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GILGIT-BALTISTAN DISPUTE
GILGIT-BALTISTAN DISPUTE During the first Indo-Pak war of October 1947, Pakistan occupied 78,114 sq km of the land of Jammu and Kashmir, including the ‘Northern Areas’. The Northern Areas is the other name of Gilgit-Baltistan that Pakistan has used for administrative...
REDACTIVE PRICING AUDIT
REDACTIVE PRICING AUDIT Redaction is the selection or adaption by ‘obscuring or removing sensitive information’ from a document prior to publication. Redactive pricing is nowhere used in SAI audit reports. It does not seem to have been used in a government audit by...
PLEA BARGAINING
PLEA BARGAINING Plea bargaining refers to a person charged with a criminal offence negotiating with the prosecution for a lesser punishment than what is provided in law by pleading guilty to a less serious offence It is common in the United States, and has been a...
THEORY OF RELATIVE DEPRIVATION
THEORY OF RELATIVE DEPRIVATION Relative deprivation is a measure of social poverty, often resulting in social isolation, limited social mobility, physical and mental stress, low self‐worth, and an effort–reward imbalance. Marx (1847) captures the intuitive appeal of...
DOCTRINE OF LIVING TREE
DOCTRINE OF LIVING TREE The Living Tree Doctrine was first recognized in the case of Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) popularly known as Persons Case where Viscount Sankey stated that the British North American Act planted a living tree in the Constitution on...
THE BANK MORATORIUM
THE BANK MORATORIUM A moratorium is a temporary suspension of an activity or a waiting period set by a legal authority intended to ease the short-term financial hardship or provide some time to resolve related issues. A moratorium remains until issues that led to...
OFFICE OF PROFIT
OFFICE OF PROFIT The concept of disqualifying the holder of an office has developed as a necessary & inseparable part of a democratic government. The Government of India Act, 1935, made a clear & precise statement in this direction. Sub-section (1) of section...
O-RING THEORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
O-RING THEORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Michael Kremer formulated the O-ring theory in his article, “The O-ring Theory of Economic Development,” published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. It presents a production function in which production consists of many...
DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL INTENT
DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL INTENT The theory of interpretation by which judges attempt to ascertain the meaning of a particular provision of the constitution by determining how the provision was understood at the time it was drafted and ratified .It is popularly called as...
DUE PROCESS OF LAW
DUE PROCESS OF LAW Due process is interpreted here as the right to be treated fairly, efficiently and effectively by the administration of justice. The rights to due process place limitations on laws and legal proceedings, in order to guarantee fundamental...