All posts by Law Review and Blog Committee

[By Akshita Singh, a student of National Law University Odisha, Cuttack, and Achyut Tewari, a student of Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur] General Overview The ongoing tussle between WhatsApp Inc. (hereinafter, “WhatsApp”) and the Government of India (hereinafter, “Government”) is one among a plethora of disputes involving a tech giant at one hand and a nation’s government at the other. In fact, WhatsApp being at loggerheads with the government or the courts has been a common occurrence globally. Countries…

[By Tejas Sateesha Hinder and Ritik Kumar Rath. The authors are students of National Law Institute University, Bhopal] Introductory Remarks Recently, Tesla, the world’s most valuable car company, announced that they will enter the Indian market, and in January 2021, it registered itself with an office in Bengaluru. The concern as of now is not whether self-driving cars are fit for Indian roads, but whether Indian laws are ready to tackle problems associated with  self-driving cars.…

[By Aashi Shah. The author is a student of Pravin Gandhi College of Law .] While the world came to a halt due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, several women had to battle two pandemics at a time. The unanticipated lockdown made it difficult for women to escape households with violent environments. Furthermore, economic losses acted as a catalyst to the increasing violence against women. Additionally, the pandemic resulted in the breakdown of societal…

[By Aryan Roy. The author is a student of Gujarat National Law University.] “Parties cannot create something which has every feature of a rooster, but call it a duck and insist everybody else recognise it as a duck.” Justice Gray, Re Porter (1989) 34 IR 179, 184 With the growing digitalisation of the goods and service industries, there is a parallel growing dependence on platform technology. Necessarily, this requires a simultaneous expansion in the scope of legislation…

[By  Deepanshu Agarwal and Khushal Juneja . The authors are students of UPES Dehradun] Introduction Insider trading is the wrong of trading in securities with the favor of having asymmetrical access to unpublished information which when published would affect the price of securities in the market. The SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 (“regulations”) prohibits trading by person in possession of unpublished priced sensitive information (“UPSI”). As per the ‘Tipper/Tippee’ theory of Insider Trading, the prohibition…