-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Up to 55% of court time is spent by Judges each day on tasks such as reissuing summons, fixing dates for future hearings and case administration decisions rather than judicial functions such as hearings, a nationwide survey conducted by Bengaluru-based Daksh has found. The study analysed over 91,000 court hearings involving over 6,000 cases across the country and argued that even without more manpower, the judiciary...
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Report: Matters of Judgement by Centre on the Death Penalty
-Centre on the Death Penalty (National Law University Delhi) The aim of the study entitled 'Matters of Judgement' was to explore the opinions of former Judges of the Supreme Court of India on the death penalty and more generally on the state of India’s criminal justice system as far as it was relevant to the death penalty. The study did not focus on the position that former Judges took on the...
More »On National Press Day, Rajasthan Patrika leaves its editorial blank -Mohammed Iqbal
-The Hindu Jaipur: Upping the ante against the Vasundhara Raje government, leading Hindi daily Rajasthan Patrika on Thursday left its editorial blank, with a thick black border, to register its strong opposition to the controversial criminal law ordinance that puts restrictions on the media and gives protection to public servants. The newspaper headquartered in Jaipur, which has already announced its boycott of Chief Minister Raje, decided to leave the editorial blank on...
More »Chief Justice's Actions Trigger Debate On Fairness, Transparency -Sunetra Choudhury & Sunil Prabhu
-NDTV The Supreme Court is hearing a case that alleges senior Judges were involved in a conspiracy to seek bribes and influence cases. New Delhi: In a sudden hearing on Friday, five Judges of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India said that he alone has the power to call a constitution bench because he is "master of the roster". In doing so, they cancelled an order passed on...
More »Don't create panic on Aadhaar linking: SC to banks, telcos -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court eased on Friday the pressure mounted by banks and telecom companies on customers through frequent messages to link Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phone numbers and ordered that they intimate people about the deadline for doing so. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said even Judges are not spared from such messages, which the petitioners termed as part...
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