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Sir, We have 300 sq yards of land in Visakhapatnam. We would like to give it to development to a builder for the construction of apartment. What are the precautions to be taken by us so that the entire process is completed without any issues??

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Dear all, I am from Pondicherry, my dad like to bought a land form the seller in 2004 so he was paid some amount as a advance and put a agreement for register the particular land within certain period also seller agree & allow to pay the remaining amount of cash at the time of registration . unfortunately seller met with an accident before the registration date. seller have one minor son and wife. Seller have brother and sisters. while his dead that land his combined with his family members land. At that time situation is if anyone want to sell their land all the family members has to sign for registration. After his dead their family members divided their lands and register their parts individually. But our seller land is comes under his mother name. she refuse to sell that particular land to us even we put agreement. so my dad decided to file a case againsed his family. we file the case after the agreement date closed but we pay sum amount of money to the seller wife during his dead and also we mentioned that in agreement paper by manual writing and got signature from his wife in the same agreement paper. if we counting date from 2nd payment we file the case before one year. Now they ask current market rate for the land otherwise they won't do register. From 2004 to till date we lived in that particular land because we clearly mentioned on the agreement from the date of making the agreement to registration we lived in the particular land without paying any rent. My queastions: 1. if the agreement valid after the duration over 2. we lived their for past 15 years is any legal way to ask ownership 3. we got positive judgment from pondicherry court for ex-party. So they re appeal in chennai court now chennai court returened the file to pondicherry for judgement. 4. Any previous cases are their like our case. Note: I am note sure if i express everything understandable. i hope i will explain our full case through phone for better understanding. please provide your number so i will explain clearly about my case. Please help me to get positive judgment from court. my contact number - 9894448328

I belong to general caste. Can I buy house from 2nd owner who in turn bought land after completion of 10 years from Schedule caste person given under special scheme.

Respected Sir Need your help has I'm facing a financial crisis beacuse of a sudden decision by my company of relieving me early and hence recovering of joining bonus. I have Joined my Company on 15th June 2018. And I put down my resigination on 20th March 2020. As per my appointment letter I was suppose to serve complusary 90 Days Notice Period. which I was willing to serve. My Last working day in the system was showing has 19th June 2020 thus I was completing 2 years with the company by the time i would have left. Everything was going on smoothly during my noice period when one fine day on 16th April 2020 my company called and informed me that they will be reliving me from the company tomorrow with immediate effect by just giving 1 days notice and they actually relived me on 17th April 2020. Now my present company is demanding from me to pay back 4 Lakhs Recovery Amount of Joining Bonus which they paid when I joinined. It had a clause that if i leave company before completion of 2 years I need to pay backthe same. I want to ask you all the experts here the following things :- 1) Since I was willing to serve my 90 Days of Notice period completely and my actual last working date in the company was after completion of 2 years only, just beacuse of this sudden decision from companies end to relive me early am I liable to pay back this joining bonus amount of 4 lakhs back to the company. 2) Beacuse of this sudden decision I could join my new company only after a gap of 2 weeks in May 2020 therefore incurring a loss in salary for 2 weeks period since I was jobless for 2 weeks sitting in home .Also since my present company relieved me before 2 months from my actual last date Am i eligile to get some compensation for this 2 weeks of joblessness or thr remaing 2 months. I will be very grateful if you can guide me. Also pasting below the two extracts from my Appointment Letters for your referece :- 1) During the service period, either party to this contract shall be at liberty to terminate the same by giving to the other 3 months notice in writing or compensation (on Basic Salary basis) in lieu thereof. Provided that, such notice or compensation in lieu of shall not be payable by the Company to you in the event of any contravention or violation by you, of any of the provisions set forth in this appointment letter. It shall not be necessary for either party to assign any reason for termination of the contract. Final decision on relieving an employee in case of insufficient notice period or compensation in lieu thereof, or the decision to waive the notice period vests with the Company. Any unutilized leave, as per the Company’s leave policy, may be set-off against the notice period of 3 months, at the discretion of the Company. 2) Unless otherwise specified, any reimbursements, in the form of relocation expenses / notice pay or payment of joining bonus, will be fully recovered if your employment with the Company ceases within two years of joining. Any payment made, in the form of relocation expenses / notice pay or payment of sign-on bonus will be taxed as per income tax rules 3) Extract from Joining Bonus Letter : This is on assumption that you will work with the company for a period of a minium 2 years and in the event there is a seperation for any reason, the same will be recovered.from you in full. The other terms and condition will be same as per our appointment letter. PLEAESE GUIDE ME

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Wendy Smith Chief Executive of the South Canterbury Chamber states that the new visa system must provide confidence and certainty to employers that suffer from a skills shortage in regions. Employers in the area can find it easy to bring many temporary…

Introduction

Contract management is one of the core activities of a modern day organization as majority of an organization’s operation being under contracts with customers, suppliers, service providers, vendors and consultants. It’s vital that contracts should be aligned with the business expectation and professionals should be well versed with the drafting techniques and expertise to foresee the associated risk and design the contracts in the best interest of their organization. The importance of understanding contractual agreements has considerably increased since most business processes are governed through contractual relationships.

Edvancedge Knowledge Ventures upcoming initiative “Commercial Contract Masterclass – Negotiation, Drafting and Dispute Management” aims towards essential updates in commercial and legal issues pertaining to commercial agreements and helps improve the negotiation and drafting skills of the professionals involved. This full day masterclass will help organizations to reduce exposure, avoid litigation and implement dispute management by being fully conversant with the knowledge, skills and strategies in ensuring that the contracts are well negotiated, drafted and managed. Participating professionals will get a chance to hear and interact with experts on: 

• How contracts have been drafted today and,what are the potential alternative drafting strategies and structures?
• How contracts are negotiated including techniques for negotiation on contract variations and claims.
• Effective risk control measures to minimize legal exposures and avoid disputes.
• Necessary skills required to effectively manage contractual pitfalls and implement dispute resolution mechanism.

BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

• Increase efficiency and effectiveness within organisational processes
• Possess knowledge on the latest best practices in contract strategy
• Build strong and effective contracts
• Improved supplier performance
• Improved understanding on legal issues which allow for more effective management of legal rights
• Possess confidence in discussing contract issues with lawyers and different parties
• Effective risk reduction and conflict resolution

Who Should Attend?

A must attend workshop for anyone who has to negotiate, manage, transact or resolve disputes with third parties, including but not limited to:

• Contract Administration & Management Professionals
• Legal Heads & General Counsels
• Legal Managers & Legal Executives
• Corporate Legal Advisors
• Deal Makers
• Company Secretaries
• Corporate Lawyers
• Arbitrators & Mediators
• Procurement & Purchasing Managers
• Relationship Managers

Experts

• Bhumesh Verma, Managing Partner - Corp Comm Legal
• Tejas Karia, Partner and Head of Arbitration - Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.
• KPS Kohli, Partner - Dhir & Dhir Associates

To read more in details, click here

A webinar with Mrs. Geeta Luthra, Senior Advocate Supreme Court of India, Member - International Association of Family Lawyers (IAML), Vice president - Indian Council for Arbitration and Member - ICC. 

• Date and Timing: 24th April 2020 At 4 PM on Zoom
• Meeting Link: Click Here

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The project includes virtual tours of the theater, backstage and museum, along with 240,000 archival photos and 16,000 documents, more than 40 digital exhibits and close-up views of costumes worn by stars such as Maria Callas. Performances of operas are available on another platform through Italy’s RAI state television

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