Crooks clog the courts, denying the honest the time to have matters heard Friday afternoon. It was getting late in the Thane district court. The next day was a holiday. The opposing advocate had not turned up. We asked the judge to consider our si ..
Behram Doctor, a Chartered Account, was a dear friend and a very decent human being. On the 29th of September 2011, he got on to his motor-bike to take it to the garage for servicing. At Mahalaxmi, being a law abiding citizen, he waited at the traff ..
ArvindDatar and Moneylife had a wonderful session at the Yacht Club some time back. It was preceded by the launch of Kanga and Palkhiwalla’s latest edition of the Income Tax tome, Datar editing. Datar started his talk on Corporate Frauds by ..
This may be a wonderful pun concerning the articles that Moneylife readers have been getting in the past few months. While the idiom really means �catching crooks�, in this case the Bombay High Court has confirmed what we have been sayin ..
A case for prosecuting the prosecutors Regular readers of Moneylife, and others, will recall an article called �Who will guard the Guardians?� �..�Quis custodiet ipsos custodes�.In that piece we had mentioned that a ..
DO I HAVE A RIGHT TO BE NOT MADE A MONKEY OF? Yes. You do............... Last week, we asked if job-seekers, when sent off on smoke-and-mirror interviews, are entitled to judicial relief. Most Moneylifers must have said, “So what?”. It ..
The court�s imagination sometimes makes the crime fit the punishment instead of the converse Great cities are built on river banks. Delhi is on the Yamuna; Kolkata on the Hoogly; Varanasi on the Ganges. New York has its Hudson, Paris its Sei ..
A woman walks into a police station with a complaint. She has, she claims, been cheated. Cheated of Rs. 25 lakhs! And she wants her money back. And she wants the police to help her. So far, so good. What then is her story? And the interesting pa ..
A signboard says, �MEN AT WORK�. An article declares, �Sexual Harassment at Work�. The worst is the combination of both ��Men at work indulging in Sexual Harassment at work.Sexual harassment of women prevailsat ..
Juveniles are very much in the news these days. Those under 18 years of age are considered as not fully matured and treated with kid-gloves. The contention is that they are not totally aware of the consequences of their actions. It may or may not be ..