The e-commerce industry has been booming over the years and has facilitated the integration of markets across the world. It allows producers as well as buyers to access markets easily which were hitherto separated by time and distance. In India, it brings in a lot of Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) as the market-based model for e-commerce entities is allowed 100% …
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Legal Underpinnings of the US withdrawal of Generalized System of Preferences benefits to India
The World Trade Organization (“WTO”) is an international organization which regulates the trade relations between its member nations. The WTO covers both multilateral as well as Plurilateral Agreements. These Agreements contain certain special provisions for the benefit of the developing nations in the form of special rights. These provisions give developed nations certain rights to treat the developing nations more…
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The Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance, 2019: Decoding the Law and Procedure
The Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance, 2019 (“Ordinance”) has been promulgated by the Hon’ble President of India on 21st February 2019. The Ordinance comes as a substantial step to tackle unregulated and fraudulent deposit schemes in the country that have been able to abuse the Indian “mindset” of savings and their weakness for investment opportunities that sound too good to be…
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Sections 143A & 148 of the NI Act: A Definitive Analysis of the 2018 Amendment
The Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 has played a substantial role in the Indian commercial landscape and has given rightful sanction against defaulters of the due process of trade who engage in disingenuous activites that causes unlawful losses to rightful recipients through cheque dishonour. The Act, being a pre-independence legislation, was enacted with the intent to define and amend the law relating…
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The Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018: Assessing its Constitutional Vires
The Parliament of India has passed the Fugitive Economic Offenders Act, 2018 (herein after referred to as the “Act”) in its Monsoon Session in 2018. The Act represents the Government’s ambitious endeavour to buttress the multitudinous peril of economic offenders who cheat and defraud the country and its constituents only to seek haven outside of India, in an attempt to…
