Venue: Heidelberg, GermanyDate: 24 – 25 October, 2025 Join us at the IFKUR 19th Art Law Conference in Heidelberg, Germany, from October 24 – 25, 2025! This prestigious event will bring together leading experts in art law to discuss the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in the field. Attendees will benefit from […]
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Venue: Nairobi, Kenya
Date: 3 – 7 September 2025
Ms. Lavanya Regunathan Fischer will be delivering a speech at this important event. More details will be updated closer to the event date.
Topic: Children Caught in Conflict – Inspiring Positive Change Venue: Cambridge, United Kingdom Date: 27 – 30 July 2025 The conference is organised in partnership with the Faculty of Law and the University of Cambridge: The theme is ‘Children Caught in Conflict – Inspiring Positive Change’. The conference is a […]
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Venue: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Date: 4 – 6 May 2025
The WLC Dominican Republic 2025 will bring together in Santo Domingo world leaders, experts, practitioners, academics and law students, along with entrepreneurs to discuss current legal issues, from human rights to Artificial Intelligence.
Ms. Lavanya Regunathan Fischer will be delivering a speech on ‘Rule of law within the family law system in India’.
The Family Law Symposium will be held in the wings of the Commonwealth Law Conference 2025. It is co-hosted by the CLA Family Law Committee, IAFL and the FLBA on the theme: “Show me the Money” – Family Law, Trusts and Recognition and Enforcement.
Ms. Lavanya Regunathan Fischer will be delivering a speech on ‘Enforcement of orders in foreign jurisdictions’.
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The article provides a doctrinal analysis of the “moral rights” jurisprudence that started with the Amar Nath Sehgal v Union of India (2005) case and was recently propounded upon in the Raj Rewal v Union of India (2019) judgment of the Delhi High Court. The article argues that the court’s omission in Sehgal to deal with the consequence of “moral rights” on property rights has allowed subsequent benches to dilute the original doctrine.
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The advent of AI has globally taken the art industry by storm. It has raised concerns surrounding IPR. This has led to unease around possibilities of AI using copyrighted works without authorization. The copyright laws in India are governed by The Copyright Act of 1957. The limited scope of Indian copyright laws has been slightly widened by the 1994 amendment, which recognised computer generated artworks as copyrightable. However, questions around authorship and rights arising thereof remain under ambiguity. This scenario has highlighted a lacunae in the Indian copyright system.
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A recent order of the ITAT refocusses attention to the need for India to update its tax treaties and ensure that income from the digital economy is more equitably taxable in countries of residence and source. The case also highlights the problems with the way the revenue department responds to important judgments of appellate courts and how it pleads cases before tribunals.
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This paper examines the interplay between these two Sections, analysing their scopes, overlaps and procedural distinctions Section 9 allows parties to approach the judiciary for interim relief, thus ensuring the preservation of rights and status quo until arbitration concludes. Section 17, by entrusting tribunals with similar powers, seeks to streamline the arbitration process by reducing dependence on courts.
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The interplay between the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 and the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 has been a subject of legal ambiguity, particularly regarding the enforceability of arbitration agreements in unstamped or insufficiently stamped contracts. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in In Re: Interplay Between Arbitration Agreements under the Arbitration And Conciliation Act 1996 And The Indian Stamp Act 1899 has provided clarity by harmonizing these statutes. The Court ruled that non-stamping does not render arbitration agreements void ab initio but only inadmissible as evidence until stamp duty is cured, ensuring such defects are curable under law.
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