The Supreme Court in Imtiyaz Ahmad vs. State of UP, has ruled that the required judge strength of the district judiciary shall be computed for each state in accordance with the interim approach suggested by the National Court Management Systems Committee (NCMSC).…
Delivering a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court today held that seeking votes in the name of religion, caste or community amounted to corrupt practice and election of a candidate who indulged in it can be set aside. Read more at:…
CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORMS 6/6 basement Jangpura B, Delhi – 110014 judicialreforms.org Patrons: Justice P.B.Sawant, Justice H.Suresh, Shri Shanti Bhushan,, Prof. B.B.Pande,, Dr. Bhaskar Rao, Ms. Arundhati Roy, Dr. Banwari Lal Sharma, Shri Pradip Prabhu, Prof Babu Mathew,…
On December 15th 2016 the Supreme Court of India directed the Centre and State Governments to ban sale of liquor along national and state highways.
CJI Thakur says apex court duty to ensure executive stays within ambit; Minister Prasad disagrees on vacancies In the latest sign that the Supreme Court and the Narendra Modi government continue to be at loggerheads over appointments to the higher…
The revised draft handed over by Prasad to Chief Justice of India T S Thakur is before the consideration of the five-judge SC collegium. Amid a stand off with the judiciary on the contents of the memorandum of procedure, a…
Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Digvijaya Singh, Naresh Agarwal are among those who moved the petition in the Upper House. Sixty-one Rajya Sabha members on Monday moved a petition seeking impeachment proceedings against Andhra Pradesh/Telangana High Court Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy…
Minister of State for Law PP Chaudhary on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that the major reasons for referring back 43 recommendees to the Supreme Court Collegium on the appointment of Judges are views of consultee Judges, views of Constitutional…
A very good morning to all of you. I am extremely honoured to be here for the Justice Krishna Iyer memorial lecture of 2016, and I would like to thank Justice Ramakrishnan and Mr Sahasranaman for having invited me on…
This is a reproduction of the speech delivered by Fali Nariman at the inaugural lecture of the VR Krishna Iyer Memorial Lecture Series – organised by the Sarada-Krishna-Satgamaya Foundation for Law and Justice, Delhi Chapter on Wednesday, October 26, 2016.…