Competent and capable judges !

Dear Editor,

ears to hear
swears to act not.
- yes,he is a competent judge!

Why do some times the quality of judgments suffer? The Lawyers in the Madras High Court are agitating for appointment of good and competent judges as it appears that the names proposed for the next batch of appointments appear to have been made on extraneous criteria such as cast, religion, office affiliations, political considerations and so on.

The constitution never contemplated any executive function to be entrusted to judges except to the extent of appointing their own staff. 

Of late we have seen how certain orders passed in civil suits relating to LIC pensioners lacked clarity and the ball being tossed from one court to another giving rise to delay and anxiety.

- RK Viswanathan 

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