Weekly Debate: Is Judicial Activism a Necessary Evil?

Apart from other angles, you may think and debate on the following lines:

• Judicial Activism encroaches upon Parliamentary and Executive power.
• Judicial Activism fulfils the critical gap in the legal and policy structure of India.
• Judicial Activism brings to focus the critical social and economic issues needing urgent attention.
• Has Judicial Activism, over the period, eroded the authority of Judiciary and respect for Judiciary?

Below are the links which can be referred for debate topic: -

• Article: From Constitutional Interpretation to Judicial Activism: The Transformation of Judicial Review in America

Link: http://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/report/constitutional-interpretation-judicial-activism-the-transformation-judicial

• Article: Judicial activism: a perspective

Link:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/Judicial-activism-a-perspective/article15212644.ece

• Article: Judicial activism and democracy

Link:http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/Judicial-activism-and-democracy/article14743128.ece

• Article: Going beyond the ambit (Arun Jaitley’s remarks on judicial activism are timely. The Supreme Court is increasingly, and controversially, asserting control over the executive and legislature)

Link:http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/arun-jaitley-judicial-activism-supreme-court-2828018/

Hindi Articles:-

• न्यायिक सक्रियता पर बेसुरे बोल

Link: http://jagraneditorial.jagranjunction.com/2011/08/02/judicial-activism-supreme-court-of-india-indian-judiciary-political-party/

• न्यायपालिका ने हमेशा आम आदमी के अधिकारों की रक्षा की

Link: http://www.livehindustan.com/news//article1-story-56263.html

• न्यायिक सक्रियता का नया दौर

Link: http://navbharattimes.indiatimes.com/-/valentineshow/7718836.cms

• लोकतंत्र में न्यायिक सक्रियता

Link: http://www.pravakta.com/judicial-activism-in-a-democracy/

• न्यायिक सक्रियता की सीमा

Link: http://azadi.me/Indian_law_and_courts

• न्यायिक सक्रियता का सवाल

Link: http://www.jagran.com/editorial/nazariya-question-of-judicial-activism-15726249.html