KATHMANDU, May 14: Acting Chief Justice Deepak Raj Joshi has submitted the annual report of the Supreme Court (SC) to President Bidya Devi Bhandari at the latter’s office in Sheetal Niwas on Monday.
KATHMANDU: The Standing Committee (SC) meeting of the CPN-Unified Socialist has reviewed the report of the local level election. A meeting of the party’s SC was held at party’s headquarters at Aloknagar, Minbhawan, Kathmandu, on Tuesday. According to Publicity Department Chief Jagannath Khatiwada, the Central Secretariat presented the election review report at SC meeting today. […]
KATHMANDU, Feb 18: The acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (SC), Deepak Kumar Karki, has summoned a full court at 2 PM on Friday.
Prior to this, the justices at the SC held an informal discussion on Monday. Amid the discussion, the decision was taken to hold full court today.
According to Devendra Dhakal, information officer at the SC, the main agenda of the full court is implementation of the report of Justice Hari Krishna Karki for reform of the apex court.
Following a registration of an impeachment motion against CJ Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana, Justice Karki was appointed the acting CJ for the apex court.
It has been learnt that acting CJ Karki will also prepare to hold meetings of the Judicial Service Commission and Judicial Council.
KATHMANDU, December 1: In a historic move, the Supreme Court (SC) has assigned the cases for hearings through a lottery system on Wednesday.
With this, the judicial deadlock, which the country has been facing for more than a month, is expected to come to its end. With the drawing of lots to schedule cases for hearings, the agitating justices have resumed the benches and hearings at the apex court.
A full court held earlier on Thursday decided to implement the lottery system to schedule cause-lists to be effective from December 1.
The meeting took the decision as per the amended version of the SC Regulations which was published in the Nepal Gazette on Monday.
The new provision replaces the prerogative that the Chief Justice enjoys while assigning cases to the justices at the apex court.
A report submitted by Justice Hari Krishna Karki had recommended introducing the lottery system. Another report by Justice Mira Khadka had also suggested the procedure to implement the system.
A full court held on November 18 decided to amend the regulations in a bid to introduce the lottery system.
As many as 11 benches have been formed through the system to conduct hearings on Wednesday which includes two single benches and nine joint benches.
Justices Mira Khadka and Dr Kumar Chudal will hear the cases in single bench today.
KATHMANDU: With newly amended Supreme Court (SC) Regulations being published in the Nepal Gazette, justices at the apex will now be assigned daily cases through a system of drawing lots.
The notice regarding the amended version of SC Regulations was published in the Nepal Gazette on Monday.
Though Monday’s notice in the gazette paved the way for the assignment of cases through the lottery system, an SC full court is required to take a decision to give it a formality.
The new provision replaces the prerogative that the Chief Justice enjoys while assigning cases to the justices at the apex court.
A report submitted by Justice Hari Krishna Karki had recommended introducing the lottery system. Another report by Justice Mira Khadka had also suggested the procedure to implement the system.
A full court held on November 18 decided to introduce a lottery system amending the existing provisions in the SC Regulations and endorsing a procedure regarding the new system.
KATHMANDU, Aug 9: A Standing Committee meeting of the CPN-UML endorsed the party statute amendment proposal on Monday.
Vice Chairperson Bamdev Gautam shared that the SC meeting decided to forward the proposal to the Central Committee meeting.
Earlier, a SC meeting also decided to organize the Statute Convention on September 12 and 13.
Sher Bahadur Tamang, secretary at party office, said that CC meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon would discuss the political report by Chairman KP Sharma Oli and organizational proposal tabled by General Secretary Ishwor Pokharel.
UML is holding its CC meeting at the Tulsilal Memorial Academy later on Monday.
