Articles and Updates

• Saket Shukla and Akshay Sachthey - 30-04-2020

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc across the world. India's response has been proactive keeping in mind the challenges we face, ranging from inadequate healthcare and sanitation infrastructure to poverty which has been worsened by the loss of work for informal/ temporary and daily wage workers. That said, the national lockdown is now extended till 3 May and further extensions are a possibility.

• Vasanth Rajasekaran and Shweta Vashist - 30-04-2020

The Commercial Courts Act, Commercial Division and Commercial Appellate Division of High Courts Act, 2015 (Commercial Courts Act) has amended the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (Code of Civil Procedure) in its application to commercial disputes. In this article, we analyse whether non-commercial suits will fall under the ambit of the amended provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure.

• Vasanth Rajasekaran , Shweta Vashist and Reshma Ravipati - 30-04-2020

In this article, we analyse the legal possibility of whether the arbitration agreement, which is a part of the original contract, can be abrogated by the parties by way of amending the contract which will perish along with the said contract.

• Phoenix Legal - 30-04-2020

Any discussion on bitcoins irresistibly brings thoughts on the value and pricing rather than the theory and relevance of bitcoins. Purportedly, developed by Craig White1. 'Bitcoin' is being regarded as an "alternate currency" which has caught the imagination of every virtual world freak fantasizing the possibility of minting money in no time.

• Abhishek Saxena - 24-04-2020

When news broke about Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) acquiring over 1% shareholding in one of India's largest housing finance company, the Housing Development Financial Corporation (HDFC), it caused a storm in the entire financial media and the business community. Alarm bells went off that Indian companies will become easy targets for acquisition by Chinese investors in the wake of sharp fall in the valuation of listed Indian companies because of COVID-19 pandemic.