The Supreme Court of Nepal on Tuesday agreed to form a Constitutional Bench on the basis of seniority of the judges to hear a bunch of petitions challenging the dissolution of the House of Representatives, after differences among justices led to the postponement of the hearing. In a meeting with the representatives of the Supreme Court Bar Association, Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher Rana, who leads the five-member Constitutional Bench, said he would amend the regulation for the functioning of the apex court, The Himalayan Times newspaper reported. The amendment of the regulation, which has been proposed to be carried out within a week as agreed upon by both sides, would be endorsed by the full court, it said.
Read more about Nepal s Constitutional Bench to hear petitions against House dissolution on Business Standard. Nepal s Chief Justice has picked four justices of SC for the Constitutional Bench to hear the 30 writ petitions filed against the dissolution of the House of Representatives by the President
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An all-party consensus government seems the only way to break the deadlock and ensure stability
It can be said that the only constant in Nepali politics is ‘unpredictability’. Nepal’s democratic transition has been shaped through the efforts and sacrifices of common citizens and leaders and the expectation was that the forgotten Nepali would soon get something better than the discriminatory political culture that started way back in 2015 with the new Constitution and selective political manoeuvrings.
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The media houses are becoming megaphones for politicians trying to influence the Supreme Court published on 2021-01-20 17:01:00
Even as the Supreme Court case of Prime Minister KP Oli’s dissolution of a prorogued House of Representatives is
sub judice, a dangerous narrative around its reinstatement is being built.
Leaders and parties, flouting legal standards and propriety, are brazenly declaring what the Supreme Court should decide. KP Oli has spoken as if his House dissolution precludes reinstatement via the court, declaring it “a political matter, not a legal one”, as if politics does not fall under law. He shockingly requested the Supreme Court to revoke the case altogether. His opposition in the NCP, Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Madhav Kumar Nepal, and others, say they are confident the judges will reinstate the parliament. Voices inside the opposition party, the Nepali Congress say the same
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