LEGALEYE

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             USE OF ABUSIVE LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIA:LEGAL LIABILITY                                                                                                    Sunidhi Chaudhry* While social media allows anybody to express themselves and communicate with a big audience, it has also become a forum for harsh behaviour, abusive language, cyberbullying, and personal attacks, toxic, unpleasant, obscene, menacing, insulting, and despise for one...

  Criminal Liability of Medical Professionals: Legal Contours  - Sankalp Khurana* Ø Introduction The medical profession is a profession that’s often considered to be sacred for it gives people hope. People place a lot of trust in the medical machinery in hopes for being cured of whatever medical problems they face, so the medical professionals carry a lot of responsibilities on their shoulder so as not to abuse the trust placed in them. However, with the growing scope of medical science, many people are trying to transform it into a business model. Just like many other professions in the modern times, corruption and dishonesty has also crept its way into the medical profession. The doctor-patient relationship that was once considered to be profound, now sometimes is the commencement of a legal battle between the two sides. The trust that people placed in the medical professionals is slowly deteriorating and if a medical procedure now fails, people tend to blame the medi...

  SHOULD LEGISLATORS GET PENSION? -Ayushi Jaryal* In March 2018, a bench of Justice J. Chelameshwar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul dismissed a PIL challenging the perks including travel allowances given to former Parliamentarians. The rationale given behind dismissing this PIL was that the benefits and pension given to former parliamentarians is “justified” in order to maintain their dignity even after they complete their tenure. However, there is a fresh petition filed in the Supreme Court against the vague verdict given by the apex court. In India the salaries, allowances, pensions, benefits and perks given to Members of Parliament is regulated by an act called [Salary, Allowances and Pension] of Members of Parliament Act, 1954. Up until 2018, the Parliament periodically revised the salaries of MPs, however the same year the Parliament through the Finance Act, amended this law and provided for revising and increasing salary, daily allowance, and pension of MPs based on the cost inf...

  MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE TREATY (MLAT) : LEGAL ASSISTANCE ACROSS BORDERS -           Ayushi Jaryal* In 2019, India signed the most recent Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with Maldives for the first time. “During the meeting, the two ministers discussed ongoing cooperation in various avenues and expanding cooperation in new areas," said a statement issued by the Maldives Foreign Ministry. [1]   INTRODUCTION As the world benefits from globalisation and economic liberalisation creating a multitude of opportunities. Technological advancements aided this and made growth even faster, but a dark underbelly of this phenomenon was discovered as it gave rise to trans nationalisation of crime. There are over 7 million internet user in India as of October 2020 [2] and increasingly more and more transactions are taking place online which also widens the scope of crimes happening across borders. More detailed information about t...