Judicial Activism in Pakistan Judicial Activism: Social change effected by judicial decree. The doctrine that the judicial branch especially the federal courts‚ may interpret the constitution by deviating from legal precedent as a means of effecting legal and social change. Judicial activism is a time honored trait of judicial function and to give up that trait is to surrender before these two mightier organs of the state. History bounds in scintillating examples of judicial activism‚ when the
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ( CODE NO. 18) PAPER – I PART - I Administrative Theory 1. Meaning‚ Scope and Significance of Public Administration‚ Public and Private administration‚ Wilson’s vision of Public administrations‚ Evolution of the discipline and its present status. 2. New Public Administration concept of New Public Management‚ Good Governance‚ Concept and application‚ Ethics and Administration. 3. Scientific Management - (Taylor and the Scientific management movement) Classical Theory
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DEFINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION When people think about government‚ they think of elected officials. The attentive public knows these officials who live in the spotlight but not the public administrators who make governing possible; it generally gives them little thought unless it is to criticize “government bureaucrats.” Yet we are in contact with public administration almost from the moment of birth‚ when registration requirements are met‚ and our earthly remains cannot be disposed of without
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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 role of civil society * role of media/projection of media in evoking public interest attenntion * government’s mishandling of this
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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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NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE CODE : POL 123 COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION COURSE GUIDE POL 123 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Course Team Dr. Justice Igbokwe (Writer) - NDC Dr. C. Nna-Emeka Okereke (Editor) - NDC Ifeyinwa M. Ogbonna-Nwaogu (Coordinator) - NOUN NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA ii POL 123 COURSE GUIDE National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island Lagos Abuja Office
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all three of them. The three different powers are the Executive‚ Legislative‚ and Judicial Branches. The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the idea of the separation of powers. All the branches have their own duties and responsibilities that are a huge impact on our Nation. The Executive Branch is the part of the government that has its authority & duties for the administration of the state. It is part of the government that executes and/or enforces all of the
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Advantages and Disadvantages of the jury system Advantages of the Jury System Long established trial by peers which has public confidence Lord Devlin‚ a famous House of Lords judge‚ has said that trial by jury is the “lamp that shows that freedom lives”‚ arguing that a defendant has the right to be tried by his peers. Supporters of this view maintain that a jury will exercise common sense rather than slavishly follow the law. For example the case of R v Wang W was charged with having an article
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CHAPTER – 1 GROUNDS OF JUDICIAL REVIEW INTRODUCTION “Public law is not at base about rights‚ even though abuses of power may and often do invade private rights; it is about wrongs – that is to say misuses of public power.” * Sedley.J1 The ultimate (though not necessarily the most appropriate) means by which public law disputes are resolved is by bringing the matter before the Administrative Court using a claim for judicial review. Broadly‚ in order to succeed‚ the claimant (the person or body
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FATIMA JINNAH WOMEN UNIVERSITY COMPARITIVE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION “TYPES OF ADMINISTRATION” Submitted to: Ms.Aliya Submitted by: Rida Zahid Ramsha Aslam Maheera Naveed Marium Rasheed Butt Dur-e-Sameen Durrani Dept: BPA VI Date: 21st march 2013 Types of administration What is administration? ....................................................................pg3 Two sectors………………………………………………..………..pg4 Central Government....................................................
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