Live Streaming N’ Courts: Accessible, Affordable and Accountable Judiciary [Part 2]
by Siddharth R. Gupta† and Utkarsh Sharma††
Cite as: 2021 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 49
Judiciary
Live Streaming N’ Courts: Accessible, Affordable and Accountable Judiciary [PART I]
by Siddharth R. Gupta† and Utkarsh Sharma††
Cite as: 2021 SCC OnLine Blog Exp 41
MP HC | District Judiciary is extremely tight-fisted when it comes to granting bail, leads to burden on the High Court; Directions on arrest and bail issued to Police; Judicial Magistrates
Madhya Pradesh High Court: Atul Sreedharan, J., allowed a bail application of the applicant who was charged for offences under sections 420,467,468,471,472,474
Open courts and freedom of media to report Court Proceedings: Unmissable Supreme Court quotes and the iconic Lokmanya Balgangadhar Tilak’s sedition trial
“Acceptance of a new reality is the surest way of adapting to it. Our public constitutional institutions must find better responses than to complain.”
Ad-hoc judges to be appointed to deal with unprecedented pendency of cases in High Courts. Supreme Court issues guidelines and “trigger points” for activation of dormant Article 224A
“Article 224 A should not be made a dead letter, more so when the need is so pressing.”
With 220 vacancies, “the High Courts are in a crisis situation”; Here’s what the Supreme Court advised to facilitate timely appointments
“The High Courts are in a crisis situation. There are almost 40% vacancies in the High Courts, with many of the larger High Courts working under 50% of their sanctioned strength.”
“Govt. is to blame for chaos; Harsh steps necessary before pandemic spirals to engulf entire population”: All HC orders closing of all establishments (exceptions listed) till 26th April in select districts, asks Govt. to consider complete lockdown for entire State
“One would only laugh at us that we have enough to spend on elections and very little to spend on public health.”
Manipur HC| Civil or Criminal? – Lower Courts must first discover the basic nature of the dispute
“When the dispute in question is discovered to be predominantly of civil nature then an attempt to make it criminal offence should be thwarted and discouraged.”
Cal HC | Judiciary – The policy-making instrument on issues relating to marriage conversion and acceptability in terms of personal laws? Read on
Calcutta High Court: The Division Bench of Thottathil B. Radhakrishnan, CJ and Arijit Banerjee, J., held that Judiciary is not the policy-making
DNLU & CAN Foundation | Online Discussion on “Parliament & the Judiciary on Constitutional Amendments: Shifting Paradigms”
Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur (DNLU) in association with the Confederation of Alumni for National Law Universities Foundation (CAN Foundation), is all
Candidate declared unfit for the post of District Judge due to pendency of criminal case. Can they claim reconsideration after acquittal? Read what SC says
Supreme Court: In a case where a man was tried for and later acquitted from charges under Section 498A/406/34 IPC, the bench
Kerala HC | President appoints 4 Additional Judges as Permanent Judges
President appoints the following Additional Judges as Permanent Judges: S/Shri Justices (i) V.G. Arun (ii) N. Nagaresh (iii) T.V. Anilkumar, and (iv)
Jharkhand HC | Appointment of 2 Additional Judges as Permanent Judges– Notified
President appoints S/Shri Justices (1) Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi and (2) Deepak Roshan, Additional Judges of the Jharkhand High Court, to be Judges
Punjab and Haryana HC | Appointment of an Additional Judge of the P&H HC
Appointment of an Additional Judge President appoints appoint Shri Rajesh Bhardwaj, to be an Additional Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High
AP HC | Telephonic conversation designing a plot against Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh & Supreme Court Judge; Court requests Justice Raveendran to hold enquiry
Andhra Pradesh High Court: A Division Bench of M. Satyanarayana Murthy and Lalitha Kanneganti, JJ., ordered an enquiry into a conversation contained in
Manipur HC | Contempt proceedings initiated against ASP for posting derogatory content on Facebook against a Special Judge and Judiciary
Manipur High Court: A Division Bench of Lanusungkum Jamir and Kh. Nobin Singh, JJ., initiated contempt proceedings, wherein Additional Superintendent of Police is