In the High Court of Judicature at Bombay Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction

CHAMBER SUMMONS (LODGING) NO.214 OF 2018 IN WRIT PETITION (LODGING) NO.1180 OF 2018 Bombay Bar Association ..Applicant In the matter of: Mathews J. Nedumpara … Petitioner Versus Hon'ble Shri Justice S.J. Kathawalla ..Respondent AFFIDAVIT IN REPLY I, Mathews Nedumpara, S/o. Joseph, aged 59, Advocate, residing at 12-F, Harbour Heights, “A” Wing, 12th Floor, Sassoon Dock, Colaba, Mumbai – 400005, do hereby solemnly affirm and state as follows: 1. I am the Petitioner in the above Writ Petition and respondent in the above Chamber Summons. I know the facts of the case and am competent to swear this affidavit. 2. I am a bit taken aback to come...

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National Lawyers Campaign

A Call to the legal Fraternity and the Public at large. Sirs/Mesadames, All those who believe that a judiciary which is independent, impartial and accountable to the people would remain to be a dream unless the sons and daughters of the common man finds due representation are shocked by the order of the HC of Orissa to initiate Contempt of Court proceedings against the office bearers of the Orissa HC Bar Association for demanding the dismantlement of the Collegium System of appointment of judges. Our brothers and sisters of the Orissa Bar deserve to be complimented for their bold step, namely, abolition of...

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Demolition of five apartment buildings at Maradu, Cochin

Mathews J Nedumpara President, NLC 6th October, 2019 To 1. Hon’ble Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Chief Minister of Kerala. 2. Shri Ramesh Chennithala, Leader of the Opposition, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum. 3. Shri Oommen Chandy, Former Chief Minister of Kerala. 4. Shri Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs 5. All Members of Parliament from Kerala. Honourable Sirs, Sub: Demolition of five apartment buildings at Maradu, Cochin, for alleged CRZ norms upon orders of the Supreme Court without hearing the 350 and odd home buyers, bypassing the Kerala Municipality Act and the Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, which vest in them the right of regularization of the constructions. ALL PARTY DELEGATION TO MEET THE PRIME MINISTER –...

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Referring Questions of Law to Larger Benches is in Ignorance of the Doctrine of Stare Decisis

Mathews J Nedumpara Some members of the legal fraternity have criticized me for authoring article titled 'Referring Questions of Law to Larger Benches is in Ignorance of the Doctrine of Stare Decisis' as it amounts to too sharp a criticism of the Supreme Court. When i was a young lawyer, for instance when the Judges 2 case was delivered, i felt the judgement to be a re-writing of the constitution. The Supreme Court snatching away the powers of the executive. I felt the Judges 2 case cannot even be called a judgement because there was no cause of action. There existed...

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My experience in Justice Arun Mishra’s Courtroom in relation to the Maradu Demolition case

Maria Nedumpara My experience in Justice Arun Mishra’s Courtroom in relation to the Maradu Demolition case, though less personal, was just as appalling. A number of lawyers were before his lordship literally pleading for a chance to speak. 350 and odd families had been forcefully evicted in a period of 4 days, in the most inhumane manner. They were driven out of the homes in which they had been residing in for more than 9 or 10 years, the homes which they had purchased with a lifetime’s worth of savings. It would come as a shock to anyone reading this that...

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A lamentation

Being a fair critic of the judiciary,  nay,  judicial decisions, has meant enormous suffering in all sense to me. Still,  I do not regret, for,  the mite which I could contribute was so important that, had I not ventured, probably the issues which are so vital to us as a constitutional Democracy would not have come to the public domain at all.  It is we who brought to the public domain for the first time, since collegium came into existence, that, the legal and judicial dynasties,  so too,   influential politicians plan things in such a way that their progenies become...

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National Lawyers’ Campaign For Judicial Transparency & Reforms

Registration No: MH/MUM/1701/2015/GBBSD 304, Hari Chambers, 3rd Floor, 54/68  SBS Marg, Near Old Custom House, Fort, Mumbai- 400 023 Tel: 022 22626634 / Mobile: +91 98205 35428 / +91 9769110823 E. Mail: nationallawyerscampaign@gmail.com 23rd February, 2019 PRESS NOTE   Abolition of designation of lawyers as Senior Advocates, which leads to classification of lawyers into two classes, namely, (i) the elite class of lawyers, the kith and kin, nephews and juniors of sitting and former Judges of the Supreme Court and High Courts, so too of celebrated lawyers, Chief Ministers, Governors et al, and a few first generation lawyers who are all politically connected or are close to...

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National Borrowers’ Association

304, Hari Chambers, S.B.S. Road, Fort, Mumbai-400 023 MINUTES OF THE 3RD GENERAL BODY MEETING HELD AT HARI CHAMBERS, MUMBAI, ON 7TH AUGUST, 2019. The 3rd General Body Meeting of the National Borrowers’ Association (NBA) was co-chaired by Shri Sunil Gupta, alumni of IIT, Powai, Mumbai, and Shri Mathews J. Nedumpara, President of National Lawyers’ Campaign for Judicial Transparency and Reforms, Mumbai. A large number of borrowers, many of whose very residential homes were dispossessed without due process of law upon orders of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate/District Magistrate on applications under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act, narrated the great injustice done to...

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