Cross Examination-: Cross examination is a part of the trial process in which the witness called by the one’s opponent is examined. AN INTRODUCTION TO CROSS-EXAMINATION Purposes of Cross-Examination The first decision to make is whether you should even cross-examine a witness. In order to make that decision, you must know what you want to […]

At a time when it is the norm to seek legal opinion prior to taking a decision, theSupreme Court has come to the rescue oflawyers by ruling that they cannot be prosecuted for rendering wrong advice if there is no link between them and perpetrators of a fraud or offence. But the court said the advocate’s opinion […]

1.0 INTRODUCTION  All of us know what estoppel is. I first heard about it when I was reading section 28 of the Partnership Act, 1932 which provides that a person holding out to an outsider providing credit to the firm is estopped from pleading that he is not a partner when circumstances indicated that he so […]

Dowry Death and Indian Families.     In today Indian society dowry is like a norm, we see that people spend lavishly on marriages. The root cause of the problem starts from here, The parents of the bride fulfil all the wishes of groom’s family like spending lavishly on wedding, gifting cars etc. when the […]

  The domestic violence act hereinafter referred as dv act which was incorporated in the year 2005, The main purpose of this act is to prevent woman only woman from domestic violence, from the bare reading of the definition of the act we can see that the term “aggrieved person” includes only women, means only […]

    Since the inception of our constitution there have been doubts, vagueness about various provisions which are embodied in our constitution and supreme court has played a very significant role in interpreting these vague provisions and filling the void. And one of the most controversial provision was amendment of the constitution. The Amendment of […]

The Critical Analysis of Novartis V Cipla Case Verdict by Supreme Court. In a landmark judgment that has the potential to change the direction of India’s pharmaceutical business, The Supreme Court denied that the drug Glivec  manufactured by the pharma giant Novartis is qualified for getting patent in India. A Brief about the Facts in Issue […]

As the scope of Internet is expanding day by day and more and more businesses are moving on the internet. sites like www.ebay.com, www.facebook.com, www.gmail.cometc. Have earned lot of reputation and are identifiable by their domain name then by any other trademark. While trademark is for physical world, domain names are the trademarks in the virtual domain. However […]

Attempt comes under sec 511 of IPC.   There are 4 stages of crime:   1.Intention. 2.Preparation. 3.Attempt. 4.Commissioning of a crime.   So law does not recognizes any crime in forming an intention and to some extent prepratio,for preparation only preparation like raging war against nation (sec 122) and other criminal acts related to […]

Condonation of Delay in case Appeals Section 5 of the Limitation deals with condonation of delay in case of appeal. Since the limitation period for appeals is very short, this section is then introduced to meet the end of justice such that the purpose of justice is not defeated merely because there is “sufficient cause” […]