Month: October 2020

Indian National Bar Association (INBA) invites applications for participation in its 1st edition of Research Paper Writing Competition. 

CALL FOR PAPERS: In pursuance of this year’s Constitution Day, research papers are invited on the following themes: 

• Whether it is necessary to have a new post of separate specialized investigator in Police; 
• Perception of police in the mind of ordinary people, and whether reform in the force is essential along with Reformation in Police governing laws. 

The themes provided are directory in nature; therefore authors are free to select any related topic based on the above-mentioned themes.

Two Best Papers shall be selected, winners of which will be awarded on the evening of 9th Annual International Conference scheduled on Law Day, 2020.

Submission: 

Submissions to be sent on inba.paperconference@gmail.com 

The Last Date for the Submission of Research paper is 20th November, 2020.

For more details or any query:

1. Send an email on inba.paperconference@gmail.com or 

2. Visit the official website

https://www.indianbarassociation.org/events/call-for-research-papers/

3. Call/ WhatsApp 

Tanishka Grover +91-9999799463

Avni Agarwal +91-9910744488

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About TERI

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Earth Journalism Network are providing a six- month media fellowship to digital, print, and radio journalists, voice artists, documentary filmmakers, video bloggers, graphic artists, and anyone else who has a demonstrated flair for mass communication. Preference will be given to applicants from the Himalayan region in India, Nepal, and Bhutan.

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is a research institute in New Delhi that specializes in the fields of energy, environment, and sustainable development. Established in 1974, it was formerly known as the Tata Energy Research Institute. As the scope of its activities widened, it was renamed The Energy and Resources Institute in 2003.

About Fellowship

The fellowship goal is to broaden the understanding of the fellows on climate change communication and enhance their skills to produce multimedia stories across a variety of digital platforms. This is a fully online program. The fellows will get to interact with a number of climate science, policy and communication experts. They will be mentored by senior journalists and their performances will be assessed on the basis of stories, involving original production and reporting from the Himalayan region.

Overall, this Media Fellowship program intends to create a Himalayan collective of climate change communicators, who in the long term, collaborate to amplify the environmental concerns and solutions, related to this very vital and vulnerable ecosystem.

Eligibility

• Any professional with minimum 3 years of work experience, working with a regional or national media organization or independently.
• Preferably (not necessarily) located in the Himalayan region. The fellowship intends to encourage applicants representing ethnic minority groups, indigenous groups, and women, individuals under 30 years of age, and people with disabilities.
• Is a citizen of India, Nepal, or Bhutan
• Engaged in reporting on Himalayan ecosystems
• Proficient (spoken and written) in English or Hindi language

Selection

Applicants will appear for a one-on-one interview with the selection committee. They will be shortlisted on the basis of the following submissions –

• Two by-lined samples of environmental reporting, preferably from new media- digital, radio and television. Regional language entries should be submitted with a summary in English.
• A letter of consent from your media organization to participate in the program. 
• A Statement of Purpose (SoP), delivered through a two-minute video, explaining your motivation to apply for the fellowship.

Expectations

• Training will be imparted through a virtually designed Learning Management System. 4G connectivity and standard laptop/desktop are essential pre-requisites for applying for this fellowship.
• Fellows will need to devote minimum of 4-5 hours per week to attend live classes and one-to-one sessions with assigned mentors.
• Additionally, they will be required to commit time to produce and submit multimedia stories (number of stories to be pre-fixed at the start of the fellowship) within stipulated deadlines. Fellows will receive a small stipend to support the production of these stories.
• All stories produced under the fellowship will be licensed under Creative Commons Attribution- No Derivatives 4.0 International. Fellows will be free to self-publish their stories or get it published first (commercially or pro-bono) on any credible media platform of their choice.

How to Apply

Interested journalists may fill up this form to send their submissions latest by October 31, 2020. In case of any problem in submitting the form, reach out to Mr. Sumit Bansal at sumit.bansal@teri.res.in

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About MEA

The Ministry of External Affairs of India, A.K.A Foreign Ministry is the government agency responsible for the conduct of foreign relations of India. The Ministry comes under the Government of India and is responsible for India’s representation in the United Nations.

About the Opportunity

The internship program provides an excellent opportunity for budding scholars to familiarize themselves with the process of formulation of foreign policy and its implementation by the Government of India.

Eligibility

The candidate must be an Indian citizen. 

Interested Indian citizens, Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders, and foreign nationals may apply for the internship in Indian Missions and Posts abroad.

Nature of Engagement

Interns shall report to and work under the close supervision of the concerned Head of Division (HOD) or Head of Mission (HOM)/Head of Post (HOP).

They may be required to conduct research, write reports, analyze evolving developments, or carry out any other task entrusted to them by the HOD/HOM/HOP.

Duration

1-6 months

Number of Interns at the Ministry

Approximately thirty interns will be engaged by the Ministry at a given point in time.

Up to 2 interns may be engaged by Missions/Posts abroad.

How to Apply

• The Applications are to be sent by registered/speed post, at the address given in the ‘Contact Information’ section.
• An advance copy of the application with attachments may be sent by e-mail to the following:

• jsad[at]mea.gov.in
• usfsp[at]mea.gov.in.

• Applications duly filled in and complete in all respect with required documents should reach at least four months before the commencement of the internship.
• For an internship in Indian Missions/Posts, applicants may send their applications to the Head of Chancery by post, at the Mission/Post’s address.
• The applications for the opportunity at MEA headquarters must include the following:

• Duly filled in Application Form.
• Copy of at least three documentary proofs of identity which may include a copy of Passport/Aadhar Card/Voter ID/PAN Card/Driving License/Ration Card etc. in case of Indian nationals; and Passport, OCI card, and National Identity Card in case of OCI cardholders.
• Curriculum Vitae.
• Introduction letter from the Head of Institution on the official stationery where the applicant studied/studying.
• No objection certificate from University/Institution in case the internship is to be pursued in parallel with an ongoing course.
• Self-attested certificates and transcripts for all the accomplishments mentioned in Paras 8, 9 and 13 of Application Form (educational qualifications, current courses being pursued and projects undertaken).

Applicants are advised to apply at least four months before the intended date of the start of the internship.

Click here to download the application proforma.

Contact Information

The applications should be sent at the following address:

Joint Secretary (Administration) Ministry of External Affairs Room No.149 A, South Block New Delhi – 110011.

Queries may be addressed to:

Under Secretary (FSP) at usfsp[at]mea.gov.in with a copy to jsad[at]mea.gov.in.

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About UN Volunteering

United Nations (UN) Online Volunteers will support the OHCHR Regional Office for Southern Africa in fulfilling its mission:

• To work for the protection of all human rights for all people.
• To help empower people to realize their rights.
• To assist those responsible for upholding such rights in ensuring that they are implemented.

About the Task

The volunteer’s tasks would include the following:

• Support trainings, consultations and other activities on country human rights issues.
• Conduct research, analysis, data collection and prepare analytical briefs and updates.
• Support engagement with human rights mechanisms by States, civil society organizations and national human rights institutions.
• Support technical assistance to States, civil society and national human rights institutions on implementation of human rights recommendations.
• Support engagement with UN country teams in the sub-region.
• Support human rights early warning in the sub-region.
• Support awareness raising about human rights and the work of the UN.
• Drafting reports, communications, note-taking.
• Perform other duties requested by supervisor, as appropriate.

Eligibility

The candidate must:

• Be enrolled or have graduated with a Masters or equivalent degree OR
• Have graduated from a first-level university degree (Bachelors or equivalent) in a field relevant to human rights (law, political science, social sciences, international relations, etc.).
• Work Experience relevant to human rights and in Southern Africa is desirable.
• Language: Excellent written and spoken English is required.
• Knowledge of French, Portuguese or other languages from Southern Africa is an asset.

Number of Volunteers Needed

2

Duration

26 Weeks/ 20+ Hrs. per Week. 

How to Apply

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About Ikigai Law

Ikigai Law is an award-winning law firm that provides legal and strategic advice to a wide variety of clients like high impact startups, companies, etc. They are also involved in policy and regulatory debates for emerging business models.

About the Opportunity

Ikigai Law is providing online internship opportunities to law students in their final years.

Eligibility Criteria

• The student must be in 4th or 5th-year LL.B. or 3rd year of the 3-year course or equivalent Academics
• Past Internship experience and exposure – quality, range, rigor and relevance
• Moot courts’ participation as speaker/researcher – quality and quantity
• Publications/research work – quality and quantity
• Extra-curricular activities – evidence of initiative, leadership, talent and personality attributes

Scope of Work

• Basic legal research
• Preparing case notes
• Drafting research memoranda, case briefs
• Assisting attorneys in case preparation and transactions

How to Apply

The interested candidate should mail his/her latest CV not longer than 2 (two) pages and a cover letter as an email body stating:

• Why do you want to work at Ikigai Law? (Restrict word limit to 200 words)
• What are your core competencies and how do you plan to use these skills in a manner that is unique to you at the workplace? (Restrict word limit to 200 words)

Applications to be emailed to internship[at]ikigailaw.com with the subject- Internship for the month of [the preferred month].

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About the Internship Opportunity

Leo Cussen Centre for Law, Australia has an excellent reputation training law graduates for admission to the legal profession since 1972. They train people with a law degree to become practical lawyers.

InsideSherpa (Now- TheForage) is an open-access platform designed to unlock exciting careers for students, by connecting them to company endorsed Virtual Intern programs. Not only are they free, open access, and completely online – but also CV certified and endorsed by host companies.

The former recently partnered with InsideSherpa to build a Leo Cussen Human Rights Law Virtual Internship Program designed to provide students with valuable insight into what it’s really like to solve human rights issues in legal practice.

The virtual internship is:

• Free
• Entirely online
• Accessible to everyone
• Self-paced

Eligibility

Law Students

Focus of the Internship

• Legal communication skills.
• Advising on an employment dismissal, a discrimination issue, and a deportation matter.

Nature of the Internship

• Online
• Self-paced

Duration

Approximately 5-6 hours.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Review client communications to determine what is required.
• Summaries and synthesize relevant information for your supervisor.
• Help provide legal advice to an employee who appears to have been dismissed and/or discriminated against.
• Help provide legal advice to a disabled client who appears to have been discriminated against.
• Summaries instructions to challenge a deportation order.
• Draft a Memo of advice to the senior lawyer about how best to challenge the client’s deportation order.
• Identifying human rights international conventions or treaties.

How to Register

• Click on the ‘Register Now’ button at the end of the page. (Link of the page given at the end of this post)
• Sign Up with the required information.
• Get Started with the Internship!

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ROLE-

• Interns will be working under the supervision of them.
• To look up the works of the interns.
• Assign works to the interns.

PERKS-

• Certificate of completion.
• Certificate to the best performer.
• Letter of recommendation.

TENURE-

2 months.

APPLICATION-

Interested candidates can send their CV at legaldivine2020@gmail.com at latest by 30^th of October till 23:59 only.

The subject of the mail should be ‘Application for Intern Coordinator’.

ELIGIBILITY-

Students who are currently enrolled in 3-years or 5-years UG Law Course and will to work.

CONTACT US:

Legaldivine2020@gmail.com

WhatsApp at – 9647812256

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Legal Reasoning is considered one of the most important section out of all the other section that an aspirant is preparing for the CLAT examination.

Most of the preparators/aspirants does not understand the actual objective of examiner behind this section and they prepare in a different way which does not works at all.

Objective of the examiner is not to check legal acumen rather to check Reasoning Skill of the aspirant.

 Legal Reasoning is all about applying ideas or principles to make logical connections in a given set of fact or situation and to find out the most relevant option available.

The pattern of question is usually based on the same concept.

• A Legal principle followed by some factual situation.
• Question based on excerpts and Paragraphs.

In recent years it has been seen that the questions are taken from the recent legal issues that has been in headlines. So, students should read out the Newspaper and keep on checking the recent trends from there.

Some of the key areas in different subjects of law are given that is of prime importance for the aspirants.

Indian Contract Act-	Offer, Acceptance, Essential Conditions to Contract, Partnership, Types of Contract, Void and Voidable Contract, Communication etc.
Law of Torts –	Nuisance, Trespass, Negligence, Defamation, Strict, Absolute and Vicarious Liability, Malicious Prosecution etc.
Indian Penal Code-	General Exceptions, Crime against property, crime against human, crime against state etc
Indian Constitution –	Preamble, Fundamental Rights, DPSP, President, Council of Ministers, CAG, AG, Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Supreme Court, Governor, Legislative Assembly, Amendments, Languages, Consolidated and Contingency Fund, Lok Adalats, Landmark Cases, etc.

Apart from this there are some miscellaneous areas of law that aspirants should focus like

Family Law, Sales of goods Act, property laws, Administrative Laws.

CLATPEEPS PRO TIP-

• Read the landmark judgement on each topics of law so that you can grab the secret of application of law.
• Pick the daily News Paper see the headlines where the unlawful incident is covered and try to find out that what are the charges under the law for which the liability is arising.

*The above give topics from different subject areas of law are advisory in nature, we are not claiming that the questions will be from there only.

The Delhi High Court recently held that students shall have the choice to give exams.

The central government had earlier announced that the universities and colleges across the country are required to complete the final semester exams for the final year undergraduate and postgraduate students by the end of September 2020. The colleges would be provided with the option of completing the exams online, offline, or in both the modes as per the convenience of the students.

In its general meeting on October 5, BCI said its circulars and press releases had “clearly spelled out that no physical exams were to be held till physical reopening of colleges, which should only re-open after the crisis of pandemic is averted”.

The directions were also issued to promote all students except those in the final year to ensure that classes for the next academic year would begin, it added. Promoting intermediate students were regularized by adding a clause that exams should be held within a month of re-opening of colleges, BCI has clarified.

Prodyut Bhattacharya, the controller of examinations at IP University, said “we will wait for now as there is a court hearing on October 21 where our counsel would place the university’s view.”

The university had a plan to start the exams on November 2, “which would have been better as otherwise students will have to sit for two semesters exams in December”, he said, “We had decided on a two hour exam as an arrangement for the Covid- 19 precautions.”

On 21^st October 2020, Justice Nath acknowledged that a situation of  back logging of exams can be there if postponed whereas the petitioners have assured the students would be willing to give 10-15 exams. Directions have been given to the students whether to give exams on 2^nd November or later when the reappear exams are to be given.

Operative part to remove any confusion:-

1. Students shall have the choice to give exams any of the two exams. It is pertinent to note that the first chance is in the lieu of the desire of the students who wish to write exams commencing from 2^nd November 2020 and second alternative is given in the light of the BCI Communication/ Clarification where the exams will be held post 1 month of the Physical reopening of the college.
2. There shall lie no penal consequence for those students who wish to miss the exam commencing from 2^nd November 2020, but they have to give exams post the physical reopening of the colleges.(No student is exempted from giving exams, rather it’s a choice left for the students whether to give it now or later)
3. The mode for the exams commencing from 2nd November 2020 shall be physical and shall be in the home institution which shall have 3 questions and will be of 2 hours.

Also, it has been submitted in the petition that the students are comfortable to have 2-3 semester examination together later on who skips this exam and have no objection for the same. Thus, no matter how many exams will be lined up in the future the students shall have to give exams.

Offset dilution in defence, a flawed policy turn- Wednesday, October 21, 2020

• Many contend that the move is a setback for augmenting domestic capabilities or for realising the goal of Atmanirbhar Bharat

Augment: to increase; to make something (developing) greater in size

• However, the policy has been tweaked many times since.

Tweak: To twist

• The dilution means practically giving up the offset clause, sounding the death knell of India’s prospects for becoming defence production and technological self-reliance.

Death Knell: sounding the end of something

• It is a lamentable excuse for the reported policy failure.

Lamentable: Which deserves serious criticism; very bad; regretable

• Despite the heft of HAL, India is a lightweight in global civilian aircraft manufacturing , as the public sector giant mostly devotes itself to defence production.

Heft: Influence or ability that something or someone possess

• Exports plummeted after the offset clause was relaxed

Plument: to decline suddenly