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Introduction Mediation has been a part of India’s dispute resolution landscape and several Indian statutes, such as the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, the Commercial Courts Act, 2015, have recognized mediation as a means of alternative dispute resolution, but there was no standalone legislation governing the conduct of mediation…
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! According to the 2024 Technology Perceptions Report by Intapp, what percentage of respondents at high-tech law firms report they’re highly satisfied at their firm? Hint: Only 51% of respondents at mid- or low-tech firms report similar levels of satisfaction. See the answer on…
The government recently published the General Scheme of the Employment (Restriction of Certain Mandatory Retirement Ages) Bill 2024 (General Scheme). The General Scheme seeks to allow, but not compel, an employee to remain in employment until reaching the “pensionable age” under social welfare legislation. “Pensionable age” is currently age 66 (State Pension Age). These reform…
Olga V. Mack is a Fellow at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, and a Generative AI Editor at law.MIT. Olga embraces legal innovation and had dedicated her career to improving and shaping the future of law. She is convinced that the legal profession will emerge even stronger, more resilient, and more inclusive than…
11 April 2024 Pointon Partners To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Legal action has been initiated in the Federal Court of Australia between Koninklijke Douwe Egberts BV (“KDE”) and Jacobs Douwe Egberts AU Pty Ltd (“JDE”), as the applicants, with respect to…
(Photo by David Becker/Getty Images) Donald Trump’s lawyers fired up the spaghetti cannon this week aiming it squarely at the walls of the courthouse in Manhattan where he’s due to face a jury on Monday. They’re now zero for three on emergency petitions to delay the trial for creating false business records to conceal his…
11 April 2024 Piper Alderman To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Treasurer Jim Chalmers has today announced transformative reforms to Australia’s merger laws. The new merger laws will mandatorily require companies to notify the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of merger…
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. There were three of us women in my class section at Georgetown Law School, and we were actually living together. And the very first day of the class on real property, we were so eager we sat in the front row. It’s professor Stetson,…
11 April 2024 Holman Webb To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In early 2023, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) conducted an internet sweep of influencers who were promoting and advertising products on social media. In December 2023, the ACCC released…
(Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) Donald Trump continued his stream of consciousness social media rant about his ongoing legal troubles this morning with a new broadside against Jack Smith and anyone else even vaguely concerned that American nuclear secrets are living in a private citizen’s toilet. It’s like the last chapter of Ulysses, but Joyce…