A Publication by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

A Publication by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

Article 2 / Vol. 11 - No. 04 2012 - Vol. 12 - No. 01 2013 -- Struggle for Constitutionalism & Judicial Independence in Asia
ISSN: 1811 7023

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Vol. 11 - No. 04 2012 - Vol. 12 - No. 01 2013 -- Struggle for Constitutionalism & Judicial Independence in Asia
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C O N T E N T S
Introduction: Judicial role and judicial independence
Editorial board, article 2

On January 13, 2013, the 1978 Sri Lanka Constitution is fulfilled
Basil Fernando, Director, Policy & Programme Development,
Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource
Centre, Hong Kong

Extract of the report on the impeachment of Sri Lanka’s chief justice
Sir Geoffrey Robertson, Human Rights Committee of the Bar
of England and Wales

Impeachment of the Chief Justice: A critique on the Sri Lankan and
Philippine cases
Danilo Reyes, Editor, Article 2

Has Pakistan’s judiciary overstepped its power?
Baseer Naweed, Senior Researcher on South Asia,
Asian Legal Resource Centre 40

An interview with a lawyer: Why Pakistan’s judiciary must exercise ‘judicial restraint’
Prof. Akmal Wasim, Associate Professor of Law, Hamdrad University in Pakistan 

Text of the judgment on Suresh Singh vs Union of India & Another

APPENDICES

Statement of Sri Lanka Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake (January 2013)

Statement of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on the removal of Chief Justice Bandaranayake

Extract of the Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary

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