Open Letter to Justice Kurien Joseph
3rd December 2018 To Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph,Former Judge, Supreme Court of India,New Delhi. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR LORDSHIP: Yours sincerely, (Mathews J. Nedumpara)President
Video-Recording Of Proceedings Of Courts And Tribunals – A Panacea For The Ills Which Indian Judiciary Faces Today
VIDEO-RECORDING OF PROCEEDINGS OF COURTS AND TRIBUNALS – A PANACEA FOR THE ILLS WHICH INDIAN JUDICIARY FACES TODAY.Mathews J Nedumpara What prompts me to pen these few lines is a query from one of the few law students who started interning with me recently. The query was, what is the inspiration for me to initiate […]
“Criticizing Bar Council amounts to misconduct”?
Every man has a right to his reputation and nobody has a right to violate it. This is undeniable and has been recognized from the early days of Roman law, all legal systems. Advocates, and for that matter even the judges have no right to violate the right of reputation. When the common people […]
Criticizing Bar Council amounts to misconduct
27.06.2021 “Criticizing Bar Council amounts to misconduct”? Every man has a right to his reputation and nobody has a right to violate it. This is undeniable and has been recognized from the early days of Roman law, all legal systems. Advocates, and for that matter even the judges have no right to violate the right […]
Nedumpara’s Letter To The Prime Minister Complaining Nepotism In Judges’ Appointment
Mathews J NedumparaPresident , NLCOPEN LETTER04.06.2020 Hon’ble Shri. Narendra ModiPrime Minister of IndiaNew Delhi Hon’ble Shri S A Bobde,Chief Justice of India. Hon’ble the Chief Justice of Rajasthan. Hon’ble Shri Ashok Galot,Chief Minister of Rajasthan. Sirs, Sub: The reported decision of the collegium of the Rajasthan High Court recommending 17 names for appointment as judges […]
Simple solution for reducing pendency of cases is to do away with “precedents” nay, repeal of Article 141 of the Constitution
Simple solution for reducing pendency of cases is to doaway with “precedents” nay, repeal of Article 141 of theConstitution.Mathews J. Nedumpara “Simple things can be done in simple ways;Hard things too can be done in simple ways;But it requires an inventive brainAnd can be done without much strain” The above words of a poet, I […]
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 which […]
Who is responsible for demolition of Maradu homes – an injustice which has no parallel in history
I expected the calamity, I professed, not in private but in public, that Sri Harish Salve, will not utter a word questioning the order of Justice Misra, for he himself is the greatest beneficiary of the “neo jurisprudence” where the court is no longer a mere judex but an actor as well. But I was […]
This letter I had addressed to the Chief Editor, Malayalam Manorama
This letter I had addressed to the Chief Editor, Malayalam Manorama, way back in 2011 when the allegations of corruption against Chief Justice Balakrishnan was the talk of the town, not merely in the corridors of the bar. The editor told me that since it is about the judiciary, they cannot touch it, for, the […]
Who are the Judges of the Supreme Court of India?
The Supreme Court of India is the most powerful court on the planet. It probably is the only apex Court which is also the court of first instance. Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, a citizen can approach it without recourse to any other court, complaining violation of fundamental rights. The founding fathers […]