[Rajvansh Singh is a 3rd year student at National Law University Odisha] In Aftab Singh v. Emaar MGF Land Limited, the complainants approached the consumer forum seeking possession of flat/villa and compensation from the builder in lieu of the delay in handing over the possession of the same. The builder contended that builder-buyer agreement contains an arbitration clause by virtue of which...
Call for Papers: The GNLU Law Review
[Announcement on behalf of The GNLU Law Review] About The flagship journal of Gujarat National Law University, The GNLU Law Review (‘TGLR’) was established in 2008, owing to the emergent need for broadening the platform for academicians, professionals, research scholars to share and disseminate both knowledge and scholarship of new and innovative ideas in legal and allied disciplines. TGLR is a...
Section 14 of the IBC: Discontinuance of Arbitral Proceedings
[Ashish Rana is an Advocate on Record in Supreme Court of India. The author thanks Shatakshi Singh for assistance] The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has been enacted by the Parliament with a view to codify the existing framework of insolvency and bankruptcy which comprised of scattered provisions and mechanisms under the different legislation. Section 14 of the IBC provides for the...
Resolving IL&FS: IBC vs Schemes of Arrangement
[Aayush Mitruka and Manaswi Agarwal graduated from ILS Law College, Pune and are currently working with law firms in Delhi and Mumbai respectively. They can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].] Since August 2018 Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) has been in headlines for having missed several debt payments deadlines. The rapid...
Blockchain and Competition Law: New Technology, Old Challenges
[Swasti Gupta is a Research Associate at CUTS International, Jaipur] Overview The rapid emergence of “blockchain” in recent years has caused ripples in the global digital economy and has gripped the world’s attention. For those in search of a non-technical explanation, a blockchain is a decentralized, distributed ledger for transactions executed amongst the participants. It enables real-time...
Non-Deductibility of CSR Expenditure under the Income Tax Act: Some Concerns
[Priya Garg is a 5th year student at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS), Kolkata] The Income Tax Act, 1961 (“IT Act”) allows various business expenses to be claimed as ‘deductions’ while computing taxable income under the head ‘profit and gains of business or profession’.[1] Section 37 of the IT Act is a residuary provision on deductions. It permits any business...
Pricing Algorithms: How Should India Deal With It?
[Anik Bhaduri is a second-year B.A., LL.B (Hons.) student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad] The rapid development of the digital world often presents issues which could not have been contemplated before, thus presenting new challenges to the existing legal framework, which has to modify itself to deal with the new problems. The development of pricing algorithms presents one such issue. As...
The Quandary of Market Delineation under Section 3 of the Competition Act
[Ahkam Khan & Divyansh Prasad are 3rd Year BA LLB (Hons.) students at Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow] Antitrust laws aim at protecting and sustaining competition by preventing practices having appreciable adverse effects on competition (or AAEC). This competition necessarily exists in closed economic models or marketplaces. For the purposes of gauging whether a...
Enabling Going Concern Sale in Liquidation
[Vinod Kothari and Sikha Bansal are at Vinod Kothari & Company and can be reached at [email protected]] The amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (Liquidation Process) Regulations, 2016 (“Liquidation Regulations”), introduced on 28 March 2018 by incorporating a change in regulation 32 of the Liquidation Regulations, made it explicitly possible for the...
Resale Price Maintenance in the Online Retailing Era: Exploring an Alternative
[Divyansh Prasad is a 3rd Year BA LLB (Hons.) student from Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow] Section 3 of the Competition Act, 2002 proscribes any horizontal or vertical agreements that may have appreciable adverse effects on competition. Section 3(4)(e) specifically prohibits agreements between two or more enterprises operating at different levels of production which...
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