The International Maritime Organization (IMO), known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping. On the other hand the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea treaty, is the international agreement that resulted from the…
It is a consolidating statute related to narcotic drugs. It amends all other laws that used to exist related to narcotic drugs before its enactment. The objective of the Act is as follows – To make stringent provisions for the control and regulation of operations relating to narcotic drugs and…
On the issue of determining the issue of patentability of the inventions under the product-by-process claims the Indian Patent Act and Manual of Patent office practise and procedure are silent. but the guidelines which has been issued by office of controller general of patents, designs and trademarks for examination of…
In a deplorable display of human might, we have been felling trees and laying the land bare of tree cover. No less is the outcome of our might that we direct at our trees by way of exerting external physical force on them. One such ‘not-so-apparent’ force comes from the…
A law commission set up by the BJP-led NDA government submitted its report to the Union saying that Uniform Civil Code is ‘neither necessary nor desirable’ suggesting that amendments can be made in the personal laws of religion so that no one becomes victim of an orthodox practice. In 1947,…
