This pre-empts government's recent decision to establish a national judicial commission to draft a code of ethics for judiciary.
Judicial accountability is, indeed, a facet of the independence of the judiciary.
The code of conduct bars an advocate sibling of a judge from using the official residence for his professional work. However, he blamed the centre and state governments of not acting on the recommendations for filling up of nearly 1000 vacancies in the lower courts and about 154 vacancies in the high courts, which, he added, has worsened the problem of backlog and delay in disposal of cases. He impressed upon the chief justices to earnestly take up the issue of filling up the vacancies in the lower courts with the state governments and public service commissions. All rights reserved. See disclaimer and privacy policy.