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Press Release – 30.9.2022

Press Release As a lawyer at the bar for almost four decades, the incident which happened in Jabalpur today, a lawyer taking the extreme step of committing suicide, having been unjustly treated, insulted, unfortunately comes as no shock to me. In the temples of justice across the width and breadth of the country, lawyers and litigants are insulted and ill-treated. It is a question only of the varying degree. The southern states may be a little better. The lawyers who dare to question injustice and ill-treatment are silenced by summarily rejecting their cases, denying stay, and rejecting bail. Sometimes even the power...

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We inherited from the British, a judiciary known for its independence

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Welcome to NLC We inherited from the British, a judiciary known for its independence, impartiality and erudition. Its job was to decide disputes involving rights and obligations between citizen and citizen and the citizen and the state. It did not legislate, it did not act as the executive. In the 70 years since then, the judiciary has changed a lot. It is no longer a adjudicator of disputes. It has become the executive, deciding whether or not Bombay needs a coastal road and holding that It does not when the common man and the elected government wanted it and the government...

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20.02.2020 – Press Release

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Press Release It is unfortunate that the Bar Associations take an unprincipled stand when it comes to the transfer of judges. In a system where 90% of all judges are from a few dynasties, so too the senior lawyers they designate, the judiciary being the monopoly of a few, it is absolutely imperative that judges are transferred out of their home state. The Supreme court in S.P Gupta's case emphatically said that transfer of judges out of their home state is the most ideal solution against all sorts of rumours and controversies of favouritism which crop up when a lawyer is...

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Video recording the court proceedings, an Offence?

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Video recording the court proceedings, an Offence? Mathews J. Nedumpara. 19th September 2019 Nullum crimen sine lege, nulla poena sine lege is a Latin maxim that means "no crime or punishment without a law." There can be no crime committed, and no punishment meted out, without a violation of penal law as it existed at the time. This basic legal principle has been incorporated into international criminal law. This is also one of the fundamental principles of law which is incorporated in Part III of the Constitution. In simple words, no person can be proceeded against and punished unless the legislature had...

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NLC: Press release on Justice Tahilramani’s transfer

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NLC considers Collegium as an undemocratic and unconstitutional body. It is unfortunate that the same is allowed to have a life after its death which the judgment of the supreme court in the NJAC case has meant to be. While we completely oppose 'sarkari judges', we are in even greater disagreement with judicial dynasties. Between the two evils, the Sarkari judges may even be a better option! The need of the hour is an Independent Judicial Appointments Commission, independent of both the executive and the judiciary. The NJAC was a good idea. But it was allowed to be aborted even before...

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NLC Press release- Review of Judges 2 case

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It is a matter of great disappointment and concern that the 9-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme court, headed by the hon'ble Chief Justice, was pleased to dismiss the petition of the NLC seeking the review of the judgment of the SC in SCAORA v Union of India, popularly known as the Judges 2 case, in which, by recourse to literal re-writing of the Constitution, the Collegium system of appointing judges was brought into existence. The Collegium system where judges appoint judges, which exists nowhere else in the world led to the widespread complaint that it has meant denial of...

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Executive committee meeting 28th of February, 2018

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PRESS RELEASE The Executive committee meeting of the National Lawyers Campaign, Chaired by its President Shri Mathews J Nedumpara, at its office today, the 28th of February, 2018, took stock of the controversy arising from the rescheduling of the roster of the Hon’ble high court of Judicature at Bombay by the Hon’ble Mrs. V.k Tahilramani, the acting Chief Justice, in the light of the discussion the office bearers of the NLC had with the Registrar General, the Prothonotary and other officers of the Court and the Members of the Bar. On the face of it, the rescheduling of the roster...

Press Release – 30.9.2022

We inherited from the British, a judiciary known for its independence

20.02.2020 – Press Release

Video recording the court proceedings, an Offence?

NLC: Press release on Justice Tahilramani’s transfer

NLC Press release- Review of Judges 2 case

Executive committee meeting 28th of February, 2018

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