Mastery of Language: The Advocate’s Essential Tool

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For an advocate, no tool is more crucial to professional success than a mastery of language. While this principle applies to any profession reliant on words, it is especially true in advocacy, where both written and spoken language play a decisive role. Given that a vast body of legal material is in English, this article will focus specifically on an advocate's command of the English language.

The Necessity of Developing Legal Drafting Skills

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A lawyer needs to write a lot compared to any other professional. Writing is a skill which anyone can acquire. Without good drafting skills no lawyer can survive. Writing is not just confined to constructing grammatically perfect sentences, with proper spelling and punctuation. It is much more than that.

Law relating to Revision in Criminal Cases

Posted inCode of Criminal Procedures (CrPC)
Revision is the process of examination of an order of a lower court by a higher court, so as to rectify any improper exercise of judicial power. The precise purpose of revision in a case is to examine the correctness, legality or propriety of any proceedings before any inferior court. Revision keeps the lower court within the bounds of their authority and makes them work according to well defined principles of law. Revisional jurisdiction is analogous to power of supervision and superintendence.

Hindu Woman’s Right in the Ancestral Property Since 2005

Posted inProperty & Succession
The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (HSA), in its original form did not give the daughter of a coparcener equal right to the ancestral property as that of a son.   Therefore the act was amended in 2005 to counter balance the gender. After the amendment, the daughter of the coparcener in a Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) has got equal rights, liabilities, and duties as her brothers. Hence any ancestral property has to be shared equally among all coparcenary members including women since 2005.