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.…
The justice delivery system is taking a beating as the Centre and the Supreme Court slug it out over norms for appointment of judges. Andhra leads with 62% vacancy among the 10 high courts with most number of vacant judicial…
Brushing aside its objections to two names, the Centre has cleared the decks to elevate five serving judicial officers as judges in the Delhi High Court. The files of appointment were processed in fast-track mode hours after Chief Justice of…
Rather than fighting for those displaced by the Muzaffarnagar riots, it appears to be parroting majoritarian, communal stereotyping. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is India’s highest statutory body constituted for the defence of the human rights of vulnerable people.…
Only a full-time commission, which is independent of the government and the judiciary, can impart transparency and credibility to the system of appointments to the higher judiciary The Constitution of India gave the higher judiciary another important function in addition…