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FOR the first time since it started to function in 2002, the International Criminal Court at The Hague has passed a guilty verdict on a warlord for perpetrating, among other things, rape as an act of read more
FOR the first time since it started to function in 2002, the International Criminal Court at The Hague has passed a guilty verdict on a warlord for perpetrating, among other things, rape as an act of war. It is also the first time that the court has secured a conviction for “command responsibility”, meaning that a commander can be found guilty even if he did not himself take direct part in such crimes as rape, murder and pillage but allowed them to be committed.
Jean-Pierre Bemba (pictured), the head of the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo—and a former vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo—was found guilty of crimes against humanity, including rape and pillage. This took place when Mr Bemba’s militia, said to be around 1,500-strong, was sent across the border to the Central African Republic (CAR) during a period of turmoil in 2002 and 2003, when hundreds of civilians were slaughtered. Sentencing has yet to be carried out.
Whereas most international human-rights campaigners, including African ones, have welcomed the verdict, the African Union and most African governments have so far been more reticent. The court has faced a growing chorus of accusations across the continent that it is biased against Africans, because so far all those it has found guilty have been African. Mr Bemba was arrested in Belgium in 2008 and sent to The Hague, where the full proceedings of a trial began in 2010.
However, it was an African government—the one that then ruled the CAR—that referred the crimes alleged to have been committed by Mr Bemba and his men to the court in 2004. Indeed, though the first nine “situations” (as the court calls its sets of cases) to be put before the court have all been African, six were brought to it by the relevant African governments themselves; two were referred to it by the UN Security Council, and one to do with post-election violence in Kenya was taken to it after mediation by Kofi Annan, a Ghanaian who previously headed the UN.
In any case, the ICC rejects the charge that it is inherently anti-African or a tool of the West. Its chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, and its senior trial lawyer, Jean-Jacques Badibanga, are from the Gambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo respectively. The judges who have found Mr Bemba guilty, all women, are from Brazil, Kenya and Japan.
The legal representative of the victims, Marie-Edith Douzima-Lawson, who hails from the CAR, has vigorously explained the nature of the charges against Mr Bemba and his men. More than 5,200 victims were authorised by the court to testify in the trial that Mr Bemba and his men had sexually assaulted them or pillaged their property in a rampage of murder and mayhem. “Most rapes, as well as the looting, were perpetrated collectively in public, sometimes in the presence of the victims’ relatives. This practice was intended to terrorise the peaceful population of the CAR,” said Mrs Douzima-Lawson. “The facts have shown that rape was systematic, as was pillage, and was perpetrated in a humiliating way, anywhere, anytime, by multiple rapists.”
Source ; http://www.economist.com/news
Announcement of new Passport Rules In order to streamline, liberalize and ease the process of issue of passport, the Ministry of External Affairs has taken a number of steps in the realm of passport read more
Announcement of new Passport Rules
In order to streamline, liberalize and ease the process of issue of passport, the Ministry of External Affairs has taken a number of steps in the realm of passport policy which is expected to benefit the citizens of India applying for a passport. The details of these steps are given below:-
PROOF OF DATE OF BIRTH
As per the extant statutory provisions of the Passport Rules, 1980, all the applicants born on or after 26/01/1989, in order to get a passport, had to, hitherto, mandatorily submit the Birth Certificate as the proof of Date of Birth (DOB). It has now been decided that all applicants of passports can submit any one of the following documents as the proof of DOB while submitting the passport application:
(i) Birth Certificate (BC) issued by the Registrar of Births & Deaths or the Municipal Corporation or any other prescribed authority whosoever has been empowered under the Registration of Birth & Deaths Act, 1969 to register the birth of a child born in India;
(ii) Transfer/School leaving/Matriculation Certificate issued by the school last attended/recognized educational board containing the DOB of the applicant;
(iii) PAN Card issued by the Income Tax Department with the DOB of applicant;
(iv) Aadhar Card/E-Aadhar having the DOB of applicant;
(v) Copy of the extract of the service record of the applicant (only in respect of Government servants) or the Pay Pension Order (in respect of retired Government Servants), duly attested/certified by the officer/in-charge of the Administration of the concerned Ministry/Department of the applicant, having his DOB;
(vi) Driving licence issued by the Transport Department of concerned State Government, having the DOB of applicant;
(vii) Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) issued by the Election Commission of India having the DOB of applicant;
(viii) Policy Bond issued by the Public Life Insurance Corporations/Companies having the DOB of the holder of the insurance policy.
Report of the Inter Ministerial Committee
A three-member Committee comprising of the officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Women and Child Development was constituted to examine various issues pertaining to passport applications where mother/child has insisted that the name of the father should not be mentioned in the passport and also relating to passport issues to children with single parent and to adopted children. The Report of the Committee has been accepted by the Minister of External Affairs.
The following policy changes have been made inter-alia on the basis of the recommendations of this Committee:
(i) The online passport application form now requires the applicant to provide the name of father or mother or legal guardian, i.e., only one parent and not both. This would enable single parents to apply for passports for their children and to also issue passports where the name of either the father or the mother is not required to be printed at the request of the applicant.
(ii) The total number of Annexes prescribed in the Passport Rule, 1980, has been brought down to 9 from the present 15. Annexes A, C, D, E, J, and K have been removed and certain Annexes have been merged.
(iii) All the annexes that are required to be given by the applicants would be in the form of a self declaration on a plain paper. No attestation/swearing by/before any Notary/Executive Magistrate/First Class Judicial Magistrate would be henceforth necessary.
(iv) Married applicants would not be required to provide Annexure K or any marriage certificate.
(v) The Passport application form does not require the applicant to provide the name of her/his spouse in case of separated or divorced persons. Such applicants for passports would not be required to provide even the Divorce Decree.
(vi) Orphaned children who do not have any proof of DOB such as Birth Certificate or the Matriculation Certificate or the declaratory Court order, may now submit a declaration given by the Head of the Orphanage/Child Care Home on their official letter head of the organization confirming the DOB of the applicant.
(vii) In case of children not born out of wedlock, the applicant for the passport of such children should submit only Annexure G while submitting the passport application.
(viii) In case of issue of passport to in-country domestically adopted children, submission of the registered adoption deed would no longer be required. In the absence of any deed to this effect, the passport applicant may give a declaration on a plain paper confirming the adoption.
(ix) Government servants, who are not able to obtain the Identity Certificate (Annexure-B)/ No-Objection Certificate (Annexure-M) from their concerned employer and intend to get the passport on urgent basis can now get the passport by submitting a self-declaration in Annexure-‘N’ that he/she has given prior Intimation letter to his/her employer informing that he/she was applying for an ordinary passport to a Passport Issuing Authority.
(x) Sadhus/ Sanyasis can apply for a passport with the name of their spiritual Guru mentioned in the passport application in lieu of their biological parent(s) name(s) subject to their providing of at least one public document such as Election Photo Identity Card (EPIC) issued by the Election Commission of India, PAN card, Adhar Card, etc wherein the name of the Guru has been recorded against the column(s) for parent(s) name(s).
Necessary notifications would be soon published in the Official Gazette to give effect to these changes. Instructions are also being issued to the Passport Issuing Authorities in India and abroad on these revised regulations.
The Ministry of External Affairs expects that the above changes in the Passport Rules would further ease the process for passport applicants in getting their Passport. At the same time, it would enable this Ministry to continue to deliver passport related services to the citizens in a timely, transparent, more accessible, reliable manner and in a comfortable environment through streamlined processes and committed, trained and motivated workforce.
Source: MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Full text of PM Modi's address to the nation Happy New Year to all !! http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/full-text-of-pm-modis-address-to-the-nation/articleshow/56276615.cms?utm_source=toiiphoneapp&utm_medium=others&utm_campaign=show read more
Full text of PM Modi's address to the nation
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The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Delhi-based lawyer Rohit Tandon for his alleged role in a money laundering network. A raid at his office earlier this month unearthed nearly Rs.14 crore and he read more
The Enforcement Directorate has arrested Delhi-based lawyer Rohit Tandon for his alleged role in a money laundering network. A raid at his office earlier this month unearthed nearly Rs.14 crore and he was being quizzed by officials for the past one week. Arrested a day before, he will be produced before the court on Thursday. The agency suspects Tandon of being involved in conversion of old demonetised notes worth about Rs.60 crore in collusion with Kolkata-based businessman Parasmal Lodha and Kotak Mahindra bank manager Ashish Kumar. Earlier in October, he had declared Rs.125 crore of untaxed money post raids at his home and office. Following a tip-off, the authorities raided his office on 10th December. The raid uncovered nearly Rs.14 crore stacked in cash, out of which Rs.2.6 crore was in new currency notes of Rs.2000. He was reportedly not in his office at that time and witnessed the raid via CCTV camera on his phone. It took two machines to count the notes, which were packed in six suitcases and four steel trunks and transported in three cars. The Enforcement Directorate had booked a PMLA case against him. He is purported to have been operating the money laundering network in connivance with Parasmal Lodha, who was arrested earlier for money laundering. He and Lodha are also alleged to have close links with J Sekhar Reddy, a Chennai-based businessman, who was arrested earlier on similar count. It is also alleged that Lodha, a realtor, had helped the lawyer convert Rs.2.62 crore in banned notes. Notably, Ashish Kumar, manager, Kotak Mahindra Bank, was arrested on Wednesday by the Enforcement Directorate for allegedly aiding in conversion of old demonetised notes amounting to over Rs.25 crore. He is said to have links with both Parasmal Lodha and Rohit Tandon. This article has been made possible because of financial support from Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation.
By : VIDUSHI SAHANI
Source : http://www.livelaw.in/delhi-based-lawyer-rohit-tandon-arrested-money-laundering/
The demand for the services of a law firm has been as regards the rise in recent period. Many of such firms are in existence today compare to what obtained in the early 90s. The truth is that, people read more
The demand for the services of a law firm has been as regards the rise in recent period. Many of such firms are in existence today compare to what obtained in the early 90s. The truth is that, people are getting more aware of their human rights, and as the crime rate increases, law suits too are
If you are thinking of setting up your own law firm, then this is the right article for you, as it gives you a vivid checklist and consequently sets the pace for you. However, this is a basic and simple checklist which could actually vary depending on your individual needs, the type of law you will practice, staffing needs, and various other individual and demographic factors.
1. Give a name to your Law Firm
The way to begin is to make the most important decision of giving your firm an appropriate name. There is no doubt that this is one of the most vital decisions to be made as your firm will be identified and remembered with the name you select.
Usually, the names of the Lawyers involved in founding the firm are a reliable way to go. However, some may feel that this naming convention will not successfully distinguish their firm and make it appealing to potential clients, and instead go with a name relating to their area of practice.
So, first things first, get a suitable and appealing name for your firm.
2. Choose a strategic and comfortable location
Generally, business men are pre-occupied with getting strategic and comfortable locations. Though to some degree, the importance of location for a small business is debatably decreased in the context of law firms, but it is still a key consideration.
Some advocates, especially when they are starting out, may make a decision to work from home due to financing considerations. On the other hand, meeting with their clients and running a practice at home is usually not a viable long-term option. So, selecting an office location from the very beginning may be meaningful. Also, sharing space in an office may decrease the financial impact on the lawyer or firm just starting out.
It is therefore important to get a strategic and comfortable location for your firm.
3. Obtain necessary permits and licenses
It is really illogical and ironical to have an unlawful or unregistered law firm. The way to fail in setting up a successful law firm is to move on to set up one without obtaining government approval. The truth is that your practice will almost surely need national and may be additional state or local licensing requirements which of course vary from one country to the other and even from one locality to the other within a country.
To set the things in a straight line, get all necessary authorizations for your Law firm.
4. Procure your office equipments
Procuring the essential office equipments for your law firm is the next thing to do. The necessary furniture you need to procure includes; book shelves, chairs, desks, cabinets, recycling baskets and trash cans. The second set of things you need to put in place are electronics which mainly include telephone system and requisite service, fax machine, computers, software, printers, scanners, photocopy machine and calculator.
Make sure you procure only basic furniture and electronics in the beginning.
5. Obtain needed supplies
After you have procured your office equipments, it is time to get the required supplies. A law office typically requires all the usual office equipment including paper, a vast supply of sticky notes, envelopes, pencils, pens, staplers, file folders, 2 and 3 hole punches, a date stamp, binders, rubber bands, tape, staple remover, paper clips, colored sticky notes, and more. It might be best to visit the nearest office supply store or online store, and buy it all you need at one go.
Put in place all the needed supplies for daily use and save your precious time.
6. Hire additional staff
This is the stage where you have to start thinking about getting staff work with. It is likely that if you are a real hands-on type of lawyer and you could handle the daily tasks involved in running the firm by yourself and really cut costs, but it is really not going to sound like a good use of your precious time to spend half your day filing, paying bills, and answering the phones. Once you have got your firm up and running, those kinds of administrative and office tasks will become utterly time-absorbing and you will likely need someone’s help to deal with them.
Therefore, you need competent and skilled staff to handle some of your administrative or clerical duties.
7. Up to date your library
A library to law firms may appear to be a luxury. But the truth is a lawyer needs a decent library to function appropriately. Remember, a decent library is not only costly, but is a persistently ongoing expenditure due to the evolving nature of the law. Most practice guides, and of course, all case laws are continually being updated and it is an expensive proposition to have an up to date library. However, selecting a location near an accessible law library can eliminate this expenditure, and availing one’s self of online resources can also be considered as well.
So, put in place a decent and up to date library while making use of online resources.
8. Accounts, Budgets and Insurance
Open essential accounts for your office such as trust account; prepare a budget for the firm and above all, obtain necessary insurance. Putting all of these in place will give you a competitive edge over other law firms. It will not suffice to have no bank account, budget and insurance. The absence of these will only weaken your financial strength thereby leaving your firm at the mercy of your competitors.
Therefore, make sure you go the additional mile so as to have an extra edge over other law firms.
9. Plan your marketing strategies
As a law firm marketing and advertising should be important considerations. In today’s business world, there are so many forms of offline and online marketing strategies available. Yellow pages, online advertising, newsletters, brochures, and business cards are various options can be considered.
So, look for appropriate ways to promote your services.
10. Set up necessary office systems
Firms do their everyday operations differently from each other. The day-to-day operation of a law firm requires establishing various methodologies. The following are some of the key systems:
Docketing and calendaring systems – A firm absolutely must have a system in place, electronic or otherwise, for case docketing and scheduling. A lawyer should know immediately that he or she will not be able to rely at all on memory for anything related to their work.
Accounting – There are so many accounting software are available for accounting purposes and of course, hiring an accountant or making friends with one is always a good idea.
Time tracking and billing – Keeping clients happy and making money go hand-in-hand via the establishment of a good time tracking and billing system. If clients are billed regularly, properly and in a timely manner for work as it is done, one of lawyers’ common headaches- the angry client calling about billing can be more often avoided.
Filing – Accessing files effortlessly and finding documents on a short notice is important to a lawyer and establishing a reliable filing system is crucial. Although the methods out there are countless, picking one and consistently using it is of the utmost importance to the organized lawyer.
Conflict – Establishing a system for running conflict checks should be a consideration for the lawyer. For those who just out of law school, this is not a usual problem, but it is good to establish the system early.
Starting Your Own Law Firm: How To Find Clients By THE CLIO TEAM Any lawyer responsible for the ongoing success of their firm understands that finding ways to bring in new clients is the only way read more
Starting Your Own Law Firm: How To Find Clients
By THE CLIO TEAM
Any lawyer responsible for the ongoing success of their firm understands that finding ways to bring in new clients is the only way to ensure the lights stay on. This is especially relevant for lawyers — new and experienced — starting their own firm, where breaking new ground depends on how far you can spread the word.
Most discussion on how to start a firm has focused on the plight of new lawyers — i.e., recent law school graduates. If you’re a recent graduate, chances are you’re mired with debt with few substantial resources to guide you in finding success. A most significant challenge, however, is the limited scope of business contacts that a lawyer builds naturally throughout the course of their career.
Take experienced lawyers — or those mid-career — however, and the challenges aren’t necessarily very different. Exchange student debt for the cost of a mortgage and raising a family, and financial pressures never really abate themselves (sorry grads). Where it gets more complex is building that client base of your own accord. One might think experienced lawyers could bring a book of business from their previous firm. However, this is less common than you might think. Building a personal client base is difficult when working for someone else, since law firms tend to actively protect their client relationships from poaching — even though ethics codes require that clients ultimately choose their continuing representation.
For any lawyer launching a new law firm, finding ways to market yourself to your audiences is essential to attracting new clients.
Find your first clients
In most cases, your first clients will be friends or family members, or people referred by them. While that’s a logical place to start, many attorneys will stop there, ignoring a potentially long list of existing business contacts. (Even if you’ve only just left law school, you have business contacts!) If you’ve been an intern, if you know a lawyer in your hometown, if you have an uncle who’s a paralegal, start there.
The key is to maintain a contact list while finding ways to communicate with them on a regular basis. It’s essential to notify your network about what you’re doing and to keep them apprised of your activities. A few emails and the occasional phone call is all it takes, and you can always add more tools and greater sophistication to your communications later on, when regular newsletters and client alerts can help you do this with more efficiency.
Plan your broader marketing strategies
The line between networking and marketing is a thin one, but for the purpose of this discussion, think about your broader marketing strategy as your formal effort in building relationships with potential clients beyond your own personal network. This is where you use specialized channels to get your name out there.
There is quite a bit that you can do as a solo or small-firm lawyer to market your practice for no money down. Content marketing is a great way to build your authority in a specific industry or practice area — by getting your name into the marketplace and establishing credibility. Maintaining an active blog can make you more visible to clients through search engines, and social media is an excellent means for building your network and learning about your clients.
Paid advertising can also be lucrative. While some forms of online and print advertising can require large budgets, there are many affordable methods that are more feasible for most startups. Some firms pay almost $1,000 per click to advertise for certain keywords in Google, but if you know your niche, you can bid on terms with a much lower cost — or try Bing, which is generally cheaper. You can also pay to advertise through social media channels, which are both affordable and highly targeted — ensuring that you get the most value out of every dollar you spend. Not only can you set budget limits for your campaigns, but you can also define exactly the type of audience you’re looking to communicate with.
Since fewer companies rely on physical advertising, this could be a means for you to stand out with a creative or odd-shaped mailer. Put yourself in the shoes of your potential clients. The world has shifted to digital mediums, and when something legitimate and tangible enters your mail slot, you create great opportunities to stand out.
Balancing your marketing tactics is key here, and knowing who your looking to target is crucial.
Ref : http://abovethelaw.com/2016/12/starting-your-own-law-firm-how-to-find-clients/
Victims Can't State Facts Like A Parrot, Delhi Court Says In Molestation Case http://m.ndtv.com/delhi-news/victims-cant-state-facts-like-a-parrot-delhi-court-says-in-molestation-case-1642450
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Legal profession has in the past been considered as a noble profession where public spirited persons may serve those who need the support of the judiciary for relief when they were victims of some contravention read more
Legal profession has in the past been considered as a noble profession where public spirited persons may serve those who need the support of the judiciary for relief when they were victims of some contravention of law. It was therefore natural for people like Mahatma Gandhi take to public service after being in the profession of a lawyer. Even today you occasionally see some persons take up public cause with a passion that makes the profession proud. Dr Subramanya Swamy’s efforts in recent times which unearthed the 2G scam is an example of such tenacious fight for principles undertaken by a legal professional.
It is therefore heartening to note that bright young people are showing some interest in the profession as is indicated by the response to the competitive examination, CLAT 2011 which determines the qualifiers to enter into the prestigious National Law Schools. It is found that students as bright as those who get into the more glamorous engineering or medical streams get into National Law Schools and study law. This is good for the profession since the quality of lawyers in the country can improve.
However it is found that most of the National Law School graduates fail to enter into practice in the Courts of law in India. They either go abroad or join the corporate world and end up advising companies on how to manage law for business gains. In the process the noble profession of lawyers is losing sheen.
While one of the reasons why young talented persons get attracted to corporate jobs is better monetary prospects and comfortable perks, the way our legal practice runs today is also a reason why the youngsters are not keen to practice.
Today’s practice in Courts is dominated by those lawyers who are not interested in letting the Courts work and move towards resolution of disputes. They are more interested in prolonging the disputes and exhausting the genuine justice seeker. Hence they are only interested in getting adjournments on one ground or the other. Their skills are limited to this field and intellectuals find it difficult to survive in this atmosphere.
Some monied clients hire a lawyer today not for his capacity to argue on legal points and win the case but for his ability to ensure that the case can be endlessly adjourned so that the beneficiary of a contravention can delay return of the illegal benefits gained. Hopefully the opponent would be so tiered after some time that he may lose interest in the case and absorb the losses suffered.
If today Indian judicial system particularly the Civil judiciary is not respected by litigants, the reason for that is the enormous delays that are caused in the legal proceedings. There was a time when people would respect the words “God sees the truth but waits”. But today public are not interested in God who is slow in delivering justice. “Justice delayed is justice denied” is a more contemporary axiom.
In one of the recent hearings before a special judicial forum, I was shocked to listen to an advocate who was proudly telling the forum that she was just coming out of a case which was started before she was born and she could not understand why the judge of the special judicial forum was keen on completing the proceedings quickly. When pointed out that the law requires the forum to come to a judgment within a specified period, she was nonchalantly stating that there are several laws like that in the Country and no body bothers about the time limit.
To top it all the advocate raised it as a matter of a ground for appeal in a higher Court that the lower court judge was keen on completing the proceedings quickly and that was a procedural irregularity!
This reflects the state of affairs in civil courts and how some of the advocates take pride in delaying things for no specific reason but to inflict a greater financial damage to the victims. Such advocates bring disrepute to the community of legal professionals and hinder any positive development in the judicial system.
In order to prolong the proceedings in a Court, unscrupulous advocates also use certain provisions of CPC to their advantage. to the extent CPC has become the biggest stumbling block for reducing the delays in Courts.
The Government of India and higher echelons of Judiciary have recognized these issues and have tried to
a) Introduce alternate dispute resolution methods
b) Free some of the special judicial forums such as the adjudicator under ITA 2000 and the Cyber Appellate Tribunal from beign bound by Civil Procedure Code
c) Indicate time limits for the special forums to complete their proceedings
d) Allowing non advocates from assisting the litigants to present their cases for adjudication under the principles of natural justice
e) Changing the traditional laws to make it difficult to get adjournments on flimsy grounds and to make the party seeking frivolous adjournments pay for the cost of alternate hearings.
Unfortunately however, these reforms are being challenged by that part of the lawyer community who have a vested interest in maintaining the inefficiency of the system.
The solution to the problem lies as much in correcting the attitude of the advocates who pray for adjournments instead of arguments but also in the judges changing their attitude and being less considerate of the requests for adjournments.
Today judges in most Courts are so habituated to adjournments that a request for adjournment is seen as very natural. Any opposition is seen as a favour to the party praying for quick redressal. Even when a counsel asks for an “Adjournment for personal reasons”, it is treated with respect without considering that accepting the request of one party for adjournment is an injustice meted out to the other party.
As a result of this lenient tendency of judges, some advocates play one court against the other by bringing in frivolous appeals, miscellaneous applications, civil revision petitions etc knowing fully well that though the application may not be maintainable when argued they are good enough to get relief for a few months.
In deference to the procedures, an application even if supported by false averments is often admitted for hearing and in most of such admissions, an interim order is also passed as prayed for by the complainant. The defendant is told that this is not a final order and only an interim order until the case is heard out. Unfortunately the case is not heard expeditiously and even adjournments are granted in such cases some times for long periods making the interim order stay operative as a temporary relief. An application which ought to be dismissed at the admission level therefore becomes a tool of temporary relief to one of the offending party.
While the judges have the power to correct the injustice done through such false and frivolous applications by awarding exemplary compensations, few judges feel the necessity for such decisions which could eventually dis-incentivise seeking of adjournments on unscrupulous grounds.
It is also found in some cases that advocates have jumped from one court to another on frivolous jurisdiction and procedure related objections only to prevent the lower court from proceeding with its functioning. It is strange that some times even a judge who wants to improve the system is sought to be restrained by the higher court on unsustainable grounds.
A time has come therefore for the attention of the Government to be drawn to this problem and solution found before the little respect still available to the lower judiciary is lost.
The solution should start with a debate in all Courts and probably an attitudinal training of the judicial officers to change their present attitude of granting easy adjournments. Courts are meant to adjudicate and not to adjourn should be a principle which should be guiding them at all points of time. Adjournments should be on genuine grounds and for short duration only. If the grounds for adjournment are not forceful, the cost of adjournment as a matter of routine should be boarne by the party asking for the adjournment.
If in the long run the system has to improve, then it should be ensured that all special judicial forums (civil dispute resolution forums) are provided a freedom to fix their own procedures under the principles of natural justice and not be bound by CPC.
Subject matter experts who can throw light on facts and legal issues rather than beat around the bush with procedural issues must be encouraged to assist these judicial forums so that the forums may move towards quick judgements rather than keep adjourning the matter.
While the intention of making bar experience a necessary factor for a judicial appointment has its merits, there is also merit in the argument that it would be better to have direct judicial appointments from those who have not become addicted to the current practices in the Courts which are aimed at defeating an honest and efficient judicial system.
Though this has been a subject matter of many discussions in law commission reports in the past, where direct recruitment of judicial officers is done, it is restricted to persons who have been practicing advocates only. It is time to revisit this criteria and deliberate if we need to create a “Judicial Cadre” exclusive of an ”Advocate Career”.
Already the several judicial forums such as DRT system and Sec 138 (NI Act) systems who were supposed to be fast court systems have been effectively degenerated into a normal court process where the average litigation period is several times more than the statutory intention. Consumer Courts are following the same course.
The current target of unscrupulous lawyers is the Cyber Judiciary system under ITA 2000/8 where the Adjudication cum Cyber Appellate Tribunal system is envisaged as a process which should not take more than 1 year. Lawyers who are entering the litigation in these courts are in the process of vitiating the processes so that “Delays” are the order of the day.
If this trend is not stopped, the future of Cyber Judiciary in India is bleak. If Adjudication and Cyber Appellate Tribunals are not expected to be different from the civil courts, the Government may as well close the adjudication and Cyber Appellate systems and place the jurisdiction back on the civil courts.
In this context, I would like to request National Law Schools to debate the feasibility of providing a special Judiciary Course to prepare direct Judicial officers. This could be an extended 5 year judicial training to its law graduates where the students pursue a course in Judiciary spending time with judges in several courts as their assistants. We will then have young junior judges at the age of 30. Like young IAS and IPS officers who are often found to have a special commitment to their duties, we may then have a cadre of young IJS officers who may be open to reforms more than those who have been part of the system during their formative years and are affected by “Role set” problems. If a 30 year old IAS officer can function as a district collector with lots of judicial responsibilities there is no reason to doubt the feasibility of a 30 year old non advocate judicial officer discharging his duty as expected under the constitution. He would be free from the influence of the current practices in the Court and can bring real reforms which people may appreciate.
I would be happy if National Law Schools can come up with other suggestions to ensure that the functioning of special judicial forums are not derailed from the principles set out in the specific statutes creating them. Public should also join in this debate.
Source: Navvi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode to power in 2014 on the promise of fast-tracking the economy. 2016 did see him at work. The government passed a slew of laws which were game-changers due to their potential read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi rode to power in 2014 on the promise of fast-tracking the economy. 2016 did see him at work. The government passed a slew of laws which were game-changers due to their potential to bring in investment, spur growth, enable various actors, smooth processes and discourage wrong-doings. Here is a list of laws that can impact the economy in both near and long terms in radical ways:
The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidie,benefits and services) Act, 2016
MUMBAI: The state's CET cell has sought help from the Bar Council of India (BCI) to frame the syllabus of the law entrance test for the next academic year on the read more
MUMBAI: The state's CET cell has sought help from the Bar Council of India (BCI) to frame the syllabus of the law entrance test for the next academic year on the direction of the Bombay high court.
The authorities have sent the syllabus prescribed for the current year to the council to seek their opinion and accordingly make changes. The council, which had given provisional approval to many of the colleges, will start inspection of the colleges in the state from January.
A CET for admissions to law colleges was introduced for the first time this year. While, a law to govern the admission all private colleges was introduced last year in September, the CET Cell released the notification for admissions in May this year. The syllabus was also released around the same time. A student who moved court in June sought the cancellation of the test stating that the syllabus of any test has to be declared at least six months before the exam. Though the court allowed the conduct of the test, it had asked the state to include BCI members while framing the syllabus.
Source: Times of India

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Misuse
of the ratings, feedback or Documents/ Advice reviews: REGISTERED
USERS cannot submit abusive or inappropriate feedback entries,
coerce or threaten buyers into submitting feedback, submit
transaction feedback regarding them, or include personal information
about a transaction partner within a feedback entry. Furthermore,
any attempt to manipulate ratings of any REGISTERED USER is
prohibited. Any attempt to manipulate ratings, feedback, or
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Reviews: Reviews
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experiences with Documents/ Advices and services –
positive
or negative. You may not write reviews for Documents/ Advices or
services that you have a financial interest in, including reviews
for Documents/ Advices or services that you or your competitors deal
with. Additionally, you may not provide compensation for a review
(including free or discounted Documents/ Advices). Review
solicitations that ask for only positive reviews or that offer
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remove reviews.
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The
following list of prohibited Documents/ Advices comprises two
sections: Prohibited Content and Intellectual Property
Violations.
Listing
prohibited content may result in the cancellation of your listings,
or the suspension or removal of your transacting privileges.
REGISTERED USERS are responsible for ensuring that the Documents/
Advices they offer are legal and authorised for Transaction or
re-Transaction.
If
we determine that the content of a Documents/ Advice detail page or
listing is prohibited, potentially illegal, or inappropriate, we may
remove or alter it without prior notice. SoOLEGAL reserves the right
to make judgments about whether or not content is appropriate.
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Items that infringe upon an individual's privacy. SoOLEGAL holds personal privacy in the highest regard. Therefore, items that infringe upon, or have potential to infringe upon, an individual's privacy are prohibited.
Intellectual Property Violations
Counterfeit merchandise: Documents/ Advices displayed on our website must be authentic. Any Documents/ Advice that has been illegally replicated, reproduced or manufactured is prohibited.
Books - Unauthorised copies of books are prohibited.
Movies - Unauthorised copies of movies in any format are prohibited. Unreleased/prereleased movies, screeners, trailers, unpublished and unauthorized film scripts (no ISBN number), electronic press kits, and unauthorised props are also prohibited.
Photos - Unauthorised copies of photos are prohibited.
Television Programs - Unauthorised copies of television Programs (including pay-per-view events), Programs never broadcast, unauthorised scripts, unauthorised props, and screeners are prohibited.
Transferred media. Media transferred from one format to another is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to: films converted from NTSC to Pal and Pal to NTSC, laserdisc to video, television to video, CD-ROM to cassette tape, from the Internet to any digital format, etc.
Promotional media: Promotional versions of media Documents/ Advices, including books (advance reading copies and uncorrected proofs), music, and videos (screeners) are prohibited. These Documents/ Advices are distributed for promotional consideration and generally are not authorized for Transaction.
Rights of Publicity: Celebrity images and/or the use of celebrity names cannot be used for commercial purposes without permission of a celebrity or their management. This includes Documents/ Advice endorsements and use of a celebrity's likeness on merchandise such as posters, mouse pads, clocks, image collections in digital format, and so on.
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