Articles and Updates

Strengthening Rules Of Online Gaming
  • Neha Naik and Madhavi Doshi - 17-05-2023

Recently, in an attempt to strengthen rules of online gaming in India, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notified amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021. Our Associate Partner Neha Naik and Senior Associate Madhavi Doshi, share some key provisions of the amendments.

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Defamation And Democracy: What Does The Law Say?
  • Zoeb Cutlerywala and Aanandini Thakare - 27-04-2023

๐——๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐——๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜†: ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐——๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐˜„ ๐—ฆ๐—ฎ๐˜†? - our Associate Partner, Zoeb Cutlerywala and Associate, Aanandini Thakare shared their valuable insights on the 'Defamation law' in an article published on Mondaq.

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Terms Of The Arbitration Agreement Cannot Over-Ride The Provisions Of The Limitation Act
  • Zoeb Cutlerywala and Vikram Kamath - 20-04-2023

Recently, in the matter of ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ก๐ข ๐ฏ. ๐๐š๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฃ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฒ, #delhihighcourt announced that in light of the provisions of Section 28 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, parties under an arbitration agreement cannot be permitted to restrict the period of limitation for invoking arbitration, in contravention to the limitation period provided by law under the Limitation Act, 1963.

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Terms of the Arbitration Agreement cannot over-ride the provisions of the Limitation Act
  • Zoeb S. Cutlerywala and Vikram Kamath - 13-04-2023

Recently, in the matter of ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ฉ๐š๐ฅ ๐‚๐จ๐ซ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฅ๐ก๐ข ๐ฏ. ๐๐š๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ฃ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฒ, #delhihighcourt announced that in light of the provisions of Section 28 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, parties under an arbitration agreement cannot be permitted to restrict the period of limitation for invoking arbitration, in contravention to the limitation period provided by law under the Limitation Act, 1963.

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Supreme Court reaffirms- Corporate Guarantors to โ€˜non-corporateโ€™ debtors to face IBC proceedings
  • Neha Naik, Sanjeev Sambasivan and Farhad Dalal - 13-04-2023

In a recent judgment of ๐Š. ๐๐š๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐š๐ฆ ๐ฏ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐Š๐š๐ซ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐•๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐š ๐๐š๐ง๐ค ๐‹๐ญ๐. ๐š๐ฆ๐ฉ; ๐€๐ง๐ซ., the #supremecourt confirmed that a Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process can be initiated against a corporate guarantor, even if the principal borrower is not a 'corporate person'. Our Associate Partner Neha Naik and Senior Associate Sanjeev Sambasivan shared their thoughts on the ruling.

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