Tag: judicial activism

Judicial Activism – Need of Hour: Requirement of Checks and Balances

November 8, 2013 Lex-Warrier No Comments

Anju Beniwal, Ph.D., Research Scholar, Department of Law, M.D.U. Rohtak The ultimate goal of our constitution, enunciated by our worthy founding fathers, in its preamble is to secure ‘Welfare state’. For achieving this goal the constitution has created three organs- the Legislature, the Executive and the Judiciary ((Justice B.P. Jeeven Reddy, “JUDICIAL ACTIVISM: A PERSPECTIVE”,…

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Environmental protection and role of judiciary in India

September 29, 2013 Lex-Warrier No Comments

Anshu Bansal, Research Associate Can Judiciary manage the Environment? The role of the judiciary is really important as the role of mitochondria of a living human cell. Had the judiciary turned the deaf ear towards environmental problems it could not be in any way came to celluloid ((Mohindra Kothi, Environmental Protection vis-à-vis Judicial Activism, Waila…

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Judicial Activism in Environmental Protection: An Environmentally Active Judiciary

September 19, 2013 Lex-Warrier No Comments

Author: Nivedita Saxena, Research Associate Judicial activism is essentially the terminology for judicial rulings that are suspected of being based on personal, political or other considerations rather than the existing laws and go beyond the scope of judicial review. Black’s Law Dictionary defines judicial activism as a “philosophy of judicial decision-making whereby judges allow their…

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