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“Court on Trial: A Data - Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India (Penguin), a path-breaking book on the country’s highest judicial seat...stands out because it is based not on impressions or anecdotes but uses empirical research tools to draw some disturbing conclusions.” conclusions.”
In ‘Court on Trial’, Aparna Chandra, Sital Kalantry & William HJ Hubbard analyses the Supreme Court using original empirical data and provide suggestions to improve its efficiency.
'Court on Trial’, authored by professors from NLSIU, Seattle University School of Law, University of Chicago Law School used data from 2000 to 2018 & proposes practical agenda for reform.
Shishir Tripathi writes in Firstpost that What sets this book apart from other books written on the workings of the Supreme Court is that it goes beyond the conjectures and anecdotes to buttress its arguments.”
Study by authors of ‘Court on Trial’ looked at details of every judge appointed to SC since its creation in 1950 until 2018, and representation in court before & after Collegium system.
Supreme Court lawyers, Murali Neelakanatan and Gautam Narayan find that Court on Trial clearly demonstrates through academic rigor “the issues with which many of us, who have some sense of the functioning of the Indian judiciary, have been grappling for many years now.”
Soutik Biswas, India Correspondent at the BBC News states that the book Court on Trial is “an exhaustive data-driven account” of the Court and finds that the “court is in crises” because of “the huge backlog of cases that leave litigants in limbo and drain them financially.”
This book provides access to the power of this orientation without overburdening readers. Its sweetest reward, however, is that it offers a vision of welfare in the justice system that views the system systemically instead of the piecemeal approach to justice that forms the existing paradigm for many lawyers and judges.”
Professors from NLSIU, Seattle University School of Law & University of Chicago Law School say in cases they studied, chief justices assigned 88% Constitution bench cases to themselves.
Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, the Chief Justice of India, quoted the book at the Hindustan Times Conclaves as a “seminal book,” recognizing the authors’ statistical analysis of the work of the Supreme Court of India.