Even though India's overall ranking in 'Ease of doing business' had improved from 142 in 2014 to 63 in 2020, on the 'enforcement of contracts' it improved marginally from 186 in 2014 to 163 in 2020
He said people knock on the doors of the judiciary when all other options were closed to them and sound judiciary delivery systems were the basis for good governance.
Judiciary, legislature and executive face unique challenges but they will have to work together to solve the problems of a vast country like India, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said
Justice Ramana has been vocal about non-filling up of judicial vacancies and not improving the judicial infrastructure as the main reason for pendency of cases in the country.
Driven by the winds of globalisation, people are moving towards a culture which is emerging as a threat to local cultural identities, even as social media, television and pop culture glamourise this
Some "out of the box" thinking is required to unclog jails and reduce the burden of criminal cases in courts, observed the Supreme Court on Friday while stressing that some steps should be taken
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on September 9 a plea challenging certain provisions of the 1991 law which prohibit filing of a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship
The question "who judges the judiciary" is fundamental since it appoints its own members via the Collegium system introduced in the early 1990s
Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana, who is set to demit office on August 26 on superannuation, on Wednesday received a communication from the Law and Justice Minister to nominate his successor.
The link with economic growth can't be ignored
The Delhi High Court has held that Union Minister Smriti Irani and her daughter are neither owners of a restaurant-cum-bar in Goa at the centre of a controversy nor a license was ever issued
While the Constitution has worked well to preserve our rights and institutions, it hasn't worked well at all in at least 105 ways because it has been amended that many times
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday stressed that ease of justice was equally important as ease of doing business and ease of living, as he urged the judiciary to speed up release of undertrials
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged the judiciary to speed up the release of undertrials languishing in various jails awaiting legal aid
The Supreme Court Friday directed National National Testing Agency to permit 15 candidates, who faced technical glitches in the first session of JEE (Mains)-2022, to participate in additional session
The Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana on Monday approved and recommended to the Centre the proposal for the elevation of 20 advocates and 15 judicial officers
A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Monday rejected the bail plea of 13 persons accused in the violence that took place in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a plea challenging the Rajasthan High Court order which granted parole to a man serving life jail terms for progeny.A bench headed by the Chief Justice of India agreed to list the plea next week.A counsel mentioned before the apex court that the HC's order has opened floodgates and many convicts are applying for parole on this ground. The lawyer said that this is not a valid ground for granting permission for parole.In April this year, the Rajasthan High Court ordered the release of a man for 15 days on parole.The HC's order came on the convict's wife's plea asserting her "right of progeny" and seeking her husband's release. The HC said that denial to the convict-prisoner to perform conjugal relationship with his wife more particularly for the purpose of progeny would adversely affect the rights of his wife.The HC had cited various religious scriptures while allowing the plea and said that the right to have a progeny also finds mention in the
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in Delhi High Court seeking appropriate direction to the Centre and Delhi Government to prohibit forcible religious conversion by intimidation
Calling them bedrock on which stands the entire edifice of justice, Pardiwala urged officers of the district judiciary to avoid fear or favour at all costs to keep the river of judicial process clean