An appeal to the Honourable Chief Justice of India and Companion Judges
An appeal to the Honourable Chief Justice of India and Companion Judges Mathews J Nedumpara 29.08.2023 98205 35428 The current system of judges appointing themselves mostly of their kith and kin, near and dear and of judges anointing mostly their kith and kin as Senior Advocates is a pernicious practice which has destroyed the […]
PIL is antithetical to the Principles of natural justice
PIL is antithetical to the Principles of natural justice Mathews J Nedumpara 98205 35428 26th July 2023 The Supreme Court has done great disservice to the nation by allowing Ashwani Upadhyay, Prashant Bhushan and their ilk to file so called PILs on issues which are not justiciable at all for publicity. The judges permitted the […]
The need to bring an end to the out of turn hearing of cases of only the rich, powerful and the elite represented by “senior advocates” at the cost and detriment of the less privileged involving enforcement of valuable constitutional and legal rights – reg.
The need to bring an end to the out of turn hearing of cases of only the rich, powerful and the elite represented by “senior advocates” at the cost and detriment of the less privileged involving enforcement of valuable constitutional and legal rights – reg. Mathews J Nedumpara 24th July 2023 Hon’ble Shri Nitin Jamdar […]
Abolish Senior Designation
Abolish Senior Designation Mathews J Nedumpara President, NLC 28.02.2023 It is hearting to note that a large number of my esteemed brothers and sisters from the legal fraternity have joined this Group being determined to fight against the senior advocate designation system which was not in existence in this country until 1966. Unless and […]
SAVE US FROM ‘COURTOASTROPHY’ PRAY HOME BUYERS IN COCHIN
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 […]
If the king (sovereign) is below God and the law, the judges and the depositories of the judicial power of the sovereign are not above God and law
Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dipankar Datta,Chief justice,High Court of Judicature at Bombay. May it please your Lordship, I logged in to the Chief Justice’s Court even before 11 am this morning and sat all throughout, waiting to be admitted, inspite of the unbearable pain due to slipped disc. I send a screenshot via whatsapp to Shri […]
Judicial Accountability Act – A must for protection from wilful denial of justice, impropriety and corruption
01.01.2022. There are innumerable instances in India, nay, even in US, UK and other advanced countries, of innocents being convicted and sentenced to death and their innocence being brought to the public domain after they have been executed or have undergone the punishment. In the western countries, such conviction of innocent men and women is […]
Suo motu PILs and judicial activism is undemocratic and a threat to the independence of judiciary
Mathews J NedumparaPresident, NLC98205 354287.11.2021 Nobody can be an actor (suitor) and a judex (judge) at the same time is a fundamental principle of law. A court can make an exception to that to correct grave errors at its hands, suo motu, acting on itself. Judges are free citizens and they are free to do […]
Judges’ disease
09.01.2022 Judges’ disease There can be no two opinion that the bar and the bench are the two sides of the same coin and should respect each other and maintain a cordial and healthy relationship. However, as legendary Justice Krishna Iyer has lamented a not so minority among the judges become afflicted of ” judges […]
Has not Article 137 of the constitution providing for review become otiose, so too, the curative jurisprudence created through judicial legislation, unknown to jurisprudence elsewhere in the world.
20.8.2021 One of the senior most members of the NLC, out of anguish that SLPs, review petitions and curative petitions are dismissed in one-line/stereotypical orders, preferred an application under the RTI Act seeking the data concerning the total number of petitions filed under each category, the average time taken for hearing and final disposal and […]