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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: Today’s Times of India, on its front page, carried an article by Mr. Dhananjay Mohapatra, one of the illustrious legal reporters of the country, under the caption “We felt the then CJI was remote-controlled: Joseph”. Within the said main heading, there was a sub-heading titled “Ex Supreme Court Judge says minority tag hinders careers”. Under the said caption Your Lordship is reported to have said “the minority tag is a hindrance to career progression of members of...

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Video-Recording Of Proceedings Of Courts And Tribunals – A Panacea For The Ills Which Indian Judiciary Faces Today

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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 the campaign titled National Lawyers’ Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms and the video-recording of proceedings of all Courts and Tribunals in the country as its prime objective. I had no difficulty to answer the query because of the injustice which I personally had to undergo, for,...

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“Criticizing Bar Council amounts to misconduct”?

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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 violate it, they will have to face the consequence of criminal and civil proceedings for defamation and even contempt. Lawyers certainly are not above law. But at the same time, any attempt to silence criticism and dissent in the name of protecting judges or any authority,...

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Criticizing Bar Council amounts to misconduct

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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 of reputation. When the common people violate it, they will have to face the consequence of criminal and civil proceedings for defamation and even contempt. Lawyers certainly are not above law. But at the same time, any attempt to silence criticism and dissent in the name of...

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Nedumpara’s Letter To The Prime Minister Complaining Nepotism In Judges’ Appointment

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Mathews J NedumparaPresident , NLCOPEN LETTER04.06.2020 Hon'ble Shri. Narendra ModiPrime Minister of IndiaNew DelhiHon'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 of the Rajasthan High Court. I address this letter with great amount of pain and agony. I wish i were not to address this letter. But I have no choice. As the President of the National Lawyers Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms, an organization registered under the Maharashtra Public Charitable Trust...

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Simple solution for reducing pendency of cases is to do away with “precedents” nay, repeal of Article 141 of the Constitution

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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 believe, should be the guiding lamp when we think of judicial reforms. There are two streams of administration of justice, one, the civil law system followed in the European continent and the Latin America, and the other the common law system followed in UK, India, America and...

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Demolition of Maradu homes, who will tell the court that it went wrong?

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Mathews J. Nedumpara I pen these few lines with great amount of pain and anguish. The Government of Kerala, in furtherance of an all party meeting convened by Shri Pinarayi Vijayan, Chief Minister of Kerala, engaged Shri Harish Salve, probably the highest paid lawyer in the country, to save 450 odd families of their homes, which were ordered to be demolished by a Bench of the Supreme Court headed by Hon'ble Shri Justice Arun Misra....

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Who is responsible for demolition of Maradu homes – an injustice which has no parallel in history

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Mathews J. Nedumpara Keralites across the breadth and width of the globe, nay, millions of people, with bated breath, watched five apartment buildings in Maradu, a prime location of Cochin surrounded by lakes and lush green, crumble down with a mushroom of dust being formed, as if an atom bomb has been dropped. While a few sadists, insane minds, knowing not what the ramifications are, celebrated, clapping their hands and beating drums, millions all...

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In the Supreme Court of India Writ Petition (C) No. ___of 2020

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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA WRIT PETITION (C) NO. ___OF 2020 Mathews J. Nedumpara …Petitioner vs. Union of India & ors. …Respondents SYNOPSIS Millions and millions of animals, milking and pregnant cows, calves, buffalos, goats, poultry are slaughtered in the most inhuman ways, in clear violation of the mandate of Articles 48, 48A and 51A (g) of the Constitution of India, as also the various Acts, Regulations and Rules enacted/framed by the Parliament, various State Assemblies, Centre and State Governments, banning the slaughter of milking cows and calves, as also regulating the slaughter of animals. Millions of wild animals, wild boars, elephants, dear, bisons are...

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Campaign For Home For All

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28.5.2020 The miseries which the millions of migrant labourers had to face with the imposition of the lockdown, so too its easing no words can adequately describe. It would wrench the hearts of even the most hardened ones. But the question is: could the governments be entirely blamed for the same even while fully accepting that there has been great shortcomings even in Kerala which has managed the Covid pandemic exceedingly well? But the question is: are not these functions falling under the exclusive province of the executive as has been rightly pointed out by Arghya Sen Gupta in his article...

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