Tag: Contract Law
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Legal Issues Surrounding Online Card Gaming
[Meenal Maheshwari Shah is the legal counsel for Brand Capital, the investment arm of the Times of India Group] A vast population in India likes to engage in card games, especially rummy and poker. It naturally follows that with the advent of internet, they are fixated on the websites which host such games for stakes. …
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The Battle of Forms
[Narayan Gupta is a final year law student at Jindal Global Law School, Sonepat] Introduction This post seeks to envisage the problems that arise in the Battle of Forms and the solutions to tackle them. Before we get into the problems encapsulated in the Battle of Forms, it is necessary to understand what leads us…
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Recovery Proceedings against Guarantors during the Insolvency of the Principal Debtor
[Milind Gaur is a 5th Year BBA LLB student of Symbiosis Law School, Pune.] Introduction With the dawn of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the Code), a crucial and much needed framework was set in place for tackling the insolvency and bankruptcy regime in India. At the same time, the Code has elicited clarifications…
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The Legality of Smart Contracts in India
[Rishi A is legal analyst at spotdraft.com] Introduction Earlier this year, the State Bank of India (‘SBI’) launched BankChain, a blockchain platform formed by a consortium of 27 banks, which was proposed to be used to share e-KYC information about customers within the consortium. This would help with the transmission of information directly to the…
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The Ambiguous Treatment of Non-Compete Covenants in Joint Venture Agreements
[Anubhuti Maithani is a 2nd year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at NALSAR University of Law in Hyderabad, India] A non-compete clause (NCC) is a restrictive covenant, frequently found in combination agreements like mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and joint venture agreements, that prohibits one party from competing with the other on terms stipulated therein. In other…
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Unexplored Antitrust and Contract Law Issues In Indian Transport Aggregation
[Arjun Agarwal is a 5th year student at WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and Pragya Dahiya a 4th year student at Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat. The authors can be contacted at arjunag@nujs.edu] Much has been written about anti-trust issues surrounding the practices adopted by the likes of Uber and Ola in India.…
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Strict Interpretation or Purposive Interpretation? Analysing the Sanjeev Shriya Case
[Guest post by Deeksha Malik, who is a is a fifth-year student of National Law Institute University, Bhopal. An earlier post on the topic is available here.] Ever since the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (the “Code”) came into force, the Indian judiciary has been dealing with a number of cases that have required it…
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Employee’s Right to Sue after Obtaining Full and Final Settlement from Employer
[Guest post by Ravi Pandey, IX Semester, National Law University, Lucknow] Full and final settlement is usually used by the employers to absolve themselves from all the previous dues and claims of their employees. It is usually actuated in the form of a settlement contract and effectively concludes the employer-employee relationship. Ideally such a settlement…
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Liability of Personal Guarantors of a Corporate Debtor during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process
[Guest post by Param Pandya, Research Fellow, Corporate Law and Financial Law, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, New Delhi. The views expressed by the author are personal.] On September 6, 2017, the Allahabad High Court in the case of Sanjeev Shriya vs. State Bank of India (“Sanjeev Case”) decided the question of the liability of…
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Supreme Court on Hardship vis-à-vis Frustration and Force Majeure
[Posted by Mihir Naniwadekar] [This is a guest post contributed by Rishabh Raheja, a third year student at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.] The Supreme Court was presented with the perfect opportunity to clarify the relationship between frustration, force majeure and hardship or commercial impracticability in its decision in Energy Watchdog v. Central Electricity Regulatory Authority.…