Volume 20 - Issue 03, February 01 14, 2003

India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU Home

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PERSPECTIVE

A democratic demand
V. R. KRISHNA IYER Public interest justice is in need of a clear code, research and development support, in order that the instrumentality may be perfected and canalised properly.
VINO JOHN

At the Madras High Court. India's constitutional democracy is in judicial custody. The courts must live up to their judicial trust. A JUDGE is a leader, whether he wants to be one or not. He cannot escape responsibility in his jurisdiction for setting the level of the administration of justice. Therefore, the personality of the Judge matters, his sensitivity is decisive and his `unconscious' plays a decisive role in the exercise of judge power, particularly where it closely touches contemporary economic and social problems. Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, in The Nature of the Judicial Process has emphatically established the supreme importance of the Judge, his philosophy and his sub-conscious,