Lawyers
spell out flaws in PM’s move, by Ram Kumar Kamat
(ht 23/01/2021)
Supreme
Court asks for House dissolution notice published in
Nepal Gazette (rep 21/01/2021), A
scrambling Oligovernment produces gazette before
court, but it’s backdated : Hiding information and
distorting it have been the hallmark of the Oli
government and not publishing the House dissolution
notice is a major procedural lapse, experts say,
by Tika R Pradhan (kp 23/01/2021)
Advocates
demand SC to curb PM Oli’s statement that the
parliament cannot be reconstituted (kh 20/01/2021)
Hearing
on HoR dissolution: Constitutional Bench fixes time
limit for advocacy (kh 20/01/2021), CJ
fixes 30 minutes for lawyers to plead their case
(ht 21/01/2021)
At
House dissolution hearing, advocates prod bench to
look to legislative intentStating that constitution
does not provide room for the prime minister to
dissolve Parliament, lawyers demand debate transcripts
and records of charter drafting process, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 18/01/2021), What
is legislative intent and why lawyers want the
Constitutional Bench to look to it : Advocates bring
an interview and video clip of Subas Nembang to
justices’ notice to argue the point that
constitutional provisions be followed not only in
letter but in spirit too, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
19/01/2021)
Constitutional
Bench to continue hearing petitions against House
dissolution : The five-member bench led by chief
justice rejects calls for sending the writ petitions
to an extended full bench, saying the issue warrants
serious constitutional interpretation, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 16/01/2021)
Constitutional
Bench to continue hearing writs against HoR
dissolution : Continuous hearing from Sunday (kh
15/01/2021)
Supreme
Court finally issues verdict in favour of new
curricula for grade 11 : While private schools had
been sticking to the old curriculum, public ones had
adopted the new one, by Binod Ghimire (kp
13/01/2021)
Sapana
Pradhan Malla replaces Hari Krishna Karki, as
Constitutional Bench is set to hear House dissolution
case : Karki had recused himself from the bench on
January 6 after questions that his presence
constituted a conflict of interest (kp
13/01/2021), Petitioners
to press for grand full bench, by Ram Kumar Kamat
(ht 13/01/2021), Attorney
General At Odds With Demand On Extended Full Bench On
HoR Dissolution Case (rn 13/01/2021), Hearing
On HoR Dissolution Writ Petition Goes Short Of Time;
Next Hearing On Friday (rn 13/01/2021) [With
the state and democracy at stake, clarification by the
Supreme Court must be a top priority and much faster!],
SC
keeps HoR dissolution case in ‘on-hearing’ status :
Next hearing on Friday (kh 13/01/2021)
Chief
justice mandatorily chairing Constitutional Bench
exposes a major oversight by charter drafters :
Recommendations of Constitutional Council meeting
attended by Rana have been challenged at the
Constitutional Bench. Can he sit on the bench which
has to decide on a case which has his involvement?,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha and Binod Ghimire (kp
10/01/2021)
For
the region and beyond : Nepal’s institutions have a
historic opportunity to make Nepali democracy a model,
by Dnyanesh Kamat (kp 10/01/2021)
House
dissolution: Final hearing begins today with arguments
in favour of writs : The supremacy of the constitution
is at stake and it is up to the five-member
Constitutional Bench to safeguard constitutionalism
and set a good precedent, experts say, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 06/01/2021). All
eyes on the Supreme Court : The role of the Supreme
Court now is to provide a fair interpretation which
must protect the spirit of the current constitution,
by Abesh Adhikari (rep 06/01/2021), Petitioners
seek full bench of Supreme Court in the hearing of
house dissolution case (rep 06/01/2021), Advocates,
Justices fall out over modus operandi of hearing writs
(kh 06/01/2021), Justice
Karki announces exiting Constitutional Bench (kh
06/01/2021), SC
to conduct next hearing on HoR dissolution on Jan 13
(kh 06/01/2021) [The SC should wait with its
decision until the power-addicted politicians have
finally destroyed the democratic state!], Karki
recuses himself after lawyers question why he was on
bench : Next hearing on writs against House
dissolution on January 13 will focus on whether
the five-member Constitutional Bench should hear
them or send them to extended full bench, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 07/01/2021), SC
justices advise CJ to send House dissolution case to
extended full bench, by Shova Sharma (Setopati
07/01/2021)
Hearings
on Constitutional Council ordinance, appointments get
deferred : The deferral comes when questions are being
raised over the alleged influence of the executive
over the judiciary, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
02/01/2021)
Constitutional
Bench asks for reasons for House dissolution, seeks
amicus curiae : The five-member bench also asks about
the time of the no-confidence motion filed against the
Oli government. There are conflicting versions on when
it was registered, by Binod Ghimire (kp
26/12/2020)
Judicial
Committee ensuring justice to local levels, by
Pujan Ghimire (kh 23/12/2020), Local
Justice Actors Under Scrutiny, by Mukti Rijal (rn
24/12/2020)
Power
sharing cases pile up at constitutional bench :
Constitutional experts say devolution of power between
various tiers of government has been hampered due to
bench’s failure to issue verdicts, by Binod
Ghimire (kp 09/12/2020)
SC
issues verdict against govt’s decision to allow land
fragmentation (kh 08/12/2020)
Politicization
obstructing easy access to justice, by Buddhabir
Bahing (kh 05/12/2020)
Local
levels making justice accessible, by Kokila Dhakal
(kh 03/12/2020)
Judicial
Committees working as local courts, by Bimal
Prasad Pokhrel (kh 28/11/2020)
Supreme
Court paves way for NCP Vice Chair Gautam to become
minister (rep 11/11/2020)
Despite
court verdict, Covid patients made to pay for tests,
treatment : The Supreme Court quashed its review
petition, but the ministry is yet to implement the
judiciary’s latest order, by Arjun Poudel (kp
08/11/2020)
Amid
dispute, Supreme Court stays implementation of grade
11 curricula : Court rules officials shouldn’t enforce
curricula when local governments have authority to
manage school education, by Binod Ghimire (kp
07/11/2020)
विशेष
अदालतको औचित्य र यथार्थ : राज्यको शासन व्यवस्थामा
सुशासनको प्राण भर्ने कुनै पनि सरकारी निकाय किमार्थ
ओझलमा नपरून्, नपारियून् र पर्न नदिऊँ [The
justification and reality of the special court : Let no
government body, which is the lifeblood of good
governance in the state system of governance, disappear,
be overwhelmed and let it fall], by Ashok Kumar Kshetri
(ap 06/11/2020)
Govt
seeks judicial review of Supreme Court verdict to make
PCR test, COVID-19 treatment free : Claiming that the
costs of PCR test, COVID-19 treatment had been fixed
taking into account the economic situation and
capacity of the patients to bear the cost, the health
ministry demands an overturn of the apex court’s
previous order (rep 02/11/2020), SC
declines to review its verdict on free treatment for
COVID-19 : Asks Health Minister as to why he should be
exempted from action for contempt of court (kh
05/11/2020) [!!!]
फास्ट
ट्य्राक कोर्ट : अबको न्यायिक सुधार : कतिपय अवस्थामा
अक्षम जनशक्ति, अनुत्तरदायी अधिकारी, झन्झटिलो
कार्यविधि, कमजोर न्याय पद्धति र राजनीतिक गुन्डागर्दी
एवं पदीय धाक तथा विविध प्रभाव र न्यायिक विचलनका कारण
पीडितले प्रभावकारी न्याय पाउनबाट वञ्चित हुनुपरिरहेको छ
, by Tek Narayan Kunwar (ka 30/10/2020)
Municipalities
want their jurisdiction defined clearly in new local
government law : Local governments want legal teeth to
allow them to exercise their constitutional authority
on school education and also on the registration of
businesses, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
16/10/2020)
Victims
of crimes continue to be at the receiving end of
panchayat justice : Most of them have no knowledge of
legal proceedings while factors like lengthy legal
process and financial burden drive them to seek
justice from within the community, lawyers say, by
Abdhesh Kumar Jha (kp 11/10/2020)
Supreme
Court justices, officials catch COVID-19; apex court’s
services severely affected (rep 05/10/2020)
SC
hearing against Gautam’s nomination to NA begins,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 01/10/2020)
SC
allows review of verdict to acquit accused in Ram Hari
murder case (kh 01/10/2020)
Convoluted
court judgments often leave even lawyers scratching
their heads : Legal experts stress the need to
simplify the language in court orders, which are so
wordy and long-winded that even they struggle to
decipher them, let alone the general public, by
Tika R. Pradhan (kp 27/09/2020), [For
the at least 56 percent of Nepali citizens for whom
Nepali is not their mother tongue, the problem is
likely to be much greater!]
3
writ petitions filed at SC against Bamdev Gautam
(kh 21/09/2020), Supreme
Court blocks Bamdev Gautam’s way to the Cabinet, for
now : Responding to a writ against Gautam’s nomination
to the Assembly, Justice Ananda Mohan Bhattarai has
ordered not to give any additional constitutional
positions to him, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
24/09/2020), Supreme
Court tells government not to induct Gautam in Cabinet
: He will not be able to act as a member of the
National Assembly until September 30 (ht
24/09/20210)
Resolve
Local Disputes Through Mediation, by Mukti Rijal
(rn 17/09/2020)
SC
stays removal of ban on land plotting (kh
14/09/2020)
Why
is the government ignoring SC’s verdicts on pandemic?,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 13/09/2020)
In
cases involving members of Chand-led outfit, police
are violating court orders : Members of the group have
been rearrested multiple times despite courts
ordering their release citing the lack of evidence,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 12/09/2020)
Judiciary
Placed Under Scrutiny, by Mukti Rijal (rn
27/08/2020)
Will
CJ's new initiative end corruption in the judiciary?,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 23/08/2020)
Don’t
let hospitals deny medical care to anyone: SC to govt
(ht 17/08/2020)
Supreme
Court cuts down workload amidst COVID pandemic (ht
15/08/2020)
Enhancing
Trust In Judiciary, by Kundan Aryal (rn
14/08/2020)
Patan
High Court issues interim order barring Sushil Bhatta
from assuming office as CEO of investment board: The
court has summoned the two parties in the case for a
hearing on August 16 to decide the legitimacy of
Bhatta’s appointment, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
12/08/2020), Court
clears way for Bhatta to take charge as board chief,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 17/08/2020)
Nepal
Bar Association calls for a mechanism to control
corruption in the judiciary: It has concluded that the
justice delivery process under the incumbent
leadership of Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana is
not satisfactory (kp 11/08/2020)
Judiciary:
Public should maintain restraint on comments about
court order/verdicts, by Pankaj Kumar Karn (ht
09/08/2020) [As long as the
court decisions are based on existing law and serve
the purpose of finding justice, this must be agreed
to!]
Court
acquits eight police officers charged in connection
with Nirmala Pant rape-murder case: The officers were
charged with meting out torture and destroying
evidence, by Bhawani Bhatta (kp 31/07/2020)
Supreme
Court rejects plea to halt compensation hearing
(ht 30/07/2020)
SC
dissatisfied with its verdicts being questioned
(ht 28/07/2020), SC
urges all to respect judicial sanctity as it courts
public criticisms over a case involving former DIG
Koirala (rep) [Decency
and moral courage demand that the Supreme Court should
also be criticised when, for whatever reason, it
condescends to such judgments that call into question
the rule of law and the dignity of human beings. In
any case, the Chief Justice must explain his decision!]
Attorney
general questions Supreme Court verdict on Koirala
case: The former DIG of the Armed Police Force
convicted of murdering his wife was released Thursday
following top court’s order, by Tika R. Pradhan
(kp 24/07/2020) [Doubts about
the constitutional action of the judiciary!], Calls
grow louder to impeach Chief Justice Rana: Verdict to
commute a wife murderer’s sentence erodes people’s
trust in judiciary, legal practitioners say, by
Tika R. Pradhan (kp 25/07/2020), Full
Division Bench Grants Approval To Review SC's Verdict
On Releasing Ex-DIG Koirala (rn 26/07/2020), SC
excludes seven justices from list of justices hearing
govt’s review petition against verdict to release
ex-DIG Koirala (rep 26/07/2020), Supreme
Court orders review of the decision by a bench
comprising chief justice on Ranjan Koirala case: A
three-justice bench questions the rationale behind
Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana and Justice Tej
Bahadur KC’s verdict to commute Koirala’s sentence
from life imprisonment to eight and a half years for
murdering his wife, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
27/07/2020)
First
consumer court expected to open within this fiscal
year: One-third of the 1,869 firms inspected in the
last fiscal year were found to be engaged in dishonest
practices, by Krishana Prasain (kp 17/07/2020)
Special
Court gives clean chit to Tilak Rawal, Paudyal and
Himalaya Pande (ht 17/07/2020)
Supreme
Court asks government why Nepalis working in India are
not considered to be in ‘foreign employment’:
Petitioners say excluding work in India from the
foreign employment category is discriminatory towards
Nepali workers, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp
13/07/2020)
Supreme
Court says government cannot restrict anyone from
travel: Barring Lenin Bista from visiting Thailand was
unconstitutional and against International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights, full text of the verdict
says, by Binod Ghimire (kp 11/07/2020)
Apex
Court’s Vital Rulings During Lockdown, by Jivesh
Jha (rn 07/07/2020)
Supreme
Court issues show-cause notice over delay in election
of deputy speaker: Constitutional experts say it is
unfortunate that the court had to remind officials to
make plans to elect a member of Parliament to the key
position, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/06/2020)
The
government has not followed most of the Supreme
Court’s 23 rulings related to the pandemic: Interim
orders related to proper management of quarantine
facilities and the repatriation of migrant workers
have all either been ignored or were belatedly
followed, by Binod Ghimire (kp 26/06/2020) [Nepal's leading politicians are
neither interested in the fundamentals of democracy
nor do they understand the aspect of the separation of
powers. As soon as they are in power, they believe to
possess absolute rights!]
SC
seeks PM's reply over order violation charges (rep
25/06/2020)
Apex
court stays COVID quarantine guideline: Makes PCR test
mandatory before discharging those showing no symptom
from quarantines (ht 24/06/2020)
Reports
suspect police negligence, political protection for
murderers in Rukum killings: They doubt a strong case
will be presented to prosecute the perpetrators,
by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 17/07/2020)
Supreme
Court orders government to use welfare fund to
repatriate Nepali workers stranded abroad: Tens of
thousands of Nepalis willing to return home are still
stranded for a lack of money to buy air tickets and
clarity on repatriation modality, Sangam Prasain
& Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 17/06/2020)
Supreme
Court orders government to allow taxpayers a month
after lockdown ends: Authorities ordered not to
implement tax notice and make justifiable review at
places where people continue to face difficulties
(kp 12/06/2020)
Married
daughter entitled to inherit parental property: SC,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 12/06/2020)
Supreme
Court asks why state shouldn’t pay for repatriation of
migrant workers: Petitioners say the government’s
repatriation plan contradicts the provisions of the
Foreign Employment Act, as well as the constitution,
by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 08/06/2020)
Supreme
Court orders govt to provide goods to needy for
preventing COVID-19 pandemic (rep 01/06/2020)
Supreme
Court’s broader bench says lockdown days to be counted
as ‘zero period’: It says all court dates could be
furnished 30 days after the Covid-19 lockdown is
lifted, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 29/05/2020)
Biplav
outfit leader Bandhu Chand released after 14 months
(kh 06/05/2020) [The Bandhu
Chand case is a prime example of the criminal contempt
of judicial decisions by the Oli government!]
SC
orders govt to fully implement sentence determination
Act (rep 30/04/2020)
SC
rejects govt’s request to review verdict on
transitional justice (rep 27/04/2020), Supreme
Court thwarts attempt to retain amnesty provisions in
transitional justice law: The government now has no
option but to amend the law to adhere to the court’s
February 2015 landmark order, by Binod Ghimire (kp
28/04/2020)
Nepal
Police’s refusal to register Surendra Yadav abduction
case raises questions about its neutrality: Many
believe police are acting on order from on high to not
register the case, especially since: it involves
powerful political actors and a former chief of police,
by Shuvam Dhungana Tika R Pradhan (kp 27/04/2020), Police
refuse to book former IG, NCP MPs (ht 27/04/2020),
NC,
RPP and People's Socialist Party demand legal action
against those involved in 'kidnapping' lawmaker Yadav
(rep 28/04/2020), After
police, district attorney also refuses to register
complaint against alleged kidnapping of lawmaker
Yadav: District attorney asked the complainants to
leave an application, but didn’t file the complaint,
Janata Samajbadi leaders said (kp 29/04/2020)
SC
seeks govt explanation over its delay to release
detainees involved in petty crimes (rep
17/04/2020)
Court
issues interim order to rescue workers stranded
abroad: At least 20,000 Nepalis stranded in various
Indian states wish to return home (kp 17/04/2020),
SC
asks govt to bring back migrant Nepalis stranded in
foreign lands, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 17/04/2020)
[The SC decision is an order
to the government, not a request. The Oli government
must implement this court decision immediately!]
Apex
court orders govt to repatriate Nepali nationals
stranded abroad (rep 17/04/2020)
Hopes
of Nepalis stuck abroad dashed (ht 26/03/2020) [This is tantamount to justifying a
temporary exile!]
Nepal
courts to remain shut for two weeks amid COVID-19 fear
(Khabarhub 20/03/2020), Supreme
Court to halt non-urgent proceedings (ht
21/03/2020), Courts
to remain closed for two weeks, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (rep 21/03/2020)
Court
registrar to handle juvenile cases (ht 02/03/2020)
Supreme
Court orders contempt of court case against four
police officials, including the Nepal Police chief:
The order comes following the arrest of three Chand
party members from the Supreme Court premises
immediately after their release on February 17, by
Shuvam Dhungana (kp 01/03/2020)
Regulate
ride-sharing services: Patan High Court (ht
14/02/2020)
Courts
hire lawyers to work pro bono, but litigants don’t
know they’re there: The law says senior citizens, the
poor and disabled, can hire court-sponsored lawyers
for free, but they often hire attorneys they cannot
afford, by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 11/02/2020)
SC
acquits defendant convicted of trafficking: The SC
invoked Section 144 of the new penal code to rule in
favour of Shobha Badi (kp 11/02/2020)
Supreme
Court quashes contempt of court case against Kantipur:
The case was filed two years ago over a series of
stories published in Kantipur daily on then chief
justice Gopal Prasad Parajuli (kp 07/02/2020)
NBA
condemns govt for 'disobeying court order' (rep
01/02/2020))
Bagmati
Provincial government allocates Rs 20 million to
judicial committees: Keeping in view the poor
performance, the provincial government has taken
initiatives to reform the judicial committees, by
Pratap Bista (kp 31/01/2020)
Local
judicial committees lack the expertise to resolve
disputes: As most of the office-bearers lack
educational qualification and legal knowledge, this
has become a major impediment for victims seeking
justice (kp 30/01/2020)
SC
seeks implementation report on its Fewa order, by
Prashant Lamichhane (rep 30/01/2020)
Victims
of domestic violence prefer police to judicial
committee for justice: Most of the people’s
representatives in the judicial committee do not have
the legal knowledge to settle disputes, by Tripti
Shahi (kp 29/01/2020)
Supreme
Court refrains from squashing Sapkota’s election as
Speaker: Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla refused to issue
an interim order but instructed the Home Ministry and
police to present a progress report on the case within
30 days, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 29/01/2020) [Someone accused of such a capital
crime is not qualified for public office as long as
his innocence has not been proven in court!]
Govt
disobeys SC order to recognize Sonaha community
(rep 26/01/2020) [The govt
continuouslybelieves to be above the law! How will the
separation of powers ever be realised in Nepal?]
Chief
Justice says govt must implement SC directives
(rep 13/01/2020)) [This is
true for a functioning democracy, but Nepal's
politicians do not understand the fundamental
principles of democracy and separation of powers!]
80%
of verdicts in work abroad scams go unimplemented:
Complex nexus of manpower agencies and feckless
government bodies result in insurmountable suffering
for victims, by Bhasha Sharma (rep 05/01/2020)
NBA
Mahottari boycotts district judge (ht 02/01/2020)
Supreme
Court refuses to register petition demanding a review
of its verdict on Ncell tax: A full verdict of the
court last month had fixed outstanding tax dues of the
telecom company at Rs21.1 billion against tax
authority’s claim of Rs39.06 billion, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 25/12/2019), What
Ncell tax dispute is all about: Confusions arose early
on whether to tax the mega buyout deal. Campaigners
later pressured government authorities and the court
to recover the tax dues. Now an international tribunal
has ruled in Ncell's favour as tax authorities didn't
defend the case, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
26/12/2019)
C
directive against inhumane animal transportation
(ht 24/12/2019)
Govt
told not to collect CGT from Ncell: A US-based
international court issues interim order, by Rupak
D. Sharma (ht 20/12/2019), Confusion
reigns over Ncell’s tax liability after international
tribunal’s provisional order: International
arbitration body’s ruling that Ncell does not need to
pay any capital gains tax contradicts a ruling by
Nepal’s Supreme Court, by Prithvi Man Shrtestha
(kp 23/12/2019), Ncell
gets 15-day ultimatum to pay CGT: ICSID’s interim
order to be discussed with govt: LTO by Sujan
Dhungana (ht 23/12/2019)
Sustaining
traditional justice with new rules: The close-knit
Santhal community is finally opening up to state
mechanisms, after a long history of discrimination,
by Binu Timsina (kp 17/12/2019)
JC
fails to name SC justice (ht 12/12/2019), JC
seeks alternative to Baidik (rep 12/12/2019)
Madhesi
inclusion in judiciary still a far cry (ht
08/12/2019)
JC
member’s bid to join SC as justice: Nepal Bar
Association, jurists say Baidik’s move will
adversely affect the dignity of JC, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 06/12/2019), Bar
JC members from becoming judges: NBA (ht
07/12/2019)
Contempt
of court charge lodged against bigwigs (rep
30/11/2019)
Should
lawyers accept cases that are morally questionable?
Ultimately, it is up to the court to decide whether
someone is innocent or guilty—not the lawyer, by
Sushrey Nepal (kp 22/11/2019)
Judicial
Council recommends high court judges (ht
21/11/2019)
Morang
court tells elected representatives not to provide any
services to convicts at large: The district court
called the representatives of all 17 local bodies in
the district, police administration and the district
land revenue office at the meeting and provided them
with the list of the convicts at large, by Binu
Timsina (kp 21/11/2019)
Even
after four years of Supreme Court decision, Kathmandu
remains plastered with visual pollutants: The Judgment
Execution Directorate has once again asked government
authorities to implement the 2015 Supreme Court
decision and submit a progress report within seven
days, by Chandan Kumar Mandal (kp 16/11/2019)
Full
texts of top court verdicts rarely on time, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 09/11/2019)
Reviving
trust in judiciary: Onus of cultivating public trust
in judiciary lies on professionals engaged in justice
delivery process. Institutional capability of justice
delivery is a core component in shaping that trust,
by Pranab Kharel and Gaurab KC (rep 22/10/2019)
Constitutional
bench of Supreme Court repeals provincial laws for the
first time: The legislation, related to salaries that
local representatives were receiving, contradicted the
constitution, according to the bench, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 19/10/2019), Verdict
needs review: For spending long hours in the office
and doing all the people’s work, should they be denied
a salary? (ht 21/10/2019)
JC
tells CJ to sack Pokhara HC judge (ht 19/10/2019)
Dealing
with young offenders: Diversion is a new concept in
the juvenile justice system that emphasises reform
instead of punishment, by Krishna Sjova Suwal (kp
11/10/2019)
While
the entire country takes a four-day holiday, Nepal’s
courts go on a two-week break: The decision to take a
15-day holiday is especially concerning given that
thousands of cases remain pending at the courts,
by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 03/10/2019)
Ineffective
Constitutional Bench will hamper implementation of
constitution and federalism, experts say: Legal
experts say there is a need to create a separate
constitutional court to deal with disputes, by
Tika R. Pradhan (kp 24/09/2019)
Judicial
committees lack infrastructure, by Ram Kumar Kamat
(ht 16/09/2019)
Supreme
Court stays IoM’s MBBS entrance test (ht
07/09/2019)
Can
House panel cross-examine SC verdicts? No, say legal
experts as unwarranted interference in judicial
process will erode judicial independence (ht
07/09/2019), Parliamentary
panel to study court decisions on NCELL tax case
(rep) [???]
Law
Ministry holds the key to setting up Nepal’s first
consumer court: The court will make traders pay
compensation to consumers affected by market
misconduct, by Krishana Prasain (kp 01/09/2019)
SC
jolt for govt on Sagarnath Forest: Stays decision to
bring it under the federal government’s jurisdiction,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 31/08/2019)
Judicial
committees in mediation: Keep rural ethos intact,
by Mukti Rijal (ht 28/08/2019)
SC
orders compensation for wrongfully convicted cop:
Another cop confesses to stealing service revolvers
for which his colleague was sentenced to four years,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 26/08/2019)
Another
HC judge under JC scanner quits (ht 26/08/2019)
Kathmandu
Metropolitan City to set up mediation centres in all
32 wards: The metropolitan city has 75 trained
mediators who will help resolve complaints and cases
at the local level, by Anup Ojha (kp 23/08/2019)
SC
allows OAG to file review petition against its recent
verdict (ht 23/08/2019)
Judge
quits before probe endsJC was probing a serious charge
against Pokhara HC judge (ht 20/08/2019)
Ruling
party opposes military court verdict (ht
19/08/2019)
Former
judges to scrutinise SC judgments: Say the structure
of Judicial Council need to be changed, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 16/08/2019), ‘JC’s
actions can undermine independence of judiciary’: ‘If
JC were to punish judges then no one would get bail’
(ht 18/08/2019), Make
reforms in JC: The Judicial Council must reform from
within so that the lower court judges can act
independently without fear of its reprisal (ht
19/08/2019)
Judicial
committees sans legal experts (ht 12/08/2019)
How
many judges Nepal needs? The government is planning to
double existing number of judges in Nepal’s courts by
amending the constitution. Does it have to? How many
judges does the country need at the moment?, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 12/08/2019)
‘Laws
governing formation of constitutional
bench need to be changed’ (ht 06/08/2019)
378
plaints registered in KMC’s judicial committee (ht
01/08/2019)
Mediation
At Local Level, by Mukti Rijal (rn 01/08/2019)
Supreme
Court blow for Sumargi: Must pay at least Rs 25
cr to NTA by tomorrow or NST may lose licence, by
Umesh Poudel (ht 31/07/2019)
Judicial
Council orders probe against four judges, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 30/07/2019)
SC
rejects ex-IGP Thakuri's review plea (rep
26/07/2019)
SC
orders action against three HC judges (ht
26/07/2019)
Govt
mulls doubling number of SC justices to tackle case
backlog, by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 19/07/2019)
Most
local judicial committees in Province 5 are idle for
lack of office space: Lack of physical infrastructure,
employees, legal knowledge, awareness in the grass
roots level are the major challenges behind the poor
functioning of the body, by Madhab Aryal, Birendra
KC, Manoj Poudel and Thakur Singh Tharu (kp 19/07/2019)
Reforms
in judiciary: No strategic reform plan can make the
judiciary effective unless it makes reforms from
within and wins the public trust (ht 18/07/2019)
New
strategic plan to bolster people’s trust in judiciary
[ht 17/07/2019]
Judiciary
plans to settle all 3-year-old petitions by next year
(rep 17/07/2019)
Mediation
Centres At The Local Level, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
27/06/2019)
Three
HC judges face punitive action, by Ram Kumar Kamat
(kp 20/06/2019)
Chitwan
court finds Maoist activists guilty of tearing ballot
papersat local poll: Next hearing to hand down
punishment, by Ramesh Kumar Paudel (kp
14/06/2019), Court
convicts 2 Maoists for tearing up ballots in Chitwan,
by Sabita Shrestha (rep 15/06/2019)
Juvenile
cases on the rise in Rupandehi, but the court fails to
use its child-friendly room: The law states that every
court should have a separate room for the
hearing of juvenile cases, by Amrita Anmol (kp
12/06/2019)
Top
court postpones hearing on petition against 2015
ruling on transitional justice for 22nd time:
Continued deferrals amid delay in amending
Transitional Justice Act concern conflict victims,
by Binod Ghimire (kp 07/06/2019)
Devolving
the judiciary: New and old structural challenges
remain in federalism and access to justice, by
George Varughese and Iain Payne (nt 24/05/2019)
Bar
Association to reconsider process to send its
representative to Judicial Council: Bar President
Shrestha was recently involved in an altercation with
Judicial Council representative Sitaula over judge and
justice nominations, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
15/05/2019)
Federalism,
rule of law and the judiciary: The Constitution alone
cannot reshape a culture that accepts impunity,
backroom deals and horse-trading as normal, by
George Varughese and Iain Payne (nt 10/05/2019)
Makwanpur
court fails to maintain case settlement rateSudden
rise in divorce rate due to new civil and criminal
codes has led to stockpiling of cases, by Pratap
Bista (kp 09/05/2019)
Bhaktapur
court transfers govt land to private party, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 09/05/2019)
Supreme
Court quashes writ petition challenging Sharma’s
appointment, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 08/05/2019)
Mediation
can increase people’s access to justice, says CJ Rana
(ht 30/04/2019)
TJ
bodies receive 60 applications for chairs, members
, by Roshan S Nepal (ht 26/04/2019)
Top
secret: The current practice of secrecy in the
judicial appointment process is hampering justice
delivery, by Sakun Bhandari (kp 22/04/2019)
Supreme
Court issues an interim order to stop Kathmandu
District Court’s ban on PUBG, by Nayak Paudel (kp
20/04/2019)
Committee
files motion to vacate Supreme Court ruling on Sudhir
Basnet’s housing project, by Rajesh Khanal (kp
19/04/2019)
PHC
clears SC justices for appointment, by Jagdishor
Panday (ht 19/04/2019)
Emphasis
On Mediation, by Mukti Rijal (rn 18/04/2019)
Role
of JC, PHC questioned (ht 17/04/2019)
Verdict
on
Nagdhunga-Kalanki road expansion has knock-on effect
on other projects: Locals who were ready to give up
land for road expansion are now seeking
compensation in line with the Supreme Court’s order,
by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 16/04/2019)
Legal
and constitutional experts find fault with Judicial
Council’s structure, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
10/04/2019)
JC
asked to rescind decision on SC justices (ht
09/04/2019)
Lack
of know-how renders judicial committees ineffective at
local levels (ht 09/04/2019)
Tools
of impunity and political control: The politicisation
of the judiciary has led to the erosion of the
public’s trust in it, by Ajaya Bhadra Khanal (kp
08/04/2019)
Scrap
parliamentary hearing for CJ, urge judges (ht
06/04/2019), ‘Judiciary
in the clutches of interest groups’ (rep
06/04/2019)
Imbalance
of powers: The independence of Nepal’s courts is
becoming more precarious (kp 04/04/2019)
5
SC justices, 18 HC judges proposed: Eleven advocates
among the nominees, 3 for SC, 8 for HC (ht
03/04/2019), Judicial
Council’s
judge picks draw flak from a section of legal
fraternity: Senior advocates question competence of
appointees and accuse the council of promoting
nepotism akin to Rana regime, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 03/04/2019), Nomination
of
Supreme Court justices draws flak for not being
inclusive: The decision violates constitutional
provision on proportional inclusion, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 04/04/2019)
SC
issues directive on waiver of elders’ sentence, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 02/04/2019), Order
likely to pressure govt to decide on Sobhraj (ht
02/04/2019), Apex
court tells government to make sentence waiver
provision for senior citizens, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 02/04/2019)
Judicial
Council
forms panel to probe dubious release of gold smuggling
suspects: Eight Biratnagar High Court judges recalled
for inquiry, by Nayak Paudel (kp 20/03/2019)
Local
Adjudication Under Scanner, by Mukti Rijal (rn
28/02/2019)
New
criminal code implemented first time (ht
26/02/2019)
SC
orders govt to decide on Sobhraj term waiver (rep
25/02/2019)
Banks
still
struggling to implement court order to retrieve
Sumargi’s money: It’s a month and a half since the
Nepal Investment Bank was told to get the money
withdrawn by the controversial businessman back
to his account, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp
24/02/2019) [When will the
judges who ordered the release of the money in
December 2018 be called to account?]
Deepak
Raj Joshee resigns as Supreme Court justice, by
Tika R. Pradhan (kp 20/02/2019)
Warming
the bench: Immediate and long-term plans are needed to
make the constitutional bench effective, by
Krishna Man Pradhan (kp 17/02/2019)
SC
begins hearings on petitions against Agni Sapkota
(rep 16/02/2019)
JC
names justice to probe bribery charge against judge
Baniya (rep 15/02/2019)
JC
reshuffles High Court judges (rep 14/02/2019)
Computer
operator serving as acting judge in Mugu (kp
13/02/2019) [???]
Youth
denied citizenship despite SC order (ht
05/02/2019)
SC
rules its writ runs on military court, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 31/01/2019), Landmark
verdict: The June 19 verdict of the Supreme Court has
given a strong message that no army personnel is above
the law (kp 01/02/2019)
Top
court gets new chief registrar (kp 24/01/2019)
Biratnagar
High Court chief judge faces action: Bhurtel is the
sixth judge facing action in the past week, by
Tika R Pradhan (kp 22/01/2019)
Pashupati
road being operated against Supreme Court directive,
by Anup Ojha (kp 22/01/2019)
Former
governor released on bail (kp 22/01/2019)
Rana
vows to fix judiciary, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
21/01/2019)
High
court judges face action in 33 kg gold case, by
Tika R Pradhan (kp 18/01/2019), CJ
summons 9 High Court judges over suspected deviations,
by Bhasha Sharma (rep 18/01/2019), CJ
Rana denies facing political pressure (ht
21/01/2019)
Informal
Justice Institutions, by Mukti Rijal (rn
17/01/2019)
Court
orders release of Chand’s cadres (kp 16/01/2019)
Government
to reform judiciary: Law ministerLaws have been
formulated to ensure people’s rights (kp
14/01/2019)
Top
court
quashes interim order to let Sumargi withdraw frozen
money: With the money withdrawn, legal experts say it
must be deposited back, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
09/01/2019), SC
refuses order enabling Sumargi to withdraw money after
most of it already withdrawn (rep 09/01/2019), Confusion
persists over getting Sumargi’s money back to bank,
by Bibek Subedi (kp 11/01/2019), SC
tells banks to get Sumargi's withdrawn money
redeposited: ‘Issue may require action under money
laundering charge’ (rep 11/01/2019), Money
laundering glare on Sumargi (ht 11/01/2019), Supreme
Court
sends letters on Sumargi case: Nepal Rastra Bank and
Nepal Investment Bank Limited told to recover the
money withdrawn by the controversial businessman,
by Tika R Pradhan (kp 12/01/2019)
Govt
begins
amendment discussions with Madhes parties: Prime
Minister Oli has promised to study the possibility of
withdrawing cases against those RJPN cadres who are
currently serving jail-term, according to RJPN leaders
(rep 05/01/2019) [Such legal
matters do not fall within the decision-making scope
of the executive! The separation of powers is an
essential characteristic of a democratic
constitutional state!]
Civil
servants adjustment: SC summons govt over ordinance
provisions, by Jagdishor Panday (ht 05/01/2019)
Joshee
will not be assigned benches: Chief Justice Rana
(kp 03/01/2019), Justice
Joshee removed from constitutional bench (ht
04/01/2019)
JC’s
Functions In Confusion, by Mukti Rijal (rn
03/01/2019)
House
panel
endorses Rana as chief justice: Rana tells lawmakers
he will give no room for criticism against him and the
judiciary during his tenure, by Binod Ghimire (kp
02/01/2019) [Then please do
everything to make criticism unnecessary! There have
been some doubtful decisions as well as malpractice in
recent weeks!]
High
court overturns district court verdict (ht
02/01/2019)
Writ
against local judicial committees (kp 01/01/2019)
Rana's
vow to remove middlemen fails to impress (rep
01/01/2019), CJ
nominee Rana 'privatized' Chhapkaiya pond, by
Ritesh Tripathi (rep 01/01/2018)
Supreme
Court acquits murder convict mayor: Kushwaha arrives
home in chartered helicopter; Public holiday to
celebrate release, by Shiva Puri (kp 30/12/2018) [????? Cases of the release of
convicted criminals have been accumulating in recent
weeks!]
SC
annuls action against Social Science Baha (rep
28/12/2018)
Apex
court won’t issue interim order on JMC case, by
Nayak Paudel (kp 28/12/2018)
Nine
plaints against chief justice nominee: Questions
raised over his rulings from district, appeallate and
apex courts, by Binod Ghimire (kp 28/12/2018), Serious
allegations against CJ nominee Rana at hearings
committee (rep 28/12/2018)
SC
issues short-term stay to let Sumargi withdraw USD 7m
blocked by NRB (rep 28/12/2018), Experts
raise alarm over court order, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 29/12/2018)
Away
with
hearing system: Our parliamentary hearing system has
not become anything more than a ritual. We need to do
away with it through constitution amendment, by
Arzoo Karki and Sagar Baral (rep 24/12/2018)
SC
acquits Deuba, Congress of contempt of court (rep
22/12/2018)
SC
reverses own convictions for bank fraud (rep
21/12/2018)
Timely
verdict;
While the provision of life sentence till death will
act as deterrence the judicial system also needs to
impart justice prudently (ht 21/12/2018)
Apex
court Justice Rana hearing starts: Parliamentary
Hearing Committee to receive complaints against Rana
for 10 days (kp 17/12/2018)
In
search of judicial independence: The judicial council
has not addressed the federal aspirations of the
people, by Praveen Kumar Yadav and Mohan Kumar
Karna (kp 17/12/2018)
SC
lets
Manange appeal against conviction: Decision means
appellate court verdict against him not final; He can
get ourt of jail if court allows him to post bail,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 15/12/2018) [???],
Deepak
Manange released after SC’s order (rep 22/12/2018)
[???], Manange
lays claim to state legislature seat, by Lal
Prasad Sharma (kp 28/12/2018) [???]
Rana
picked to head Supreme Court: Poised to serve full
four years, first since 1995, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 14/12/2018)
Wheels
of
justice: An empowered and independent judiciary
strengthens the foundation of democracy and keeps the
wheels of justice turning (ht 14/12/2018)
New
chief justice suspense lingers as PM Oli defers
council meeting: Meeting postponed for the third time
to December 20, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 12/12/2018)
[???]
New
law envisages separate court for children (ht
09/12/2018)
Oli
postpones Constitutional Council meeting, by Tika
R Pradhan (kp 08/12/2018)
Dr
KC concerned over 'growing 'mafia influence in
judiciary' (rep 06/12/2018)
Goodbye,
Your Honour: The outgoing chief justice’s interest in
particular cases seems unusual (kp 04/12/2018)
Constitutional
Council
likely to pick Rana as next chief justice: Rejected
Joshee makes it to the list again as seniormost
justice, by Tika R Pradhan (kp 28/11/2018) [????], JC
recommendations draw mixed views (rep 29/11/2018),
Constitutional
Council
fails to pick chief justice candidate: Saturday’s
council meeting to recommend leaders of new
constitutional commissions, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
04/12/2018)
Pokhara
people
hail Supreme Court order on Lake Fewa: Supreme Court
says implement recommendations of Lamichhane
Commission report; Civil society leader Ram Bahadur
Paudel says Supreme Court has sent a strong message
that no one should encroach upon natural heritage,
by Lal Prasad Sharma (kp 24/11/2018)
Constitutional
bench gets full shape, resumes work (rep
15/11/2018)
Court
hearing on Tikapur carnage delayed (ht 06/11/2018)
Judicial
committees lack separate rooms in Jhapa (ht
06/11/2018)
‘Rules
governing process of constitutional bench flawed’,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 05/11/2018)
SC
lets convicted NTB ex-chief file appeal while free on
bail (rep 01/11/2018)
Sacking
of Gorkhapatra GM stayed (ht 01/11/2018)
Without
a clue: There is much confusion about the exact role
and duties of the judicial committees, by Sandhya
Sitoula and Niresh Chapagain (kp 31/10/2018), Judicial
panels in Jajarkot fail to deliver (ht 02/11/2018)
Apex
court’s constitutional bench ineffective, many cases
pending, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 29/10/2018)
Courts
crippled by staff shortages, by Ananta Raj Luitel
(rep 24/10/2018)
The
third branch: Establishing judicial committees at all
753 municipalities is great, but it has a long way to
go, by Krishna Man Pradhan (kp 22/10/2018)
Bench
sits idle as disputes simmer, by Tika R Pradhan
(kp 17/10/2018)
Judicial
committees: The teething problems, by Krishna Man
Pradhan (ht 12/10/2018)
CJ
calls for media sensitivity over sub-judice matters
(rep 10/10/2018) [Opening the
way for suppression of press freedom?]
Legal
eagles question relevance of constitutional bench,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 09/10/2018)
Govt
can't acquire private land without giving
compensation: SC, by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep
27/09/2018)
For
fifth time, Supreme Court orders govt to release CPN
spokesperson (ht 26/09/2018)
SC
tells govt to control pollution (ht 26/09/2018)
Judiciary
seeks
1,339 new staff: If Cabinet approves the proposal, the
apex court plans to add 424 new positions including
one registrar, 52 deputy registrars and 150 section
officers in the first year (kp 25/09/2018)
Ruling
party members in signature drive to ‘impeach’ Justice
Joshee (kp 21/09/2018), NCP
prepares impeachment motion against Justice Joshee:
Signature campaign put on hold to see if he resigns
(rep 21/09/2018), NC
objects
to ruling party’s plan to impeach Joshee: Impeachment
is not an arm to use in ordinary situation, says
lawmaker Adhikary (kp 24/09/2018)
Mediation
gaining currency as tool to settle cases out of court,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 20/09/2018)
Judicial
committees still struggles to deliver justice, by
Nagendra Upadhyaya (rep 18/09/2018)
Bishwakarma
arrested again (rep 15/09/2018), Top
Court not pleased by Biswokarma’s detention (kp
15/09/2018), SC
warns govt of contempt of court: Orders release of
spokesperson for CPN Khadge Prasad Bishwakarma (ht
15/09/2018)
Court
Frees SSP Lohani in Gold Case (kp 15/09/2018), Court
orders release of two more suspects in gold case
(kp 17/09/2018)
33
kg Gold Smuggling Case: High Court upholds Morang
court’s order to keep 3 accused in custody
(14/09/2018)
Ministry
forms media panel to review new code (kp
12/09/2018)
Mishra
appointed chief justice (kp 11/09/2018), Justice
Mishra vows results: Supreme Court ‘will monitor
justices’ (kp 12/09/2018), Rejected
as CJ, Joshee resumes office as justice (rep
12/09/2018), Joshee’s
stay ‘unfavourable’, by Tika R Pradhan (kp
14/09/2018)
Krishna
Prasad’s murder case: Chitwan Distrct Court acquits
12 accused, y Ramesh Kumar Poudel (kp
10/09/2018), Ganga
Maya decides to move High Court (ht 11/09/20198)
Police
re-arrest Bhujel from court (kp) [Deliberate
disregard
for the rule of law! The government obviously thinks
to have inherited absolute rights from the former
king!]
SC
stresses criminal liability for serious medical
negligence, by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 06/09/2018)
Four
complaints against CJ nominee Mishra (rep
06/09/2018)
SC
orders Home Ministry to release Bishwokarma (kp
04/09/2018), Maoist
leader Bishwokarma taken to Bhojpur (kp
05/09/2018), SC
takes strong exception to Bishwakarma’s repeated
arrests (rep 05/09/2018)
Supreme
Court Interim order to stop animal cruelty (kp
27/08/2018)
Government
told to take Bishwokarma to court: Oli
administration’s indecent behaviour irks NHRC (kp
27/08/2018)
Municipality’s
judiciary committee helping locals in social disputes,
by Narahari Sapkota (rep 27/08/2018)
Fear
of breaching law prevents judicial committees from
deciding cases, by Devendra Basnet (rep
26/08/2018)
Council
chooses Mishra to head Supreme Court, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 24/08/2018)
Parliamentary
hearings: The appointment of judges is an integral
aspect of the independence of the judiciary, by
Prakritee Yonzon (kp 24/08/2018)
Few
cases at courts after new civil codes take effect,
by Nagendra Upadhyaya and DB Budha (rep 21/08/2018)
Joshee
likely to extend leave (kp 19/08/2018), Joshee
not to resign; seeks six-day casual leave, to await CC
decision, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 20/08/2018)
Judicial
committees have failed to function properly, says
report (ht 18/08/2018)
Court
hearing begins in Tikapur carnage case (kp
16/08/2018)
Nepal’s
first consumer court expected soon (kp 16/08/2018)
Province
2 state minister surrenders to court: Freed on general
date after hearing, by Ajit Tiwari and Santosh
Singh (kp 14/08/2018), Murder-accused
Province 2 state minister released without bail,
by Mahesh Kumar Das (rep 14/08/2018) [???],
Court
releases two suspects (kp 15/08/2018), Murder-convict
mayor freed without bail, by Mahesh Kumar Das (rep
15/08/2018)
Protecting
the Sanctity of Judiciary, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
11/08/2018)
Judicial
Committees for Mediation, by Mukti Rijal (rn
09/08/2018)
Rejection
of Joshi as CJ, by Uttam Maharjan (rn 09/08/2018)
Stop
politicization of judiciary (rep 05/08/2018), Mishra
to take charge as Joshee files for SC leave, by
Binod Ghimire (kp
05/08/2018),
Acting
CJ defends his degree (kp
05/08/2018),
Joshee
demands independent probe into his credentials: To go
on leave from Sunday (rep
05/08/2018),
House
panel’s move against separation of powers, says Nepali
Congress (kp 05/08/2018), Judge’s
hearing:
If Joshee is on the wrong side, he should face legal
action, but from PHC members, independent decisions
are expected (ht 06/08/2018)
Ruling
MPs threaten to impeach Joshee: Move comes in the
backdrop of the committee remaining indecisive for
more than a week after hearing CJ nominee Joshee
whether he is fit for the top judiciary position
(kp 03/08/2018) [If the
accusations are true, then he would not only be
unsuitable for the post of CJ, but for a judgeship at
all! This would call into question the entire
judiciary!], Linger
no longer: House panel should not delay further on the
appointment of chief justice (kp 03/08/2018), In
a first, hearing committee rejects chief justice
nominee, by Binod Ghimire (kp 04/08/2018), Parliament
rejects
Joshee as chief justice: First ever CC nominee to be
rejected in parliamentary hearingsFirst ever CC
nominee to be rejected in parliamentary hearings,
by Ashok Dahal (rep 04/08/2018), What
will happen at the judiciary now?, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (rep 04/08/2018),
Interference
in independent judiciary: NBA (kp 04/08/2018), Congress
meet to discuss course after Joshee’s rejection
(rep 04/08/2018), Failed
Candidate For Chief Justice, by Siddhi B Ranjitkar
(04/08/2018)
Encroachment
upon Hanumandhoka palace premises: Supreme Court
summons building owner (kp 31/07/2018)
Adhikari
becomes
DLA-Nepal chair: The national convention of lawyers
association also elected a new working committee for
three years (kp 31/07/2018) [Lawyers
should organise themselves along party-political
lines!]
Acting
Chief Justice faces 5 complaints: House panel to grill
him on Thursday (kp 24/07/2018), Acting
CJ Joshee skips majority of questions in House
hearing: Decision on recommendation due today, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 27/07/2018), PHSC
may endorse Joshee for CJ today (rep 27/07/2018),
PHSC
puts off decision on CJ nominee Joshee: SLC
certificate under question (rep 28/07/2018), Ruling
MPs seek ‘word’ from Joshee before his pick (kp
29/07/2018), Hearing
panel’s verdict due today: Chief justice nominee
Joshee’s fate hangs in the balance, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 30/07/2018), Divided
panel fails to endorse CJ pick; Process yet to begin
for hearing of Uday Raj Pandey and Neel Kantha Uprety
(kp 31/07/2018) [The
politicisation of the judiciary continues unabated!],
Joshee:
Will not step down (kp 31/07/2018), Is
delay in confirming CJ nominee a threat to judicial
independence?, by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep
31/07/2018), Hearing
panel may put Joshee’s fate to vote (kp
01/08/2018), More
evidence against Joshee makes endorsement harder:
Ruling party lawmakers gather additional evidence
against his eligibility (rep 01/08/2018), Joshee
meets PM after PHC indecision: SC secretariat, CIAA
joint team to visit school to resolve certificate
controversy, by Rewati Sapkota (ht 01/08/2018), Stalemate
over CJ continues (kp 02/08/2018), Hearings
committee again puts off decision on Joshee (rep
02/08/2018)
79
high court judges transferred (rep 23/07/2018)
The
conundrum: Judicial committees were meant to be
courts, and their members were meant to be judges,
by Namit Wagley (kp 17/07/2018)
SC
issues interim order against Monetary Policy (kp
14/07/2018), SC
quashes govt decision to dismiss four top officials
(kp
14/07/2018),
Top
court stay order against ban on rallies to continue
(kp
14/07/2018),
SC
tells govt to submit decision file on protest ban in
capital (rep
14/07/2018)
SC
stays decisions to dismiss 2 chiefs (kp
13/07/2018), SC
stays govt decision to sack two Deuba appointees
(rep 13/07/2018)
NCP
draws flak for undermining judiciary (ht
12/07/2018)
Advocates
accuse judges of taking bribes: Bar protest obstructs
High Court hearings for fifth day, by Jitendra
Kumar Jha (rep 02/07/2018)
Govt
told to compensate owners for acquired land (ht
29/06/2018)
People
can question judiciary’s decisions, says Law minister
(kp 27/06/2018)
Judiciary
hit by staff shortage: Acting CJ (kp 25/06/2018),
Acting
CJ complains of insufficient budget, staffers (rep
27/06/2018)
Kavre
announces plans to expedite justice delivery, by
Madhusudan Guragain (rep 24/06/2018)
Judges
complain lack of human resource including judges at
courts (rep 23/06/2018)
Special
court to look into conflict-era cases (ht
22/06/2018)
SC
tells poll body to clarify over NCP (kp
18/06/2018)
‘Reconciliation’
first priority for judicial committees, by Arjun
Oli (rep 17/06/2018)
Bill
aims to reduce SC case load (rep 15/06/2018)
Chief
Justice likely to be recommended today (kp
12/06/2018), Acting
CJ Joshee named chief justice: Council to recommend
CIAA chief in its next meeting, by Tika R. Prahan
(kp 13/06/2018), Joshee
recommended as new Chief Justice (kp 13/06/2018),
Constitutional
Council recommends Joshee as Chief Justice (ht
13/06/2018)
‘Govt
to review judiciary posts’: Law minister says chief
justice will be named before hearing committee is
formed (kp 11/06/2018)
Justice
delivery by local units ineffective due to lack of
legal knowledge, by Nagendra Upadhyay and Ginda KC
(rep 11/06/2018)
SC
orders govt to bar heavy vehicles from BP Highway
(kp 05/06/2018)
Dispute
related to jurisdiction over local resources causes
confusion (ht 30/05/2018)
Court
upholds
decision to cut medical fees: Private medical colleges
had moved the court demanding scrapping of Rs2.2m fee
ceiling (kp 29/05/2018)
Inexperienced
judicial committee heads find justice delivery
challenging, by Dinesh Subedi (rep 27/05/2018)
Khadka attempts to mislead court (rep 23/05/2018)
‘File
appeal in Supreme Court against Chakre Milan
acquittal’ (kp 22/05/2018)
Rautahat
court jails serial killer for 52 years, by Shiva
Puri (kp 20/05/2018)
SC
show cause over customs duty on sugar (kp
15/05/2018), SC
stays govt’s decision to raise import duty on sugar
(ht 15/05/2018)
Staff
crunch in courts affecting justice delivery (ht
14/05/2018)
Clear
encroachment around Phewa Lake: SC (ht
30/04/2018), Dismantle
illegal structures on Fewa shores: SC (rep
30/04/2018), Pokhara
folk welcome court’s decision, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 01/05/2018), SC
orders govt to probe if Shakya's resort has encroached
upon Fewa (rep 04/05/2018)
Acting
CJ’s meeting with Dahal ‘cause for concern’ (ht
24/04/2018)
SC
seeks DoE’s copy of climate change laws (kp
24/04/2018)
Court
rejects writ against Parajuli (kp 20/04/2018)
Public
holiday is not a right: SC (rep 20/04/2018)
SC
directs govt to set criteria to select envoy (kp
19/04/2018)
Local
unit judicial decisions backfire for lack of legal
savvy, by Devendra Basnet (rep 18/04/2018), Mediation
at Local Level, by Mukti Rijal (rn 19/04/2018)
SC
may settle more cases in this fiscal year (rep
16/04/2018)
Parshuram
Basnet acquitted in money laundering case (ht
09/04/2018)
Supreme
Court hit by budget and manpower crunch (kp
07/04/2018)
Bring
laws if you want property details of judges: Acting CJ
to govt (rep 07/04/2018)
Delay
in appointing CJ hits SC functioning (ht
06/04/2018)
Judicial
independence: Upholding the judiciary’s image and
independence is in the best interest of the nation
(ht 06/04/2018)
Top
court bench resumes work (kp 05/04/2018)
Tax-related
verdicts may be scrutinized: Law Minister Tamang;
‘This will not undermine judicial independence’,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 04/04/2018), ‘Govt
cannot scrutinise court orders’ (ht 05/04/2018), Government
cancels judges’ foreign trip, raising fears for
judiciary independence (rep 05/04/2018)
SC
seeks papers related to Parajuli’s appointment as
Chief Justice (kp 02/04/2018)
Joshi,
Mishra and Rana on chief justice shortlist, by
Tika R. Pradhan (kp 28/03/2018)
SC
to register case against president’s swearing-in
(ht 28/03/2018), Writ
at SC challenges legality of oath taken by President
Bhandari (kp 29/03/2018)
Hi-tech
to propel court work (kp 27/03/2018)
Don’t
let
bygones be bygones: Role of the Courts in bringing
conflict crimes to a logical end could restore public
faith in the judiciary, by Anurag Devkota (kp
26/03/2018)
NBA
faces ire as meet begins (kp 24/03/2018), President
urges
NBA to uphold its dignity: Bhandari hails NBA for its
role in democratic processnExpects it to protect
supremacy of the constitution, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 24/03/2018), Lawyers’
forum slams ‘weak’ Bar, by Thakur Singh Tharu (kp
25/03/2018), National
NBA conference ends (ht 26/03/2018)
SC
defers JC case verdict (kp 23/03/2018)
Judiciary
Under Scanner, by Narayan Upadhyay (kp 21/03/2018)
SC
tells govt to use then royals' assets for public good
(rep 21/03/2018)
Rot
runs
deep: Good thing is that Parajuli is gone. Bad thing
is that actors who elevated Parajuli to that most
important post are active and unapologetic, by
Mahabir Paudyal (rep 21/03/2018) [!!!]
Law
to get justices to show assets on cards: Law Ministry
calls for drafts of necessary bills within 15 days,
by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 20/03/2018), Judges
should disclose their property details, says law
minister (ht 20/03/2018)
Court
defers ex-chief justice hearing (kp 19/03/2018)
HC
remands 13 bankers to judicial custody (rep
19/03/2018)
Judges
must disclose their assets: Lawyers (ht
18/03/2018)
Integrity
of the Judiciary, by Kushal Pokharel (rn
17/03/2018)
Parajuli
steps down, Joshee is acting CJ, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (rep 16/03/2018), Joshee
takes over as Parajuli quits, by Kamal Dev
Bhattarai (kp 16/03/2018), Lawyers
hail Parajuli’s exit (kp 16/03/2018)
Justice
Rana boycotts SC full bench: Says CJ Parajuli has
crossed retirement age; Hearing on Kantipur case
deferred (kp 13/03/2018), Justice
Rana
boycotts CJ-led bench: Claims Chief Justice Parajuli
has multiple dates of birth and should have retired on
August 5 last year (ht 13/03/2018), Nine
SC justices boycott bench over CJ controversy (kp
14/03/2018), Controversy
surrounding judiciary a sad affair: PM Oli (kp
14/03/2018), CJ
Parajuli prepares cause list for Wednesday's court
proceedings (kp 14/03/2018), CJ
Parajuli should not be impeached: NC leader Poudel
(kp 14/03/2018), Judicial
Council relieves Chief Justice Parajuli (kp
14/03/2018), Dr
KC files complaint against CJ Parajuli, by Manish
Gautam (kp 14/03/2018), Judicial
Council relieves CJ Parajuli of his duties: Apex
court’s senior-most Justice Deepak Raj Joshi set to
take charge, by Kamal Dev Bhattarai (kp
15/03/2018), Parajuli
loses chief justice job: Judicial Council tells him he
had reached retirement age on Aug 5, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 15/03/2018), Parajuli
relieved as CJ , by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep
15/03/2018), JC
secretary exceeded his brief, says NBA (ht
17/03/2018)
Whose
contempt?
Initiation of the contempt proceeding seems to have
further discredited the Chief Justice and tarnished
his public image, by Sudeshna Thapa (rep
12/03/2018)
Parajuli
misuses his office to fix rivals: Former Justice
Balaram KC says CJ violates principles of natural
justice (kp 11/03/2018), Dr
KC to file PIL and criminal complaint against
Parajuli: Call to strip Chief Justice of all official
positions and benefits, by Manish Gautam (kp
11/03/2018),
SC
full bench to hear Kantipur case today (kp
11/03/2018),
Hearing
on Kantipur case begins (kp 12/03/2018), FNJ
threatens protests (kp 12/03/2018), ‘I
will not accept any verdict given by CJ Parajuli’
(kp 12/03/2018), Supreme
Court begins hearing of contempt of court cases
(ht 12/03/2018)
Chief
Justice
Parajuli refuses to disclose academic certificates: Dr
KC and his team are pur-suing original documents
following questions over authenticity of CJ Parajuli’s
school leaving certificate (kp 10/03/2018)
Contempt
case against chief justice: Petitioner argues CJ
Parajuli committed contempt of court by issuing death
threats (kp 09/03/2018)
Balance
of power: Judiciary, instead of fighting against
media, is advised to focus on checks and balances
(kp 05/03/2018), If
govt institutions are broken and press silenced, we
are going down a dark path, interview with Krishna
Pahadi (kp 05/03/2018)
Dr
KC announces hunger strike against chief justice:
Urges members of parliament to impeach CJ Parajuli,
by Manish Gautam (kp 04/03/2018), Dr
KC renews demand for Parajuli’s personal and academic
details, by Manish Gautam (kp 05/04/2018), Dr
KC: No reply to my query on CJ citizenship (kp
07/03/2018)
Call
for panel to suggest court reforms (kp 27/02/2018)
CJ
Parajuli
orders media probe: Legal experts ‘slam attack on free
press’ n NHRC says it’s against right of fair trial
ensured by global HR law (kp 26/02/2018), Attempts
to censor media draw flak (kp 27/02/2018), NMS
urges SC to rectify its decision (kp
27/02/2018),
NMS
opposes SC order against Kantipur daily (ht
27/02/2018), Apex
court’s decision draws serious concern of FNJ (ht
27/02/2018),
US
stresses unbiased judiciary (kp
27/02/2018),
Supreme
offence: CJ Parajuli should stop hearing cases, as he
is not cleared from a serious probe (kp
27/02/2018), CJ
Parajuli's order: Attempt to ‘muzzle media’ draws flak
(kp 28/02/2018), Concerns
over censorship order: Chief Justice Parajuli’s
attempt to muzzle press draws widespread criticism
from different sides (kp
28/02/2018),
Journalist
bodies
condemn CJ order: Federation of Nepali Journalists
says contempt of court case against Kantipur daily
‘unconstitutional’;Gag order clearly constitutes a
misuse of the judicial apparatus for personal ends:
Paris-based RSF (kp 01/03/2018)
[see RSF
statement], Contempt
case has no merit: Experts (kp 02/03/2018), SC
to record Kantipur statements tomorrow (kp
03/03/2018), Apex
court begins recording Kantipur statements (kp
05/03/2018), Hearing
deferred in Kantipur case (kp 06/03/2018), Contempt
case against Kantipur sent to full bench: Hearing from
Kantipur Publications members over (kp
07/03/2018), Barring
of media gets ire (kp 07/03/2018)
Court
defers verdict on Adhikari murder again, by Ramesh
Kumar Paudel (kp 26/02/2018), Court
summons petitioner in Adhikari murder case (ht
26/02/2018)
Apex
court stays oath ceremony of 3 NA members (kp
26/02/2018), PM
slams court ‘meddling’ in NA (kp 04/03/2018), Apex
Court vacates stay against swearing-in of 3 NA members
(ht 08/03/2018)
Lack
of clear laws affects work of judicial committees,
by Mukti Prasad Neupane (rep 25/02/2018)
Mediation
centres to be set up in Valley courts (ht
22/02/2018)
Dr
KC refuses hearing; vows to fight ‘corrupt chief
justice’, by Manish Gautam (kp 21/02/2018) [The freedom of opinion has to be
respected, especially by the judiciary!], Advocate
files Contempt case Over Kantipur news Report (kp
21/02/2018), Dr
KC blames ‘human errors’ for birth date row (kp
22/02/2018), NEB
refuses to give info on CJ to Dr Govinda KC (ht
24/02/2018)
There
is no excuse: The government has been making a mockery
of justice by disregarding court orders, by Balram
Prasad Raut (kp 15/02/2018)
SC
upholds policy against fragmentation of farmland
(rep 15/02/2018)
Crusader
tells CJ Parajuli to resign, by Manish Gautam (kp
11/02/2018)
CJ
Parajuli shouldn't recommend new judges: Lawyers
(rep 15/02/2018)
SC
orders banks to free Sumargi’s frozen funds, by
Kamal Dev Bhattarai (kp 07/02/2018)
Judicial
committees: In a reflection of true decentralisation,
local units have been allowed to act as judges, by
Krishnaman Pradhan (kp 07/02/2018)
Review
of convicts petition: Bar groups urge CJ to apply
order (kp 05/02/2018)
Apex
court asks govt to submit border details (kp
02/02/2018), Decision
on East Rukum HQ stayed, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
02/02/2018)
SC
interim order against govt decision on Rukum (kp
02/02/2018)
Advocate
claims CJ issues death threats, by Manish Gautam
(kp 01/02/2018)
Consumer
courts planned in all seven provinces (ht
24/01/2018)
CJ
urges press to refrain from commenting on sub-judice
cases (rep 22/01/2018) [???]
Increasing
demonstration challenge court's credibility in
Dhanusha, by Suresh Yadav (rep 17/01/2018)
SC
justices to get ‘motivation allowance’, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (rep 17/01/2018) [???]
Time
has come to form expert panel to recommend reforms in
judiciary, interview with Balaram KC (kp
15/01/2018), Struggle
for
reforms: The voice for reforms in judiciary that Dr
Govinda KC is raising would not be construed as
contempt of court in any liberal democracy, by
Baburam Bhattarai (rep 15/01/2018), Dr
Govinda KC vs CJ Gopal Parajuli, by Siddhi B Ranjitkar
(km 16/01/2018)
Judges'
appointment: Jurists seek change in JC structure to
ensure impartiality, fairness, by Ram Kumar Kamat
(ht 14/01/2018)
SC
orders probe into CJ Parajuli’s papers, by Kamal
Dev Bhattarai (kp 11/01/2018), Lawyers
divided over whether CJ should quit (ht
12/01/2018), Govinda
KC’s charges: Govinda KC’s disposition at the Supreme
Court on 8 January (nt 12/01/2018), NBA:
Dr KC’s row with CJ Parajuli has set bad precedent
(kp 13/01/2018), Principle
and Functioning of Judiciary, by Kushal Pokharel
(rn 13/01/2018), I
don't need to display my credentials out in the road:
CJ (rep 13/01/2018), Dr
KC
ends 14th hunger strike: 'Another fast if Chief
Justice Parajuli does not resign’; On the controversy
sur-rounding the chief justice, both sides learnt to
have agreed not to take up the case sub judice in
court, by Anuj Kumar Adhikari (kp 14/01/2018)
Judge
has no time for hearing Adhikari murder case, date
fixed 15 times (ht 11/01/2018)
Writ
against govt implementation of CISP, CDP, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 10/01/2018)
Supreme
Court reinstates Dr Sharma as IoM dean (ht
08/01/2018), SC
ruling on IoM dean splits legal experts (kp
08/01/2018), Fasting
doc
held in contempt case: Detained at Singha Durbar
Police Circle; Due to be presented to the Supreme
Court today for statement, by Manish Gautam (kp
09/01/2018), Dr KC
arrested after SC summons on contempt charge (rep
09/01/2018), Dr
Govinda KC arrested for contempt of court, by
Sabitri Dhakal (ht 09/01/2018), Dr
KC:
Criticism of controversial judgments not
contempt of court: Public outrage against the Supreme
Court’s decision to arrest Dr KC has been overwhelming
with around 100 advocates signing to plead in his
defence in court, by Manish Gautam (kp 10/01/2018)
[see reply by Dr KC to SC
as published in the Kathmandu Post (10/01/2018)],
Dr KC
makes 11 allegations against CJ Parajuli (rep
10/01/2018),
Contemptible
actions: Supreme Court acted harshly in ordering
arrest of Dr KC who was only exercising right to
protest (kp 10/01/2018),
Leaders
express their solidarity (kp 10/01/2018), Leaders
support Dr KC while major parties keep mum (rep
10/01/2018),
Thousands
stage protest against Dr KC’s arrest (ht
10/01/2018),
Hundreds
gather at Maitighar in a show of solidarity with Dr KC
(kp 10/012/2018), Social
networking sites flooded with messages of support
(ht 10/01/2018)
Women
lawyers unhappy over appointment of chief judges
(rep 08/01/2018)
SC
turns down petition seeking to allow surrogacy (ht
06/01/2018)
4
chief judges named amid ‘note of dissent' (kp
05/01/2018)
SC
dismisses petition against standards for lead-based
paint (kp 04/01/2017)
With
no legal savvy, local unit judicial panels ineffective,
by Devendra Basnet (rep 04/01/2018)
SC
directs not to remove 'squatters' from public land,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (rep 02/01/2017)
SC
rejects Chaudhary’s plea to get MP certificate via
power of attorney (kp 25/12/2017), SC
tells MP Resham Chaudhary to face trial, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 25/12/2017)
CJ
Parajuli urges govt to strengthen judiciary (kp
25/12/2017)
Political
changes not to affect judicial functions: CJ (rep
19/12/2017)
SC
refuses Chaudhary’s writ petition (kp 16/12/2017)
Cop-turned-politician
Silwal
in the dock? Apex court orders action against those
involved in forging appraisal documents related to
former DIG; After resigning from police force, Silwal
joined the CPN-UML and went on to win a seat in
the House of Representatives (kp 15/12/2017) [The connections between politics
and crime can never be close enough! This cannot be
called rule of law!]
In
a first, district judges to come from open test
(kp 15/12/2017)
Courts
may withhold jail terms of less than a year (ht
09/12/2017)
Special
Court
acquits 6 in Nalsing Gadh case: the CiAA in April had
filed a charge sheet accusing them of appointing sMeC
to prepare the dPR even though the company had quoted
a higher price than its competitors (kp
07/12/2017)
SC
hearings on HC judge appointments begin (rep
01/12/2017)
SC
to start bulk hearing from mid-January, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht 25/11/2017)
Bomb
hoax terrifies people at Supreme Court (kp
22/11/2017)
Poll
deployment
hits Supreme Court’s works: As many as 40
under-secretaries responsible for drafting SC verdicts
deployed as election officers, by Tika R. Pradhan
(kp 19/11/2017)
Apex
court works extra hours to clear 20,888 pending cases
(kp 18/11/2017)
Separate
climate change law: Apex court issues show cause
notice to govt (kp 02/11/2017)
SC
orders govt to reinstate axed Sajha Prakashan chief
(kp 02/11/2017)
Scrapping
of national medical college affiliation: Don’t implement
Sept 6 decision, SC tells TU, by Manish Gautam (kp
02/11/2017) [???]
SC
orders
separate ballots for two polls: Asks EC to present
report on progress made since its earlier ruling; An
election commissioner says polls not possible on
November 26 if separate ballots were to be printed,
by Tika R. Pradhan (kp 26/10/2017)
SC
orders roads dept to leave Limbu sacred stones
untouched (rep 26/10/2017)
SC
stays
Nepal Army's generator deal: A quasi-judicial probe
panel found that Nepal Army had unlawfully awarded
Kathmandu-based Muktinath Trade Concern a tender to
supply Eicher generators worth Rs 97.8 million, by
Roshan Sedhai (rep 19/10/2017)
Row
over justices appointment ends: SC drops writ petition
seeking order against selection of 11 justices (kp
16/10/2017)
Fate
of 80 high court judges uncertain (rep 12/10/2017)
IG
appointment
case finally put to rest: Supreme Court quashes DIG
Nawaraj Silwal’s writ; Says govt move of promoting
Aryal as IGP lawful, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
13/09/2017)
Names
of judges, judiciary officials sought from CJ (ht
11/09/2017), JC
to discuss appointment of judges (ht 13/09/2017),
JC
recommends 3 names as SC justices (kp 14/09/2017)
Constitutional
bench formed (kp 02/09/2017)
‘Promotion
of corruption in court disturbing’ (kp 30/08/2017)
Relief
distribution: SC orders govt not to adopt one-door
policy (kp 19/08/2017)
Supreme
Court orders government to regulate sale, distribution
of acids, by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 10/08/2017)
The
impeachment motion came to forestall verdict on Fewa
Lake, interview with Sushila Karki (rep) [!!]
Chief
justice unhappy at being dragged into controversy
(ht 09/08/2017)
Confusing
LG Judicial Committee, by Mukti Rijal (rn
03/08/2017)
Supreme
Court
adopts e-technology; off-duty justices can be assigned
cases (ht 30/07/2017)
Apex
court verdict deferred for 10th time (rep
28/07/2017) [This smells of
political undermining of jurisdiction!]
Maintain
status
quo, orders apex court: SC full bench to hear habeas
corpus writ that seeks Sharma’s release (kp
20/07/2017)
Pokhara
High
Court settled 77 per cent cases filed until a year ago
this fiscal (ht 15/07/2017)
Impeachment
in
Constitutional bench (kp 14/07/2017)
Petition
against
med college admission denial: Apex court postpones
hearing by five days (kp 05/07/2017)
CC
picks
Gopal Parajuli as new chief justice (kp
30/06/2017), CJ
hearing
process begins (kp 03/07/2017), Few
complaints at hearings committee as public trust wanes,
by Ashok Dahal (rep 15/07/2017), PHSC
endorses
Parajuli as chief justice: To take oath of office from
President today, by Tika R. Pradhan (kp
17/07/2017), CJ
Parajuli
assumes office (kp 18/07/2017)
EC
submits
torn ballots to court: Hearing set for July 7 (kp
28/06/2017)
Sanctity
of
judiciary: Criticism should aim at strengthening the
judiciary through reform, not at weakening it, by
Barun Ghimire (kp 22/06/2017)
New
CJ appointment only after second phase poll (rep
20/06/2017)
SC
orders
quick compensation for victims of acid attack (ht
17/06/2017)
JC
recommends
six names for chief justice (ht 14/06/2017)
Apex
court
postpones hearing on Bharatpur ballot count row: Bench
of Justices Bishwombher Prasad Shrestha and Prakash
Man Singh Raut ‘find no time for the case’ (kp
12/06/2017) [??]
Petition
against
acting CJ scrapped (kp 09/06/2017)
Rivalry
in
high places: Discussing the politicisation of the
judiciary and judicialisation of politics in Nepal,
by Ram Kumar Bhandari (kp 09/06/2017)
Karki
impeachment
motion withdrawn (kp 07/06/2017)
Council
meeting
in limbo: Chief Justice Karki retires tomorrow but her
successor is yet to be named (kp 06/06/2017)
Writ
petition
against EC’s decision on Bharatpur vote row:
Petitioners demand annulment of the Election
Commission’s decision and a court order for the EC to
resume counting of the votes in the disputed ward
(kp 05/06/2017)
Politics
of
syndicates: The chief justice has made damning
accusations against Dahal and Deuba (kp
05/06/2017)
Consumer
court
planned in each district (ht 05/06/2017)
Conflict-era
land transactions challanged at court, by Dinesh
Subedi (rep 03/06/2017), CPN
(Maoist Center) validating war-era land transactions
in Rukum, by Devendra Basnet and Ganesh BK (rep
07/06/2017)
Hearing
on
IG appointment case put off until June 15 (kp
02/06/2017)
Petition
seeks
probe into Justice Parajuli’s birth date (ht
01/06/2017)
SC
stays
govt decision to add local units in Tarai districts
(kp 27/05/2017), SC
stays
addition of local levels in Tarai: Observes such
changes should be made one year before civic polls,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht
27/05/2017) [Under this
consideration the whole local elections would be
invalid!!], Biratnagar,
Birgunj
declared metropolises again (kp 01/06/2017) [Simple disregard of SC decisions
once again!]
What
lies
ahead: The way the impeachment row unfolded can only
adversely impact the judiciary in the years to come,
by Barun Ghimire (kp 26/05/2017)
CJ
impeachment: Govt warns UN against interfering in its
exclusive jurisdiction, by Kosh Raj Koirala (rep
24/05/2017), Parties
not
to move impeachment motion (kp 29/05/2017), Impeachment
motion
against CJ withdrawn (kp 30/05/2017), Chilling
consequences:
Impeachment motion against CJ and its aftermath may
have damaging effects on the Nepali state (kp
01/06/2017)
SC
refuses
to issue interim order (ht 23/05/2017)
SC
orders citizenship through mother for Gurung sisters,
by Anjali Subedi (rep 23/05/2017)
IG
appointment
case: Hearing postponed again (kp 19/05/2017)
PM,
law
minister, AG skip SC function (kp 10/05/2017) [Still strange but significant!!]
CJ
Karki
not to adjudicate cases (ht 09/05/2017)
Irreparable
damage:
The impeachment motion seems politically motivated and
aimed at barring the CJ from carrying out her duty,
by Govinda Sharma Bandi (kp 09/05/2017), Baseless
impeachment
motion: Let this not be the day we remain silent about
things that matter, by Prakriti Yonzon (kp
09/05/2017), Impeachment
Motion
and Reinstatement Of Chief Justice, by Siddhi B
Ranjitkar (km 10/05/2017), Armageddon
Between
Executive And Judiciary, by Uttam Maharjan (rn
11/05/2017)
Supreme
Court
stays impeachment motion, reinstates CJ Karki, by
Keshav P. Koirala (ht 05/05/2017) [!!!],
CJ
Karki resumes her duties following stay order (rep
05/05/2017),
Travesty
Of Judicial Independence, by Narad Bharadwaj (rn
05/05/2017), Lady
Justice (nt 05/05/2017), Unimpeachable
evidence:
The coalition doesn’t want to impeach Sushila Karki,
just suspend her so she can’t hear high-profile
corruption cases, by Binita Dahal (nt 05/05/2017),
Exit,
the
crusader: Sushila Karki is forced out of the Supreme
Court, not in disgrace but in a blaze of glory, by
Kanak Mani Dixit (nt 05/05/2017), No
attack
on judiciary, govt tells UN body: The Foreign Ministry
confirms that it has replied to UN Special Rapporteur
through Nepal’s Permanent Mission to Geneva (kp
22/05/2017) [??!!]
NBA
seeks
silence on chief justice impeachment issue (kp
05/05/2017)
Impeachment
or
revenge? Elected legislative representatives must use
their power properly and for the good of the people,
by Shyam KC (kp 05/05/2017)
Contempt
of
court case against Kantipur daily (kp 04/05/2017),
Hearing
begins
on contempt case against Kantipur (kp 05/05/2017)
Writ
filed at Supreme Court against CJ impeachment motion
(ht 04/05/2017)
IG
appointment
hearing postponed sine die (kp 03/05/2017)
Impeachment
motion
against CJ Karki: 249 MPs from Nepali Congress and CPN
(Maoist Centre) sign document; Legal eagles say move
slap on separation of powers, by Binod Ghimire (kp
01/05/2017) [An attack on
democracy and the end of separation of power??],
DPM
Nidhi
resigns (kp 01/05/2017), Uproar
against
decision (kp 01/05/2017), Nepal:
Parliament
should reject motion to impeach Chief Justice (ICJ
02/05/2017), ICJ
decries impeachment motion, suspects motive (rep
03/05/2017)
IG
appointment
row: DIG Silwal detained at police HQ, freed (kp
25/04/2017), Supreme
Court
orders Nepal Police not to probe DIG Silwal (kp
26/04/2017), Silwal
forged
performance report, forensic report says (kp
29/04/2017), DIG
Silwal submitted doctored document to SC: Forensic
report, by Roshan Sedhai (rep 29/04/2017), DIG
Silwal
leaves hospital (kp 01/05/2017)
Lauda
case sent to SC full bench (rep 20/04/2017)
3
ex-NA officials convicted of killing Maina Sunuwar:
Kavre court passes landmark verdict on a case that had
been dragging on for 13 years; Sentences former
soldiers in absentia to 20 years in jail for the
murder of teenage girl, by Nagendra Adhikari (kp
18/04/2017)
[The verdict remains symbolic
as long as they are not arrested and serve their
sentences!!]
Judging
the
judges: Political affiliation is still a major
criterion for judge appointments and it badly affects
justice delivery, by Sudeshna Thapa (rep
17/04/2017)
Contempt
of
court case filed against BK Dhungel (ht
13/04/2017), Arrest
Order Against Dhungel: A Blow To Prachanda, by
Ritu Raj Subedi (rn 16/04/2017), Mohan
Baidya
flays Supreme Court order to jail Bal Krishna Dhungel
(ht 16/04/2017)
Verdict
implementation:
Provisions in penal code bill to curb delays, by
Rupesh Acharya (ht 13/04/2017)
DIG
Silwal
moves court, again (kp 12/04/2017), SC
asks
govt to furnish clarification (kp 13/04/2017)
‘Judiciary
should
be overseen by legislature’ (kp 09/04/2017) [NC General Secretary demands
removal of separation of powers!!!]
SC
stays probe into multi-billion rupee drug scam
(rep 05/04/2017) [???]
NC
Objection To SC Verdict: Mocks Independence Of
Judiciary, by Ritu Raj Subedi (rn 02/04/2017), Contempt
case
registered against NC president (kp 03/04/2017), SC
issues
show-cause notice to NC, Deuba (kp 07/04/2017)
Conflict
victims
allowed to move SC against TRC Chairman Gurung: Apex
court quashes registrar's refusal order (ht
25/03/2017)
SC
orders
formation of constitutional bench (ht 24/03/2017),
SC
orders CJ to designate judges for Constitutional Bench
(rep 24/03/2017)
Hearing
in
IG case over, final verdict likely today (kp
21/03/2017), SC
quashes
govt decision to promote Chand as IG: Raps it on the
knuckles for failing to pay heed to merit, seniority
during appointment; Paves way for DIG Nawaraj Silwal,
the top contender, to become the Nepal Police chief,
by Manish Gautam (kp 22/03/2017)
Consumer
courts
to be set up in each district (kp 15/03/2017)
Nepal
courts
vulnerable to threats, bribery, says US report (ht
05/03/2017)
SC
stay
on police chief appointment continues (kp
02/03/2017), SC
gives continuity to its stay order in IGP case, by
Nabin Khatiwada (rep 02/03/2017)
No
more
interference: An improved system to ensure fair and
inclusive appointment of judges is required, by
Dipendra Jha (kp 28/02/2017)
High
Court
judge to lead transitional justice court: Two members
will be appointed from among the legal professionals
quali-fied to become the High Court judge, by
Dewan Rai (kp 15/02/2017)
300
law
practitioners from 8 districts resign (kp
10/02/2017)
Judicial
Council
bids for one-tier Special Court: Conflict victims can
appeal in the Supreme Court, by Dewan Rai (kp
30/01/2017)
SC
orders not to register cases against judges for
judicial orders (rep 30/01/2017)
Running
out
of patience: Unresolved medical malpractice claims
have been piling up due to lack of judges, by
Kahar Singh Khadka (kp 22/01/2017)
SC
denies
stay order on govt-Dr KC pact (kp 16/01/2017)
Judges
for
High Courts: JC recommendation courts controversy;
Criticised for preferring nepotism and favouritism
over competence (kp 14/01/2017), 80
judges
picked for seven High Courts (ht 14/01/2017), JC's
midnight recommendations for high court judges
criticized: Member Sitaula boycotts meeting, NBA
demands for review, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
14/01/2017), Judges
for
high courts: Govt lawyers object to JC recommendations,
by Dewan Rai (kp 17/01/2017), HC
judges:
Memorandum submitted to Chief Justice (kp
18/01/2017), SC
moved (kp 18/01/2017), Nomination
of
High Court judges: Judicial Council’s decision
challenged at SC (ht 19/01/2017), Judicial
Council
gets show cause notice (kp 20/01/2017), Separating
powers:
Judicial Council nominations of judges are always
controversial, this year was no different, by
Binita Dahal (nt 20/01/2017), Govt
attorneys
boycott hearings to protest appointment of judges,
by Dewan Rai (kp 23/01/2017), Govt
attorneys’
protest hits hearings: The Government Lawyer Society
vows to continue boycotting the bench until
their concerns are addressed (kp
24/01/2017), Government
attorneys
put off protest (ht 26/01/2017), NBA
announces
protest programmes (ht 29/01/2017), NBA
to protest against judges appointments (rep
30/01/2017), NBA
ends
protest after deal with SC (ht 02/02/2017), Lawyers
end
boycott of court proceedings: Sign seven-point deal
with Nepal Bar Assiciation (ht 12/02/2017)
Three
Main
Verdicts Of Supreme Court Of Nepal, by Siddhi B
Ranjitkar (km 12/01/2017)
JC
fails
to pick judges for High Courts, set to meet tomorrow
again: Sources say the Judicial Council is struggling
to pick High Court judges largely due to disagreement
among major political parties, as they are
making their bids to get ‘their people’
appointed (kp 11/01/2017)
Court
disqualifies
Karki as CIAA chief, by Anil Giri (kp 09/01/2017)
SC:
Property
Claimed by ex-princess belongs to govt (kp
06/01/2017), Land
claimed as Prerana dowry belongs to Nepal Trust: SC,
by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 06/01/2017)
Hearing
on
Karki case to continue today (kp 06/01/2017), SC
continues final hearings on Karki case (rep
07/01/2017)
SC
upholds
NEA board reshuffle (kp 04/01/2017)
Supreme
Court
asks police again to arrest Dhungel, by Dewan Rai
(kp 26/12/2016)
Bar
seeks
deferral of today’s SC hearings: Apex court is
scheduled to hear Lokman Singh Karki’s case (kp
22/12/2016), SC
starts
hearing on Karki case: Arguments on his qualification,
high moral character presented; Lawyers from the
defendant’s side set to argue today (kp
23/12/2016), Black
soot
smeared on suspended CIAA chief’s face, two held: The
Chand-led CPN-Maoist says the move was preplanned
(kp 23/12/2016), Karki
claims
accusations against him are baseless (ht
23/12/2016), Supreme
Court
begins hearing on Karki appointment debate (ht
23/12/2016), Karki
appointed after removing constitutional hurdle: Joint
AG; Was not eligible for CIAA chief: Petitioner's
lawyers, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 23/12/2016), Court
sets
next hearing on Karki cases for Jan 5 (kp
24/12/2016)
Petitions
against
amendment bill on SC cause list (ht 21/12/2016)
CJ
calls
for swift justice to women (kp 18/12/2016)
SC
again orders govt to end public transport syndicates,
by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 16/12/2016)
Justice
delivery
difficult under political duress: Chief Justice
(ht 13/12/2016)
Impeachment
plaint
dropped against SC justice: Parliament committee says
not sufficient facts and proofs to pursue the
impeachment complaint (kp 07/12/2016), IRC
quashes
SC justice impeachment complaint (ht 07/12/2016)
JC
urged
to appoint judges as per statute (kp 05/12/2016)
Apex
court
reschedules Karki hearing for Dec 22 (kp
02/12/2016)
“A
woman
is as capable as a man”, interview with Chief
Justice Sushila Karki (nt 25/11/2016)
‘PR
should
not be sole basis for hiring judges’, by Abadhesh
Kumar Jha (kp 19/11/2016), Inclusion
doesn't
mean including unqualified: CJ Karki, by Jitendra
Kumar Jha (rep 19/11/2016)
Writ
filed
at SC against 4 CIAA commissioners: The petitioner has
claimed Deep Basnyat, Nabin Kumar Ghimire, Ganesh Raj
Joshi and Sabitri Thapa Gurung do not possess the
required qualification for holding the posts (kp
17/11/2016)
‘Public
funding
of parties necessary to check poll anomalies’ (ht
08/11/2016) [??]
Contempt
of
court case filed against Karki (kp 04/11/2016), Karki
ignores
apex court summons: Fails to show up at Supreme Court
within 15 days of notice delivery (kp 05/11/2016),
Karki
preparing to challenge impeachment motion (rep
07/11/2016), SC
set
to hear all cases against Karki on Dec 1, by Dewan
Rai (kp 11/11/2016), Lokman’s
aide
claims innocence, by Dewan Rai (kp 15/11/2016), Karki
appears
in SC, submits clarification: Claims charge against
him ‘derived from the petitioner’s ill-intention’,
by Dewan Rai (kp 16/11/2016), Karki
defends
contempt of court charges, by Arjun Poudel (ht
16/11/2016)
SC
should
rethink criteria for ‘senior advocate’ title (ht
29/10/2016)
SC
team
returns without pasting court summons on Karki’s house
(kp 06/10/2016),
SC unable
to serve notice on CIAA chief Karki (rep
06/10/2016), Notice
to
CIAA chief: Court attempt to serve summons fails
again; SC official tasked with delivering letter
suddenly ‘goes out of contact'; As per the rule, Karki
has to present himself before thecourt within 15 days
from the date of receiving the notice, by Dewan
Rai (kp 07/10/2016), Staffer
with SC notice for CIAA chief goes out of contact
(rep 07/10/2016)
NEA
chief
appointment: SC issues show cause to govt, by
Bibek Subedi (kp 22/09/2016)
Apex
court
dangles the sword of Damocles over CIAA chief Karki:
To review his appointment; Censures govt for ‘losing’
documents, by Dewan Rai (kp 17/09/2016), SC to
review verdict on CIAA Chief Karki's appointment,
by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 17/09/2016), Minutes
of
Karki’s appointment safe, by Anil Giri (kp
19/09/2016), Seven
justices
can’t hear case (kp 19/09/2016), SC
shoots
another letter to PMO over Karki’s appointment (kp
22/09/2016), PMO
sends
Karki appointment minutes to SC (kp 24/09/2016)
Checking
and
Balancing: When the executive and legislature are not
functioning at optimum, it is up to the judiciary to
act, by Binita Dahal (nt 16/09/2016)
Govt
designates
all 7 high courts: Biratnagar, Janakpur, Patan,
Pokhara, Tulasipur, Birendranagar and Dipayal chosen,
by Sangeet Sangroula (rep 15/09/2016), Going
federal:
All the High Courts must maintain uniformity in
delivering timely justice, and the judicial council
has to keep a vigil on anomalies in the federal
justice system (ht 16/09/2016), High
Courts
get their chief judges (kp 19/09/2016)
Penner
deportation
case: Supreme Court defers hearing (kp 13/09/2016)
Recipe
for
failure: The proposed local jurisdictions are too
large and they have too many responsibilities, by
Bigyan Prasai (kp 13/09/29016)
Three
Bills
for judicial restructuring endorsed (kp
12/09/2016), Way
paved for 7 high courts, by Ashok Dahal (rep
12/09/2016)
Complaint
filed
to impeach Justice Anand Monan Bhattarai (ht
08/09/2016)
Decks
cleared
to set up High Courts, finally: Bills seeking to
transform Appellate Courts into High Courts likely to
be tabled and endorsed by House on Monday, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 03/09/2016)
SC
allows
Nepal Trust to file review petition (ht
03/09/2016)
Parties
bicker
over appointment of High Court judges: Oppn objects to
ruling alliance’s idea of ‘proportional inclusion’ (kp
02/09/2016)
Work
on Special Court for conflict-era cases starts, by
Nabin Khatiwada (rep 31/08/2016)
High
Courts
to replace Appellate Courts soon (kp 20/08/2016)
Four
ambassadorial
nominees file case at SC (ht 16/08/2016), Apex
court’s
show cause to govt (kp 18/08/2016), Decision
to
withdraw names of ambassadorial nominees stayed
(ht 18/08/2016)
Rajbiraj
appellate
court settles 1,630 cases (ht 18/08/2016)
SC
issues
interim order in Dixit case (ht 15/08/2016)
Of
female
justices: Three female justices taking up
responsibilities put our position on a par with the
most advanced democratic countries, by Abhi Subedi
(kp 07/08/2016)
SC
asks
CIAA to stop action against doctors: A single bench
rules that taking action against doctors is beyond
CIAA’s constitutional jurisdiction, by Manish
Gautam (kp 06/08/2016), SC
stays
TU’s action against seven docs (ht 06/08/2016)
Court
order
against animal slaughter (kp 05/08/2016)
LRO
attaches
land above ceiling owned by Dixit family (ht
04/08/2016), LRO
disregards SC order not to seize Dixit’s land (rep
04/08/2016), Dixit objects to LRO
move
before court hearing (kp 05/08/2016)
In
a
first, apex court to have 3 female justices:
Representation in top state bodies cheered, by
Sarin Ghimire (kp 01/08/2016), PHSC
confirms 11 justice nominees (rep 01/08/2016), 11
Supreme
Court justices appointed (ht 02/08/2016)
‘Non-custodial
mother
also has to provide child support’ (ht 24/07/2016)
Lack
of
legal professionals hits justice delivery (ht
18/07/2016)
Apex
court
issues show cause notice against govt, by Bibek
Subedi (kp 14/07/2016)
CJ
defends
Pradhan’s recommendation (ht 12/07/2016)
Karki
endorsed
as first female chief justice, by Sarin Ghimire
(kp 11/07/2016), Chief
justice
takes charge (kp 12/07/2016)
District
judge
selection process to be changed: 40 pc to be appointed
through open competition (kp 16/06/2016)
Bill
to
continue secrecy for judges' property disclosure,
by Nabin Khatiwada and Ashok Dahal (rep 15/06/2016)
Justice
appointments
stall, number of pending cases tops 22,000, by
Nabin Khatiwada (rep 09/06/2016)
7
Appellate courts to be converted into high courts:
Nine to be converted into high court benches, by
Ashok Dahal (rep 06/06/2016)
Petition
challenges
petition against JC recommendations (rep
06/06/2016)
Supreme
Court
summons Dahal (ht 25/05/2016)
Rethinking
law:
The bureaucratic process of justice delivery is rather
cumbersome as one is made to run from pillar to post,
by Pranab Kharel and Gaurab KC (rep 17/05/2016)
Meritorious,
not
inclusive: The argument that a former member of one
branch of the state is automatically disqualified from
serving another branch is faulty, by Sheri
Meyerhoffer and Adil Ali Khan (rep 10/05/2016)
‘Harbour
no
prejudice against judiciary’ (ht 09/05/2016)
Karki
picked
Chief Justice once again (kp 03/05/2016)
Murder
convicts'
property: Lawyers divided on the issue of confiscation
(ht 17/04/2016)
Karki
picked
for chief justice job (kp 11/04/2016), Chief
Justice
Kalyan Shrestha retiring today (ht 12/04/2016), JC
structure
flawed, says CJ Shrestha (ht 13/04/2016), Madam
Chief
Justice: Unlike the President and the Speaker of
Parliament, Chief Justice Sushila Karki is not a
political appointee, by Binita Dahal (nt
15/04/2016)
KC
elected
Bar Association president: The democratic panel wins
two-third seats in the 25-strong central working
committee (kp 09/04/2016) [NBA
as well completely under control of political
parties!!], KC
new NBA president (ht 09/04/2016)
NC
warns
govt over ordinance to rejig judiciary: Deuba calls PM
to warn against bypassing Parliament, by Anil Giri
(kp 01/04/2016)
Legal
experts
seek structural reforms in Judicial Council (ht
27/03/2016)
JC’s
decision
to nominate SC justices upheld (ht 21/03/2016), CC
fails
to recommend name for new CJ (kp 30/03/2016)
SC
quashes
2 petitions related to war-era cases: Paves way to
arrest Maoist cadres accused of murder; the move
allows district court to proceed with its arrest
warrant, probe and prosecution as per criminal justice
process, by Dewan Rai (kp 16/03/2016)
JC
picks
Karki as first female chief justice: Nominee will take
charge when President appoints her after CC approval,
by Bhadra Sharma (kp 14/03/2016)
Appointment
of
SC justices: Parliament Sectt refuses to act on JC
advice; The parliamentary hearing could not be
conducted, as new Parliamentary Regulations have not
been enacted (kp 07/03/2016),
Lawyers
differ
on Speaker’s power to send letter to JC for review
(ht 08/03/2016),
Speaker
sending
back recommendations dismays JC, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep 08/02/2016),
SC
justice
appointment: Speaker’s decision on nominees sparks
uproar; Some legal experts have questioned the
Speaker’s move, saying it is likely to spark dispute
between Parliament and judiciary, by Bhadra Sharma
(kp 09/03/2016), Tussle
between
UML, UCPN-M fuels conflict between judiciary,
legislature, by Tika R. Pradhan (ht 11/03/2016), 2
petitions filed for and against Speaker’s move, by
Bhadra Sharma (kp 12/03/2016), Judiciary-legislature
blame
game: UCPN (M) says ball in prime minister’s court
(kp 13/03/2016) [What about
independence of judiciary? The political parties are
only a part, not the owners of the state!],
Parliament
regulations
to be finalised ‘within a week’ (kp 14/03/2016), Professional
inclusiveness
is as necessary as ethnic inclusiveness, interview
with Bipin Adhikari (kp 14/03/2016), Speaker
defends
sending back justice names: Says she’s ready to take
hearing ahead if nominations are sent again, by
Binod Ghimire (kp 15/03/2016), SC
issues
interim order to conduct hearings for justices, by
Nabin Khatiwada (rep 15/03/2016), Justice
names
sent back to parliament (kp 16/03/2016), JC
re-sends
list of SC justices for hearing in Parliament (ht
16/03/2016), Hearings
for
11 new justices unlikely soon (rep 17/03/2016)
Judicial
match-fixing:
By giving in to political pressure Chief Justice
Kalyan Shrestha has failed to uphold the integrity of
the Judiciary, by Binita Dahal (nt 04/03/2016)
Appointment
of
SC justices: Rift in JC over names, seniority list
(kp 27/02/2016), Hearings
delay
hampers justice appointment, by Nabin Khatiwada
(rep 29/02/2016), Appointment
SC
justices: Legislative hurdle set to cause delays
(kp 03/03/2016)
Case
disposal
rate at apex court drops (ht 06/02/2016)
Apex
court
tells govt to formulate laws to protect rape victims
(ht 05/02/2016), Ruling
for
law to protect rape survivors hailed (kp
06/02/2016)
Only
seven
cases settled thru reconciliation (ht 27/01/2016)
SC
tells
govt to compensate wrongly convicted, by Ram Kumar
Kamat (ht 22/01/2016)
SC
mulling
to limit lawyers’ pleading time (ht 21/01/2016)
Judiciary
needs
justice: Keeping Supreme Court partially functional
serves no one (kp 19/01/2016)
Karki
becomes
first woman JC member: Set to take the Supreme Court
helm as female chief justice (kp 06/01/2016),
Breaking
barriers:
Women are under-represented in judiciary despite
Karki’s appointment (kp 08/01/2016)
SC
quashes
govt review petition, by Manish Gautam (kp
29/12/2015)
SC
quashes
writ against 16-point pact (kp 16/12/2015) [?? Justice bows to politics!]
Constitution
bench
formed (kp 09/12/2015)
Online
policing:
SC serves govt show cause (kp 23/11/2015)
Mediation
in
Nepal: Its cost-benefit effectiveness, by Mukti
Rijal (ht 27/10/2015)
SC
quashes
Bhattarai govt’s decision on ‘classified’ documents
(ht 11/09/2015)
Tarai
district
court judges return to Kathmandu: To remain in the
capital till ‘normalcy returns’ to the districts,
by Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 04/09/2015)
SC
puts
ban on visual pollution (kp 03/09/2015)
Supreme
Court
issues interim order against paid surrogacy (ht
27/08/2015)
UCPN-M
slams
JC decision (ht 09/08/2015)
Ensure
access
to justice: CJ (ht 20/07/2015)
CJ
Shrestha
revokes Shah's transfer of judges on deputation,
by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 17/07/2015)
Prisoners
can’t
retain lawyers to appeal cases, by Prakash
Adhikari(kp 14/07/2015)
Constitutional
Court: Vital To Tackle New Challenges, by Mukti
Rijal (rn 09/07/2015)
Chief
Justice
Shah retires, Shrestha’s oath today (ht
08/07/2015), Shrestha
sworn
in as chief justice (kp 09/07/2015),
New
CJ
warns against politics in judiciary (ht
09/07/2015), Enter:
Chief
Justice Shrestha; Kalyan Shrestha has the challenging
task of restoring the integrity of a tarnished Supreme
Court, and protecting the separation of powers, by
Binita Dahal (nt 10/07/2015)
Judge
the
judges: The new constitution should firmly establish
the notions of judicial accountability and
independence, by Govinda Sharma 'Bandi' (kp
02/07/2015)
House
panel
approves Shrestha as new CJ (kp 30/06/2015), PHSC
endorses Justice Shrestha as next CJ: ‘Criticism of
recent interim order against 16-point pact invalid’, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 30/06/2015)
Transfer
of
judges at 11th hour by outgoing CJ 'against tradition'
(rep 23/06/2015)
Supreme
Court
stays 16-pt deal enforcement (kp 20/06/2015),
Apex
court
stays implementation of 16-point pact, by Ram
Kumar Kamat (ht
20/06/2015),
Supreme
Court
stays 16-point agreement, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
20/06/2015),
4
parties: Ruling infringes upon CA’s jurisdiction: Govt
to file petition against order (kp
20/06/2015)
[No, it only prevents the
continued misuse of the interim constitution! There is
only one consequence: Those who were part of the
16-point agreement should leave politics once and for
all!!], Four
parties
defend 16-point agreement (ht
20/06/2015),
Big
4
challenge SC order, vow to expedite statute drafting,
by Thira L. Bhusal and Ashok Dahal (rep
20/06/2015)
[In other words: They not only
disregard the interim constitution but also the
decision of the SC??], Contempt
of
court case against prime minister, CA chairman (ht
25/06/2015)
SC
dead
against any House panel to monitor justices (rep
18/06/2015)
SC
refuses
to register writ against 16-pt deal: Petitioner says
he will move the court again to challenge the refusal
tomorrow (ht 13/06/2015) [The
SC has to decide if the procedure of the leaders of
the political parties violates the interim
constitution! How can the apex court simply reject
this writ?], 16-point
deal
challenged in Supreme Court (kp 17/06/2015), SC
accepts
writ against 16-point agreement (ht 17/06/2015) [Wow! Mind changed?], SC
takes
up writ petition on 16-point deal, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep 17/06/2015)
Shrestha
recommended
as next CJ (kp 10/06/2015), CC
recommends
Kalyan Shrestha as new CJ, by Tika R. Pradhan (ht
10/06/2015)
Bar
concerned
as 27 judges Retire today (kp 09/06/2015)
SC
quashes
its order on judicial review registration (ht
25/05/2015)
Nomination
of
26 CA members is govt’s business: SC, by Durga Dulal
(rep) [Yes, but it would have
been the business of the govt that was in office before
the complete CA elected a new government! Besides,
Sushil Koirala did not follow the letter of the Interim
Constitution!! What kind of political decision is this??]
Bar
vs
Bench: Enough accusations of corruption in the
judiciary, time to start investigating them, by
Binita Dahal (nt 17/04/2015)
Supreme
Court
upholds govt decision (kp 13/04/2015)
JC
panel
to probe verdicts (kp 07/04/2015)
Now’s
the
time: There is a need to build confidence between the
bar and the bench, for instance through fair
nominations for vacant Supreme Court positions, by
Krishna Man Pradhan (rep 06/04/2015)
Transitional
justice:
Maoists want SC verdict corrected (kp 02/04/2015)
[?????]
Judge
them
well: The Judicial Council must balance seniority,
experience, and capability while nominating judges,
by Krishna Man Pradhan (kp 01/04/2015)
Apex
court
seeks evidence of corruption from NBA (ht
28/03/2015), Supreme
Court
urges NBA to clarify corruption claim (rep
28/03/2015), SC
seeks
evidence of graft from NBA (ht 30/03/2015), Bar
defends
its claim on corruption in judiciary (kp
03/04/2015), NBA
sends
rejoinder to CJ Shah (ht 03/04/2015)
Kangaroo
courts:
District offices are misusing their quasi-judicial
powers and flouting directives from the country’s
courts, by Prakash A. Raj (kp 26/02/2015)
Courts
adopt
modern technology (ht 24/02/2015)
Study
panel
yet to submit report for fast track court (kp
19/02/2015)
NBA
struggles
to pick names for JC position (kp 18/02/2015)
Court:
Reinstate
Dr Bhandari as VC (kp 16/02/2015)
Over
62
percent pending judgments enforced: SC (kp
14/02/2015)
Verdict
on
TRC cases on Feb 26 (kp 13/02/2015)
SC:
Ensure
independence of judiciary in new statute (kp
13/02/2015)
Nationality
card
through mother: Apex court verdict helps siblings get
citizenship (kp 26/01/2015)
Hearing
of
transitional justice writ postponed: Conflict victims
say they are losing hope of the case being heard as it
is being postponed intentionally (kp 24/01/2015)
CJ’s
initiative
expediting justice: SC (ht 19/01/2015)
Race
heats
up for JC post (kp 15/01/2015)
Court
frees
man wrongly jailed for two weeks, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 14/01/2015)
Evening
court
gives service seekers respite (kp 13/01/2015)
Lalitpur
dist
court protects witnesses, by Weena Pun (kp
12/01/2015)
JC
clarifies
its move on justice appt (kp 02/01/2015), JC
notice
is against statute, reiterates NBA (kp
07/01/2015), Chief
Justice
says Judicial Council won’t ignore NBA (ht
07/01/2015), Neupane
quits
JC over Bar letter (kp 08/01/2015), JC
asks
NBA to fill Neupane’s vacancy (kp 09/01/2015)
Court
gains
public trust with swift justice delivery, by
Krishna Prasad Gautam (kp 26/12/2014)
JC
seeks
applications for SC judge positions (kp
24/12/2014), JC
begins
process to nominate SC justices (rep 24/12/2014),
JC
invites
applications from eligible candidates (kp
25/12/2014), NBA
takes
exceptionto JC decision (ht 30/12/2014), Bar
urges
lawyers to boycott JC process (kp 30/12/2014)
New
ceiling
for retiring justices proposed (kp 23/12/2014)
Model
of
judiciary: A Thorny Issue on Constitution Drafting,
by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 19/12/2014)
Appellate
court
asks officials to enforce laws, by Thakur Singh
Tharu (kp 18/12/2014)
Judicial
Council
not to honour judges this time (kp 18/12/2014)
1,812
convicts
at large in Kaski district (ht 18/12/2014)
E-judiciary
service
begins from today: Clients appearing in SC can take
dates from 40 courts across nation (ht
16/12/2014), Apex
court
starts SMS service to provide info on case status
(rep 16/12/2014)
Insecure
and
stressed, says Damai (kp 13/12/2014)
Kaski
district
court yet to enforce 972 verdicts, by Lal Prasad
Sharma (kp 10/12/2014)
Kaski
District
Court overturns SC order, by Keshavsharan
Lamichhane (rep 06/12/2014)
Two
Valley
courts launch evening service, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 27/11/2014), Apex
court
starts SMS alerts (kp 27/11/2014)
JC
yet
to fill vacancies in appellate courts (kp
24/11/2014)
Lawyers
sidelined
in judiciary: NBA (kp 22/11/2014), NBA
objects
to judges’ declaration (ht 22/11/2014)
Judges
call
for binning House hearing, by Pranab Kharel (kp
20/11/2014),
Appointment
of
judges: Parliamentary hearing not needed: Judges
(ht 20/11/2014)
SC
enforces
unimplemented court verdicts (kp 19/11/2014), Still
at
large: The Supreme Court has started pursuing
convicted criminals who have evaded punishment, by
Binita Dahal (nt 28/11/2014), SC
dept
recovers fines, enforces prison terms (kp
29/11/2014), 1,500
held
for unfulfilled jail terms (kp 04/12/2014)
Provident
Fund
Act to be amended to widen scope (kp 15/11/2014)
Pending
graft
cases weigh down Special Court, by Bhadra Sharma
(kp 08/11/2014)
Judicial
Council
formatrion: NBA opposes SC justices’ advice to
exclude lawyers (kp 06/11/2014), NBA
opposes
justices' proposal on judiciary (rep 06/11/2014)
Lalitpur
district
court top in serious case disposal, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 05/11/2014)
Supreme
Court
dept enforces pending orders, by Nirmala Adhikari
(kp 31/10/2014)
Fast-track
service
in Rolpa court, by Kashiram Dangi (kp 30/10/2014)
SC
teams
to enforce jail terms (kp 20/10/2014), Judgment
execution
cells arrest 15 in a day, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
20/10/2014)
Judicial
Council
to probe 160 complaints against judges (rep
13/10/2014)
CJ
Sharma
retires (kp 10/10/2014), Sharma
retires,
Sah takes oath as CJ today (ht 10/10/2014), Sah
takes
CJ’s charge (kp 11/10/2014), CJ
Sah
assumes office, vows judicial reforms (ht
11/10/2014), Change
of
guard: Challenges ahead for new Chief Justice Ram
Prasad Kumar Sah are formidable (kp 13/10/2014), Supreme
once
more: The new Chief Justice is from a minority within
a marginalised community, this is hugely symbolic,
by Binita Dahal (nt 17/10/2014)
SC
plans
to issue verdict in written form within 15 days
(kp 08/10/2014)
‘CJ
should
lead entire judiciary’ (ht 08/10/2014)
Fast
track
court for rape cases, by Pranab Kharel (kp
06/10/2014)
SC
proposes
paperless court for swift access, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 28/09/2014)
Special
squads
to nab convicted fugitives: Plan to come into effect
in 16 districts in first phase before being expanded
later (ht 15/09/2014), Special
cells
to execute verdicts on cards, by Nabin Khatiwada
(rep 15/09/2014)
Shah
nominated
next chief justice (kp
13/09/2014)
[May the dominance of the
hardly 15 per cent male Tagadharis be retained for
eternity!!], Constitutional
Council
picks Shah as new chief justice based on seniority:
Senior-most justice says he’ll try to clean judiciary
image (ht 13/09/2014), 2
complaints filed against CJ nominee (kp
24/09/2014), CJ
nominee’s
hearing today (kp 26/09/2014), Parliamentary
hearing
on new CJ today: To start with discussion on
complaints against Shah (ht 24/09/2014), Hearing
of
Justice Shah postponed (ht 27/09/2014), Hearing
of
next chief justice begins (ht 30/09/2014), House
panel
picks Shah as next CJ (kp 01/10/2014), House
committee
endorses Shah as CJ (rep 01/10/2014)
Pending
cases
weigh down SC, by Pranab Kharel (kp 12/09/2014)
CJ
nomination
process starts tomorrow (kp 11/09/2014), CC
to
pick new CJ tomorrow (ht 11/09/2014)
400
graft
cases pending at SC, by Pranab Kharel (kp
02/09/2014)
Between
the
lines: The logic in jurisprudence is that the courts
are public offices and must come under public scrutiny
for both their good and bad decisions, by Binod
Bhattarai (rep 01/09/2014)
JC
asks
CC, Parliament to initiate process for appointment of
new CJ, by AnantaRaj Luitel (kp 29/08/2014)
Verdict
execution
still a worry despite improvements (rep
29/08/2014)
Process
to
name appellate court chief judges hits a snag (rep
26/08/2014), JC
nominates
16 chief judges for appeal courts, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 27/08/2014), JC
selects
chief judges for appellate courts (ht 27/08/2014)
Judge
and
appoint: Judicial appointments in Nepal could take a
page from two recent bills passed by the Indian
Parliament, by Upendra Keshari Neupane (kp
22/08/2014)
JC
set
for major restructuring, by Pranab Kharel (kp
18/08/2014)
Judicial
service
joint secys to take to streets, by Santosh Ghimire
(rep 14/08/2014)
CJ
wonders
who judges should be accountable to (ht
13/08/2014)
New
dress
code for judges on cards, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
12/08/2014)
Lalitpur
District
Courtstresses reform: Asks cops to shun the practice
of prosecuting children by increasing their age
(ht 11/08/2014)
Case
clearance
rate goes up in appellate courts (ht 11/08/2014),
Eight
appellate
courts settle all two-year-old backlogs (rep
11/08/2014)
JC:
Special
Court inconsistent while dealing graft cases, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 06/08/2014)
PPLA
demands
complete independence for judiciary (ht
04/08/2014)
JC
starts
process to appoint chief judge at appellate courts
(rep 02/08/2014), Differences
in
JC delay judges’ appointment (ht 05/08/2014), Appeal
court
chief nominees disputed (kp 07/08/2014)
Cases
piling
up at Kaski district court (ht 31/07/2014)
SC
to
fix judges’ working time: Aims to ensure speedy
justice as part of its five-year plan, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (ht 30/07/2014)
Backlog
of
cases at SC nears 19,000, by Nabin Khatiwada
(rep 26/07/2014), SC
case
disposal rate increases (kp 28/07/2014)
CJ
mulls
appellate court chief judge appointments, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 21/07/2014), JC
prepares
to fill vacant positions of chief judge in appellate
courts, by Pranab Kharel (kp 25/07/2014)
SC
prepares
to clear cases within 18 months (kp 19/07/2014)
JOC
to
monitor judges’ act (kp 18/07/2014), Judges
to
be strictly monitored (ht 18/08/2014)
SC
strategic
plan: Losing side may have to bear total trial cost
(kp 18/07/2014)
Apex
court
in bid to increase public faith in judiciary: Endorses
five-year strategic plan for 2014-19 (ht
17/07/2014)
Judges
to
hear public grievances outside bench, too, by
Nabin Khatiwada (rep 17/07/2014)
SC
mulls
launching SMS service to provide information on case
status (kp 17/07/2014)
56
courts
submit details of trials on serious cases to SC,
by Pranab Kharel (kp 16/07/2014)
Supreme
Court
Bar Association set toelect new leadership tomorrow
(ht 11/07/2014)
Commercial
court
sought for speedy liquidation: Experts underline the
need to make an umbrella rule to expedite process to
refund deposits (ht 10/07/2014)
Law
Ministry
in a fix over JC Act amendment, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 09/07/2014)
JC
mulls
appellate court chief apptt (kp 09/07/2014)
SC
rejects
writ seeking quota for judges (ht 03/07/2014)
SC
buys
68 cars for district judges: Also to give monthly
allowance for 80 litres of petrol (ht 02/07/2014)
SC
judges
monitoring appellate courts (ht 30/06/2014)
Appointment
of
Judges: Chief Justice tells lawyers to sort out
ideological differences (ht 25/06/2014)
Judicial
Councilto
fill vacant postof judges soon (ht 23/06/2014)
Apex
court
scraps criteria for appointment of judges (ht
19/06/2014), Apex
court
scraps judges appointment criteria set by JC: 200
judges already appointed under the criteria, by
Bimal Gautam (rep 19/06/2014)
AG
to
file complaint at JC against Mugu judge (rep
12/06/2014)
SC
frees
two accused of gold smuggling on bail (rep
12/06/2014)
CJ
Sharma
admits political pressure in judges' appointments
(rep 11/06/2014)
Govt
registers
Bill seeking tomake judges more powerful (ht
07/06/2014)
Alleged
loan
shark Singh gets clean chit (ht 03/06/2014)
JC
set
to pick appeal court chief judges (kp 02/06/2014),
JC
discusses
appointment of judges (ht 05/06/2014), JC
likely
to extend 30 judges’ tenure: The move comes when the
judges' terms are expiring next week, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 06/06/2014), JC
snubs
criteria for judges’ tenure: 30 appellate justices get
a year-long term extension, by Pranab Kharel (kp
07/06/2014), JC
retains
30 additional appeals judges (ht 07/06/2014)
Sr
SC
Justice Shah fires warning shot (kp
30/05/2014),
Justice
Shah
calls on all not to shake the roots of judiciary
(ht 30/05/2014)
Eight
new
SC judges start duty (ht 28/05/2014), Faulty
confirmation (ht 28/05/2014), Principles
And
Values Of Justice Should Not Perish, by Gyan
Basnet (rn 29/05/2014)
Govt
to
seek judicial review in court today: Supreme Court
deadline for appointing 26 CA members expiring (kp
27/05/2014),
House
panel
endorses all 8 judges, 2 unanimously, by Pranab
Kharel (kp
27/05/2014),
PHSC
okays
apex court judges’ appointment, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht
27/05/2014),
All
judges
get through panel hearing, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
27/05/2014)
Hear
them
out: The inclusion of members of the judiciary in the
Judicial Council is what has made the Council
prone to controversy, by Prakash Bom (kp
27/05/2014)
PHSC
divided
over seeking JC papers (kp
21/05/2014),
PHSC
meet
stalls as big 3 at odds over letter (rep
21/05/2014),
House
panel
members brief top leaders, by Ananta Raj Luitel
(ht 21/05/2014), SC
justice
appointment: House special committee to begin hearing
from tomorrow, by Pranab Kharel (kp
22/05/2014),
PHSC
asks
for nominees’ details, begins hearing (ht
22/05/2014),
PHSC
summons
judges recommended judges (rep
22/05/2014),
Do
we
need them? Relevance of hearing panel (rep
22/05/2014), CA
members
to act to reform judiciary, by Kamal Dev Bhattarai
(kp
23/05/2014),
'Judiciary
must
be independent‚ accountable', by Arjun Bhandari
(ht
23/05/2014),
Lawmakers
sharply
divided over new judicial system (rep
23/05/2014),
Hearing
begins
today; some lawyers against JC recommendations (kp
23/05/2014),
JC
to
meet today to discuss PHSC move: Says it is ready to
send details of recommended judges, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht 23/05/2014)
All
eyes
on PHSC to see how it settles JC recommendations row,
by Nabin Khatiwada (rep 16/05/2014), House
panel
seeks clarification: Tension flares with JC set to
snub PHSC call, by Pranab Kharel (kp
16/05/2014),
JC
ignores
House panel’s summons, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
16/05/2014),
Judicial
Council
to skip PHSC meeting: CPN-UML softens stance (rep
16/05/2014),
Writ
in
apex court against invite (kp
16/05/2014),
Gautam
asks
lawmakers not to toe anti-JC line (kp
16/05/2014),
Dhungana
visited
HQ as UML cadre: DPM (ht
16/05/2014)
[The Judiciary has to be
independent, Mr Gautam!!], Step
Down,
Or Sack Him (ht
16/05/2014)
Major
parties
divided over justice, lawmaker picks (kp
13/05/2014),
Big
three
at odds over JC's recommendation (rep
13/05/2014),
Parliamentary
committee
to summon Chief Justice on appointment row (rep
13/05/2014), SC
justice
appointment: PHSC summons JC members (kp
14/05/2014), House
panel
summons JC members over recommendations: Next meeting
of PHSC scheduled for May 18, by Nabin Khatiwada
(rep
14/05/2014),
UML
leaders
divided over apex court justice appointments (kp
14/05/2014),
House
panel
divided on summoning CJ: Members want to know why
senior-most justice publicly opposed JC’s decision,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
14/05/2014), Apex
court
justice recommendations: JC member at UML door seeking
support, by Pranab Kharel and Bhdra Sharma (kp
15/05/2014), UML
consults
lawyers on SC justice appointments: Party leaders
divided over issue (rep
15/05/2014),
JC
member
ruffles legal eagles’ feathers: Dhungana accused of
visiting the party headquarters of CPN-UML, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
15/05/2014)
Apex
court
staff unions on warpath (ht 12/05/2014)
JC
won’t
revise names of SC justice nominees: Dhungana (kp
10/05/2014),
Dhungana
defends
JC decision: Challenges Parliament to impeach
office bearers if it can (ht
10/05/2014),
JC
member
Dhungana defends justice recommendations (rep
10/05/2014)
SC
justice
appointment: House panel seeks copy of council’s
recommendation (kp
09/05/2014),
House
panel
seeks minutes on JC recommendations, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep
09/05/2014),
Minutes
of
meeting that picked SC judges sought, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (ht 09/05/2014)
CJ,
Bar
head spar over judges’ selection (ht 06/05/2014)
Apex
court
justice appointment: 22 plaints against nominees
(kp
05/05/2014),
Government
position
unclear (kp
05/05/2014),
Judging
the
judges: The Judicial Council, dominated by political
appointees, is faulty and must be reformed, by
Dipendra Jha (kp 05/05/2014)
Justifying
the
justices: The Judicial Council and the Law Minister
have come under fire for their Supreme Court
nominations, by Binita Dahal (nt
02/05/2014)
SC
justice
appointment: JC member defends recommendations, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 02/05/2014)
House
panel
wants details of judges picked for apex court Hearing
likely to get delayed, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
01/05/2014)
Apex
court
justice nomination: Controversy lands in House (kp
30/04/2014)
Justice
recommendations;
Bar: Hold JC members accountable, by Pranab Kharel
(kp
29/05/2014),
NBA
urges
PHSC to probe JC decision, by Ananta Raj Luitel
(ht
29/05/2014),
Question
of
ethics (ht 29/05/2014)
Parliamentary
hearring:
UML panelists to reject ‘controversial’ judges (kp
28/04/2014),
NBA
advisory
panel questions selection of apex court judges (ht
28/04/2014)
Stay
away:
Political meddling in judiciary (ht 22/04/2014)
Judicial
Council
swings into action to appoint SC judges (ht
18/04/2014), JC
to
recommend permanent justices within a week (rep
18/04/2014), JC
initiates
effort to fill SC vacancies (kp 18/04/2014), Lobbying
intensifies
as JC meets to recommed justices (rep 21/04/2014),
Seniority
row
mars judges’ appointment (ht 22/04/2014), JC
likely
to recommend names for justices today (rep
22/04/2014), JC
recommends
eight judges for appellate courts, SC (nn
22/04/2014), Costly
indecision (ht 23/04/2014), JC
picks
8 names for apex court justices, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 23/04/2014) [Long live the
dominance of male Tagadharis and single ethnic
identity in judiciary!!], JC
selects
eight permanent judges for apex court, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (ht 23/04/2014), JC
recommendations
for SC justices court controversy, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep 23/04/2014), Chief
judge
of Jumla court of appeal quits over sc judge
nominations (kp 24/04/2014), Jumla
chief
judge decries ‘injustice’, puts in papers (ht
24/04/2014), Lawyers
take
exception to JC decision (ht 25/04/2014)
Lack
of
judges cripples apex court, by Pranab Kharel (kp
14/04/2014),
Chief
Justice
Sharma promises appointments in a week (kp
14/04/2014),
CJ
Sharma
to appoint judges soon: Stays mum on chances of
retaining retiring justices (ht
14/04/2014),
Challenges
aplenty,
as CJ assumes office, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
14/04/2014)
Sharma
appointed
chief justice (kp 12/04/2014), President
appoints
Sharma chief justice despite objections in PHSC
(ht
12/04/2014),
Damodar
Sharma
appointed chief justice (rep
12/04/2014)
Term
ends
for five SC temporary justices (kp
12/04/2014),
It’s
back
to square one in SC as five ad hoc judges retire again
(ht
12/04/2014),
SC
to
be left with just five justices from Sunday (rep
12/04/2014),
JC
drafts
new criteria for judge appointment, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep
12/04/2014)
Apex
court
clips AG’s discretionary wings, by Anata Raj
Luitel (ht 03/04/2014), Sharma
pledges
he will punish corrupt judges (ht 11/04/2014), Acting
CJ
vows to reduce case backlog (rep 11/04/2014)
JC
ready
to begin judge appointments (kp 02/04/2014), Appoint
judges
all and at once: NBA (kp 04/04/2014)
DCC
recommends
Damodar Sharma as chief justice: Parliamentary hearing
likely to be cut short to hasten appointment, by
Anata Raj Luitel (ht 01/04/2014), 72
hours
set to file plaints against CJ nominee Sharma (kp
05/04/2014), Acting
CJ
Sharma fields lawmakers’ questions (kp 11/04/2014)
Politicised
judiciary, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 30/03/2014)
Justice
vacancies
may remain as CJ choice stalls: Constitutional Council
quorum could be a problem, by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
25/03/2014), Looming
danger:
Supreme Court vacancy (rep 26/03/2014), Constitutional
Council
likely to choose CJ today: Acting Chief Justice
Damodar Prasad Sharma likely to get the job, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 27/03/2014), NBA
demands
Supreme Court judge appointments, by Sudip Kaini
(kp 30/03/2014)
SC:
No
change in casino regulation: Gaming houses to have
illegal status after today (kp 21/03/2014)
AHRC
urges
govt to appoint judges in SC (ht 21/03/2014), New
judges
in SC after CJ’s appointment: Sharma (ht
22/03/2014)
Give
full
authority to JC to appoint judges: Dhungana; Says
parliamentary hearing in Nepal an impractical process
(ht 18/03/2014)
Crisis
in
judiciary: Fate of five ad hoc judges uncertain; Delay
in formation of parliamentary hearing committee blamed,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 17/03/2014)
9
appellate courts without chief judges, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 13/03/2014)
Courting
trouble:
The Supreme Court should refrain from issuing verdicts
on political matters and leave it to the Legislature,
by Dipendra Jha (kp 13/03/2014)
SC
wants
ex-CJ Regmi’s ‘real address’ to serve notice: Staff
fail to deliver summons in relation to contempt of
court case (ht 11/03/2014)
Security,
facilities
for ex-high officials: SC orders ordinance review
(kp 07/03/2014), Review
discriminatory
state facility: SC to govt (ht 07/03/2014)
Judge
effecting
reforms at Lalitpur district court (ht 06/03/2014)
Cief
Justice
appointment: Judicial Council forwards senior
justices’ details to CC (kp 04/03/2014),
Judicial
Council
proposes five names for Chief Justice (ht
04/03/2014)
Hurdle
in
court video conference, by Pranab Kharel (kp
28/02/2014)
SC
report
submitted to President (ht 21/02/2014), SC
settled
decade-low number of cases last year: Inadequate
manpower blamed for increasing backlogs, by Nabin
Khatiwada (rep 21/02/2014), Costly
delay:
Judicial vacancies (rep 23/02/2014), Slight
improvement
in execution of court verdicts, by Nabin Khatiwada
(rep 25/02/2014)
AG
Kunwar
assumes office (ht 20/02/2014)
Justice
delivery:
Mediation promoted in civil law suits, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 18/02/2014)
SC
frames
rule for accepting foreign grant: Legal eagles oppose
plan, see threat to judicial independence, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 15/02/2014)
JC
to
start new CJ appointment process (ht 14/02/2014)
NBA
to
protest Regmi’s return (kp 07/02/2014), Bar
suggests
Regmi not retake chief justice post (kp
10/02/2014), NBA
plans
protest against Regmi rejoining judiciary (ht
10/02/2014), Regmi
‘not
to return’ to Supreme Court (kp 11/02/2014), Regmi
as
chief to justice resign today (ht
11/02/2014), Regmi
steps
down as CJ (kp
12/02/2014)
[This does not justify that he
did not step down in March 2013!!], Regmi
steps
down as chief justice: 'Scored a political success but
set a bad precedent', by Nabin Khatiwada (rep
12/02/2014),
ICJ
welcomes
Regmi’s decision (kp
12/02/2014),
ICJ
hails
ex-govt chief for not returning to apex court (ht
12/02/2014),
To
receive
ex-PM facilities (kp 12/02/2014)
Plaint
filed
at JC against Judge Junaid (kp 29/01/2014)
JC
hopes
new govt will help avert judicial crisis (ht
29/01/2014)
JC
weighing
its restructuring options, by Pranab Kharel (kp
27/01/2014)
Verdict
on
12-year-old case put off for 11th time (ht
18/01/2014)
Consumer
courts
to be set up in all 75 districts (kp 15/01/2014)
Concerns
expressed
over country's weakening judiciary (nn 09/01/2014)
Justices’
conduct
probe non-starter, by Pranab Kharel (kp
04/01/2014)
Courts
to
open from 9 am from Sunday (ht 04/01/2014)
Appeal
Bar
chiefs against Regmi returning to SC (kp
01/01/2014)
SC
to
govt: Implement anti-tobacco directives (kp
30/12/2013), Supreme
Court
scraps cigarette companies’ plea: Tells govt to ensure
75 per cent space on tobacco product packs is allotted
to health warning, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
30/12/2013)
Ex-health
secy
guilty of contempt of court (ht 25/12/2013)
JC
to
revise terms to appoint judges, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 20/12/2013)
‘Undue
pressure’
delaying judge selection (kp 19/12/2013)
14
police
circle offices to settle semi-judicial cases, by
Kamal Pariyar (rep 18/12/2013)
Re-appointment
issue
divides lawyers (kp 13/12/2013)
JC
to
wait for House to convene for appointment of judges
(ht 06/12/2013)
Officials
booked
for SC contempt, by Pranab Kharel (kp 03/12/2013),
Apex
court
holds former minister, secy guilty of contempt of
court: Acquits former PM Bhattarai, Chief
Secretary Poudel (ht 03/12/2013)
Govt
promises
residential complex for SC justices (ht
28/11/2013)
Judicial
Council
recommends justices for CA court (kp 12/11/2013),
Three
justices
deputed to Constituent Assembly Court (ht
12/11/2013)
Fight
against
corruption to get more teeth: Special Court to
constitute regional circuit benches with three
justices at each unit (ht 09/11/2013)
Regmi
appointment:
SC postponed hearing to Nov 21 (ht 08/11/2013)
Appointment
of
SC judges likely after Tihar festival (ht
02/11/2013)
Debate
continues
over constitutional court, by Pranab Kharel (kp
29/10/2013)
Supreme
Court
questions restriction on poll monitors (kp
22/10/2013)
How
Nepal’s
judiciary evolved over the years, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht 22/10/2013)
SC
turns
down petition against CIAA chief (kp 21/10/2013)
10
habeas
corpus petitions filed (ht 17/10/2013)
Judicial
Council
fails to appoint judges in country’s apex court
(ht 04/10/2013)
Courting
trouble:
The judiciary must remain vigilant during polls, as a
large number of security forces are due to be deployed
in 12 ‘most sensitive’ Tarai districts, by
Dipendra Jha (kp 02/10/2013)
Plan
for
appellate courts to handle spl court cases (kp
24/09/2013)
SC
allows
murder convicts to contest polls: Nepal Bar
Association flays apex court order; it says the
decision will promote impunity, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 24/09/2013) [?????????????????????????????????????????
A
murderer is a murderer and it is absolutely
unimportant if his crime was politically
motivated!!!!!],
Apex
court
allows murder convicts to contest polls, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (ht 24/09/2013), Supreme
Court
damper on murder convicts’ poll hopes, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 27/09/2013), Murder
convicts
can’t contest CA polls: SC: Election Ordinance upheld;
Order means Balkrishna Dhungel barred from filing
candidacy, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 27/09/2013)
Apex
court,
Bar on reconciliation path (kp 22/09/2013)
Karki
appointment:
Final court hearing begins from Jan 29 (kp
10/09/2013) [2015 or 2020??
Without belittling the work Karki has done so far,
this once again proves that the judiciary is no longer
independent!!], SC
to
hear anti-Karki petition after five months (rep
10/09/2013)
SC
stays
DRI action against Thapa: Petitioner says infringement of
lawyers’ privilege of secrecy, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
09/09/2013), Supreme
Court
asks DRI not to execute letter, by Pranab Kharel (kp
09/09/2013)
Removal
of
constitutional difficulties: SC quashes ‘irrelevant’
petitions (kp 06/09/2013) [There
is no need of another proof of the non-existence of
separation of powers! A constitutional solution of the
crisis would have been possible, but this would have
been against the power interests of the political
leaders!!], SC
quashes
17 writs against Regmi appointment (ht
06/09/2013),
SC
quashes
17 writ petitions without any hearings, by Gani
Ansari (rep
06/09/2013),
Free
judiciary
under threat: Lawyers (ht 09/09/2013)
Judging
Judges:
Is equal representation of women in Judiciary is still
a very distant dream in Nepal?, by Bidushi
Adhikari (sp 30/08/2013)
Contempt-of-court
charge
against Dahal (ht 27/08/2013)
Separation
anxiety:
The Nepali judiciary is passing through one of its
most difficult times, given the fact that the sitting
Chief Justice has taken the helm of the executive,
by Chandra Prasad Luitel (kp 20/08/2013)
Regmi
pledges
to appoint lawyers as judges (ht 20/08/2013)
10
mths
on, no dawn for evening court, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 16/08/2013)
KDC
settles
record number of cases: Data show crime on rise
(ht 14/08/2013)
Dismal
budget
for judiciary angers Acting CJ (ht 12/08/2013)
Has
Nepal’s
judiciary come to a sorry pass?, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht 04/08/2013)
Separate
force
to guard the judiciary: 1,714 personnel proposed for
the judicial police, by Pranab Kharel (kp
03/08/2013)
SC
recommends
no action against senior lawyer in fraud case (ht
29/07/2013)
NBC
lacks
teeth to take action against lawyers: Has failed to
punish several legal practitioners facing allegations
of corruption, wrongdoing (ht 19/07/2013)
Appellate
court
sees rise in number of writs (ht 17/07/2013)
Proposed
JC
act: Mental disability to disqualify sitting judges,
by Pranab Kharel (kp 13/07/2013)
Lawyers
divided
over temp judges hearing Regmi case, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 05/07/2013)
JC
overrules
SC orders issued against judges, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht 05/07/2013)
168
new
judges to visit: Bangkok on training junket Rs 20
million sought from finance ministry, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (ht 02/07/2013)
Supreme
Delay
In Dispensing Justice, by Abhisek Adhikari (sp
28/06/2013)
District
courts
short of benches for new judges (ht 27/06/2013)
Judges
violated
norms: DLA (ht 21/06/2013)
Has
Judicial
Council lost its significance? The rot has set in,must
be stopped: Experts, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
19/06/2013)
JC
recommends
169 names: 80 nominated to appellate courts, 89 to
district courts, by Pranab Kharel (kp 10/06/2013),
JC
picks
169 judges for appeal, district courts (ht
10/06/2013), 11
new
judges in JC’s ‘watch list’, by Pranab Kharel (kp
11/06/2013), Lawyers
dissatisfied
over selection of judges (ht 11/06/2013), NBA
notes
dissent on judge nominations (kp 12/06/2013), Lawyer
challenges
JC decision (kp 13/06/2013)
Lack
of
judges in far-west hampers case hearings (ht
09/06/2013)
Judicial
Council
fails to select judges (ht 07/06/2013)
Judgeship
only
for professional lawyers, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
05/06/2013)
Supreme
Court
fast going digital, by Pranab Kharel (kp
31/05/2013)
Court
rules
for journalists draw flak (ht 21/05/2013)
Former
CJ
Sharma dubs Judicial Council a failed institution
(ht 18/05/2013)
Delay
in
judges’ appointment hampering justice (ht
13/05/2013)
Apex
court
refuses to register writ against Karki's appointment
(nn 06/05/2013), Apex
court
turns away petitioner, by Pranab Kharel (kp
07/05/2013), Writ
challenges
SC registrar's decision to reject case against
Lokman's appointment (nn 07/05/2013), Application
in
SC against court administration order (kp
08/05/2013)
Apex
court
restricts journos’ movement (kp 01/05/2013), SC
bars
journos from visiting courtrooms (ht 01/05/2013), Apex
court
denies journos access to courtroom (kp
03/05/2013), Courtrooms
remain
shut for journalists (ht 03/05/2013), SC:
Not
against court access to journalists (kp
04/05/2013) [The separation of
powers has ended!!]
Journo
told
to leave courtroom (kp 30/04/2013) [???],
Contempt
of
journalists: The ejection of reporter Khadka reveals the
contempt the bureaucracy have for journalists (kp
01/05/2013)
Dolakha
CDO
presides over open court (ht 27/04/2013)
Apex
court
not to accept 2 or more PILs for one issue, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 24/04/2013), Apex
court
verdict splits legal eagles (kp 26/04/2013)
More
judges
likely for SC: Senior lawyers may be appointed to
supersede five ad hoc justices, by Ananta Raj Luitel
(ht 15/04/2013)
SC
asked
to lift ban on cameras, mobile phones: Lawyers, journos
tell apex court not to infringe rights of people (ht
11/04/2013)
Judges
oppose
lawyers’ appointment to SC: Urge Judicial Council not to
pick lawyers to the apex court by ignoring seniority
(ht 09/02/2013), Recommendation
for
SC justices either at one go or phase-wise, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 11/04/2013), Five
temp
Justices recommended for apex court appt, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 12/04/2013), JC
retains
five apex court ad hoc judges, by Ananta Raj Luitel
(ht 12/04/2013), Five
new
justices take up apex court duties, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 13/04/2013), Five
retained
ad hoc judges start duty (ht 13/04/2013)
Appointment
of
judges postponed (ht 08/04/2013)
New
district
judge posts on the cards (kp 07/04/2013)
NBA
concerns
over judge appointments (kp 05/04/2013)
JC
selects
prospective candidates (kp 28/03/2013), JC
bears
orientation for SC justice hopefuls in mind, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 01/04/2013), NBA
asks
Judicial Council to halt process: Says JC should wait
for the Supreme Court decision on a case that is pending
(ht 01/04/2013)
Appointment
of
new judges in apex court ‘very soon’: Four forces in bid
to get their favourites into judiciary, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (ht 27/03/2013) [The
arrogant politicians do everything to guarantee the
dependency of judiciary!!], Real
test (ht 28/03/2013)
JC
mulls
over SC justices’ pick (kp 22/03/2013)
Consumer
court
demanded to ensure speedy justice (kp 16/03/2013)
Appointment
of
judges put on hold, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
11/03/2013)
Rotten
to
the core: Nepal’s legal system has been too kind to
those at the top who have presided over the plunder of
the state, by Anurag Acharya (nt 01/03/2013))
CJ
not
assigning cases to himself (ht 18/02/2013)
SC
submits
annualreport to President (ht 18/02/2013)
Justice
delayed:
The judicial system in Nepal is a morass of delays and
irregularities, rendering it exceedingly difficult to
navigate for the average citizen, by Pranab Kharel
and Bhadra Sharma (kp 09/02/2013)
Lack
of
judges in apex court puts legal profession in jeopardy:
Lawyers say general public has been suffering the most with
justice dispensation hampered, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
05/02/2013)
JC
takes
ahead appellate court judges’ appt process, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 01/02/2013), JC
to
select judges thru interview (ht 01/02/2013)
Is
SC
lenient in contempt cases?, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
30/01/2013)
Nonagenerian’s
property
case solved after 30 yrs, by Bhadra Sharma (ht
24/01/2013)
Man
seeks
citizenship in mother’s name (ht 24/01/2013)
Leave
a
rare luxury for Supreme Court judges: Case burden
increasesas strength dwindles, by Ananta Raj LOuitel (ht
24/01/2013)
JC
picks
three judges for Special Court (ht 23/01/2013)
Crisis
in
judiciary: Supreme Court will have only six judges after
Osti retires (ht
17/01/2013), Six
judges
remain in apex court (kp 21/01/2013), Judicial
crisis
deepens as judge retires (ht 22/01/2013)
7,000
cast
votes in Bar election; counting set to begin tomorrow (kp 13/01/2013), Karki
elected
Nepal Bar Association president (nn 17/01/2013), Progressive
panel
wins big (ht 18/01/2013)
6
Appellate Courts get chief judges,
by Pranab Kharel (kp 10/01/2013), JC
picks
six chief judges: First appointment in 2 yrs (ht
10/01/2013)
Nepal
needs
Fast Track Courts: Delays in justice have eroded trust
in the judiciary, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 06/01/2013)
Law
and
language: To ensure an inclusive justice system, Nepal
can provide interpreters to non-Nepali speakers, by Deependra Jha (kp 03/01/2013)
Fast
Track
Courts sought for sensitive cases, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht 31/12/2012)
JC
seeks
alternative ways to ease dispensation of justice, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 28/12/2012)
CJ
admits
failure to tackle judicial crisis (ht 22/12/2012)
Justice
accuses
JC of lacking foresight (kp 19/12/2012)
Apex
court
justices retire, litigants bear the brunt, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 18/12/2012), Ex-ad
hoc
judges deputed to SC (ht 18/12/2012)
JC
to
start appointing judges soon: Recruitment process for
appellate, district courts will begin after Jan 18
(ht 15/12/2012)
Appeal
judges
flout JC law: Holding non-judicial posts also, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 12/12/2012)
CA’s
demise
responsible for delay in appointment: CJ (ht
12/12/2012)
Dubious
distinction:
The executive and the legislature have accepted
inclusion but the judiciary is holding out, by
Dipendra Jha (kp 06/12/2012) [Only
the election system was inclusive but the inclusively
elected MPs have never been included in the
constitutional discussions! The executive, the
leadership of the parties and the judiciary, among other
sectors, are exclusive shops as ever!]
Lawyers
begin
NBA election campaign: Panels in for tough competition
(kp 06/12/2012)
SC
split
on picking judges sans parliamentary hearing: PM
promises ordinance or consensus to tide over crisis,
by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 03/12/2012), Supreme
necessity:
The government should bring an ordinance to fill the
growing vacuum at the Supreme Court (kp 04/12/2012),
Judiciary
in
a quandary as crisis looms large: Prez meeting leaders
of four major political forces today, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht 04/12/2012), Dangerous
void:
Filling up SC vacancies (rep 04/12/2012), SC
justice
strength to tumble to seven (kp 05/12/2012), JC
gives
a sharp twist to judges’ tenure tale: Says there are two
more days before they retire; Hopes a deal will be
reached by tomorrow, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
05/12/2012), JC
SOS
to ministry as SC judges retiring, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 06/12/2012), JC
courts
govt to retain ad hoc judges: Urges Ministry of Law to
recommendan ordinance, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
06/12/2012), Prez
holds
ordinance to amend JC Act, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
07/12/2012)
Justice
Upreti
calls it a day before his term, by Pranab Kharel (kp
30/11/2012)
SC
verdict
on judges’ appointment in days (ht 30/11/2012)
‘Recommend
judges,
but don’t appoint’ (ht 29/11/2012)
SC
advised
to appoint judges sans hearing (ht 26/11/2012)
Judges'
appointment:
SC declines stay order for quota (ht 21/11/2012)
Lobbying
on
for appointing loyal lawyers as judges, by Ananta
Raj Luitel (ht 12/11/2012)
Judges'
appointment:
SC moved seeking inclusion (ht 10/11/2012), Judge
appointment
criteria: JC explanation sought (kp 12/11/2012), SC
to
hear inclusion writ on Nov 20 (ht 13/11/2012)
Decision
to
boycott CJ’s bench sparks rift in NBA (ht
07/11/2012)
Supreme
Court
preparing to introduce two-day weekly holiday in courts
(nn 06/11/2012)
Judicial
Council
starts scanning applications for judges’ posts, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 04/11/2012)
1,000
in
the fray for 73 vacant judgeship slots: Deserving
candidates stay away from competition, JC offers perks
to attract them, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
01/11/2012)
CJ
demands
more budget for judiciary (ht 31/10/2012)
Judge
appointment
criteria challenged (kp 08/10/2012), Quandary
over
judge appointments (kp 12/10/2012)
Justice
Bam
murder a threat to judiciary, says probe report, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 08/10/2012)
Justice
delayed,
dismissed or denied? 71-year-old asks why his case has
been pending for 26 yrs, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
06/10/2012)
JC
okays
judge selection criteria for first time, by Pranab
Kharel (kp 05/10/2012)
Judicial
Council
sets norms for naming judges (ht 20/09/2012)
SC
upholds
Judicial Council’s criteria: Bars contempt of court
convicts, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 03/09/2012)
Alarmed
judiciary:
In the absence of a parliament, using the President’s
“power to remove difficulties” is the best option to
appoint judges in the Supreme Court, by Semanta
Dahal (kp 27/08/2012)
District
court
gears up for videoconferencing, by Pranab Kharel (kp
21/08/2012)
SC
orders
govt to pay stipend to the disabled (kp 16/08/2012), Govt
told
to provide allowances pronto to differently abled
(ht 16/08/2012)
Precedents
suggest
viable option to judge appointment quandary, by
Pranab Kharel (kp 10/08/2012), Appointment
ordinance
at chief justice’s request: Expected to be enforced
soon; Law portfolio likely for Barshaman Pun to ease
process, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 11/08/2012)
All
court
verdicts at your fingertips soon, by Pranab Kharel
(kp 08/08/2012)
Chief
Justice
in bid to avert judicial crisis: Holding talks with govt
over judges’appointment, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
07/08/2012)
PM-CJ
subtle
tussle could humble judiciary: ‘Personality conflict’may
affect judges’ appointment, justice dispensation, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 29/07/2012)
Lost
in
translation with jarring judicial jargon:
Incomprehensible terms in court rulings often throw
public into a tizzy, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
19/07/2012)
SC
reverses
Spl Court ruling on ex-official (kp 28/06/2012)
SC
recommends
action against two appeal judges: Says granting bail to
man accused of attempt-to-murder was wrong, by
Ananta Raj Luitel (ht 27/06/2012)
Appointment
of
justices: SC may choose to breach constitution (ht
25/06/2012), Several
SC
justices retiring by Dec: Absence of parliament may
leave apex court in a fix, by Pranab Kharel (kp
26/06/2012)
SC
acquits
bankers accused of banking fraud, by Manoj Adhikari
(rep 16/06/2012) [Long live
corruption!!]
Parliamentary
hearing
of judges: Continue it in new constitution, by
Sandesh Shrestha (ht 10/05/2012)
Clash
of
the courts: The arrival of a constitutional court will
represent a huge institutional imposition within our
justice system and inevitably lead to conflict, by
Gyan Basnet (kp 02/05/2012), War
of
the courts: Unavoidable conflict, by Gyan Basnet (ht
08/05/2012)
Judicial
Council
split on tainted judges’ case (ht 26/04/2012)
Apex
court
burdened with loads of cases, by Pranab Kharel (kp
22/04/2012)
Ad-hoc
judges
at SC prod chief justice: Urge him to appoint or relieve
them of duties (ht 21/04/2012)
SC
orders
rehearing of Pokharel case: Says Spl Court’s decision to
acquit the former secretary of graft charge was flawed
(kp 16/04/2012)
Judicial
reform
bone of contention, by Ananta Raj Luitel (ht
14/04/2012)
Supremely
slow:
Besides the legislature, the judiciary’s inefficiency is
pitiful (kp 11/04/2012)
Judge
appointment
‘only after May 27’, by Pranab Kharel (kp
08/04/2012)
Judicial
reform:
To enjoy broader legitimacy, the judiciary will need to
be more liberal (kp 29/03/2012)
Recipe
for
a tussle: Two parallel courts at an apex level can
convolute the country’s legal system, by Semanta
Dahal (kp 20/03/2012)
JC
okays
bill on inclusion (rep 06/03/2012), JC
bill
to augment lawyers’ career (kp 06/03/2012)
Female
Lawyers
Protest Discrimination in Nepali Legal Sector, by
Lochana Sharma (rep 02/03/2012)
JC
shortlists
complaints against 12 judges, by Pranab Kharel (kp
02/03/2012)
Why
were
review petitions rejected, Supreme Court asks joint
registrar (kp 01/03/2012)
JC
mulls
judge appointments through competition (rep
01/03/2012)
JC
decides
to study faulty court verdicts (rep 29/02/2012)
Fast-track
gendercourt
in offing: To ensure speedy justice in GBV cases (ht
25/02/2012)
Hear
ye,
hear ye: Recent court decisions have reinforced faith in
the judiciary, but the big fish got away, by Kahar
Singh Khadka (kp 24/02/2012)
Supreme
arrears:
Any further delay in filling the vacancies in the
Supreme Court will only mean denial of justice, by
Semanta Dajhal (kp 23/02/2012)
Miscarriage
of
justice never costs judges; Apex court issues notices,
none reaches Judicial Council though, by Ananta Raj
Luitel (ht 23/02/2012)
Spl
Court
judge who acquitted Gupta was mired in controversy,
by Bhadra Sharma (kp 22/02/2012), ‘Special
Court
judges made grave error’, summary of the court
verdict (unofficial translation) (kp 22/02/2012), Special
Court
judges who acquitted Gupta set to face action (nn
22/02/2012), Action
against
Special Court judges uncertain (kp 24/02/2012), JC
begins
process to take judges to task for errors (ht
24/02/2012), The
mote
in thy brother's eye: The judiciary must first do
justice to its own credibility, by Anurag Acharya
(nt 24/02/2012)
Pride
and
prejudice, by Narayan Kandel (rep 08/02/2012)
Prosecutorial
independence:
Separation of Attorney General from the Executive,
by Anuj Mishra (ht 08/02/2012)
Guardian
of
justice: The Supreme Court must quickly extricate itself
from the quicksand of politics, by Gyan Basnet (kp
25/01/2012)
A
Question Of Judicial Self-Indulgence, by Gyan Basnet
(rn 19/01/2012)
JC
shocked
by NBA’s pick for judges: Says some of the names
recommended lack minimum standard (ht 16/01/2012)
House
to
implement apex court verdict (ht 12/01/2012)
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