A petition challenging the enactment of three new sets of law that seek to overhaul India’s penal codes has been filed in the Supreme Court, claiming they suffered from many “defects and discrepancies”. The Lok Sabha had on December 21 passed three key legislations — the Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita,
The current legal structure in India around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and copyright laws needs to evolve to handle cases similar to the one filed by The New York Times (NYT) against OpenAI and Microsoft, experts told Business Standard. “Indian law currently lacks specific provisions to address the complexities of AI-related copyright infringement,” said Aviral Kapoor,
The legal team of eight jailed former Indian Navy personnel was given 60 days to appeal against the ruling by Qatar’s court of appeal, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. Last month, the Court of Appeal in Qatar commuted the death sentence handed down to the Indians and sentenced them to prison for
Arbitrary court orders summoning government officials in judicial proceedings run contrary to the scheme envisaged by the Constitution, the Supreme Court held on Wednesday and framed standard operating procedures on the issue. A bench comprising Chief justice D Y Chandrachud and justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra said the standard operating procedures (SOP) for courts
The Supreme Court, on January 03, 2024, said that there were no grounds for taking away the investigation of the Adani group of companies in the Hindenburg report from the market’s regulator. It granted the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) three months to complete the investigation of two pending matters. The Supreme Court
The boom in artificial intelligence tools that draw on troves of content from across the internet has begun to test the bounds of copyright law. Authors and a leading photo agency have brought suit over the past year, contending that their intellectual property was illegally used to train AI systems, which can produce humanlike prose
Many law students in India today, aspire to land a corporate law job in a law firm or a company after graduating from their respective law schools. It is only if no job offer comes their way do they settle for a path in litigation. This unusual bias that prevails in most students can attribute
A round-up of significant rulings on the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 in the month of August. The enactment of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (Code) has had significant ramifications on the corporate insolvency landscape. Over time, the Code has witnessed a manifold increase in litigation, and consequently in the number of decisions. This
The Commercial Courts Act,2015 provides to set up Commercial Courts, Commercial Appellate Courts, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division in the High Courts for adjudicating commercial disputes of specified value and other related matters. It is so required that the State Government take steps in consultation with the respective High Court to enact the provisions
INTRODUCTION Legal risk analysis is all about controlling risks, seeking to avert them from arising, or attenuating their impact through processes of assessment, decision-making and predominance. Process-driven risk assessment necessitates that significant risks are expounded and measured with some clarity. Such risks are then acknowledged as tolerable. Some regulators and corporate governance standards either directly
