National Borrowers’ Association
304, Hari Chambers, S.B.S. Road, Fort, Mumbai-400 023 MINUTES OF THE 3RD GENERAL BODY MEETING HELD AT HARI CHAMBERS, MUMBAI, ON 7TH AUGUST, 2019. The 3rd General Body Meeting of the National Borrowers’ Association (NBA) was co-chaired by Shri Sunil Gupta, alumni of IIT, Powai, Mumbai, and Shri Mathews J. Nedumpara, President of National Lawyers’ […]
Save us from ‘courtoastrophy’ pray home buyers in Cochin
Mathews.J.Nedumpara In his book titled “Off the Bench” in Chapter under the caption “Justices and justicing”, legendary Justice Krishna Iyer had lamented about the plight of millions of slum dwellers, who prayed ‘Save us from the Courts’, whose shanties within the precincts of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, Mumbai, were bulldozed in execution of an order […]
Jurisprudence of ‘face value’– High Court of Kerala is an exception
– By Mathews J. Nedumpara I enrolled as an Advocate with the Bar Council of Kerala in the year 1984. By sheer providence, I was briefed by a partnership firm engaged in the business of banking, in the year 1986 in the Kerala High Court. That was the time when many individuals, either styled as […]
Buoy Mumbai!
When I read the judgement of the Chief Justice of Bombay High Court staying the ongoing construction work of the Bombay Coastal Road Project, what came to my mind were the words of Albert Einstein, “two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe”. Fourteen years ago, more […]
The law is an ass – an idiot
The law is an ass – an idiot – By Mathews J. Nedumpara In G.W. Paton’s “A Textbook of Jurisprudence” 4th Edition, at page 223 it is said “In America the increase in the number of reported cases has led to a modification of the concept of stare decisis – by 1940 the total number […]
In the High Court of Judicature at Bombay Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction
CHAMBER SUMMONS (LODGING) NO.214 OF 2018 IN WRIT PETITION (LODGING) NO.1180 OF 2018 Bombay Bar Association ..Applicant In the matter of: Mathews J. Nedumpara … Petitioner Versus Hon’ble Shri Justice S.J. Kathawalla ..Respondent AFFIDAVIT IN REPLY I, Mathews Nedumpara, S/o. Joseph, aged 59, Advocate, residing at 12-F, Harbour Heights, “A” Wing, 12th Floor, Sassoon Dock, […]
Sesil Joseph
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National Lawyers Campaign
A Call to the legal Fraternity and the Public at large. Sirs/Mesadames, All those who believe that a judiciary which is independent, impartial and accountable to the people would remain to be a dream unless the sons and daughters of the common man finds due representation are shocked by the order of the HC of […]
Demolition of five apartment buildings at Maradu, Cochin
Mathews J Nedumpara President, NLC 6th October, 2019 To 1. Hon’ble Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Chief Minister of Kerala. 2. Shri Ramesh Chennithala, Leader of the Opposition, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum. 3. Shri Oommen Chandy, Former Chief Minister of Kerala. 4. Shri Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs 5. All Members of Parliament from Kerala. […]
Referring Questions of Law to Larger Benches is in Ignorance of the Doctrine of Stare Decisis
Mathews J Nedumpara Some members of the legal fraternity have criticized me for authoring article titled ‘Referring Questions of Law to Larger Benches is in Ignorance of the Doctrine of Stare Decisis’ as it amounts to too sharp a criticism of the Supreme Court. When i was a young lawyer, for instance when the Judges […]