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General Criminal Defences: Mistake of Fact, Accident and Necessity- Part II
“Ignorantia facti doth excusat; ignorantia juris non excusat” https://aggarwalsandassociates.com/general-criminal-defences-insanity-infancy-and-intoxication-part-1/ The Indian Penal Code provides some general defences under chapter four that exonerate criminal...
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Corporate Criminal Liability
“Corporate crime is the conduct of a corporation or of its employees acting on behalf of the corporation, which is prescribed and punished by law.”- J. Braithwaite Corporations have a separate legal entity and they are treated as a separate personality in law. And...
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Judicial Precedents in India
“A judge must interpret statutes as written. And a judge must interpret the Constitution as written, informed by history and tradition and precedent.” – Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice of Supreme Court of India. Every developed legal system possesses a judicial...
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General Criminal Defences: Insanity, Infancy and Intoxication. Part-1
Actus Non Facit Reum Nisi Mens Sit Rea The criminal law covers various punishments for offences which vary from case to case. But it is not always necessary that a person gets punished for a crime which he/she had committed. The Indian Penal Code (IPC),...
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Software Copyright scenario in India
Copyright is a form of intellectual property protection granted under Indian law to the creators of original works of authorship such as dramatic, musical, artistic work and literary works including computer programs, tables, and compilations including computer...
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Highlights of the Monsoon Sessions of the Parliament – Part III
This is a series of articles with an attempt to apprise the readers of the important provisions added (or modified or deleted) via the Amendment Bills passed or about to be passed by the Legislature in the present Session, as underneath the gamut of details written...
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Highlights of Monsoon Session of Parliament-Part II
This is a series of articles with an attempt to apprise the readers of the important provisions added (or modified or deleted) via the Amendment Bills passed or about to be passed by the Legislature in the present Session, as underneath the gamut of details written...
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Highlights of the Monsoon Session of Parliament – Part I
This is a series of articles with an attempt to apprise the readers of the important provisions added (or modified or deleted) via the multitude of Amendment Bills passed or about to be passed by the Legislature in the present on-going Session, as underneath the gamut...
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First Information Report (FIR) is a written document prepared by police officials when they receive information about the commission of an offence which is cognizable in nature. It means the police officer can suo moto take an action on an offence without prior...
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Clinical trials are research studies performed in people that are aimed at evaluating a medical, surgical, or behavioral intervention [defined as per U.S Department of Health & Human Services]. They are the primary way that researchers find out if a new treatment,...
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