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Special Exclusive Courts at Rouse Avenue Court

A New “Architecture of Justice”: CJI Surya Kant Inaugurates Special Exclusive Courts for NIA, UAPA, NDPS, and MCOCA Cases Open at Rouse Avenue

Calling Delhi the “nation’s laboratory for judicial innovation”, CJI Surya Kant marked the importance of specialised courts for timely and effective adjudication of complex criminal cases.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi HC refuses to mandate criminal courts to issue notice to complainant/victim at pre-trial stage, says ‘such direction likely to work against objective of expeditious trials’

“The petitioner’s suggestion that it should be made mandatory for the Criminal Court to issue a notice to the complainant/victim at every stage of the pre-trial and trial in criminal proceedings, if accepted would act as ‘a treatment worse than the disease’.”

Law School News Others

ILS Law College, Pune One Day Seminar on ‘Reforms in Bail Law to Maximize Access to Justice’: 14 October 2023

Concept Note: The Indian Constitution envisages an affirmative use of law for bringing about a profound social transformation. The Constitution contemplates the

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Criminal Justice| ‘Practically difficult to achieve absolute consistency in sentencing’ but here’s what the Courts should do: SC

Supreme Court: Explaining the principles of sentencing policy, the 3-judge bench of NV Ramana, CJ and Surya Kant* and AS Bopanna, JJ

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Court lays down guidelines to be followed by criminal courts and mediation centres while dealing with criminal cases; to be applied mutatis mutandis to other ADR methods

Delhi High Court: R.K. Gauba, J. laid down guidelines for the criminal courts and mediation centers to be followed while dealing with the criminal