Judicial activism shouldn’t erode constitutional principles: President (Lead)
September 8th, 2012 - 10:00 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 8 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday cautioned against judicial activism resulting in the erosion of constitutional principles of separation of powers between the three pillars of state ... Read more...
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Judicial activism shouldn’t erode constitutional principles: President
September 8th, 2012 - 9:27 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Sep 8 (IANS) President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday cautioned against judicial activism resulting in the erosion of constitutional principles of separation of powers between the three pillars of state ... Read more...
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Pakistan’s dynamic instability: Road to real democracy? (Comment)
January 29th, 2012 - 12:31 pm ICT by IANS
Pakistan is again going through a crisis. But this time for optimists like me the instability is dynamic. It is dynamic because this kind of struggle between a civilian government ... Read more...
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Apex court spared neither holy cows, nor corrupt in 2011 (2011 in Retrospect)
December 28th, 2011 - 5:58 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 28 (IANS) It was a year of judicial activism as the Supreme Court was in 2011 called on to adjudicate on a wide swathe of issues ranging ... Read more...
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Lawyers at centre-stage during impeachment debate
August 19th, 2011 - 1:23 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) The historic debate in the Rajya Sabha on the motion for removing from office Justice Soumitra Sen of Calcutta High Court saw legal lumaniries ... Read more...
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Can’t blame courts if they try to help poor: Apex court
July 14th, 2011 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) The Supreme Court has slammed the political executive both at the central and the state level for tardy implementation of welfare schemes and raising the ... Read more...
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Police reforms: Need for Anna Hazare-type movement (Comment)
May 15th, 2011 - 1:50 pm ICT by IANS
If corruption is a buzzword after Anna Hazare's campaign, then it's nowhere better reflected than in Indian police. The recent Transparency International India puts policing at No.1 in the corruption stakes ... Read more...
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Judiciary needs ‘more accountability’, ‘restraint’ in activism (Lead)
April 24th, 2011 - 12:44 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) As eminent jurists here recommended more accountability for the judiciary, Home Minister P. Chidambaram Saturday said a clean judiciary was the right of every ... Read more...
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Lahore HC quashes petition to make Ambassador Munter party to Raymond Davis case
March 8th, 2011 - 11:52 am ICT by ANI
Lahore, Mar 8(ANI): The Lahore High Court has quashed a petition seeking to make US Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter, party to a pending petition on the immunity status of double murder-accused ... Read more...
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Lawyers differ on terming verdict on CVC judicial activism
March 6th, 2011 - 9:31 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 6 (IANS) The legal fraternity is united in hailing the Supreme Court judgment striking down the appointment of P.J. Thomas as the central vigilance commissioner (CVC), but ... Read more...
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Bangladeshi rape victim was whipped to death, court told
February 10th, 2011 - 3:20 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Feb 10 (IANS) The teenager who died after she was raped and whipped a 100 times following a fatwa by local clerics had suffered "heavy wounds" all over her body, said ... Read more...
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Are judges kings? No judicial activism please (A Legal Reporter’s Diary)
August 1st, 2010 - 5:34 pm ICT by IANS
By Parmod Kumar
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Here's a staunch opponent of judicial activism from within the judiciary itself. Supreme Court's Justice Markandey Katju seldom misses an opportunity to slam courts for ... Read more...
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Pak father sells 13-year old daughter to marry 55 year old for 70,000 rupees
July 22nd, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, July 22 (ANI): In what can be described as a blot on the father-daughter relationship, a Pakistani man sold his 13-year old daughter for 70, 000 rupees for marrying a 55-year ... Read more...
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Terrorists roaming free in Pak thanks to judicial activism: Sindh Minister
June 25th, 2010 - 5:52 pm ICT by ANI
Karachi, June 25 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh province' Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has criticised the judiciary for setting free scores of terrorists due to lack of substantial evidence against them.Speaking in the ... Read more...
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Stop reading newspapers early in the day, advises apex court
May 19th, 2010 - 12:04 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) The Supreme Court Tuesday suggested that one should avoid reading newspapers early in the morning to get through the day.
"If you want to keep your day ... Read more...
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Update knowledge, Justice Kapadia tells judges, lawyers (Lead)
May 2nd, 2010 - 10:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 2 (IANS) Chief Justice of India-designate Justice S.H. Kapadia Sunday said that it was incumbent upon judges and lawyers to learn commercial laws to compete in global environment and ... Read more...
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Protect Pakistani president’s office from prosecution: Petition
January 19th, 2010 - 3:51 pm ICT by IANS
Lahore, Jan 19 (IANS) With Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari facing the prospect of being jailed after the corruption cases against him are reopened, a petition has been filed in the ... Read more...
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Somnath Chatterjee speaks out against judicial activism
December 10th, 2009 - 10:05 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Dec 10 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has said the lines demarcating the jurisdiction of different organs of the state have got blurred due to "judicial activism", and ... Read more...
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Lahore High Court quashes petition challenging US drone attacks
October 28th, 2009 - 2:33 pm ICT by ANI
Lahore, Oct.28 (ANI): The Lahore High Court (LHC) has dismissed an appeal that challenged the continuous drone strikes inside Pakistan's territory and urged the court to declare the US an enemy state.The ... Read more...
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State governments to get Rs.112 billion to restore forests
July 15th, 2009 - 7:13 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) The Rs.11,200 crore (Rs.112 billion/$2.2 billion) released by the Supreme Court last week for compensatory afforestation will be used to improve the tree cover in six million ... Read more...
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Stamping out corruption main task: Iftikhar Chaudhry
March 24th, 2009 - 6:39 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 24 (IANS) Following the reinstatement of the Supreme Court judges sacked in 2007, the main tasks before Pakistani Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry are restoring the dignity of the judiciary ... Read more...
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‘Sleepless nights for Zardari, Musharraf’
March 19th, 2009 - 6:28 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 19 (IANS) For once, both Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his predecessor seem to be in the same boat, spending sleepless nights over the reinstatement Saturday of sacked ... Read more...
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Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhury the rallying point for Pakistan’s judges
March 16th, 2009 - 9:21 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, March 16 (IANS) When former Pakistani military strongman Pervez Musharraf not once, but twice, sacked Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhury as the country's chief justice, little did he realise that he was ... Read more...
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‘Do not confuse environment rulings with judicial activism’
March 9th, 2009 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 9 (IANS) Judgments and rulings by courts on environmental issues should not be misconstrued with judicial activism, Bombay High Court Chiief Justice Swatanter Kumar said here Monday.
Speaking at a conference ... Read more...
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Pak coalition partners drafting a special package to check judicial activism
August 20th, 2008 - 2:55 pm ICT by ANI
Islamabad , Aug 20 (ANI): The top hierarchy of the ruling federal alliance in Pakistan is said to be working to evolve a special constitutional reform package ensuring that there was ... Read more...
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SC says even God will not be able to save this country
August 5th, 2008 - 10:10 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug 5 (ANI): The Supreme Court today refused to amend the law for launching criminal prosecution against those who illegally occupy official houses, and said that even God will ... Read more...
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Even god cannot help India: Supreme Court
August 5th, 2008 - 8:48 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) Condemning the government's attitude in tackling the problem of politicians and bureaucrats overstaying in government bungalows, the Supreme Court Tuesday remarked that even god cannot help this ... Read more...
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Government on collision course with apex court on judicial activism
April 9th, 2008 - 10:31 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The government Wednesday endorsed Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju's views calling for restraint in judicial activism, bringing it into conflict with another bench headed by Chief Justice ... Read more...
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Supreme Court not bound by judges’ remarks: KG Balakrishnan
December 13th, 2007 - 4:28 pm ICT by admin
New Delhi, Dec 13 (ANI): Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan has said the Supreme Court is not bound by the recent remarks of a two-judge bench which was critical of judicial activism.
Balakrishnan, ... Read more...
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Pak EC has different rules for Musharraf backed Fazlur and other ulema
December 10th, 2007 - 6:54 pm ICT by admin
Peshawar, Dec 10 (ANI): Pakistans Election Commission is breaking its own rule by accepting the nomination papers of Maulana Fazlur Rahman and his group of ulema, who reportedly have no bachelor degrees, ... Read more...
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Negroponte was tougher on Benazir than Musharraf, claims sources
November 19th, 2007 - 5:07 pm ICT by admin
Islamabad, Nov 19 (ANI): US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte was tougher on former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and what he told to President General Pervez Musharraf was a public ... Read more...
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Musharraf urges Benazir to delay her return
November 14th, 2007 - 2:02 am ICT by admin
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