Civil Procedure in Public Interest Litigation: Tradition, Collaboration and the Managerial Judge

Publiekbelangjurisprudentie in Caribisch ­Nederland

“…49 Dit lijkt goed te passen bij de meer 'managerial role' van de rechter die nodig lijkt om publiekbelangjurisprudentie effectief te maken. 50 Tegelijkertijd veronderstelt dit ook een bepaalde openheid en compromisbereidheid van de overheid als procespartij, hetgeen de vraag oproept welke middelen de rechter bezit, wanneer die houding van de zijde van de overheid tekortschiet en bovendien naleving van rechterlijke uitspraken niet vanzelfsprekend is.…”

Overcoming obstacles to North-South dialogue: Transformative constitutionalism and the fight against poverty and institutional failure

“…30 We have seen judges design new forms of trial in particular in systems such as India and Colombia to enable new forms of information gathering that can be vital for courts trying to respond to recurring social problems. 31 We have seen them adopting new, heightened standards of judicial scrutiny, such as in relation to agencies in the US, 32 and develop new mechanisms of review, such as examining the methodology of budgeting in Germany 33 . And we have seen courts developing new, more expansive remedies in countries such as the US, India and South Africa, including structural injunctions which prolong rather than end judicial involvement by obliging the state to report back to the court on progress made.…”

Selectively Assertive: Interventions of India’s Supreme Court to Enforce Environmental Laws

“…The issue of limits to judicial power has been the subject of heated debate in India. While some seek to make a distinction between "active" and "activist" judges (with the latter coming in for opprobrium), others have criticized both judicial overreach as well as judicial unresponsiveness [28][29][30][31][32]. We discuss the issue in more detail in a later section on environmental adjudication in India.…”