March 26, 2010
The Judicial Standards and Accountability Bill would be introduced in the current session of Parliament after Cabinet approval, Law Minister Veerappa Moily said here on Friday.
Mr. Moily said the Bill would incorporate the Supreme Court's suggestions and put in place a systematic process to ensure high standards in the judiciary.
The Law Ministry was holding discussions with the Ministry of Human Resource Development on the scope of the proposed National Commission for Higher Education and Research with respect to legal education.
The Law Ministry would like to strengthen the Bar Council of India and would not allow anything that would be “detrimental” to the council's functioning, including its role in legal education. To elicit suggestions for improving legal education, a national consultation on legal education would be held on May 1 and 2, as part of the National Legal Mission, he said.
The Minister was talking to reporters after presiding over the convocation of the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University.
On quota for the Other Backward Classes in the Women's Reservation Bill, he said the government was looking into the suggestion, but it would be difficult to implement it, as there was no caste-wise census since 1931.
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