The Bi- annual journal of Rostrum’s Law Review volume VI Issue 2 offers exciting collection of papers which pricks reader to diversity of themes. The ‘Role of trial court judges to deal with hostile witnesses in the light of directives of the Supreme Court’ displays the throes of transition in the Indian criminal justice system, …
Abstract In an adversarial system of criminal justice, like in India, the witness has a pivotal role in bringing the offender to justice. Of late, key witnesses in heinous crimes and high-profile cases are retracting from their statements recorded by police in course of the investigation and turning hostile thereby adversely affecting the judicial process. …
INTRODUCTION The holy fast to death among Jains, a practice known as Santhara, has been at the center of a debate as to how the law should deal with such predicaments where religious practices endanger the constitutionally protected right to life. Such a debate also touches upon some of the core constitutional values that form …
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The 25th anniversary, marked traditionally as a moment of commemoration, has not presented itself as amiable for the World Trade Organization (‘WTO’). Envisioned in the year 1995, as it celebrates its 25th year of inception, it is facing unprecedented disruption in global trade resulting from a pandemic.[1] This health crisis has brought with it its …
INTRODUCTION As the legal community celebrates 47 years of the decision in the Kesavanada Bharti versus State of Kerela (AIR 1973 SC 1461), it will be incomplete if we do not remember Professor Dietrich Conrad- the genius behind the basic structure doctrine. Though there have been many discussions on the constitutionality of the importation of …
The Patent law and the Competition law are ideologically at loggerheads as one provides for monopolization of rights whereas the other by and large negates monopoly and provides for competitiveness. The Patent law is individualistic in approach as it provides a cushion to the patentee for a period of 20 years to rule out the …
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