A queer lawyer practising before the Supreme Court has written to the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud with a request to modify the appearance slips in the Supreme Court to include an additional column for mentioning people's pronouns so that they may be correctly used in the court's or
Notably, more than half a dozen cases have been filed in the court on the Gyanvapi case and hearing of all these is going on in different courts. Now, the court will deliver the verdict on hearing many cases of one nature, together.
Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju on Saturday highlighted the pendency of five crore cases in various courts of India and said that they need to think how to reduce this pendency especially in the lower courts.
Attorney General for India R Venkatramani on Saturday recommended the formation of a permanent law commission for legal reforms and said that government should stop overloading courts with endless statutory appeals.
"An institution thrives with time only when it functions democratically. I believe as Chief Justice of India, it is my responsibility to consult judges in the Supreme Court, High Courts and district judiciary," said CJI.
During the conference, the World Sindhi Congress urged international institutions including the United Nations to file a "case of ecocide" against the Pakistani government in local and international courts.
Burning issues of the country must be discussed in the bar associations of Supreme Court, high courts and lower courts, said Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai.
Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has approved the hiring of five judicial officers and 35 other clerical and support staff in five special courts to clear the huge backlog of cases registered under the Negotiable Instruments Act (NI Act) in city courts, the official said on Monday.