Ignorance is not always a bliss
Prashant Bhushan’s opinion (on Modi government’s alleged writing off bad loans of big companies) is wholly faulty and is based on a common misconception. He should have, as a lawyer, studied the subject before attacking the Government. I say so, because the Government has no role whatsoever, at all. Banks are obligated to write […]
Wilful denial of justice by Shri Komalsing Rajput, Metropolitan Magistrate, Bandra, Mumbai, to a widow thrown out of her home – Complaint- reg.
Mrs. Sabina Lakdawalaw/o late Mr. Yusuf M. LakdawalaFlat 14,15 Sunflower BuildingCarter Rd, Bandra West, Mumbai,Maharashtra 400050Communication may be addressed to my lawyer,Adv. Maria Nedumpara, at12F , A wing, Harbour Heights,Narayan A Sawant Rd, Azad Nagar,Colaba, Mumbai,Maharashtra- 4000059820910396/9820535428 30 December, 2021 To,1) Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dipankar DattaChief Justice of the High Court of Bombay Also to,All […]
Pray for our country
Except a few, very few, all the SC and HC judges owe their office to their families and connections. Office of the Judges , so too “Sr.designation” are inheritance. Except a few nice souls, the majority think they are Kings and carry blue blood on their veins. Arrogance and pride is their hallmark. Now, […]
Rohini Amin’s Appeal to the Members of Parliament to protect the Parliament from judicial invasions
Rohini AminGeneral Secretary, National Lawyers Campaign For Judicial Transparency And Reforms07.08.2021 Hon’ble Members of Parliament and State Legislatures, Our constitutional democracy is founded on the principle that Parliament being the representative body of the people is Supreme. However, if a law enacted by the Parliament violates fundamental rights it is void being in violation of the […]
Court Mandated Capture of the Churches of the Jacobite Christians- Who Is At Fault?
**** Mathews J. NedumparaAdvocate, Supreme Court of India98205 35428mathewsjnedumpara@gmail.com 1. Kerala, today, faces the curious scenario of the High Court ordering forceful takeover of the churches of the Syrian Jacobite Christians owing allegiance to the Patriarch of Antioch, in the purported implementation of the orders of the Supreme Court with many a bench of the […]
“Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do”, adieu Justice Nariman”
11.08.2021 The common citizens, particularly, the informed section, are proud that we have one of the best and most comprehensive constitutions in the world. Our constitution has a specific chapter stating in great elaboration, the sacrosanct rights such as equality, freedom of speech and expression, life and personal liberty, faith and conscience, etc. By virtue […]
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 […]
Nedumpara’s Letter to CJI on judicial Reforms
2nd September 2021 Hon’ble Shri. N.V.Ramana,Chief Justice India, New Delhi May it please your Lordship, Sub: Judicial reforms to secure equal opportunities for all sections of lawyers in judicial appointments/as law officers of the government and public bodies, bringing an end to discriminative practices like designation and separate dress code which has a seeming imprimatur, […]
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 B, which may be erroneous but binding on the said parties, becomes binding on C and D, nay, on posterity as the law of […]
NLC’s agendas are certain to become a reality
10.5.2021 a) unlike before, a large section of the legal fraternity informed public, and in particular the press, is aware that the Collegium system of appointment and designation of lawyers as senior advocates have completely destroyed any semblance of inclusiveness in the higher judiciary as well as the in designated bar. People now readily accept […]