Lakhs of cases pending...so many Indians waiting for years to get justice,
but even after 60 years of independance, Indian judiciary sit on a high
pedestal and lives the colonial life style. There is no judicial reforms, no
awareness of the problems facing the people.
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Supreme Court has more breaks than working days
IANS
Published: November 11, 2007, 23:54
New Delhi: Ever wondered what is common between school-going children and the high priests of judiciary? Saturdays, Sundays and "a lot of fun-days", feel a section of lawyers.
As per the Supreme Court's calendar for 2007, out of the 365 days a year, the Supreme Court has only 176 working days. The remaining 189 days - more than half the year - are holidays.
They include 104 Saturdays and Sundays, nearly two-and-a-half months of summer vacation, a fortnight of winter vacation besides several other offs, ranging from a day to a week. And all this in the backdrop of a huge backlog of cases.
"Even the highest US court, where individual judges do not have to adjudicate more than 150 cases a year, does not have more than three to four months of holidays," said senior advocate K.K. Venugopal.
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