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Evolution of ADR – Journey from Panchayat to ODR-Online Dispute Resolution

Written By : Adv. Abhimanyu Shandilya

The generations will forever remember the famous story of one of the greatest Hindi Writers Munshi Premchand’s PANCH PARMESHWAR. The story how beautifully narrated the essence of being an unbiased Panch (a judge/jury) even when there was a direct link and conflict between the person, who was voluntarily elected to be the jury and the litigant. The story depicted what was traditionally being followed by people in India since ages and was not borrowed from any other country or culture. The p...

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ODR- Online Dispute Resolution- Is this the future of dispute settlement?

Written By : Adv. Abhimanyu Shandilya

During the May’ 2020 lockdown when I was whiling away my time in my village in Jharkhand, I received a call from the Legal Head of one of the top life insurance companies from India with a question. Can your law firm help me in settling 6000 disputes (basically claim settlement disputes) spread across the country? Basically, what he wanted was that not to go to court and fight litigation but settle the dispute outside the court with the claimants and pay whatever could amicably be decided ...

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Divorce cases- Converting from contested to mutual- a beneficial step for the litigants.

Written By : Adv. Abhimanyu Shandilya

  Marriage is social institution which was conceptualised to bring in stability to the union of two humans, a male and female, so that they can start and carryon the family together.  All the cultures have elaborated processes to affect marriage and this shows how marriage has been an important aspect of all civilizations across the globe.  The rule makers understood the importance and gravity of this aspect of human society and thus almost parallelly in every culture we have more...

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Cheque Bounce or Sec 138 of Negotiable Instruments Acts cases decriminalization- a welcome step.

Written By : Adv. Abhimanyu Shandilya

When a cheque is presented to the bank for encashment and if the bank denies or dishonours the payment as mentioned in the bank cheque then that cheque is called as bounced cheque. The literal meaning is that the cheque has bounced back to the issuer or the payee as the bank has not been able to honour the cheque and pay the amount mentioned therein. The reasons for cheque bounce could be; a)   Insufficient funds b)   Defective cheque c)    Signature not matchi...

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Electronic Judicial System - The Future Forward

Written By : Souvik Sarkar

In my current blog, I shall discuss and explain the value addition which The Indian Judicial System will have if it moved forward to ‘Digitization’. We have seen a lot of countries opt for the digital judiciary and even India has started adopting the same. However, such welcome steps are scarce and there is more lip talking than actual work being done on the ground level. Let us start by understanding the concept The very concept of converting The Traditional Indian Judicial syste...

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Domestic Violence and Women Rights

Written By : Souvik Sarkar

Domestic violence in India means physical abuse of a person by another person who is a blood relative and usually in general connotation it means the physical abuse inflicted upon a female by her male relatives within the confinements of home. The Section 3 of the Domestic Violence Act, 2005 defines it as follow; For the purposes of this Act, any act, omission or commission or conduct of the respondent shall constitute domestic violence in case it – (a) harms or injures or endangers the he...

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