AIB First Draft Writing Test Name: Rudrajyoti Nath Ray Email ID: rudrajyoti.ray@gmail.com City: New Delhi Date of Birth:05.02.1986 We are giving you five characters. A sweet old lady. A corrupt cop. A brave little girl. A good hearted dwarf. A romantic soldier. Imagine a feature film with any three as your principal characters. Write an outline […]
Read more "All India Bakchod, First Draft"In Aurobindo Ashram v. R. Ramanathan, [Civil Appeal No. 12 of 2016] Respondents alleged, Appellant Ashram failed to take any positive action to prohibit the availability of The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. They even assisted Peter Hees in getting a visa for his continued stay in India. Whether or not ‘The Lives of Sri Aurobindo‘ is […]
Read more "The Lives of Sri Aurobindo"Trivia 1: There is an irony in the name Franz Oberhauser. Franz, the half-brother of Bond, is the one who stays in the ‘other house’, the Oberhaus, the house other than Skyfall. Trivia 2: Growing up, what did Bond have for breakfast? Do we have a definitive scene of James Bond eating? He has ordered […]
Read more "James, James Bond"Hon’ble Justice Vikramajit Sen turns 65 on the last day of this year and retires duly. I shall forever associate him with ‘precedents’. What binds and what holds is a recurrent theme in several of his Judgments. Rashmi Metaliks, (2013) 10 SCC 95: SC often has to “face lengthy arguments in each case because of the […]
Read more "Sen J I"Recently, SC, while imposing exemplary costs of Rs. 10,00,000/- (Rupees Ten Lakhs) on Industrialist-Appellant, in Vijay Mallya v. Enforcement Directorate, [Criminal Appeal No. 1406 of 2009], quoted Anatole France. The famous words of Anatole: “The law in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in […]
Read more "Anatole France"In Hemlata Singh v. Collector [MANU/UC/0315/2008], Hon’ble Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia [High Court of Uttarakhand] notes, “Chutzpah is a remarkable expression in Hebrew. Chutzpah is said to happen when a man kills his mother and father and then asks for clemency on the ground that he is now an orphan.” Hon’ble Justice S. Dhulia is the […]
Read more "Chutzpah"“Case to Case Basis” is a grand excuse. In Ramkanya Bai v. Bharatram, (2010) 1 SCC 85 Hon’ble Justice Tarun Chatterjee rejected the application for a DNA test to be performed on the child of the Appellant-Wife. One fact that validated that rejection was the Respondent-Husband had made the paternity of the child a ‘prestige […]
Read more "DNA Tests: The Divide Between Science and Morality"Apar Gupta’s Post ______ It is easy to write about M.L. Sharma, easier to dismiss him. I invite you to fight, Apar, someone more suitable to your intelligence and passion: Mr. Ram Jethmalani. Ram Jethmalani’s interview with Karan Thapar is still not forgotten history. Mr. Jethmalani had said, “I will not do anything… but everything […]
Read more "In Re: Apar Gupta"The expression ‘sting operation’ seems to have emerged from the title of a popular movie called “The Sting” which was screened sometime in the year 1973. The movie was based on a somewhat complicated plot hatched by two persons to trick a third person into committing a crime. Being essentially a deceptive operation, though designed […]
Read more "The Sting Operator"Previously, the Government of India monopolized broadcasting. Hon’ble Justice P.B. Sawant in Cricket Association of West Bengal v. Union of India, (1995) 2 SCC 161 however wrote: “Broadcasting is a means of communication and, therefore, a medium of speech and expression. Hence in a democratic polity, neither any private individual, institution or organization nor any […]
Read more "Advertising Standards Council of India, Skin Whitening Products Category"The omission to cite an authority of law is not a ground for review. It is Counsel’s error to have not brought to notice of Court, relevant precedents. Citing of authority, therefore, often offers problems to the Bar. There is sometimes the question of how many cases to cite. “Especially since, we have not yet […]
Read more "The Proverbial Chickens of Destiny"In 1993, when admittedly Boris Becker was not entirely focused on Tennis, a German Magazine, STERN, published an article with a picture of Boris Becker posing nude with his dark-skinned fiancée. Sports World and Anandabazar Patrika, in India, reproduced the article and the photograph. Someone in the capacity of an “experienced Advocate and an elderly person” stood his ground on […]
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