Nedumpara’s letter to the Prime Minister demanding emergent judicial reforms to prevent democracy be reduced to judgeocracy
5.9.2020AN OPEN LETTERMATHEWS J. NEDUMPARAPresidentNATIONAL LAWYERS CAMPAIGN FOR JUDICIALTRANSPARENCY AND REFORMS304, Hari Chambers, 3rd Floor, 58-64, S.B.S. Road, Fort, Mumbai-400 023No. 11, DD Tudor Villa, Padam Road, Vaduthala- 682 023Mob: +91 9820535428 email: mathewsjnedumpara@gmail.com To, Hon’ble Shri. Narendra Modi,The Prime Minister of India. Hon’ble Smt. Sonia Gandhi,President of INC. Leaders of the various political parties,Members […]
Video recording the court proceedings, an Offence?
Video recording the court proceedings, an Offence? Mathews J. Nedumpara.19th September 2019 Nullum crimen sine lege, nulla poena sine lege is a Latin maxim that means “no crime or punishment without a law.” There can be no crime committed, and no punishment meted out, without a violation of penal law as it existed at the […]
Jacobite Church case- Synopsis
Jacobite Church case- Synopsis The Petitioners are constrained to file this review, sadly, only because this Honble court, the Petitioners beg to submit with all humility and with utmost respect, failed to record the core of their contention that the instant church in question, and for that matter not a single out of the […]
Nedumpara’s Letter to CJI seeking Justice for the slumdwellers of Aravali Hills
To Hon’ble Mr. Justice NV Ramana,Chief Justice of India,Also to,Hon’ble Mr. Manohar Lal Khattar,Chief Minister of Haryana Sub: Demolition of the shanties of thousands of migrant laborers and urban poor, in the implementation of a judgement of the Supreme Court in purported PILs, rendered entirely behind their back. I have been on a campaign since […]
Denial of bail to Fr. Stan Swamy-a dark event in India’s history
The denial of bail to Father Stan Swamy which has led to his incarceration and eventual death in a private hospital in Bombay still under judicial custody is one of the darkest incidents of denial of the fundamental freedom of life and liberty enshrined in our constitution. Even during the medieval days, the custody of […]
Letter to the CJ of Bombay High Court- My Lords hear the slumdwellers before your Lordships order their eviction
7.7.2021 Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dipankar Datta,Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay May it please your Lordship Sub: Hearing of suo motu PIL- demolition of the shanties of slumdwellers- without there being a single slumdweller on the party array or any kind of representation on their behalf. What I came to notice […]
Press Release issued in furtherance of the Press Conference held at the Chandigarh Press Club today at 12pm
Demolition at Aravali In the PIL (Writ Petition no. 562 of 2021) instituted by 5 slumdwellers the Supreme Court ordered demolition of the shanties of the thousands of slumdwellers and to report compliance thereof within 6 weeks, and posted the case for reporting compliance on 27.7.2021. The order of the Supreme Court was one […]
There is no way to salvage our legal system unless and until we abandon the current practice of treating res judicata as precedent
15.7.2021 There is no way to salvage our legal system unless and until we abandon the current practice of treating res judicata as precedent In this country, the distinction between the concept of res judicata and precedent is largely forgotten. As a result, a judgment of a superior court in a case between A and […]
“If the King was not above law, but under God and the law, the Master of the roster, the Chief Justice too is not above the law”
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed with a cost of Rs. 20,000/- a petition by one Arun Misra as a ‘party – in – person’ seeking a direction that certain Writ Petitions instituted by him shall not be listed before a particular judge. The order of the court is cryptic and […]
Demolition of Maradu homes, who will tell the court that it went wrong?
In a situation as the instant one, where a Court has ordered demolition of five multi-storied buildings in a proceeding in which the flat owners were not parties, without notice to them and without hearing them, and the judgment thus rendered not being res judicata, not binding on them, one void ab initio, one […]