"Judiciary has an uneven and inconsistent track record in addressing social inequity and safeguarding the constitutional guarantees given to common people.
"Although the judiciary needs to ensure that every common person must be able to approach the citadels of justice without any fear, we are losing confidence in their commitment to these principles and we are going to launch a nationwide movement similar to the anti-corruption movement," Bhushan said while addressing a press conference on a convention on Judicial Accountability and Reforms.
"The broad areas that need reform are access to justice, pendency, slow disposal of cases and competence of judges. It is time that an independent body to ensure judicial accountability on the lines of the Election Commission and CAG be set up," he added.
During the two-day convention which concluded yesterday, a campaign committee consisting of more than 15 campaigns was formed to spearhead the nationwide movement.
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Jagdish Chokker from National Election Watch said that given the complete lack of commitment of political parties to electoral and political reforms, it is clear that unless concerted public pressure is mounted nothing is going to change.
Nikhil Dey of the NCPRI added that transparency and accountability in the judiciary was the right of all people particularly of the poor and marginalised who often approach the judicial machinery as the very last recourse.