This document outlines the agenda for the two-day National Convention on the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform. The convention will feature panel discussions, breakout sessions, and presentations on issues related to judicial transparency, accountability, appointments, delays, and reforms. On day one, there will be panels on challenges to judicial transparency, the current state of accountability, and ensuring judicial quality. Breakout sessions will discuss topics like corruption, the RTI act, appointments, and criminal justice efficiency. Day two will continue with panels, discussions, and breakout sessions on topics such as the judiciary and the environment, democracy, and the criminal justice system. The convention aims to strategize and find ways forward for the campaign for judicial accountability and

1. AGENDA
Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform
National Convention
21st-22nd November 2015
Day 1 – 21st November 2015
10a.m.-10:30a.m. Registration and Tea
10:30a.m.-
10:40a.m.
10:40a.m.-
11:30a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Advocate,
Supreme Court of India and
Convenor, Campaign for Judicial
Accountability and Reform
Panel Discussion
Moderator –Mr. Vipul Mudgal,
Director, Common Cause
 The challenges in ensuring a
wholly transparent Judiciary
(RTI and the Judiciary)- Mr.
Shailesh Gandhi, RTI Activist
 Current state of accountability
and transparency in the Higher
Judiciary – Mr. Prashant
Bhushan, Adovcate, Supreme
Court of India
 Ensuring the quality of the
judiciary (Appointments) – Mr.
Anil Divan, Senior Advocate,
Supreme Court of India
 Frustration of Justice by delays –
Mr. Dushyant Dave, Senior
Advocate, Supreme Court of
India and President, Supreme
Court Bar Association

2. 11:30a.m.-12 Senior Activists and other
prominent voices on Judicial
Accountability and
Reform/Discussion
 Mr. Harish B. Narasappa,
Founder, DAKSH – Problem of
pendency of cases in Indian
courts – presentation of data
12noon-1-p.m. Breakaway Sessions
 Corruption in the Judiciary and
its accountability – Moderator –
Mr. Prashant Bhushan,
Advocate, Supreme Court of
India, Pranav Sachdeva,
Advocate Supreme Court of
India
 RTI and the Judiciary –
Moderator Shailesh Gandhi, RTI
Activist, Anjali Bharadwaj ,
NCPRI
 Judicial Appointments and the
NJAC – Moderator – Mr. Vipul
Mudgal, Director, Common
Cause, Team from Vidhi Centre
for Legal Policy
 Efficiency of the criminal justice
system, Judicial delays and the
criminal justice system at the
district and sub district levels
(delays, access to justice and
false cases)– Moderator - Mr.
Mihir Desai, Advocate, Bombay
High Court/Ms. Indira
Unninayar, Advocate, Supreme
Court of India
Part 1
1p.m.-2p.m. Lunch Break
2p.m.-3:30p.m. Breakaway Sessions continued

3. 3:30p.m.-4p.m. Tea Break
4p.m.-5p.m. Presentation by Session
Moderators
5p.m.-6p.m. Justice Krishna Iyer Memorial
Lecture – Justice G. S. Singhvi,
former Judge, Supreme Court of
India
Day 2 – 22nd November 2015
10a.m.-10:30a.m. Registration and Tea
10:30a.m.-
11:30a.m.
Panel Discussion
Moderator – Mr. Shekhar Singh,
NCPRI
 The Judiciary and the
Environment – Mr. Dunu Roy,
Director, Hazard Centre
 Democracy, civil liberties and
social justice – Ms. Usha
Ramanathan, CSDS
 Criminal Justice System and the
Poor – Mr. Colin Gonsalvez,
Senior Advocate, Supreme Court
of India
 Judiciary in neo liberal times –
Siddharth Vardharajan, Editor,
The Wire
 The Judiciary and peoples
movements – Medha Patkar,
Activist, NAPM

4. 11:30a.m.-12 Discussion
The judiciary and Secularism – Ms.
Teesta Setlvaad, Activist, Citizens
for Justice and Peace
Judicial Accountability to the last
person – Mr. Harsh Mander,
Director, Centre for Equity Studies
12noon-1-p.m. Breakaway Sessions
 Judiciary and the environment –
Moderator – Mr. RitwickDutta,
Advocate, Supreme Court of
India
 The Judiciary and social justice
– Moderator – Mr. Madhuresh
Kumar, Activist, NAPM, Meera,
Political Activist, Narmada
Valley and NAPM
 Judicial activism on corruption –
Moderator – Mr. Gopal
Shankanarayanan, Advocate,
Supreme Court of India, Mr.
Prashant Kumar, Advocate,
Supreme Court of India
 Civil Liberties - Moderator Mr.
Gautam Navlakha, Activist,
PUDR, Ms. Usha Ramanathan,
CSDS
Part 1
1p.m.-2p.m. Lunch Break
2p.m.-3:00p.m. Breakaway Sessions continued
3:p.m.-3:30p.m. Tea Break

5. 3:30p.m.-4:30p.m. Presentation by Session
moderators
4:30p.m.-5:30p.m. Campaign Strategy and Way
forward
Moderators – Mr. Indu Prakash
Singh, President, Forum against
Corruption and Threats, Mr,
Prashant Bhushan, Advocate,
Supreme Court of India, Mr. Nikhil
Dey, Activist, MKSS