Increasing workload, a higher rate of admission, and constitution of multiple two-judge Division Benches have resulted in a huge increase in the number of judgments handed down by the Supreme Court, which again increases the probability of inconsistencies in judgments.
Criteria that were never conceived in the Constituent Assembly now determine who gets to sit on India’s apex court. Each of these unwritten qualifications, age, seniority, and diversity, is problematic in its present form. By ABHINAV CHANDRACHUD Frontline May 3 2013
It is the goal of social revolution that connects the aam aadmi to the judiciary and to its highest institution, the Supreme Court of India. By Prof. G. MOHAN GOPAL
It has become fashionable to bemoan the state of our justice-delivery system and call for judicial reforms with almost clockwork regularity. The latest Conference of Chief Ministers of States & Chief Justices of High Courts held in the Capital on Sunday was no exception. Speaking
The United Progressive Alliance government is committed to securing the foundations of the rule of law and judicial independence as the non-negotiable components of the basic structure of the Constitution, Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar said on Sunday.
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