Indian Journal for Research in Law and Management
Advancing Law and Management
ISSN No. : 2583-9896
ISSN No. : 2583-9896
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Web scraping refers to the collection of personal data and publicly available data on social media platforms for purposes like training, researching and testing products and services. Web scraping can be both legitimate when working in compliance with data protection safeguards and unethical when such data is breached for misuse of personal identifiable information. The […]
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A ₹350 million acquisition can pass through India’s merger control regime without the Competition Commission of India will ever hear of it, so long as the target’s assets and turnover stay below the statutory thresholds. This is clearly how Zomato’s acquired Uber Eats’ Indian operations in 2020, and this shows a problem far bigger than […]
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This paper critically examines India’s emerging regulatory framework for dark patterns, focusing on the Central Consumer Protection Authority’s 2025 advisory requiring e-commerce platforms to undertake self-audits. It argues that while self-audit addresses the CCPA’s resource and information constraints, it creates a structural conflict of interest because platforms assess practices from which they commercially benefit. The […]
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This article examines whether Protective Preliminary Orders (PPOs) issued ex parte by emergency arbitrators under the SIAC Rules 2025 can be enforced in India without undermining the due process guarantee under Section 18 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. It analyses the Supreme Court’s decision in Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC v. Future Retail […]
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Since 2009, India’s e-commerce industry has expanded at an astounding 34% Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR). But like many other thriving industries, this one face difficulties, one of which is a weak and ineffective legal and regulatory structure that cannot handle protecting the rights and responsibilities Since of the contracting parties. In June 2000, India […]
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Section 227 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023 governs the “issue of process” before a Magistrate once cognizance of an offence has been taken. It corresponds to Section 204 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC), with the notable addition of a proviso permitting summons or warrants to be issued through electronic […]
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ABSTRACT The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (‘BNSS’), which came into force on 1st July 2024 in place of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (‘CrPC’), carried forward several procedural aspects from the CrPC while also bringing in important changes. The primary aim of enacting this new legislation was to establish a quicker and more effective […]
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The enactment of the Bhartiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (BSA), replacing the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (IEA), represents a profound philosophical and structural shift in Indian evidentiary jurisprudence. For over fifteen decades, the analogue, document-centric design of the IEA struggled to accommodate the modern complexities of localized metadata, cloud computing, and encrypted channels. Previous interventions, such […]
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The history of adultery laws in India has changed vastly since it was introduced during British Colonial rule. It used to be a criminal act and considered a crime under law (additionally up until a few months ago) by the British government. Under Colonial law, women were seen as property and therefore the law recognised […]
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The digital age has not rendered intellectual property law obsolete, but it has exposed the limits of a framework designed for a world of physical copies and territorial markets. Copyright must contend with infinite reproducibility, patents with inventions that blur the line between human and machine creativity, trademarks with infringement at a scale traditional enforcement […]