(Dis)Balancing the Scales: Impact of COVID-19 on Employment Issues
Authored by Abhishek Tripathi & Rajat Kumar The near halting of economic activities in the aftermath of Covid-19 has put a severe strain on employer-employee relations. The central and state governments have issued several directions, orders and advisories to employers (state and private) directing them to provide security of employment and wages to its workforce. …
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ISPs and Direct Selling Entities at loggerheads over US$ 1.7 billion opportunity
ISPs and Direct Selling Entities at loggerheads over US$ 1.7 billion opportunity The Direct Selling Entities (“DSEs”) Amway, Oriflame and Modicare that have a specific business model are embroiled in dispute with leading e-tailers, Amzon, Snapdeal, Cloudtail alleging the sale of their products on e-commerce platforms are unauthorized and without their consent. The Single Judge …
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Impact of COVID-19 on Registration of Documents
This is the longest curfew that our generation has faced! Very few who witnessed the second World War are with us today to share the stories of the trying times of those days. For our generation, the pandemic COVID-19 is nothing short of a world war. It has not only taken human lives but has …
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FORCE MAJEURE AND FRUSTRATION OF CONTRACTS DURING COVID-19
INTRODUCTION The unprecedented upheaval caused by COVID-19 has affected normal performance of contractual duties. Logistical issues, health and safety risks and governmental decreed ‘lock-downs’ for extended periods of time have up-ended life and commercial activity on an unparalleled scale. A post-Covid world is beset by delays, payment defaults and a failure or refusal to perform …
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India’s Embrace of Online Courts
Introduction Past attempts by the Indian judiciary to digitise cases have not met with much success. The lockdowns following Covid 19 have given a renewed and urgent impetus for virtual justice in India. Recent virtual hearings by the Bombay High Court during the lock- down period met with universal admiration with clamours that this process …
Real Estate’s Unending Hardship – How COVID-19 is worsening the Crisis?
– Mani Gupta & Santosh Pandey The Indian real estate sector has been in crisis for sometime now. At this time, there are insolvency petitions pending against a large number of developers, and the case-load before the consumer courts and sectoral regulatory authorities is burgeoning. The present pandemic and the measures to curb the same …
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(Dis)Balancing the Scales: Impact of COVID-19 on Employment Issues
– Abhishek Tripathi & Rajat Kumar The near halting of economic activities in the aftermath of Covid-19 has put a severe strain on employer-employee relations. The central and state governments have issued several directions, orders and advisories to employers (state and private) directing them to provide security of employment and wages to its workforce. It …
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Court Refuses to Restrain Encashment of Letter of Credit Due to COVID-19 Lockdown
In Standard Retail Private Limited v. G.S. Global Corp (8 April 2020), the High Court of Bombay has pronounced possibly one of the first orders interpreting the impact of force majeure clauses on parties’ contractual obligation due to COVID-19. In this case, the petitioners (who were steel importers) had filed an application under section 9 …
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IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON MSME SECTOR – WHERE TO GO FROM HERE?
Vedant Kumar & Abhishek Tripathi COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtably put the world economy into recession. The International Monetary Fund has predicted that the ‘great lockdown’ will be worse than the 2008-09 recession. Indian economy is not immune to a global recession and it has taken a toll due to the preventive measures for containing COVID-19. …
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Neighbours, Keep Out!
-Abhishek Tripathi & Naryan Gupta Background The Government of India (“GOI”) through Ministry of Commerce & Industry vide Press Note No. 3 (2020 series) dated April 17, 2020 (“PN 3”) amended the Consolidated Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy to require any investment from a country which shares a land border with India to require prior …