Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Data Protection Law 2020
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE has enacted the new Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Data Protection Law, which comes into force from July 1, 2020. Our Senior Associate, Dr. M.L. VODA talks about the new regulation which includes general fines for serious breaches of …
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Website Cloning – A Business Reality with Intricate Legal Consequences
The newest and most effective marketing tool for business exists nowadays in the digital world. Whereas a good and attractive website has all the prerequisites to have a strong impact on the market share and positioning of a firm, it has the drawback of exposing important and not always protected content to infringements.
Fujairah Opens for Crew Changes
Port of Fujairah is opening for crew changes. This article talks about everything you need to know about the responsibilities, the registered agents should undertake and declare.
TMT : Vodafone CEO Nick Read’s Apology Accepted?
No Supreme Court Judgment or High Taxes in India – the €1.9 Billion Losses may have actually been caused due to years of diversion of Rs. 200 Billion short paid to Government & kept hidden from shareholders!!..
Energy & Natural Resources : Why India needs a regime for the pricing of minerals
Despite being the one of the world’s largest suppliers of coal, steel, iron ore, bauxite and zinc, India’s mineral pricing system lacks objectivity and transparency, resulting in an unhealthy tussle between mining companies, user industries and government.
Patent IPR : Commercial implications of Qualcomm patent judgment
A recent decision of the Northern California district court in Federal Trade Commission v Qualcomm Inc is being seen as a high point for numerous cases of litigation not only in the US but across the globe. In the May 2019 decision, which is the subject of a July 2019 appeal, the California court ordered …
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IBC: Reverse insolvency to the rescue in housing projects
The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in Flat Buyers Association Winter Hills – 77, Gurgaon v Umang Realtech Pvt Ltd & Ors, brought by disaffected flat buyers of the Winter Hills project represented by Hammurabi & SolomonPartners, recently formulated a mechanism in the form of a reverse corporate insolvency resolution process to redress the grievances of flat buyers …
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Consumer Forums: Power to extend time beyond 45 days for written filing by the opposite Party?
Introduction The Hon’ble Supreme Court in the judgment dated 04.03.2020 in the matter of New India Assurance Company Ltd. vs. Hilli Multipurpose Cold Storage (“New India Assurance Judgment”) has adjudicated upon the following questions: a) Whether the Ld. Consumer Forum has power to extend the filing of written statement beyond the period of 45 days …
ADR : New reasons for hope in domestic arbitral awards
Commercial expediency has always required an award to be intelligible and adequately reasoned in order to achieve the desired outcomes for parties using the arbitration process to resolve their business and commercial disputes. Almost all leading international commercial arbitration institutions and centres have considered how arbitrators should write their awards and have laid down detailed …
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Ram-Janambhoomi Ayodhya Verdict: The Healing Touch For Peace, Growth & Its Commercial Implications
The acceptability and wisdom enshrined in the Ayodhya verdict can be measured from the fact that none of the principal parties could find anything in the judgment to have a grudge with to even seek a review thereof…