Articles for Commercial Speech

Bar Council’s ‘cease and desist’ notice to online platforms on legal advertising raises questions
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Bar Council’s ‘cease and desist’ notice to online platforms on legal advertising raises questions

Hindustan Times  

Advocacy is a noble profession. came up with another astounding judgment, where Rule 36 of the Bar Council of India Rules, 1975, was drawn into the argument and interpreted on the lines that legal professionals must not be treated as businesses, and emphasised the nobility and service-oriented nature of the profession, as also it is contrary to the ethics, morality, …

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Advertising Part Of Commercial Speech; Exaggerations, Puffery & Hyperbole Can't Be Completely Curtailed: Delhi High Court
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Advertising Part Of Commercial Speech; Exaggerations, Puffery & Hyperbole Can't Be Completely Curtailed: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that advertising is a part of commercial speech recognized under Article 19 of the Constitution of India and any restraint on such a right can be placed only with some authority of law. Justice Prathiba M Singh said that exaggerations, puffery, and hyperbole are part of advertising that cannot be completely curtailed, except in …

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Gun violence, neoliberalism and Citizens United: We can't change things without facing the truth
2 years, 7 months ago

Gun violence, neoliberalism and Citizens United: We can't change things without facing the truth

Salon  

For several years after the 1998 Columbine high school massacre, and again after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, I wrote so often about the causes and consequences of American gun slavery that I felt a bit like the 19th-century abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, railing against an evil that seemed indomitable. I'm thinking about the jurisprudence that, even more directly if …

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Comparative Advertisement
3 years, 6 months ago

Comparative Advertisement

Live Law  

It is a common practise by companies to make comparison of their products with respect to similar products of other companies, to ascertain their products are better than others and such advertising is called Comparative Advertising, however when the company crosses line by advertising false, misleading and derogatory claims against the other company, then it will amount to Product Disparagement. …

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Advertisement Is Facet Of Commercial Speech Protected By Article 19(1)(A) Of Constitution, Holds Delhi HC [Read Judgment]
6 years ago

Advertisement Is Facet Of Commercial Speech Protected By Article 19(1)(A) Of Constitution, Holds Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

“In fact, the protection given to an “In fact, the protection given to an The Delhi High Court has held that Justice Manmohan was considering a suit filed by Horlicks Ltd for damages and permanent injunction restraining infringement, disparagement and unfair trade practices against HEINZ India Private Limited. The The court held that the COMPLAN That though in comparative advertising …

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