A Publication by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
A Publication by the Asian Legal Resource Centre
Article 2 / Vol. 11 - No. 04 2012 -
Vol. 12 - No. 01 2013 -- Struggle for Constitutionalism &
Judicial Independence in Asia
ISSN:
1811 7023
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Vol.
11 - No. 04 2012 - Vol. 12 - No. 01 2013 -- Struggle for
Constitutionalism & Judicial Independence in
Asia
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Introduction:
Judicial role and judicial
independence
Editorial board, article
2
On
January 13, 2013, the 1978 Sri Lanka Constitution is
fulfilled
Basil Fernando, Director,
Policy & Programme Development,
Asian Human Rights
Commission & Asian Legal Resource
Centre, Hong
Kong
Extract
of the report on the impeachment of Sri Lanka’s chief
justice
Sir Geoffrey Robertson, Human
Rights Committee of the Bar
of England and
Wales
Impeachment
of the Chief Justice: A critique on the Sri Lankan
and
Philippine
cases
Danilo Reyes, Editor,
Article 2
Has
Pakistan’s judiciary overstepped its power?
Baseer Naweed, Senior Researcher on South
Asia,
Asian Legal Resource Centre 40
An
interview with a lawyer: Why Pakistan’s judiciary must
exercise ‘judicial restraint’
Prof.
Akmal Wasim, Associate Professor of Law, Hamdrad University
in Pakistan
Text
of the judgment on Suresh Singh vs Union of India & Another
APPENDICES
Statement
of Sri Lanka Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake
(January 2013)
Statement
of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on the
removal of Chief Justice Bandaranayake
Extract
of the Basic Principles on the Independence of the
Judiciary
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