{"id":270,"date":"2015-09-18T06:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T06:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indiareputation.com\/development\/mm1\/anablog\/?p=270"},"modified":"2016-09-27T18:48:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:48:50","slug":"time-is-of-the-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/time-is-of-the-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Time is of the essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pravin Anand and Lakshmi Kruttika Vijay consider how India is adapting IP legislation to tackle delays to justice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The time revolution is in its critical phase, a phase where the importance of time for the court, litigant, witnesses and lawyers has been emphasised and in some cases even mandated.<\/p>\n<p>The seed for this phase was planted not long after the first four-month order was pronounced by the Supreme Court. In 2009, in the case Koninklijke Philips Electronics v M Bathla, the High Court of Delhi took note of undue delays in conducting the trial and limited the number of hours that a witness could be cross examined to three hours each.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few years, several judges in other IP cases insisted that cross-examination be scheduled and take place on a certain number of days for more than four hours every day.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was published in Managing IP\u2019s Intellectual Property Focus 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.managingip.com\/Article\/3485793\/Time-is-of-the-essence.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pravin Anand and Lakshmi Kruttika Vijay consider how India is adapting IP legislation to tackle delays to justice. The time revolution is in its critical phase, a phase where the importance of time for the court, litigant, witnesses and lawyers has been emphasised and in some cases even mandated. The seed for this phase was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[97,44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.anandandanand.com\/oldupdates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}