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Judiciary

Judiciary for UPSC Prelims and Mains, taught in 3 parts. Each part has tables, exam traps, a recap and practice questions.

Quick recap: Quick recap: the Judiciary on one page

All three parts of the Judiciary condensed for quick revision: the Supreme Court and its jurisdiction, High Courts, subordinate courts, tribunals and legal aid, and judicial review, the basic structure and PIL, with a one-table comparison of the two higher courts and eight mixed questions.

Parts of this chapter

Part 1

The Supreme Court

How the Supreme Court is composed, who can be a judge, the collegium and the NJAC case, removal of judges, the Court's original, writ, appellate and advisory jurisdictions, its powers as a court of record, and the safeguards of its independence. Part 2

High Courts, subordinate courts, tribunals and legal services

How High Courts are composed and how their judges are appointed, transferred and removed, the writ and supervisory powers of High Courts, the subordinate courts, tribunals under Part XIVA, free legal aid and Lok Adalats. Part 3

Judicial review, judicial activism and public interest litigation

What judicial review is and where the Constitution grounds it, how the basic structure doctrine grew from Shankari Prasad to the NJAC case, what judicial activism and restraint mean, and how public interest litigation opened the courts to people who could not reach them.

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