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Public Interest Litigation As A Means Of Environment Protection In India

21 Comments / Constitution of India, Environmental Law / Ijalr

Introduction In India, Public Interest Litigation emerged as a developing mechanism in the domain of environment protection. In environmental litigation, the parties that are affected maybe an unidentified or a diffused mass of individuals and the violation of a legal right of a single individual would be difficult to establish. Before the 1980s, the locus

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Arbitration | IPR Disputes in India

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Introduction India is well known for its judiciary and its constitution. But when it comes to the speed and the fast decisions, somewhere the game of judiciary fades away. India is always haunted by pending cases. Coming the statistics to as an evidence to the previous statement, there are 9.2 million cases pending in the

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Light Pollution: A Biodiversity Threat

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INTRODUCTION: Light pollution is one of the most rapidly intensifying types of environmental pollution. In urban regions, it creates a sky glow that could wipe out the stars. A study from 2016 that uncovered that 99 % of the population of the United States and Europe has not experienced natural light at night. Light pollution

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Artificially Intelligent Machines: Legal Lacuna Of Liability

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Introduction “Centralized systems make more and more legal decisions. Often this happens because machines, like computers, apply law. For instance, computer programs prepare tax returns, certify compliance with environmental regulation, keep wage and hour records, and take down material allegedly subject to copyright protection. Should automated law systems be directly liable for the errors they

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Genetic Engineering – A Boon Or Bane

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Abstract Genetic engineering, being a modern technology, has its own pros and cons. It is very important to have the knowledge of genetic engineering and its various methods, which has social and biological impact on the environment and biodiversity. Seeing the genetic engineering practices in this perspective and analyzing the legality of such methods or

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Sustainable Development And Judiciary In India

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INTRODUCTION: – Right to wholesome environment is a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution but most of the countries are developing and there is need of industrialization for it, but then it cost us the environment. So to solve the problem, the concept of sustainable development is introduced by various countries and hence

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Admissibility And Evidentiary Value Of Dying Declaration In India

Leave a Comment / Contemporary, Indian Evidence Act / Ijalr

Introduction The foundational stone which forms the rationale behind the admissibility of dying declaration is the legal maxim; nemo moriturus proesumitur mentri. The said maxim is as philosophical and riveting as a line from Shakespeare’s drama. “Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain; they breathe the truth, that breathes their words in

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Child Abuse And It’s Punishment

Leave a Comment / Indian Evidence Act / Ijalr

INTRODUCTION WHO (World Health Organisation) World Report on Violence and Health(2002) and the UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children (2006) observed that violence against children, in all its forms mental, physical, sexual, and emotional, is present in every society, in every country.[1] Section 2(12) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children

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Evidence Under The Narcotic Law

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Introduction India is one of the signatories to the 3 United Nations Conventions- Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961), Convention on Psychotropic Substances (1971) and Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988). The Parliament exercised its power under these conventions to make and implement laws for “any treaty, agreement or convention

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