CJAR Seminar TOMORROW On Supreme Court's Judicial Administration & Management And Its Trend On Cases Involving Civil Liberties & Political Rights

Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reforms in partnership with The Wire and LiveLaw is organizing seminar on "Supreme Court Judicial Administration & Management- Issues & Concerns" and "The Supreme Court's recent trend on cases involving Civil Liberties & Political Rights" on February 24 at the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi.To discuss these twin issues of seminal importance, the seminar will bring together former judges of the Supreme Court and the High Courts, senior advocates and members of civil society. The following are the panelists:Session 1: Supreme Court Judicial Administration & Management - Issues & Concerns; (10 a.m.-1p.m.)Tribute to eminent jurist and senior advocate Mr. Fali S. Norman by Vipul Mudgal, Director Common Cause and member CJARIntroduction: Cheryl Dsouza, Advocate and member, CJARModerator: Alok Prasanna, Co-founder Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy1. Justice Madan B. Lokur, former judge, Supreme Court2. Justice Kurian Joseph, former judge, Supreme Court3. Justice Ajit Prakash Shah, former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court4. Justice Rekha Sharma, former Judge, Delhi High Court5. Justice Govind Mathur, former Chief Justice, Allahabad High Court6. Kamini Jaiswal, Advocate, Supreme Court7. Meenakshi Arora, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court8. Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, Supreme Court9. Prashant Bhushan, Advocate and Convenor, CJAR Session 2: The Supreme Court's recent trend on cases involving Civil Liberties & Political Rights: (2p.m.- 5p.m.)Moderator: Anjali Bhardwaj, Right to Information activist, Satark Nagrik Sanghatan & CJARIntroduction – Mr. Prsanna S. Article 21 Trust and member, CJAR1. Justice AK Patnaik, former Judge, Supreme Court2. Justice Indira Banerjee, former Judge, Supreme Court3. Prof Mohan Gopal, former Director, National Judicial Academy4. Trideep Pais, Senior Advocate5. Kapil Sibal, Senior Advocate6. Chander Uday Singh, Senior Advocate7. Mihir Desai, Senior Advocate, Bombay High Court8. Warisha Farasat, Advocate, Delhi High Court & Supreme CourtSession 3: Resolutions and way forward (5 - 5:30p.m.)Moderated by: Indira Unninayar, Advocate Supreme Court & Amrita Johri, RTI Activist, SNS, members CJAR working committee.LiveLaw And The Wire are the Media Partners of the event.Click here to read background noteClick here to read Agenda

CJAR Seminar TOMORROW On Supreme Court's Judicial Administration & Management And Its Trend On Cases Involving Civil Liberties & Political Rights

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