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    1st National Law & Governance Essay Competition Judicial Accountability Bill – Needs “Power tends to corrupt a man‚ and absolute power corrupts man absolutely.” -Lord Acton In India Government has basically three organs with itself that is the Legislative‚ Executive and Judiciary at its both State and the Centre level and there is a separation of power among the three which means the functions of the Government bodies

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    Today‚ our country is in the midst of an unprecedented national conversation on community-police relations. It’s all over the news worldwide. Barriers and promising practices in police recruitment‚ hiring and retention for advancing diversity in law enforcement makes greater workforce diversity alone because it can ensure fair and effective policing‚ a significant - and growing - body of evidence suggests that diversity can make policing more effective‚ more safe and more just. For example‚ among

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    Gun laws are rules/laws set by governments to keep the public save from attacks involving guns and to reduce the level of risks of losing lives in communities. (Castro‚ 2016) In 1996 after the Port Arthur massacre Australia’s state and federal governments introduced gun laws that were progressively implemented in all 6 states and 2 territories between June 1996 and August 1998 (Simon Chapman‚ Alpers‚ & Michael Jones‚ 2017). The massacre costed the deaths of 35 innocent lives and left 23 for dead

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    The judicial restraint theory is based off the idea that judges should limit the exercise of their own power. For example‚ it would make judges think before shooting down laws‚ just because they can‚ with the exception being that they are unconstitutional. The opposite of judicial restraint is judicial activism. Judicial activism is when judges make rulings based on politics or personal beliefs rather than the law itself. The main difference between these two philosophies is judicial restraint is

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    to laws and regulations put in place to manage drought conditions. Farmers‚ especially‚ experienced hardship as groundwater and surface water supplies were cut off due to shortages. However‚ even with the new additions to legislation‚ many of California’s water laws are no longer applicable- because they do not fully address the severity of the drought‚ are not implemented appropriately or inadequately deal with water resources. With California going into it’s fifth year of drought‚ new laws to improve

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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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    regulation‚ starting in 1934 when Franklin D. Roosevelt imposed a tax on machine guns and sawed off shotguns. The gun regulation has now progressed to a system that completes a background check and denies the person a gun if there is any criminal history. Laws are being promoted by congress to make it exponentially harder to obtain a gun for the safety of the public.

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    : “Despondency and uncertainty were dominating the facet of the rule of law in Pakistan and then in a sudden a man rose like e phoenix from the ashes and struggled for the restoration of rule of law and opened a new era of justice for all “ JUDICIAL ACTIVISM 1. Introduction 2. Factors: * unceremonious removal of chief justice and the public reaction * Government apprehensions concerning Judicial Activism * Unprecedented defiance of Chief Justice * Reassertion/awaking

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    specifically the judicial branch and how it’s the weakest branch of government. Hamilton believes that the Judicial branch only has the power to judge on laws‚ but does not alter the actual final decisions on what the laws people need to uphold. Hamilton recognizes that you need all three branches to make a successful government function and that the judicial branch is the least powerful of the three. The legislative branch makes the laws‚ executive branch enforces these laws and lastly the Judicial branch

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    ‘ Common Law Reasoning and Institutions Question 6 Judicial precedent is best understood as a practice of the courts and not as a set of binding rules. As a practice it could be refined or changed by the courts as they wish.’ Discuss. Kiew Boon Yin Judicial precedent means the process whereby judges follow previously decided cases where the fact are of sufficient similarity. The doctrine of judicial precedent is a practice of the court‚ it provides guidance to the judges when

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