OUR PRACTICE

It is no longer a ‘free’ world in the true sense if the word. Whether it is protectionism, terrorist threat, commerce or plain vanilla demonstration of authority, we are now living in an increasingly Regulated world. Inherent in the decision to regulate is also the decision to forbear. But even the latter confers the power on the regulator to take such a decision. And, more often than not, courts are always want to interfere with such ‘policy’ decisions, unless, of course, the policy is patently arbitrary, unreasonable or unworkable. In such an environment, we have, over the last 4-5 years, witnessed a sudden spurt in exercise of regulatory powers by the different departments of the Government. The TRAI, DOT, SEBI, DIPP, RBI, MIB, MeITY – have all been busy and have kept the businesses and the citizens equally engaged, both in a participative manner during the consultation process, as also as the beneficiary of the direct consequences of such regulation-forbearance.

JMANN LAW FIRM Practice is strategically positioned – both geographically (located in the Capital – the nerve centre of all policy-regulatory activity), as well as by virtue of having handled advisory as well as litigation work in the regulatory space, across sectors-ministries. Our lawyers are principal advisors to leading Think Tanks, are often called upon to offer expert advice on matters of current importance by periodicals and the electronic media, and have been on committees and working groups that have advised / offered assistance to government departments on critical and cutting edge issues. These have included inputs to amendments to the Copyright Act, 2012; membership of the committee set up to finalise India’s position on the Draft WIPO Broadcaster’s Treaty; commenting on the Commercial Space Activities Bill, the Personal Data Protection Bill, the Flight & Maritime Connectivity Rules, Proposed Amendments to the E-Commerce Policy & Consultation Paper.