controversy of judicial review which at extreme points‚ is called judicial activism‚ is a concept new to India. Judicial review can be defined as the judiciary‚ in the exercise of its own independence‚ checking and cross checking the working of the other organs of the government‚ while trying to uphold the ideal of ‘the rule of law’. Judicial activism more reformist in character is often confused with judicial review. According to Black’s Law Dictionary‚ judicial activism is “a philosophy of judicial decision-making
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Danyal Hasnain Justice Fazal Karim Constitutional Law 11th December‚ 2014. Assignment # 3 Question 1(a) Judicial review is usually defined as the judicial power in action or the practical aspect of the rule of law. It is defined as a doctrine according to which courts are entitled‚ in the exercise of the ‘judicial power’ of the State. The power of judicial review entails the authority to examine and decide the question of the constitutional validity of any law‚ irrespective of whether it comes from
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In the 1825 case of Eakin v. Raub‚ Pennsylvania Justice John Bannister Gibson declared that the judicial branch of the government had no right to influence or control the actions of any other branch of the government. Thus‚ Justice Gibson declared the act of judicial review unconstitutional and in disagreement with the proper role of the judiciary as inherently defined by the constitution. The proper roles and powers of the judiciary branch of the government‚ as conveyed to it by the constitution
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“We all learn in school that the judicial‚ legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well‚” stated by Alan Dershowitz. All of the branches should be checked on power by everyone. That is where Judicial review comes in‚ it is a check and balance on the Executive branch and the Legislative branch. Judicial review is an important part of our constitutional system
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JUDICIAL REVIEW AND THE INDIAN COURTS Literally the notion of judicial review means the revision of the decree or sentence of an inferior court by a superior court. Judicial review has a more technical significance in pubic law‚ particularly in countries having a written constitution which are founded on the concept of limited government. Judicial review in this case means that Courts of law have the power of testing the validity of legislative as well as other governmental action with reference
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Same-sex marriage is now legal across all US states due to a recent ruling from the Supreme Court of America (reference). Judicial review is the authority of a court to repeal unconstitutional government laws and actions (textbook reference). Theoretically‚ judicial review is there to “protect[] the constitutional rights of individuals” from arbitrary powers of the government. In practice‚ the court’s ability to do that varies between countries based on their constitutions. Some courts are able to
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JUDICIAL REVIEW OF LEGISLATION A paper prepared for the Anglo-Israeli Legal Exchange‚ Jerusalem‚ May 2007 David Feldman 1. A recent article in Public Law asks whether judicial review of legislation is undemocratic.1 In some jurisdictions the question has come to dominate public-law theory. Constitutional scholarship in the USA‚ for example‚ seems obsessed by questions about the legitimacy of judicial review‚ often assessed by reference to democratic theory2 but also in relation to techniques
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JUDICIAL REVIEW AND JUDICIAL SUPREMACY: A PARADIGM OF CONSTITUTIONALISM IN NIGERIA. By A.T.Shehu‚ PhD( ABSTRACT This paper examines judicial review and judicial power in Nigeria under the 1999 Constitution in relation to the constitution itself and in relation to the political branches of government. This is essentially to locate where lays supremacy between the branches and the judiciary particularly the Supreme Court with its final appellate jurisdiction. Judicial review and supremacy of the
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constitutional models of judicial review are the American and the European. Both these Constitutional models should be the manifestos of democracy and sovereignty of the people‚ but it is easily to deny this statement. In fact‚ we have to take into account that constitutions can be also negative for the consolidation of democracy. For instance‚ in many cases the authoritarian regimes use the constitution as support for them. Although‚ a democratic system would be against a certain type of judicial independence
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Judicial review is also practised in states that practise the doctrine of parliament sovereignty such as the United Kingdom. However here‚ judicial review can only be executed to challenge the legality of the decisions and conducts by public bodies or authorities. Judicial review cannot be done against the law passed by the parliament as the parliament acts as the highest power and governing organ. Similarly‚ judicial review can be executed on several grounds: 1. When the decision is illegal‚ as
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