Moily emphasizes need for Indian Judicial Services

MANGALURU: Supreme Court judge S Abdul Nazeer released the book ‘The Wheel of Justice’ written by former Union minister for law and justice M Veerappa Moily.
At the book release programme organized by the Mangaluru Bar Association here on Monday, Nazeer said the book is deeply insightful and scholarly. “Moily writes in the first chapter what is plaguing the Indian judiciary. He also has suggested us to adopt Singapore model. He says the three biggest impediments to ensuring excess of justice are huge backlog of cases, lack of awareness about legal rights and the financial inability to seek effective representation. Moily opines that lower judiciary can significantly contribute towards the removal of these impediments. In my own observation, the backlog of cases is the most important reason that is plaguing the Indian judiciary,” Nazeer said.

The book can be introduced into the curriculum in national law schools and each chapter in the book needs to be topic of debates, he added.

In his review, senior advocate M K Vijayakumar said Moily has not touched upon even a single aspect of politics in his book.

Moily was never critical of the judiciary that he has appreciated the stands taken by the Supreme Court, he said. “Moily recommends reformation, modernisation and drastic changes in judiciary to speed up the process of justice. He refers to the Law Commission’s recommendation that the Supreme Court will have to be split up or a part of the Supreme Court should be constituted only for the disposal of Constitutional matters. It is suggested in his book that there should be four appellate courts from the Constitution court in four cities to deal with all the rest of the cases. If implemented, I think it will be a great riddance for the litigants,” he added.

Moily said he has made a lot of research before penning the book. “Even after the completion of my book, I have given it for review by experts in the legal fraternity. I have allotted a very big chapter on the judiciary-led government, not the government-led judiciary,” he said.

He emphasized the need for setting up an Indian Judicial Service so that the judiciary will get most talented judges in the nation. “Let there be a National Judicial Service. We need to have it so that the most talented people become district judges and outstanding talented people can become high court judges and also the Supreme Court judges,” he added.