THE experts will pore over the draft of the Constitution (27th Amendment) bill, which was tabled in parliament during a special session of the Senate on Saturday, to come up with their detailed critique but to a layman like me it seems aimed at cementing the status quo and also points to token resistance by the provinces.
It largely expands on the thinking behind the 26th Amendment and plugs whatever loopholes that exercise left to ensure that the days of ‘judicial activism’ that some saw as politically motivated are long gone. The judiciary will find itself much more tightly corralled.
The irony won’t be lost on those who desired and campaigned for judicial independence that this tighter corralling of the judiciary will be accomplished with the help of some of the honourable members of the institution itself such as through a mechanism to transfer judges of the high c
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