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

Balu G Nair | Allan Beever’s contribution to the edited volume on ‘Rights and Private Law’ is titled, perhaps provocatively, ‘ Our Most...

Kedar Manoj Ammanji | Introduction This piece opens a series of précis on foundational works in private law. This précis analyses the Reliance Interest framework developed by Lon L. Fuller and William R. Purdue in their seminal two-part articles - Reliance Interest in Contract Damages I and II. Fuller and Purdue articulate three key purposes which are pursued while awarding contract damages - (a) restitution interest; (b) reliance interest; and (c) expectation interest; Rest

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Prem Vinod Parwani | The Classification Problem Often, the simplest questions tend to have the most to unpack. We take our 'public vs...