The Bar Council of India (BCI) is a statutory body, constituted by Government of India under Advocates Act 1961 with the main objective of controlling and governing the working of all immediate subsidiary state-level bar councils besides laying down the standards of professional conduct and etiquette. Though it comes under the purview of Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India, it is a corporate body having perpetual succession and a common seal, with power to acquire and hold property, both movable and immovable, and to contract, and may by the name by which it is known sue and be sued. The council comprises of 18 Members including the Attorney General of India and the Solicitor General of India. While both the Attorney General and the Solicitor General are Ex-officio Members, the other 16 Members of the council represent the 16 State Bar Councils in the country. The Bar Council of India has constituted several committees including Education Committee, Disciplinary Committees, Executive Committee, Legal Aid Committee, Advocates Welfare Fund Committee, Rules Committee and various other Committees formed to look into specific issues arising from time to time. Out of these, the Education and Disciplinary committees are statutory committees of the council Activities and Function of Bar Council of India
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Bar Council of India (BCI)
MASTERS DEGREE IN LAW OF FINANCIAL SERVICES AND CAPITAL MARKETS(ML-FS&CM)
Masters Degree in Law of Financial Services and Capital markets is offered as a self-financing on-campus collaborative Programme between the NALSAR university and Institute of Insurance and Risk Management(IIRM) with effect from the academic year 2009-10. The programme provides conceptual foundation in various services like Insurance, Banks, Mutual Funds, Security markets etc., and also legal aspects involved in these areas. It aims at providing qualified and legally knowledgeable managers in the areas of financial services and capital market industries. This programme is the only one of its kind to be offered in the country.
The duration of the Programme is Two years - Four Semesters. The entire Programme should be completed in all respects within a maximum period of 4 years (8 semesters).
Admission to this Masters degree is Graduation in any discipline with 50% in aggregate. Preference will be given to those having experience of working in Insurance, Banking and other financial sectors or those in legal profession. There is no age restriction for this programme.
Candidates from all parts of the country are eligible for admission and there is no reservation for any category of candidates. Admission will be made based on the candidate's academic qualifications, experience and performance at the entrance examination and/or interview. Additional weightage would be given to those having higher qualifications.
Programme Fee for this Programme is Rs. 4 lakhs which can be paid either in lumpsum at the time of admission or in two equal installments as indicated below:
o First installment of Rs. 2 lakhs at the time of admission
o Second Installment on or before by July 15, 2010.
The Programme includes Tuition fee, Exam fee(for the first time), reading material fee, Library Fee, Internet Fee, Electricity fee, Journals Fee. All students have to pay, in addition, a refundable deposit of Rs. 5000/- at the time of admission.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Google in Legal Wrangle Over Blog
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Google has earned the ire of the Bombay High Court for not controlling defamatory content posted in its blogs against cardiologist Ashwin Mehta. The latter had moved the Bombay High Court reacting against 20 Google blogs that allegedly defamed him.
The Bombay High Court had advised Google to remove the reported blogs and prevent such incidents in the future.
Google India, in turn, approached the Bombay HC for relief saying it was not in a position to control the content published in blogs.
Srikant Doijode, legal counsel for Google India, said, "The blogging site is managed by Google, U.S. Even if there is an order restraining such blogs, it cannot do anything. Google India does not have any responsibility for the content of the blog. We (Google India) are not a party to the agreement between Google and those who use the blog."
The Google counsel, however, added that if there is any defamatory content that the court wanted removed the same would be done.
The final hearing in the case is scheduled for July 7.
Source: CXOToday.com
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Google has earned the ire of the Bombay High Court for not controlling defamatory content posted in its blogs against cardiologist Ashwin Mehta. The latter had moved the Bombay High Court reacting against 20 Google blogs that allegedly defamed him.
The Bombay High Court had advised Google to remove the reported blogs and prevent such incidents in the future.
Google India, in turn, approached the Bombay HC for relief saying it was not in a position to control the content published in blogs.
Srikant Doijode, legal counsel for Google India, said, "The blogging site is managed by Google, U.S. Even if there is an order restraining such blogs, it cannot do anything. Google India does not have any responsibility for the content of the blog. We (Google India) are not a party to the agreement between Google and those who use the blog."
The Google counsel, however, added that if there is any defamatory content that the court wanted removed the same would be done.
The final hearing in the case is scheduled for July 7.
Source: CXOToday.com
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Ten Worst Countries for Women
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In spite of real progress around the globe, the bedrock problems that have dogged women for centuries remain
The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty.
But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As International Women’s Day is celebrated today, they continue to feel the age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation, enforced ignorance and discrimination.
“These things are universal,” says Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of New York-based Equality Now. “There is not one single country where women can feel absolutely safe.”
In spite of real progress in women’s rights around the globe – better laws, political participation, education and income – the bedrock problems that have dogged women for centuries remain. Even in wealthy countries, there are pockets of private pain where women are unprotected and under attack.
Some countries, often the poorest and most conflict-ridden, have a level of violence that makes life unbearable for women. Richer ones may burden them with repressive laws, or sweep the problems of the least advantaged under the carpet. In any country, refugee women are among the most vulnerable.
So widespread are the disadvantages that it’s hard to pinpoint the worst places in the world for women. Some surveys rate their problems by quality of life, others by health indicators. Human rights groups point to countries where violations are so severe that even murder is routine.
Literacy is one of the best indicators of women’s status in their countries. But Amnesty International Canada’s women’s rights campaigner Cheryl Hotchkiss says building schools alone doesn’t solve the problem of equal education.
“There’s a huge range of barriers women face to getting an education,” she says. “It may be free and available, but parents won’t send their daughters out to school if they can be kidnapped and raped.”
Health is another key indicator, including the care of pregnant women, who are sometimes forced into disastrous early marriage and childbearing, as well as infection with HIV/AIDS. But again, statistics fail to show the whole, complex story.
“On a rural lake in Zambia, I met a woman who had not told her husband she was HIV-positive,” says David Morley, CEO of Save the Children Canada. “She was already living on the edge because she had no children. If she told him, she would be kicked off the island and sent alone to the mainland. She felt she had no choice, because she had no power at all.”
Putting power in women’s hands is the biggest challenge for improving their lives in every country, advocates agree. Whether in the poorest countries of Africa, or the most repressive of the Middle East or Asia, lack of control over their own destinies blights women’s lives from early childhood.
Here are 10 of the worst countries in the world to be a woman today:
• Afghanistan: The average Afghan girl will live to only 45 – one year less than an Afghan male. After three decades of war and religion-based repression, an overwhelming number of women are illiterate. More than half of all brides are under 16, and one woman dies in childbirth every half hour. Domestic violence is so common that 87 per cent of women admit to experiencing it. But more than one million widows are on the streets, often forced into prostitution. Afghanistan is the only country in which the female suicide rate is higher than that of males.
• Democratic Republic of Congo: In the eastern DRC, a war that claimed more than 3 million lives has ignited again, with women on the front line. Rapes are so brutal and systematic that UN investigators have called them unprecedented. Many victims die; others are infected with HIV and left to look after children alone. Foraging for food and water exposes women to yet more violence. Without money, transport or connections, they have no way of escape.
• Iraq: The U.S.-led invasion to “liberate” Iraq from Saddam Hussein has imprisoned women in an inferno of sectarian violence that targets women and girls. The literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest as families fear risking kidnapping and rape by sending girls to school. Women who once went out to work stay home. Meanwhile, more than 1 million women have been displaced from their homes, and millions more are unable to earn enough to eat.
• Nepal: Early marriage and childbirth exhaust the country’s malnourished women, and one in 24 will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Daughters who aren’t married off may be sold to traffickers before they reach their teens. Widows face extreme abuse and discrimination if they’re labelled bokshi, meaning witches. A low-level civil war between government and Maoist rebels has forced rural women into guerrilla groups.
• Sudan: While Sudanese women have made strides under reformed laws, the plight of those in Darfur, in western Sudan, has worsened. Abduction, rape or forced displacement have destroyed more than 1 million women’s lives since 2003. The janjaweed militias have used systematic rape as a demographic weapon, but access to justice is almost impossible for the female victims of violence.
• Other countries in which women’s lives are significantly worse than men’s include Guatemala, where an impoverished female underclass faces domestic violence, rape and the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS after sub-Saharan Africa. An epidemic of gruesome unsolved murders has left hundreds of women dead, some of their bodies left with hate messages.
In Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries, few women escape the torture of genital mutilation, many are forced into early marriages, and one in 10 dies in pregnancy or childbirth.
In the tribal border areas of Pakistan, women are gang-raped as punishment for men’s crimes. But honour killing is more widespread, and a renewed wave of religious extremism is targeting female politicians, human rights workers and lawyers.
In oil-rich Saudi Arabia, women are treated as lifelong dependents, under the guardianship of a male relative. Deprived of the right to drive a car or mix with men publicly, they are confined to strictly segregated lives on pain of severe punishment.
In the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a vicious civil war has put women, who were the traditional mainstay of the family, under attack. In a society that has broken down, women are exposed daily to rape, dangerously poor health care for pregnancy, and attack by armed gangs.
“While the potential of women is recognized at the international level,” says World Health Organization director-general Margaret Chan, “this potential will not be realized until conditions improve – often dramatically – in countries and communities. Too many complex factors, often rooted in social and cultural norms, continue to hinder the ability of women and girls to achieve their potential and benefit from social advances.”
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In spite of real progress around the globe, the bedrock problems that have dogged women for centuries remain
The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty.
But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As International Women’s Day is celebrated today, they continue to feel the age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation, enforced ignorance and discrimination.
“These things are universal,” says Taina Bien-Aime, executive director of New York-based Equality Now. “There is not one single country where women can feel absolutely safe.”
In spite of real progress in women’s rights around the globe – better laws, political participation, education and income – the bedrock problems that have dogged women for centuries remain. Even in wealthy countries, there are pockets of private pain where women are unprotected and under attack.
Some countries, often the poorest and most conflict-ridden, have a level of violence that makes life unbearable for women. Richer ones may burden them with repressive laws, or sweep the problems of the least advantaged under the carpet. In any country, refugee women are among the most vulnerable.
So widespread are the disadvantages that it’s hard to pinpoint the worst places in the world for women. Some surveys rate their problems by quality of life, others by health indicators. Human rights groups point to countries where violations are so severe that even murder is routine.
Literacy is one of the best indicators of women’s status in their countries. But Amnesty International Canada’s women’s rights campaigner Cheryl Hotchkiss says building schools alone doesn’t solve the problem of equal education.
“There’s a huge range of barriers women face to getting an education,” she says. “It may be free and available, but parents won’t send their daughters out to school if they can be kidnapped and raped.”
Health is another key indicator, including the care of pregnant women, who are sometimes forced into disastrous early marriage and childbearing, as well as infection with HIV/AIDS. But again, statistics fail to show the whole, complex story.
“On a rural lake in Zambia, I met a woman who had not told her husband she was HIV-positive,” says David Morley, CEO of Save the Children Canada. “She was already living on the edge because she had no children. If she told him, she would be kicked off the island and sent alone to the mainland. She felt she had no choice, because she had no power at all.”
Putting power in women’s hands is the biggest challenge for improving their lives in every country, advocates agree. Whether in the poorest countries of Africa, or the most repressive of the Middle East or Asia, lack of control over their own destinies blights women’s lives from early childhood.
Here are 10 of the worst countries in the world to be a woman today:
• Afghanistan: The average Afghan girl will live to only 45 – one year less than an Afghan male. After three decades of war and religion-based repression, an overwhelming number of women are illiterate. More than half of all brides are under 16, and one woman dies in childbirth every half hour. Domestic violence is so common that 87 per cent of women admit to experiencing it. But more than one million widows are on the streets, often forced into prostitution. Afghanistan is the only country in which the female suicide rate is higher than that of males.
• Democratic Republic of Congo: In the eastern DRC, a war that claimed more than 3 million lives has ignited again, with women on the front line. Rapes are so brutal and systematic that UN investigators have called them unprecedented. Many victims die; others are infected with HIV and left to look after children alone. Foraging for food and water exposes women to yet more violence. Without money, transport or connections, they have no way of escape.
• Iraq: The U.S.-led invasion to “liberate” Iraq from Saddam Hussein has imprisoned women in an inferno of sectarian violence that targets women and girls. The literacy rate, once the highest in the Arab world, is now among the lowest as families fear risking kidnapping and rape by sending girls to school. Women who once went out to work stay home. Meanwhile, more than 1 million women have been displaced from their homes, and millions more are unable to earn enough to eat.
• Nepal: Early marriage and childbirth exhaust the country’s malnourished women, and one in 24 will die in pregnancy or childbirth. Daughters who aren’t married off may be sold to traffickers before they reach their teens. Widows face extreme abuse and discrimination if they’re labelled bokshi, meaning witches. A low-level civil war between government and Maoist rebels has forced rural women into guerrilla groups.
• Sudan: While Sudanese women have made strides under reformed laws, the plight of those in Darfur, in western Sudan, has worsened. Abduction, rape or forced displacement have destroyed more than 1 million women’s lives since 2003. The janjaweed militias have used systematic rape as a demographic weapon, but access to justice is almost impossible for the female victims of violence.
• Other countries in which women’s lives are significantly worse than men’s include Guatemala, where an impoverished female underclass faces domestic violence, rape and the second-highest rate of HIV/AIDS after sub-Saharan Africa. An epidemic of gruesome unsolved murders has left hundreds of women dead, some of their bodies left with hate messages.
In Mali, one of the world’s poorest countries, few women escape the torture of genital mutilation, many are forced into early marriages, and one in 10 dies in pregnancy or childbirth.
In the tribal border areas of Pakistan, women are gang-raped as punishment for men’s crimes. But honour killing is more widespread, and a renewed wave of religious extremism is targeting female politicians, human rights workers and lawyers.
In oil-rich Saudi Arabia, women are treated as lifelong dependents, under the guardianship of a male relative. Deprived of the right to drive a car or mix with men publicly, they are confined to strictly segregated lives on pain of severe punishment.
In the Somali capital, Mogadishu, a vicious civil war has put women, who were the traditional mainstay of the family, under attack. In a society that has broken down, women are exposed daily to rape, dangerously poor health care for pregnancy, and attack by armed gangs.
“While the potential of women is recognized at the international level,” says World Health Organization director-general Margaret Chan, “this potential will not be realized until conditions improve – often dramatically – in countries and communities. Too many complex factors, often rooted in social and cultural norms, continue to hinder the ability of women and girls to achieve their potential and benefit from social advances.”
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Distance Courses by NALSAR University, Hyderabad
| The NALSAR Univeristy offers one year Postgraduate Diploma programmes in the following areas through proximate Education : | |
| One year Postgraduate Diploma in Patents Law (click here for details) | |
| One year Postgraduate Diploma in Media Law (click here for details) | |
| One year Postgraduate Diploma in Cyber Laws (click here for details) | |
| One year Postgraduate Diploma in International Humanitarian Law (click here for details) | |
Saturday, June 20, 2009
MASTERS DEGREE IN LAW OF FINANCIAL SERVICES AND CAPITAL MARKETS(ML-FS&CM)
Masters Degree in Law of Financial Services and Capital markets is offered as a self-financing on-campus collaborative Programme between the NALSAR university and Institute of Insurance and Risk Management(IIRM) with effect from the academic year 2009-10. The programme provides conceptual foundation in various services like Insurance, Banks, Mutual Funds, Security markets etc., and also legal aspects involved in these areas. It aims at providing qualified and legally knowledgeable managers in the areas of financial services and capital market industries. This programme is the only one of its kind to be offered in the country.
The duration of the Programme is Two years - Four Semesters. The entire Programme should be completed in all respects within a maximum period of 4 years (8 semesters).
Admission to this Masters degree is Graduation in any discipline with 50% in aggregate. Preference will be given to those having experience of working in Insurance, Banking and other financial sectors or those in legal profession. There is no age restriction for this programme.
Candidates from all parts of the country are eligible for admission and there is no reservation for any category of candidates. Admission will be made based on the candidate's academic qualifications, experience and performance at the entrance examination and/or interview. Additional weightage would be given to those having higher qualifications.
Programme Fee for this Programme is Rs. 4 lakhs which can be paid either in lumpsum at the time of admission or in two equal installments as indicated below:
o First installment of Rs. 2 lakhs at the time of admission
o Second Installment on or before by July 15, 2010.
The Programme includes Tuition fee, Exam fee(for the first time), reading material fee, Library Fee, Internet Fee, Electricity fee, Journals Fee. All students have to pay, in addition, a refundable deposit of Rs. 5000/- at the time of admission.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Post Graduate Diploma In Aviation Law And Air Transport Management (PGDALATM)
NALSAR University of Law is the only university of its kind in
IAAM has tie up with several leading International Universities / Management Institutions imparting aviation education including City University, USA/VSM Slovakia; Corporate Vision/Global Aviation Training Institute, UK/USA in partnership with Royal Roads University, Canada; Mega Trend University, Serbia; Aviation Consulting Group, USA; leading airports and airlines in the Europe and Middle East/UAE; thus providing a global acceptance of this programme which could help acquire coveted global placements in the aviation industry.
NALSAR-IAAM initiative institutionalises the academic - industry partnership in the domains of air transport management and aviation law which makes it a unique qualification, for the first time in
Semester 1 : Consisting of Two papers namely;
Paper One : Air Transport Management
(Includes Case Study)
Paper Two : International Aviation Law
(including Mock Exercises)
Semester 2 : Consisting of Two papers and Dissertation, namely;
Paper Three : Air Transport Management
(Includes Case Study)
Paper Four : National Aviation Law and Case Study
Paper Five : Dissertation
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Top 25 Law Colleges for 2009 - India Today
The National Law School of India University (NLSIU) has emerged right on top in the survey this year, conducted and published by the
The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research University (NALSAR) of Hyderabad, which had broken the run of NLSIU in the prime position last year, is in second place this year, followed by the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, in third place.
Making it into the top 25 this year are also institutes like the
MS Ramaiah College of Law,
Faculty of Law,
For Professor Rao, IT, which is associated with
Most of the talent blossoms because the college management has empowered the students to experiment and innovate. They even bring out their own peer-reviewed law journals, most of which are circulated around the globe.
The Student Bar Association has its own constitution and runs a variety of programmes at the law school. It has already helped the school earn a distinction in areas like mooting, legal services, literary and cultural competitions or academic publications. NLSIU was adjudged winner, best speaker at the Asia-Pacific round of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition in
The school’s students also qualified for the quarter final round of the international rounds of the Philip C. Jessup competition in
On the fun side, the school hosts Strawberry Fields,
While the recession hit recruitments even among prestigious business schools, NLSIU remained recession proof with 100 per cent placement. The school’s Rs 2-crore library has 70,000 books and has added a few rooms for visiting moot court teams apart from adding an all-wired computer lab for students. The school is working on networking law libraries in
The school, established in 1987 after a statute was enacted for that purpose by the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, is hoping to expand its infrastructure so it can take more students. Union Minister for Law and Justice M. Veerappa Moily, a lawyer himself, has assured the school help in boosting infrastructure.
Neither will its close rival, the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR)
“We offer courses in frontier areas where specific laws contribute to changes like in the realty, aviation and space, risk and insurance management and environment protection. The graduating students enjoy an outstanding placement rate because the bar, law firms, corporations and government agencies know that our graduates are equipped with problem-solving techniques and practical hands-on skills,” says NALSAR Vice-Chancellor Veer Singh.
Reflective of this rapid growth in a short span of time is NALSAR reaching an understanding with 21 foreign universities for exchange of students, faculty and collaborative research. Microsoft has signed an MoU for providing scholarships for three students every year for undertaking research in Intellectual Property Rights.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Neta’s of India – The most corrupt lot!
Neta’s of India – The most corrupt lot!
Transparency International recently released the Global corruption barometer for 2009 - it reveals that our Indian Neta’s for whom we cast our all important votes are the MOST corrupt lot, even more than Police and law officials !
Here are some of the findings of the survey
- 58% of the respondents in India singled out politicians as the most corrupt individuals.
- 13% of the respondents rated government officials as the second most corrupt.
- 10% of the respondents felt that Parliament and other law making bodies are corrupt.
- 9% of the respondents felt that the private sector - which was included in the survey for the first time - are corrupt.
- Media and judiciary are corrupt in the view of 8% and 3% respondents respectively.
- 45% of people surveyed in India said the government is ineffective in addressing corruption.
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