Judicial Reforms

• Govt to rethink on both
• Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill (in view of objection from judges)
  
• National Judicial Commission.
  

• Judicial accountability bill  pending in Parliament, seeks to lay down enforceable standards of conduct for judges. It requires judges to declare details of theirs and their family members’ assets and liabilities and it creates mechanism to allow any person to complain against judges on grounds of ‘misbehaviour or incapacity.

• On a National Judicial Commission providing for appointment and transfer of judges in the higher judiciary, ..On a National Judicial Commission providing for appointment and transfer of judges in the higher judiciary,