In this issue

CUTTING EDGE

Jurisdiction of DRTs & Progress Achieved under IBC: Time to Reboot?

In addition to the RDB Act, the DRTs were vested with adjudication functions
under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI). Here’s an interesting read through.

COMPLIANCE CUES

India’s Most Critical Trade & Regulatory Compliance Digest

Lex Witness in association with The Trade & Regulatory Compliance Practice Desk at Saikrishna & Associates brings to you a detailed analysis on select updates and notifications.

BRIEFLY SPEAKING

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 Important Updates

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 since its inception, has seen constant amendments, regulatory changes as well as active judicial interpretation to ensure the applicability of the Code in line with its object and purpose. Dhir & Dhir Associates, a firm of high repute in the insolvency domain has encapsulated the critical legislative, regulatory as well as the judicial interpretation of the Code to provide a snapshot at a glance for all.

VINTAGE LANE

Rashtraguru Sir Surendranath Banerjee – Father of Indian Nationalism

Sir Surendranath Banerjee often known as Rashtraguru was Indian nationalist leader during the British Rule. He founded a nationalist organization called the Indian National Association to bring Hindus and Muslims together for political action.

and much more!

Lex Witness Magazine Description:

The Indian legal universe has close to 5 million individuals, one of the highest in the world who, directly or indirectly, are a part of it. This excludes the masses that are facing or fighting cases in numerous courts in India. On the other hand, the media universe in India has been exploding with newer formats on unheard kind of subjects. However, there is not even a single magazine that exclusively deals with legal matters, so to say. Witness is to fill this very greatly felt vacuum. WITNESS vows to be a high quality monthly magazine with the powers of fresh and original content that would deal exclusively with subjects pertaining to legality.

Country's top notch practitioners and experts are being invited to contribute in WITNESS with what we feel is relevant to all stakeholders in this profession, aiming at brainstorming between the legal luminaries and hence bettering this practice in all its aspects.

The readers of Witness are mighty, high-profile, influential HNI's. Witness addresses such a vital section of the society which is very large in number – the ones who frame the laws and the ones who practice it.

Witness covers an interesting bandwidth of readers right from the core legal community of the country that includes the Justices, Judges, Lawyers, Advocates, Bureaucrats, Corporate legal professionals, heads of law firms etc. With an initial circulation of 25,000 copies, Witness is available in all the major metropolitan cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad as well as in the mini metros like Jaipur, Nagpur, Dehradun, Indore, Surat etc.

Not only India, Witness has international circulations in the UK and US that prompt the global legal community to absorb the developments taking place in our legal process.