Fighting corruption, Ukraine starts to judge its judges
Ukrainian judge Artur Yemelianov has acknowledged in an online declaration that he owns a Breguet watch worth nearly a third of his annual salary and keeps piles of cash. On…
Judging the judges
THE Bhuttos and tragedy share a grave. They are like the Kennedys and the Nehruvian Gandhis — privileged families who invoke (to borrow Homer’s thoughts) “the envy of the gods”;…
Justice for judges
COURTS have come to occupy a distinctively unique place in modern states given their multifarious but quintessential roles not only in the development of jurisprudence and adjudication of disputes but…
Judges’ lapses
“LORD Woolf cannot quite make up his mind whether he is a liberal reformer or the shop steward for the only trade union in the country whose members wear wigs…
When judges talk
THE 1958 report of the 14th Law Commission of India is a classic of its kind, which is why no one refers to it anymore. In a marked decline in…
Albanian justice on pause as judges fall victim to graft probe
Inside the halls of Albania's quiet Supreme Court building, a clock on the wall has stopped. It is an apt symbol for a tribunal that hasn't held a hearing since…
Leave it to the judges
However you want to sugarcoat it, Pakistan lost at the ICJ. India’s application for provisional measures was resisted by Pakistan. The agent representing Pakistan suggested that the court could hold…
Judges as legislators
Under our constitution, parliament legislates, the executive runs the government of the day and the judges decide when either of the other two has overstepped its domain. The power of…
Judging the judges
A few weeks back, the Supreme Court refused to admit for hearing a constitutional petition on strengthening procedures for judicial accountability in the country. Among other things, the petition requested…
No more judges, please
Last year, Pakistan’s former chief justice, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, showed the bar and the bench a mirror when he announced the results of an empirical study conducted by Supreme…
