Download or read book AN APPRAISAL OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN INDIA A CRITICAL STUDY ON JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE VIS VIS JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY written by Dr. More Atul Lalasaheb and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We, the people of India, have adopted a written Constitution which has created an independent judiciary having the power of judicial review. While exercising this power, the judiciary not only acts as a guardian of the Constitution and its values, but also protects us from illegality, arbitrariness, malafides and corruption of other organs of the State. Therefore, in order to perform these functions the judiciary in India, since the adoption of the Constitution has been enjoying the highest degree of independence and has been held least accountable. This system has been adopted in the Constitution with the objective to achieve the concept of Justice as enshrined in the Preamble. It is pertinent to note that initially the judiciary had responded appropriately to achieve this object but, in due course of time, the Indian Judiciary under the guise of judicial activism, has shifted its focus in addition to delivering Justice, to governing the nation and its policies.
Download or read book Independence and Accountability of the Higher Indian Judiciary written by Arghya Sengupta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of appointments, transfers, impeachment, and post-retirement employment of Supreme Court judges in India. Each of these facets leads to the critical questioning of judicial independence and accountability, and the book argues that they are not in conflict with each other and are crucial for an effective judiciary.
Download or read book Judicial Accountability written by Kalraj Mishra and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An independent; impartial and authoritative judiciary is an integral part of our judicial system. We require judges who maintain high standards of judicial behaviour to uphold the rule of law and inspire the public confidence in judicial system. This book contains the process of judicial appointments as the same lack transparency. It also analyses various aspects of judicial appointment and impeachment process for removal of corrupt and inefficient judges in view of outcome of impeachment proceedings against Justice Ramaswamy. The writer has suggested for setting up of a Judicial Commission for looking after appointments; transfers and disciplinary proceedings against errant judges. It also contains a review on crime against women and role of different organs in providing justice to common litigants. Pendeney of large number of cases and inordinate delay in disposal of cases are cause of concern for every law-knowing person in the country. The growing tendency of judicial activism is most controversial issue and matter of debate. An effort has been made to find the answers of these vital issues. The book will make a unique contribution to the legal literature and prove to be very informative to every law-loving person of our society.
Download or read book A Critical Analysis of Judicial Appointments in India with respect to Higher Judiciary written by Sanjit Kumar Naskar and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Author Sanjit Kumar Naskar in this book titled A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN INDIA has referred a wide range of resources viz. books, online law journals, articles from authoritative online resources. Firstly, the Author would review the book written by Prof. Madhav Godbole. In his book titled 'The Judiciary and Governance in India', he advocates for the Judicial Accountability in the higher judiciary and the need for such judicial accountability in India. However, Prof. Madhav Godbole though touched the aspect of accountability of lower judiciary in the form of transfers made by the higher judiciary and also had discussed the politicization of the judiciary in this regard, he completely ignores the transparency in the appointment process regarding the lower judiciary. Secondly, another important literary source which the Author has referred is regarding the Phd.thesis by Prof. V.R. Jayadevan entitled 'Judicial Creativity in Constitutional Interpretation'. The Author has referred this thesis in light of explaining the historical background of system of appointments of judges in the higher judiciary as well as to support the arguments being raised by the Author in relation to the selection of judges and their condition of services in the higher judiciary. Although the research work done by Prof. Jayadevan is detail oriented and well established and argumentative, still the Author finds the holding of Prof. Jayadevan regarding the adoption of seniority rule in the matter of the appointment of CJI in India not proper and has referred the argument of Justice Katju (Refer Chapter II of Dissertation) in order to counter the argument put forward by Prof. Jayadevan in his work. Thirdly, another major literary resource referred by the Author in the current dissertation is of the article 'The NJAC Act - Is it the perfect remedy?' written by Vikram Mishra and Ananth Balaji. In their article, the writers have focused on the NJAC Act, 2014 and analyzed the Act in a critical manner. The Author while critically analyzing the NJAC, Act, 2014 in the Chapter - III of the dissertation has referred to this article and supported his arguments based on the arguments proposed by the writers in the abovementioned article. Though, this article is argumentative and represents the shortcomings of the NJAC Act, 2014 in a plain and language which is easily comprehensible yet this article fails to appreciate the salient features of the NJAC Act, 2014. Although it explains in a precise manner the shift from the collegium system of selection of judges in the higher judiciary to system of appointment of judges in the higher judiciary by the commission established under the NJAC Act, 2014. Lastly, the Author has referred the work of Prof. Tom S. Clark in his book titled 'The Limits of Judicial Independence' which deals with the limits of judicial independence where the author holds that in order to see whether the judiciary is independent or not depends upon the judicial behaviour of the judges of a particular legal system. Although the judicial behaviour holds the key to bring desirable results in the legal system of a particular country still the Author feels that somewhere down the line Prof. Tom S. Clark is not able to justify the significance of the role of judicial behaviour as an additional criteria of selection of judges in the higher judiciary besides measuring the judicial independence of a particular legal system.
Download or read book Independence and Accountability of Judiciary written by Sarkar Ali Akkas and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appointment of Judges to the Supreme Court of India written by Arghya Sengupta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) judgment, on the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court, has been the subject of a deeply polarized debate in the public sphere and academia. This volume analyses the NJAC judgment, and provides a rich context to it, in terms of philosophical, comparative, and constitutional issues that underpin it. The work traces the history of judicial appointments in India; examines the constitutional principles behind selecting judges and their application in the NJAC judgment; and comparatively looks at the judicial appointments process in six select countries—United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal—enquiring into what makes a good judge and an effective appointments process. With wide-ranging essays by leading lawyers, political scientists, and academics from India and abroad, the volume is a deep dive into the constitutional concepts of judicial independence and separation of powers as discussed in the NJAC judgment.
Download or read book Judicial Nemesis written by Raj Nath Bhat and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is This Sudden Overnight Metamorphosis; From, Yesterdays Man With All His Ambitions, Personal Bias And With Personal Greed And Aggrandizement...To A Today S Man Dis¬Passionate, Honest, Selfless, Unbiased, Unruffled By Past Fads And Past Likes And Dislikes...And Has Now Imbibed Overnight All The Attributes That We Ascribe To A High Court Judge; A True Miracle? Is It On The Other Hand, A Mirage, A Sham And Deceptive Facade...To Bewilder The Society At Large And Baffle It To Its Acceptance.Why Should The Judges Feel Shy Of Leaving Record Of What They Do In The Court? One Cannot Contradict The View That Such Attitude Of The Judges Is To Hide Their Incapacity...And Their Vested Way Of Dealing With A Matter.It Is Therefore Imperative...We Must Have A Very Powerful And Highly Organised Body Of Ombudsman... It Must Not Be Misconstrued To Mean That Ombudsman Should Be An Appellate Court.No Amount Of Effort, Analysis And Incisiveness Would Be Exaggerated...In No Case Should Be Allowed To Fall Short Of The Absolute. One May Not Necessarily Agree With Each And Every Observation Made, Conclusions Drawn Or Remedy Suggested By The Author In This Book On Its Very First Reading. But, It Can Hardly Be Disputed That All These Observations, Conclusions And Remedies Are Thought Pro¬Voking Which Indubitably Merit Thorough Deliberation At Different Levels Before They Are Accepted Or Rejected. Justice I.K. KotwalFormer Judge Of The High Court Of Jammu And Kashmir
Download or read book The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan written by Waris Husain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2007, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in Pakistani politics through its hyper-active use of judicial review, or the power to overrule Parliament’s laws and the Prime Minister’s acts. This hyper-activism was on display during the Supreme Court’s unilateral disqualification of Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani in 2012 under the leadership of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Despite the Supreme Court’s practical adoption of restraint subsequent to the retirement of Chief Justice Chaudhry in 2013, the Court has once again disqualified a prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, due to allegations of corruption in 2017. While many critics have focused on the substance of the Court’s decisions in these cases, sufficient focus is not paid to the amorphous case-selection process of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. In order to compare the relatively unregulated process of case-selection in Pakistan to the more structured processes utilized by the Supreme Courts of the United States’ and India, this book aims to understand the historical roots of judicial review in each country dating back to the colonial era extending through the foundational period of each nation impacting present-day jurisprudence. As a first in its kind, this study comparatively examines these periods of history in order to contextualize a practical prescription to standardize the case-selection process in the Supreme Court of Pakistan in a way that retains the Court’s overall power while limiting its involvement in purely political issues. This publication offers a critical and comparative view of the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s recent involvement in political disputes due to the lack of a discerning case-selection system that has otherwise been adopted by the Supreme Courts of India and the United States’ to varying degrees. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of Asian Law, South Asian Politics and Law and Comparative Law.
Download or read book An Independent and Accountable Judiciary written by Soma Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Indian judiciary; a study.
Download or read book Judiciary on Trial written by Bhagat Ram Sharma and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corruption in Supreme Court of India written by Jiteshwar Kumar Pandey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Supreme Court of India stands as the guardian of the Constitution and the final arbiter of justice. It is an institution that embodies the principle of fairness, equality and rule of law. However, over the years, allegations and instances of corruption have cast a shadow over its esteemed reputation. This book delves into the dark corridors of judicial corruption within the highest court of India, examining its origins, manifestations and far - reaching consequences. Judicial corruption is not just a legal issue, it is a social malaise that undermines the very foundation of democracy and erodes public trust in the judicial system. Through a comprehensive analysis of historical and contemporary cases, this book aims to shed light on the system flaws and human failings that contribute to this problem. It also explores the role of various stakeholders, including the media, civil society and the legal fraternity, in combating corruption and restoring integrity to the judiciary. As you journey through the pages of this book, you will encounter stories of courage and betrayal, reforms and setbacks, hope and despair. The goal is not only to inform but also to inspire collective action towards a transparent and accountable judicial system. The judgment in SLP 6006 of 2016, Dr. Jiteshwar Kumar Pandey Vs. Union of India, stands as a stark betrayal of the principles of justice and legal procedure. This chapter examines the case's intricate details, showcasing how judicial decisions can sometimes undermine justice and erode public trust in the legal system. Dr. Pandey's refusal to comply with illegal demands by his superiors at NIFTEM, such as approving dubious contracts and purchase orders, led to his termination. He raised objections against fraudulent practices, including falsified quotations for toughened glasses and manipulated tender processes favoring specific contractors. His steadfast integrity and objections to corruption earned him the ire of his superiors, culminating in his unjust dismissal. A petition for an independent CBI inquiry into the misuse of public funds by the then Vice Chancellor, NIFTEM and the issue of illegal termination of services was admitted by a bench headed by justice J. Chelameswar and it has granted several favorable interim orders, passed an order to list the matter before him ensuing summer vacation, to hear the petition. CJI Misra on March 31, 2017 set up a new two judges - bench in violation to its own rules and regulations of the Supreme Court on Part - Heard matter; to hear the Special Leave Petition SLP 6006 of 2016; the newly allocated blue - eyed bench comprising of Justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and Uday Umesh Lalit annulled the order and dismissed the petition in limini, without considering the merits or the substantial questions of law involved. The judgment in SLP 6006 of 2016 not only denied justice to Dr. Pandey but also highlighted systemic issues within the judiciary. The subsequent appointments of Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit to prestigious positions post-retirement further fueled concerns about the erosion of judicial independence. The case of Dr. Jiteshwar Kumar Pandey underscores the critical need for transparency, accountability, and adherence to legal principles within the judiciary. The dismissal of his petition, despite clear evidence of corruption and procedural violations, exemplifies a grave miscarriage of justice. This book serves as a reminder of the ongoing struggle to uphold the rule of law and protect the rights of individuals against systemic corruption and judicial impropriety.
Download or read book Judicial Appointements A Pragmatic Approach written by Megha Purohit and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Law - Public Law / Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, language: English, abstract: The process of appointment of judges is being made through the "collegium system," which doesn't find mention in the Constitution of India, although it was created with the justification to insulate the judiciary from executive interference. But in reality, this system may be called as "judges appointing themselves." The Supreme Court in various cases, while interpreting the meaning of 124 (2) and 217 (1) of the Constitution and "consultation" with Chief Justice of India and other judges, wrongly held that there should be collegium of judges in appointment process. Hence, the process is phasing through a period, where it is concerned about sheering away from its basic constitutional principles, which though, are garnering massive issues in front of the country. This Collegium system is an opaque and non accountable system as the judges are not responsible for giving reason for the appointment of a particular person. At the same time, there is no transparency in the system which results in a "democratic deficit." If executives are made the part of Judicial Appointment Panel for appointing judges, it will enable equal participation of judiciary and executive, make the system of appointment more accountable and thereby increase the confidence of the public in the institution. The words of the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill (JAC), 2013 are clear enough to understand that the motive of the legislature was only to ensure greater transparency in the Indian judiciary. The paper will try to focus on how the collegium system of appointing judges has given rise to the issue of favouritism, biasness and sycophancy. The authors will also try to interpret the concept of 'Basic Structure Doctrine' through various case-laws so as to establish a balance between judicial independence and judicial accountability. Furthermore, the authors will suggest so
Download or read book Indian Judicial System written by S. P. Verma and published by Kanishka Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains 25 Papers And Two Documents Which Book At Various Aspects Of Indian Judicial System At All Levels-Judicial Activism-Appointment Of Judges-Independence Of Judiciary-Rule Of Law Etc.
Download or read book Judicial Integrity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional separation of powers theories assumed that governmental despotism will be prevented by dividing the branches of government which will check one another. Modern governments function with unexpected complicity among these branches. Sometimes one of the branches becomes overwhelming. Other governmental structures, however, tend to mitigate these tendencies to domination. Among other structures courts have achieved considerable autonomy vis-à-vis the traditional political branches of power. They tend to maintain considerable distance from political parties in the name of professionalism and expertise. The conditions and criteria of independence are not clear, and even less clear are the conditions of institutional integrity. Independence (including depolitization) of public institutions is of particular practical relevance in the post-Communist countries where political partisanship penetrated institutions under the single party system. Institutional integrity, particularly in the context of administration of justice, became a precondition for accession to the European Union. Given this practical challenge the present volume is centered around three key areas of institutional integrity, primarily within the administration of justice: First, in a broader theoretical-interdisciplinary context the criteria of institutional independence are discussed. The second major issue is the relation of neutralized institutions to branches of government with reference to accountability. Thirdly, comparative experience regarding judicial independence is discussed to determine techniques to enhance integrity.
Download or read book Perils of Judicial Self Government in Transitional Societies written by David Kosař and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the mechanisms of judicial control to determine an efficient methodology for independence and accountability. Using over 800 case studies from the Czech and Slovak disciplinary courts, the author creates a theoretical framework that can be applied to future case studies and decrease the frequency of accountability perversions.
Download or read book Challenged Justice In Pursuit of Judicial Independence written by Shimon Shetreet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers articles by senior jurists on important aspects of judicial independence and judicial process in many jurisdictions, including indicators of justice. It comes at the time of serious challenges to the judiciary, the rule of law and democracy.
Download or read book Courts on Trial written by Jerome Frank and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1973-09-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS: I. The Needless Mystery of Court House Government. II. Fights and Rights. III. Facts Are Guesses. IV. Modern Legal Magic. V. Wizards and Lawyers. VI. The "Fight" Theory versus the "Truth" Theory. VII. The Procedural Reformers. VIII. The Jury System. IX. Defenses of the Jury System--Suggested Reforms. X. Are Judges Human? XI. Psychological Approaches. XII. Criticism of Trial-Court Decisions--The Gestalt. XIII. A Trial as a Communicative Process. XIV. "Legal Science" and "Legal Engineering." XV. The Upper-Court Myth. XVI. Legal Education. XVII. Special Training for Trial Judges. XVIII. The Cult of the Robe. XIX. Precedents and Stability. XX. Codification. XXI. Words and Music: Legislation and Judicial Interpretation. XXII. Constitutions--The Merry-Go-Round. XIII. Legal Reasoning. XXIV. Da Capo. XXV. The Anthropological Approach. XXVI. Natural Law. XXVII. The Psychology of Litigants. XXVIII. The Unblindfolding of Justice. XXIX. Classicism and Romanticism. XXX. Justice and Emotions. XXXI. Questioning Some Legal Axioms. XXXII. Reason and Unreason--Ideals.
