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		<title>The Principal Director as an Author of a Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nandita Saikia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the entire paper on &#8220;Films and the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010&#8243; at SSRN here. One of the earliest provisions in the Copyright Amendment Bill which generated (not always entirely accurate) media interest was a provision which stated that the principal director would become an author of a film. Thus far, under the Indian Copyright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professional Negligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 09:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the simplest terms, professionals are persons who have more than an average person’s skill, ability and training in any specific domain. Negligence committed by them in the course of performing a professional function is professional negligence. Generally, if professional negligence has been committed, the person who has been adversely affected by it can seek [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Juveniles Defined: 2000 Law Applies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 08:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Juvenile Justice Act was passed in 1986. Fourteen years later, another Juvenile Justice Act was passed in 2000. Both of these Acts were meant to ensure that children who committed crimes were treated humanely and that they were given an adequate opportunity to reform themselves away from the influence of hardened criminals. One of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Incident of Ragging</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, the news of a student dying because of ragging hits headlines. Usually, it&#8217;s followed by a few debates on the telly after which everyone but those involved in and affected by the issue forget all about it. Until the next time it happens. On March 16, 2009, the issue came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The National Flower</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It doesn’t seem too unreasonable at first glance to say that a national symbol should not be used by a political party for political gain. That is essentially what Shaheen Parvez has been saying for some five years now. However, on March 16, 2009, the Supreme Court dismissed a Special Leave Petition she filed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Recovery of Loans</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Law Matters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The accepted practice is for people to approach civil courts for relief in respect of civil offences and for criminal offences to be tried in criminal courts. In addition to this, no one can be sent to gaol because of having committed a civil offence. Neither can people be jailed merely because they are unable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lowest Possible Sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judges of high courts have been exercising much discretion in awarding sentences for various offences by reducing the sentences awarded by lower courts. For example, the High Court of Bombay let off a person convicted in an acid attack case with a sentence which amounted to 35 days in gaol. In some instances, the courts [...]]]></description>
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