Abstract
The growth of judicial review is the inevitable response of the judiciary to ensure proper check on the exercise of public power. Growing awareness of the rights in the people; the trend of judicial scrutiny of every significant Governmental action and the readiness even of the executive to seek judicial determination of debatable or controversial issues, at times, may be, to avoid its accountability for the decision, have all resulted in the increasing significance of the rile of the judiciary. There is a general perception that the judiciary in this country has been active in expansion of the field of judicial review into non-traditional areas, which earlier were considered beyond judicial purview. Some critics objects to the enlargement of the scope of judicial power beyond its orthodox limits. But this criticism, notwithstanding the expanded role of the judiciary has received acceptability not only by the people but by other wings of the State as well. What may appear to be non-traditional at the time of the performance of such a task by the judiciary to be described as "Judicial Activism", when considered in proper perspective may turn out to be really the process of development of the law to respond to the needs of the society.
Recommended Citation
Anand, The Hon Justice Mr. A.S.
(1998)
"Justice N.D Krishna Rao Memorial Lecture on Protection of Human Rights: Judicial obligation or Judicial Activism,"
National Law School Journal: Vol. 10:
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1, Article 2.
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