What is ‘living will ’? The ‘living will’ is a person’s right to issue advance directive on the course of his/her treatment, including withdrawal of life support, should such a situation arise. PIL filed by NGO Common Cause in 2005 seeking robust system of certification for passive euthanasia and legal recognition for ‘living will’ in…
Section 84.7 Epilepsy, Epileptic Fits and Section 84- Epilepsy usually occurs from early infancy, though it may occur at any period of life. Individuals, who have had epileptic fits for years, do not necessarily show any mental aberration, but quite a few of them suffer from mental deterioration. Religiosity is a marked feature in the…
The mid nineties and the subsequent decade saw much international debate & discussion around Disaster Response & Preparedness. Some of the notable and more impactful ones were the Yokohama Strategy Plan (1994) & the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005), adopted by the UN. During the same period India faced some of its most severe natural…
We say grass is always greener on the other side. We human being have tendency that we are never satisfied with what we have, and we never appreciate what we have. Our needs and demands are insatiable. We are never satisfied with what we have and we fail to realise that we are constantly comparing…
INTRODUCTION There is a provision given in the Indian Constitution known as Emergency Provision which has been adopted from the Constitution of Germany by our Constitution makers. Under Emergency Provision President have the authority to impose three types of emergencies. They are as follow National Emergency– Under article 352 of the Indian Constitution national emergency…
The Constitution of India classifies certain functions to be performed separately by the Central government and the State government. Such functions of the respective governments are provided in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution. The Seventh schedule establishes three lists: Union List – The Union or central government has power over the topics mentioned in…
The Code of Criminal Procedure,1973, hereinafter mentioned as the code, is the law that governs the procedural aspects of criminal law. This act establishes the mechanism for conducting trials for offenses that are punishable under substantive laws, like the Indian Penal Code(IPC) and other criminal statutes. The word trial has not been defined under the…
Introduction: Most of us think that the terms ownership and possession refers to the same thing. Both ownership, as well as possession, can simply define as a state, act, or right of owning something. However, the right to ownership is most important right. The earlier legal systems did not recognise the distinction between ownership and…
Since March 2020, provided the major outbreak of life threatening pandemic COVID-19, structured exertion of all the functioning courts nationwide were restrictively terminated, with uneasy shift of regular physical courts to virtual ones, the solitary option subsequent.The records show there were around 3.68 crores of cases approximately pending across all the levels at the beginning…
INDEPENDENCE OF COMMISSION “This was the legacy which Public Service Commission’s of independent India inherited. But has independence brought about any. change in their role? Now, so far as their organisation is concerned, the Constitution has removed all those limitations from which they suffered formerly. They are now organised according to three main principles, viz.,…
