Judicial corruption, forms of corruption and pendency in India

Context: Erosion of trust in the lower judiciary and the need for deep scrutiny to avoid the imperial governance because of the departures from substantive and procedural justice.

Judicial corruption and forms of corruption

• The centrality of justice in human lives is summed up in a few words by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle:

“It is in justice that the ordering of society is centred.”

• Yet, a vast majority of countries have highly corrupt judiciaries.
• Judicial corruption means ‘all forms of inappropriate influence that may damage the impartiality of justice and may involve any actor within the justice system, including, but not limited to, judges, lawyers, administrative Court support staff, parties and public servants’.
• Judicial corruption takes two forms: