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    _______ means cases that can be directly considered by the Supreme Court without going to the lower courts before that.
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    Ms Sujatha Vaaant Manohar was the ________ woman judge of the Supreme Court of India.
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    The territorial jurisdiction of the Guwahati High Court extends over the States of
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    Which of the following is/are true about the "Gram Nyayalayas"?
    (A) These courts will be mobile courts and will function at Panchayat level.
    (B) The Magistrates of these courts will go to the villages in their area of coverage and will dispose off cases of the villages there itself.
    (C) Only civil suits related to the property of Rs. 5,00,000 and above will be disposed off in this way.
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    Fill in the blanks:
    Choose the pair of words which complete the sentence to make logical sense.
    The NDA led Government notified the ..... and the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, thus ending the over two-decade old .... of appointing judges of Supreme Court and high courts. Under the new law, a six member panel headed by ....... will select judges of the apex court and state high courts.
    Solution
    As per the constitution, as held by the court in the Three judges case,(1982, 1993, 1998), a judge is appointed to the supreme court by the president on the recommendation of the collegium.
    The collegium system has come under a fair amount of criticism.This was struck down as unconstitutional by the supreme court, in the fourth judges case, as the new system would undermine the independence of the judiciary.

    After a year of wrangling in the courtroom between the judiciary and the executive, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Friday struck down the constitutional amendment that introduced a six-member panel for selecting judges to the higher judiciary, declaring it unconstitutional.

    Its six members will include the Chief Justice of India (CJI), two most senior judges of the Supreme Court, the law minister, and two eminent persons. The two eminent persons would be nominated by a panel comprising the Prime Minister, CJI and leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha.

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    When the office of Chief Justice of a High Court Calls vacant his duties will be performed by one of the other Judges of the Court as may be appointed for the purpose by the
  • Question 7
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    Consider the chronology of the following judgments delivered by the Supreme Court of India in 
    1 Keshavananda Bharati v. State of Kerala
    2 Berubari (in re:)
    3 Excel Apparel Wear v. Union of India Codes:
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    _______ is issued when the court finds that a particular office holder is not doing legal duty and thereby is infringing on the right of an individual.
  • Question 9
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    Who has been sworn-in as the first-ever visually impaired judge of Pakistan?
    Solution
    Yousaf Saleem, who belongs to Lahore, has been sworn-in as the first-ever visually impaired judge of Pakistan. He was among 21 judges who took the oath to be sworn in as a civil judges on June 26, 2018. Yousaf is the son of a charted accountant and is visually impaired by birth. He has four sisters and two of them are also visually impaired. His sister Saima Saleem became first visually impaired civil servant in 2007 and is currently serving with Prime Minister Secretariat while the other sister is a university lecturer.
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    The doctrine of prospective overruling was first evolved by chief justice of India K. subba Rao in
    Solution
    This case was decided on Feb 27, 1967. In this case, the Supreme court gave the judgement that the Indian Parliament has no power to curtail Fundamental Rights which are given under Part III of the Constitution. This case was heard by a constitutional bench of 11 judges. 
    In the case of Golak Nath v. the State of Punjab, the Chief justice Kokka Subba Rao had first invoked the doctrine of prospective overruling. This doctrine is taken from the American Judicial system. Here the doctrine of prospective overruling means that the law declared by the court applies to the cases arising in future only.
    In this case, it was held that this doctrine can be invoked only in constitutional matters but now it has been extended to the interpretation of the ordinary statutes as well.
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