Article 215- Power of Contempt of High Court
Article 215 Article 215 of the Constitution provides that every High Court shall be a court of record and shall have all the powers of such a court including the…
Open Courts and Trial in Camera
“The principle underlying the insistence on hearing causes in open court is to protect and assist fair, impartial and objective administration of justice; but if the requirement of justice…
The Concept of Open Courts and Its Importance in a Democracy
The concept of open courts is not alien to the Indian legal system. The Constitution adopts the concept in Article 145(4), which states that the Supreme Court shall be an…
Easy, Intermediate, and Hard Cases- How Judges Decide the Case?
The Courts, in dispensation of their judicial duties of deciding cases, come across all types of problems which are brought before them. These cases may be broadly classified into…
The Status of Lawyer’s Relationship with Client
Lawyers are perceived to be their client’s agents. The law of agency may not strictly apply to the client – lawyer’s relationship as lawyers or agents, lawyers have certain authority…
Can Bar Associations pass a resolution to not appear in the case of any particular person?
The question came for consideration in the case ‘A.S.Mohammad Rafi v. State of Tamilnadu (2010)’, Where several Bar Association all over India, whether High Court Bar Associations or District…
Does a judge have jurisdiction to pass an order when he is working in the commission of enquiry?
The question was raised in the case of ‘Alok Kumar Roy v. Dr. S.N. Sarma, (1967)’. An appeal was preferred before Supreme Court by special leave and it was urged…
Should Higher Court make adverse remarks against trial court judge?
“Alas! we are “all the common growth of the Mother Earth’ – even those of us who wear the long robe.” Supreme Court of India talked on this issue in…