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Misnomer of the decade: Crypto-“currency”

Namratha Murugeshan and Prachi Srikant Tadsare/March 23, 2018June 13, 2018 /1 Comment

A lawyer and her client walk into a room full of accountants. The client looks at the room and says, “I hereby pay my lawyer, X units.” All the accountants note this transaction in their ledgers. This is the first post in a two-part series about about the legal nature of cryptocurrencies in India. The…

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Cricket, Competition and Conflict of Interest

Vasujith Ram/August 11, 2016December 27, 2016 /Leave a comment

Guest Post by Prashant Narang 72. It is common ground that the validity of the impugned amendment to Rule 6.2.4 shall have to be tested on a threshold basis viz. (i) whether the amendment is made by the authority competent to do so; (ii) whether the authority competent to bring about an amendment ha followed…

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Cricket and the Law: Analysis of the BCCI case

Arun Thiruvengadam/January 30, 2015December 27, 2016 /Leave a comment

It has been some time since this blog featured analysis of the legal aspects of the regulation of cricket. (See here for some previous posts by V. Venkatesan in 2008, which might also induce some nostalgia in older readers of the blog). Today’s Indian Express has a succinct op-ed by Abhishek Tripathi which sets out…