Dr. Nigam Nuggehalli [1] The case of Xiaomi India Pvt Ltd v  State of Karnataka  (hereafter Xiaomi ), decided by the Karnataka High Court, is actually a simulation of a case because it did not yield a decision. The court remitted the case back to the Joint Commissioner of Commercial Taxes (the ‘adjudicating officer’) to review the case once again after hearing the parties more comprehensively on the applicable law. It is likely that after the adjudicating officer has taken hi

Anirud Raghav S U | I.              Introduction   Unjust enrichment has rapidly gained prominence in England in the late half of the 20 th  century. Thanks to the meticulous taxonomy developed by Professor Birks, the chaotic state of affairs was compendiously reduced to a set of intelligible principles. Legions of academic work and judicial decisions on unjust enrichment followed. Few would disagree that the law on unjust enrichment is of substantial commercial  significance

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