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Alternative Dispute Resolution Complete notes

Alternative Dispute Resolution One Shot

Section 89 of the CPC, introduced in 2002, encourages courts to refer cases to Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods like arbitration, conciliation, mediation, and judicial settlement. However, the section initia…

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Alternative Dispute Resolution Complete notes

ADR: Complete Notes

About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Example Brothers Prince and Farhan inherit their father's textile business in Cuttack and quarrel over the shop, the bank accounts and the brand name. Suit and counter-suit follow. Ten years later the case is pending, the business has shrun…

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Civil Procedure (CPC, 1908) Complete notes

CPC: Complete Notes

About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) The subject covers the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, together with the Limitation Act: from how the Code began to how time can make a trespasser an owner. Whenever a tenant refuses to leave, a buyer wants his money back, or two brothers qu…

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Civil Procedure (CPC, 1908) Complete notes

Code of Civil Procedure One Shot

The first Code of Civil Procedure was enacted in 1859 during British rule for courts outside Presidency towns. Revised codes were introduced in 1877 and 1882. The current CPC, 1908, consolidated earlier laws and has bee…

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Family Law I Complete notes

Family Law I: Complete Notes

Family Law I is the personal law of marriage and family for Hindus and Muslims in India, studied in five units, from what a personal law is and where it comes from, to adoption and the care of a child and the child's property. Marriage, divorce, maintenance and custody touch almost every home, and…

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Practice MCQs

3 practice questions test this section.

  1. 1 A sub-contract contains no arbitration clause. The sub-contractor files a suit and asks the trial court to refer the dispute to arbitration under Section 89 of the Code of Civil Procedure, but the defendant refuses. Acco...
  2. 2 Frank Sander suggested the idea of the multi-door courthouse at the Pound Conference of 1976. According to the lecture, through which provision has Indian law adopted this idea?
  3. 3 In the 2005 judgment in Salem Advocate Bar Association, Tamil Nadu v. Union of India, what did the Supreme Court do with the model Civil Procedure Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation Rules prepared by the Commit...
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