Legal Era - March 2019

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Reputation Risks for Businesses in a Global Indian Marketplace by Dr. Manoj Kumar, Founder & Managing Partner, Hammurabi & Solomon

Repeal the Angel Tax, Recent Changes Aren't Enough by Mukesh Butani, Founder, BMR Legal

Anti-Corruption Commisions:Lessons in Transparency and Accountability for Australia and India by Robert Wyld, Consultant, Johnson Winter & Slattery

Life Insurance Industry and Legal Challenges by Sankalp Jain, VP & Head Legal, HDFC Life Insurance

Salient Features of Budget 2019 by S. R. Patnaik, Partner & Head- Taxation, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Will Tech Law become Central to the Legal System by Subramaniam Vutha, Advocate, Founder- Member, Technology Law Forum

This is Not A Wind-Up: BVI Court Approves Restructuring Provisional Liquidation by HARNEYS

Third Party Litigation Funding: Is India Ready for it? by Kunal Mehta, Legal Counsel JSW Group, Mumbai

Directions Issued To Improve Conditions Of Subordinate Judiciary In States

A slew of directions for improving the conditions of the subordinate judiciary in the states was passed by a SC bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi.

1 min

Relative Of The Victim Being A Related Witness Cannot Be An Interested Witness: SC

All pending criminal prosecutions, trials and appeals prior to the law laid down in the judgment in Mohan Lal vs. State of Punjab (acquittal if investigator-informant the same person) will continue to be governed by individual facts of the case, the Supreme Court has observed.

1 min

Reputation Risks For Businesses In A Global Indian Marketplace

It is essential to ensure that in the course of managing reputation risks, all evidences likely to be relevant in consequential legal and remedial actions to safeguard the interest of businesses are duly protected for use

6 mins

Repeal The Angel Tax, Recent Changes Aren't enough

The cry for relief from the angel tax is not about a tax holiday being disallowed, but about addressing the difficulty new ventures face in securing appropriate funding

5 mins

Anti-Corruption Commissions: Lessons In Transparency And Accountability For Australia And India

For many years, the Australian Government (of the left and right of politics) has refused to countenance a Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

9 mins

Life Insurance Industry And Legal Challenges

Traditionally, the most interesting and difficult issues to navigate are the claim settlement and repudiation process which have an impact on the perception of the life insurance industry and its functioning

7 mins

SALIENT FEATURES OF BUDGET 2019

The Finance Bill, 2019, proposes to increase the benefit of standard deduction from the existing INR 40,000 to INR 50,000 to provide additional relief to salary earners and pensioners

4 mins

Will Tech Law Become Central To The Legal Ecosystem?

With several things that were on technology “slow burners” having come to a boil in recent times, it is possibly the right time to ponder over corresponding changes needed in the legal ecosystem

5 mins

This Is Not A Wind-Up: BVI Court Approves Restructuring Provisional Liquidation

In a major development in BVI insolvency law and practice, the BVI Commercial Court has held in the case of Constellation Overseas Limited and 5 others [BVIHC (Com) 2018/0206 – 2012] that provisional liquidation is available to facilitate a restructuring. The decision brings the BVI broadly into line with Cayman and Bermuda, where restructuring provisional liquidations have been used to support a number of landmark cross-border restructurings in recent years

1 min

Third-Party Litigation Funding: Is India Ready For It?

At the outset, let me clarify that contrary to popular belief, third-party litigation funding is not prohibited in India.

4 mins

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