11th may 2016 CJAR Executive Committee Meeting 6/6 basement, Jangpura B, Delhi – 110014 Persons attended Prashant Bhushan – Convenor Cheryl Dsouza Rahul – NCDHR Saumya Gupta – NCPRI Indu – FACT Alok – Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Devvrat,…
CJAR Executive Committee Meeting 5th February 2016 6/6 basement, Jangpura B, Delhi – 110014 Persons attended Prashant Bhushan Cheryl Dsouza Devvrat National Forum for Housing Rights – Indu Prakash Singh Indira Unninayar Siddharta Sharma NCDHR – Ramesh Nathan NFIW…
Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform First Campaign Committee meeting 23rd January 2016, 3p.m.-6p.m. 6/6 basement, Jangpura B Agenda Round of introductions and review of agenda – facilitated by Cheryl Dsouza Summary of campaign highlights, activities and the road ahead…
CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND REFORMS 6/6 basement Jangpura B, Delhi – 110014 judicialreforms.org, judicialreforms@gmail.com 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 PradipPrabhu,…
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,…
As part of the assessments, 20,000 RTI applications filed to different public authorities in the country were collected, of which detailed analysis of a randomly selected sample of 5000 applications was undertaken.
A clause in the Centre's new draft Memorandum of Procedure for the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court and high courts gives the government the right to reject any recommendation made by the apex court collegium if it feels that the choice is not in favour of national interest.
The Chief Justice of India, T. S. Thakur became emotional on April 24 in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, lamenting his government's "inaction" in raising the number of judges from 21,000 to 40,000 to handle mounting cases, saying, "you cannot shift the entire burden on the judiciary".