The Journal Committee (“Committee”) at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow (“RMLNLU”), in collaboration with Nishith Desai Associates, is organizing the 10th edition of the RMLNLU International Legal Essay Competition and Conference on Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Law (“RILEC”). The Conference and Workshop is to be held on 7th April, 2023 from […]

On Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30thth march the Court will hear the case of Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another, on appeal from [2021] EWCA 63. This case concerns the Bonga oil field, 120km off the coast of Nigeria, where Shell extracts oil using a mobile oil rig. On […]

VOID AGREEMENTS Void agreements are agreements which are not enforced by the law courts. Section 2(g) of the Indian Contract Act states that a void agreement is, “an agreement not enforceable by law”. Therefore the parties to the contract do not get any legal redress in the case of void agreements. Void agreements arise due […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland said Tuesday that he hopes the enhanced security he authorized last year for Supreme Court justices and their families will not be provided indefinitely by the US Marshals Service. “This is a task we’d gladly turn over to the Supreme Court Police,” Garland said during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing. “We’re […]

More than a week after Donald Trump created a media frenzy by bringing the claim that he was going to be arrested, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney, is still deciding whether to criminal charges against the former President arising from the hush-money payment that he made through Michael Cohen, his ex-lawyer, to the adult-film […]

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s highest court is considering whether the state’s restrictive abortion law is void because it violated US… ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s highest court is considering whether the state’s restrictive abortion law is void because it violated US Supreme Court precedent that was in effect at the time when it was enacted. A […]

(Reuters) – US law firm Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer said Monday it hired a former top lawyer at the New York Federal Reserve as a partner in the firm’s financial services practice. James Bergin, who will be based in the firm’s New York office, will advise banking and other financial services clients on regulatory […]

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – With a long legal road just beginning for thousands of veterans exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, advocates and lawmakers are looking at ways to protect veterans from what they call “predatory practices” by some attorneys. There is some disagreement, however, as to what might be the best course of […]