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Opinion: Evaluating Judges & holding them to account is risky: We must answer the 'Why?' first

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The citizen waiting years for a verdict, the undertrial languishing in jail, the firm losing money with every delay and adjournment – they are the point. Processes for the improvement of institutions must be designed with the litigant in mind. Siddarth Raman, co-founder and CTO of The Professeer, explains why, before attempting to impose populist measures to "evaluate" judges, we must think deeply about the "why" behind such evaluation exercises. Without this basic hygiene, he warns, we risk diluting independence in the system.----more----Read article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/judges-account-collective-conscience-fix-broken-system/2795463/

The citizen waiting years for a verdict, the undertrial languishing in jail, the firm losing money with every delay and adjournment – they are the point. Processes for the improvement of institutions must be designed with the litigant in mind. Siddarth Raman, co-founder and CTO of The Professeer, explains why, before attempting to impose populist measures to "evaluate" judges, we must think deeply about the "why" behind such evaluation exercises. Without this basic hygiene, he warns, we risk diluting independence in the system.----more----Read article here: https://theprint.in/opinion/judges-account-collective-conscience-fix-broken-system/2795463/

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