The importance of traditional knowledge of the indigenous communities and the inadequacy of existing law to protect the same is a worldwide concern. With this realized importance, emerges the need to protect this knowledge and to prevent its misappropriation. Protection of the traditional knowledge of the local and indigenous communities…
According to the legal system in India, the Juvenile in conflict with law, as per the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2002 are not segregated on the basis of their crime that they have committed in order to procure punishment. The maximum period of punishment prescribed is…
Globalization has affected justice delivery mechanisms of nations around the world. It touches and spreads the legal developments and debates which are going on in one part of the world to another part of the world. The best example of this is the development of laws and concepts relating to…
Jurisprudence in its limited sense means elucidation of the general principles upon which actual rules of law are based. Jurisprudence is a name given to a certain type of investigation of an abstract, general and theoretical nature which seeks to lay bare the essential principles of law and legal system.…
Change is inevitable. It is the law of nature. Everything around us changes with every passing minute. We notice some and we forget few. A couple of months ago Siliguri went through such kind of change and is still going through it. How can we forget the hour long traffic…