Effective Use of Blockchain in the Legal Sector – A near future or a distant possibility?

By Chandan Goswami & Eeshan Pandey The decision of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in Internet and Mobile Association of India v. Reserve Bank of India[1]has brought the legal sector’s attention back to the distributed ledger technology that formed the very basis of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Even though the law to regulate cryptocurrencies is still in …

THE LAW ON CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS

By Chandan Goswami A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO)/charitable institutions/ voluntary organizations is any nonprofit community, legally constituted, organized and operated by a group of citizens, on a local, national or international level. The competency to legislate on charities or charitable institutions is provided under schedule VII of the Indian Constitution. It falls under concurrent list and …