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Volume IV, Issue 1
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Impact and Analysis
October 16, 2026
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This blog examines the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, which replaced overlapping stressed-asset schemes and recovery laws with a single time-bound law. It explains how the Code moved control to creditors, and how Section 29A, court rulings and COVID-19 measures shaped it. It reports outcomes, including the fall in gross NPAs from 11.8% in 2017 […]
Impact of M. Rajendran v. KPK Oils and Proteins India Pvt. Ltd. vis-à-vis Celir LLP v. Bafna Motors (Mumbai) Pvt. Ltd
October 16, 2026
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This commentary reads together two Supreme Court decisions under the SARFAESI Act, 2002: Celir LLP v. Bafna Motors (2023) and M. Rajendran v. KPK Oils and Proteins India Pvt. Ltd. (2025). It explains that a borrower’s right of redemption ends when the notice of sale is published under amended Section 13(8), that one composite notice […]
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This commentary analyses the Supreme Court’s judgment of 23 May 2025 in Bank of India v. M/s Sri Nangli Rice Mills Pvt. Ltd., a dispute between two banks over the same collateral. The Court held that Section 11 of the SARFAESI Act makes arbitration mandatory for specified disputes between banks, financial institutions, asset reconstruction companies […]
THE DATABASE DILEMMA: RESOLVING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN DATA ERASURE RIGHTS AND PROPRIETARY TRADE SECRETS
October 16, 2026
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The permanence of digital information has generated one of the most complex conflicts in modern commercial law: the tension between a data principal’s statutory right to privacy and an enterprise’s intellectual property rights. This report provides an in-depth doctrinal and comparative analysis of the “Database Dilemma” – the legal clash that occurs when a person, […]
EXTRATERRITORIAL DUE DILIGENCE: THE IMPACT OF THE EU CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTIVE ON INDIAN LABOUR COMPLIANCE
October 16, 2026
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The European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) has transformed transnational corporate governance and domestic labour compliance. This paper discusses in detail the legal, economic and operational conflicts resulting from the extraterritorial application of the CSDDD to the Indian manufacturing and textile industries. The European parent companies have, in effect, codified international standards […]
THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND PATENT MONOPOLIES: REASSESSING COMPULSORY LICENSING FOR GREEN TECHNOLOGIES UNDER THE TRIPS FRAMEWORK
October 16, 2026
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The increase in global climate crisis requires rapid distribution and adoption of climate change mitigation technologies which are blocked from being transferred to the growing and developing nations across the world due to patent monopolies established by the World Trade Organisation’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement. This research article offers a clear […]
THE BURDEN OF VERIFICATION: NAVIGATING EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECKS AND DATA MINIMISATION UNDER THE DPDP FRAMEWORK
October 16, 2026
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The necessity of background verification in the corporate management has brought significant friction between itself and the strict statutory regimes regarding privacy due to the enactment of Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 in India. On one hand, the DPDP Act allows the employee data to be processed for employment purposes, yet early erasure […]
THE ROLE OF INDEPENDENT DIRECTORS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IN INDIA
October 16, 2026
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Corporate governance is all about the system of rules, processes, and practices that guide how a company is directed, managed, and held accountable. When ownership and management are separate, it opens the door for those in control to make decisions that might not align with the interests of all shareholders. This issue is particularly pronounced […]
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Arbitration is designed to give commercial parties a quick, efficient, and definitive way to settle disputes. However, the real effectiveness of arbitration hinges not just on the tribunal’s ability to make a decision, but also on how well the winning party can enforce that decision. In India, the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996 lays […]
REVISITING THE GROUP OF COMPANIES DOCTRINE IN ARBITRATION: A CASE COMMENTARY ON COX AND KINGS LTD. V. SAP INDIA PVT. LTD.
October 16, 2026
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The Group of Companies Doctrine plays a crucial role in arbitration, allowing, under certain conditions, a non-signatory company that’s part of the same corporate family as a signatory to be held to an arbitration agreement. This principle has sparked quite a bit of discussion, as arbitration is all about consent, while companies in a corporate […]