The late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed a revolutionary step in the Indian judicial system with the introduction of the concept of Public Interest Litigation. It was Justice Krishna Iyer and Justice PN Bhagwati who started admitting PILs in the …
Black’s Law Dictionary defines JUDICIAL ACTIVISM as “Philosophy of judicial decision or political consideration rather than on existing law.’’ HISTORY OF JUDICIAL ACTIVISIM- ARTHUR SCHLESINGER Jr. introduced the term ‘judicial activisim’ in January 1947 in FORTUNE MAGAZINE article titled “The …
“Public interest is something in which public, the community at large has some pecuniary interest in which their legal rights and liabilities are affected. It does not mean anything narrow as a mere curiosity or as the interest of the …
“Access to justice through class actions, public interest litigation and representative proceedings is the present Constitutional jurisprudence”.[1]’ – Justice Krishna Iyer The emergence of Public Interest Litigation was initiated by few Judges of the Supreme Court.[2] The method was to …
Originated and developed in the USA in 1960s, it was designed to provide adequate legal representation to the deprived classes. The concept of PIL in India is a product of the Supreme Court of India through the process of judicial …
Abstract “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment” Margaret Mead The main object behind every research is to identify the present scenario and study the nature and extent of till date developments in various environmental statutes through …