Sunday, August 21, 2011

Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill


The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill inter-alia seeks to provide a statutory mechanism for enquiring into complaints, including from individuals, against judges of the High Courts and the Supreme Court, enabling declaration of assets and liabilities by the Judges and laying down judicial standards to be followed by Judges. Giving this information in written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister for Law & Justice, however, said that the Government has not made any provision to fix the time limit to pronounce Judgement after the final hearing of the case in the Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill

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