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		<title>The Validity of Advance Sexual Consent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nandita Saikia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The validity of â€œadvance consentâ€ is an issue which is being determined by the Canadian judiciary. Advance consent has been held to be invalid only in recent times. Throughout history, advance consent was recognised by both law and society, the &#8230; <a href="http://lawmatters.in/content/the-validity-of-advance-sexual-consent">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medea and Criminal Liability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Euripides&#8217; Medea has defined the modern perception of her. The play portrays the â€œterrible decision that Medea comes to as a result of her painful suffering.â€ Her â€œpainful sufferingâ€ was the suffering which her husband Jason inflicted on her by &#8230; <a href="http://lawmatters.in/content/medea-and-criminal-liability">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rehauling Sexual Assault Law in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comments on the Proposed Amendments to Criminal Law The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2010 has been made available.Â  The Bill contains proposed amendments toÂ two laws: the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code. The former is a substantive law &#8230; <a href="http://lawmatters.in/content/rehauling-sexual-assault-law-in-india">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rapist Claims Copyright</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[True, the threshold for &#8216;copyrightability&#8217; is low for literary (and other) works. A literary work must be original. It should not infringe another work&#8217;s copyright. It should be written or otherwise fixed in a tangible form. Writing it should generally &#8230; <a href="http://lawmatters.in/content/rapist-claims-copyright">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Professional Negligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 09:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nandita Saikia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the simplest terms, professionals are persons who have more than an average personâ€™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 &#8230; <a href="http://lawmatters.in/content/professional-negligence">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>NRIs Abandoning Spouses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, when the subject of NRI marriages is brought up, people speak either of how sought after they are or about how wives in such marriages supposedly use the allegedly draconian provisions of Section 498 A of the Indian Penal &#8230; <a href="http://lawmatters.in/content/nris-abandoning-spouses">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>More Protection to Women in Live-in Relationships</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 06:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women in live-in relationships are supposed to receive the same protection as wives when it comes to domestic violence. Now,Â  it appears that that protection also applies to dowry. Section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code has long been &#8230; <a href="http://lawmatters.in/content/more-protection-to-women-in-live-in-relationships">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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