INTRODUCTON Healthcare for prisoners may sound absurd. How can and even why a criminal, who may have performed any heinous crime or may have tried to harm any innocent life be provided with such a care? This is possible question that may pop in our minds. But this question has an answer within the international…
View details“The concept of seeking justice cannot be equated with the value of dollars. Money plays no role in seeking justice.” Justice Blackmun in Jackson v Bish Introduction A legal aid program assists the needy who cannot afford an attorney, to prevent them from suffering and injustice. For society to function properly, it is vital to…
View detailsINTRODUCTION Right to Information act, 2005 was a great blow to the vicious cycle of corruption that was slowly hollowing the development process of India. Right to Information passed the powers into the hands of public and set the fear in the minds of governmental machinery. Right to Information bill, 2005 was passed by the…
View detailsINTRODUCTION Every man has a right to have his reputation preserved inviolate. The right of reputation is acknowledged as an inherent personal right of every person as the part of the right of personal security. A man’s reputation is his property, more valuable than other property. Defamation is the injury to the reputation (reputation of…
View details“We have no control over how we arrive in the world, but at the end of life we should have legal control over how we leave it.” ~ Sir Patrick Stewart INTRODUCTION The phrase “Right to die” may sound indifferent and confusing to some. Some might think of it as a joke. It has been a…
View detailsThe Hindu Succession Act preserves the dual mode of devolution of property under the Mitakshara school. The Hindu succession Act,1956 bases its rule of succession on the principle of propinquity, i.e., the preference of heirs on the basis of proximity of relationship. A person so long as he is alive, is free to deal with…
View detailsThe burden of proof means the obligation to prove a fact. The strict meaning of the term burden of proof (onus probandi) is this, that if no evidence is given by the party on whom the burden is passed the issue must be found against him. The expression burden of really means two different things.…
View detailsAn exclusive economic zone is basically an area of coastal water and seabed within a certain distance of a country’s coastal line, to which a country claims exclusive rights for fishing, drilling and other economic activities. The concept of exclusive economic is one of the most important pillars of 1982 conventions on the law…
View detailsSection 63 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 says about secondary evidence. It includes many sections or types they include: Certified copies given under the provisions in the evidence act: Section 76 of the Evidence Act lays down that every public officer having custody of a public document shall give to a person, on…
View detailsInterpretation is the primary function of the court. Construction means drawing true conclusions on the basis of the true spirit of the enactment even though the same does not appear if the words used in the enactment are given their natural meaning. When two or more provisions of the same statutes are repugnant, the court…
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