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Welcome a fifth time to Law Biriyani, the fortnightly offering of spice and flavour on myLaw.net. Browse the previous sets of questions, answers, and winners here. As usual, the first person to answer all six questions in the comments will receive a discount of Rs. 8000/- on any course or certification they want to do on myLaw.net. The quiz will be open up to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, November 12. Make sure you leave your email address along with your answers.

Q1. According to data from Amnesty International in 2013, China tops this list illustrated below. What list?

Q2. The origin of the term is attributed to the mafia owning a particular type of business. Initially observed in newspapers reporting the Watergate scandal in the United States in 1973, the expression first appeared in a judicial or legal context in 1982 in America in the case of United States v $4,255,625.39 (1982) 551 F Supp.314. The term is a process which broadly involves three steps (1) Placement; (2) Layering; and (3) Integration. What term?

Q3. Ghoncheh Ghavami (left), a law graduate from London, was arrested in June in a country for a reason that police officials have described as being “not yet in the public interest” and “to protect them from lewd behaviour among males”. She recently has been sentenced to one year in jail by a local court. What did Ghoncheh Ghavami do to result in her conviction?

Q4. Very recently, a series of government orders and rulings initiated by certain religious councils in Malaysia, have reserved the usage of the Malay word for god to a specific community and people from other communities are banned from using this word. What is the word and which community can use it?

Q5. The author of this recently-released book (right) had an eminent career in law spanning fifty years – as a lawyer, judge, and chief justice. She was also the first woman to top the Bar examinations in London. Identify the author of this book, whose autobiography is called On Balance.

Q6. Indira Devi Kunjamma recently sent out a legal notice to the director of a movie that was set to release on the November 7, 2014. Indira who is the granddaughter of the famous personality on whom the movie is based, has asked the director to stop the release of the film on the grounds that her grandfather has been portrayed in an ‘erotic’ and ‘playboy’ manner. Who is Indira Devi Kunjamma’s grandfather and what is the name of the movie?

Thank you for your enthusiastic participation in the fourth Law Biriyani, our fortnightly law quiz. Between 10 am yesterday and 11 am today, we received many entries where all the answers to our six questions were correct. The first person to correctly answer all six questions was Nanditha Komaravolu, a student in her fourth year at Mumbai University, who can now enrol for courses or certifications worth Rs. 8000/- on myLaw.net. Ms. Komaravolu is on a mission to visit all the countries in the world and wants to work for the United Nations soon.

A1. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. (WWE) had filed a case against Reshma Collection before the Delhi High Court, which declined to accept jurisdiction.

A2. The GoodWeave label of GoodWeave International (formerly known as Rugmark) is a network of non-profit organisations dedicated to ending illegal child labour in the rug making industry. Founded in 1994 by children’s rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, it provides a certification program that allows companies that pass inspection to attach a logo certifying that their product is made without child labour.

A3. Nepal

A4. The Bangalore Marriages Validating Act, 1934 is one of the several laws that, according to the Union Law Minister of India, will be repealed because it was archaic and obsolete.

A5. A person who has contracted the Ebola virus. Sierra Leone at the time was one of the hardest hit by the epidemic, with 374 deaths and 907 cases since the outbreak began. “A maximum of two years jail term will be imposed on anyone caught hiding somebody who is believed to be infected with the deadly Ebola disease,” Attorney General Frank Kargbo said after introducing the bill into parliament.

A6. Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich, a tax avoidance technique employed by certain large corporations, involving the use of a combination of Irish and Dutch subsidiary companies to shift profits to low or no tax jurisdictions. Ireland, acting under pressure from America, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, has announced plans to close the country’s biggest loophole, the “Double Irish”. From next January, all new Irish-domiciled firms will also have to be tax-resident there. Meanwhile, companies already registered in Ireland are being given six years to alter their accounting structures.

Law Biriyani is prepared by Walnut Knowledge Solutions (www.walnuts.co.in), a Bangalore-based organisation founded by two lawyers, Raghav Chakravarthy and Sachin Ravi, focused on quizzing and the use of knowledge-based tools for engagement, learning, and development.

Welcome once again, to Law Biriyani, the fortnightly law quiz on myLaw.net. We have done this thrice before and you can browse the questions, answers, and the identities of the previous winners here. As usual, the first person to answer all six questions in the comments will receive a discount of Rs. 8000/- on any course or certification they want to do on myLaw.net. The quiz will be open up to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, October 29. Make sure you leave your email address along with your answers.

Q1. A Division Bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justices B.D. Ahmed and Vibhu Bakhru, recently delivered a judgment which said that the jurisdiction over trademark and copyright cases would vest with the courts in cities where the buyer in an online transaction lives. A Delaware-based plaintiff had instituted the case before the High Court, claiming infringement of a host of intellectual property rights by a Mumbai-based entity called Reshma Collection. Name the plaintiff.

Q2. Identify this logo, which was in the news recently.

Q 3. This country has been governed under an interim constitution since 2007. It was drafted to manage the country’s transition from a unitary, constitutional monarchy to a federal republic and had put in place a constituent assembly to draft a permanent constitution. After continuous postponement, January 22, 2015 was recently set as the new deadline for coming up with the first draft of the constitution. Which country?

Q 4. Walter James McDonald Redwood, a Plymouth Brethren missionary priest in Bangalore, solemnised many local marriages during his time, mistakenly believing that he was authorised to do so. The Bangalore Marriages Validating Act, 1934 was introduced to validate those marriages. Why was this law, among other laws, in the news recently?

Q 5. In August of this year, Sierra Leone, in an apparent bid to salvage a crisis, passed a law that would impose a (maximum) two-year term of imprisonment to anyone who harboured persons afflicted with a certain condition. What condition?

Q 6. Companies such as Google, Apple, and Facebook, among many others, employ a tax-avoidance strategy, whose name may sound (to the layperson) like a combination of food and drink from two countries. What is the name of this strategy?

Law Biriyani is prepared by Walnut Knowledge Solutions (www.walnuts.co.in), a Bangalore-based organisation founded by two lawyers, Raghav Chakravarthy and Sachin Ravi, focused on quizzing and the use of knowledge-based tools for engagement, learning, and development.

 

 

Thank you for your enthusiastic participation in the third Law Biriyani, our fortnightly quiz. Between 10 am yesterday and 11 am today, we received many entries where all six answers were correct, but the first person to enter all six correct answers in the comments was (cue trumpets) Niharika Swaroop, who can now enrol for courses or certifications worth Rs. 8000/- on myLaw.net.

Ms. Swaroop, an engineer and a freshly minted lawyer currently working with Vikramjit Banerjee at the Supreme Court and also as an independent intellectual property law consultant, believes that by virtue of her dual expertise, she has an edge over both lawyers and engineers.

A 1. Amal Alamuddin, who recently married the actor George Clooney, is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, specialising in international law, criminal law, human rights, and extradition.

Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks; Yulia Tymoshenko, the former Prime Minister of Ukraine; and Abdallah Al Senussi, the former Libyan intelligence chief are some of her clients. She is also one of the legal advisors to the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

Image courtesy Doughty Chambers.

A 2. John Michael D Cunha (pictured in the poster on the right), the judge who convicted J. Jayalalithaa in the disproportionate assets case.

The four other judges have presided over the case before him are Justice A.S. Pachchapure and special court judges A.T. Munoli, B.M. Mallikarjunaiah, and M.S. Balakrishna.

Image courtesy The Hindu.

A 3. The Ikea Group.

The Ikea Group is owned by Ingka Holding. Ingka Holding is owned by the non-profit Stichting Ingka Foundation.

Money isn’t trapped inside the foundation. The Ikea trademark and concept is owned by another private company, Inter Ikea Systems. The non-profit foundation has to pay royalty payments to operate Ikea stores and use the brand name. These payments make their way back to the Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad and his family.

Mr. Kamprad (right) is a publicly frugal man who despises taxes. He actually fled with his Swedish design label to Switzerland in 1976 to avoid taxes.

Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

A 4. The item is the umbrella and the movement has been named the “Umbrella Revolution”. Protesters in Hong Kong are demanding that China withdraw plans to vet candidates for the next Hong Kong leadership election in 2017.

Image on the left courtesy Time. 

The image on the right depicts some of the submissions to a logo competition started by Kacey Wong, a Hong Kong-based artist, who invited artists and designers on Facebook to submit a logo to “use for the next revolution”.

Q 5. Héctor Varela went on to name his son Messi Varela. The law now prohibits the usage of Messi as a first name.

Q 6. Tom Cruise. He bought a ultrasound machine to monitor the progress of his unborn child with his then wife, Katie Holmes. The law was dubbed as the “Tom Cruise law”.

Bang Bang, currently in theaters, is an “official” remake of his 2010 movie, Knight and Day.

 

Law Biriyani is prepared by Walnut Knowledge Solutions (www.walnuts.co.in), a Bangalore-based organisation founded by two lawyers, Raghav Chakravarthy and Sachin Ravi, focused on quizzing and the use of knowledge-based tools for engagement, learning, and development.