Month: April 2018
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Creating a Safe Work Environment –Best Practices to Deal with Sexual Harassment at Workplace
“Giving women equal rights and entire nations are more stable and secure. Deny women equal rights, and the instability of nation is certain.” -HILLARY CLINTON INTRODUCTION The very Indian Constitution provides right to equality to both women and men. Women have equal right to choose any profession and area of work or business activity.…
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Patent on Human Embryonic Stem Cells: A Critical Legal Study
“As time and science move forward, the law struggles to keep pace while, at the same time, resisting change in order to maintain stability.”[1] Human embryonic stem cells (HES cells) is the most sensational discussed topic in present form not only by the biologists who discovered them but also by the medical professional, media, ethicists,…
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What will prevail: The Fundamental Right to choose a Life Partner or Honour Killing?
The recent judgement by the Supreme Court in the case of Shakti Vahini vs Union of India comes with an air of finality on the proposition which has lingered over for long. The NGO had approached the court to seek remedy in cases of honour killings wherein the three-judge bench emphatically stated that the fundamental…
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Revised Framework on Resolution of Stressed Assets dated February 12, 2018
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) vide its notification bearing ref. no. DBR.No.BP.BC.101/21.04.048/2017-18 dated February 12, 2018 (Revised Framework) brought into effect a new framework with a view to early identification and resolution of stressed assets in harmonisation with the principles of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). Withdrawal of extant instructions With the notification…
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Analysing the Judicial Development of Privacy Law
Right to Privacy was never incorporated in the Indian Constitution nor has been provided by any Ordinary law in India. The Judicial interpretations, as well as the development of the law, has led to the emergence of this right, which remains ambiguous till date. Privacy still remains as subjective as it can be comprehended by…
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Impact of Non-constitutional Decision Making Bodies on Women
Unlike various constitutional bodies such as UPSC, Finance Commission, National Commission for Women, etc. a non-constitutional body does not find its name in the Constitution of India hence it doesn’t derive any power from the Constitution of India. There are various non-constitutional decision-making bodies in India which are not even statutory bodies, but they have…
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