historical judgment of Supreme Court in 2018 decriminalized Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. Menaka Guruswamy is a lawyer by profession. She is a Rhodes Scholar who has an LLM degree from
The Central Government lately appointed new Governors for Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Nagaland, Tripura and West Bengal. Senior Advocate Jagdeep Dhankhar has been appointed as the new Governor of West Bengal. He will replace Mr. Keshari Nath Tripathi who was the Bengal Governor since 2014. A communiqué from the Rashtrapati Bhavan said, “The above
