New Delhi, Aug 3 he Bar Council of India has called on the government to come out with a ''white paper'' on transparency and accountability in appointments of judges in the higher judiciary.
In a petition last night to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and many other advocates in Parliament and the Union Cabinet, the Council stressed its ''great significance'' in view of ''the expanding horizons of judicial review of public administration.'' The occasion was a dinner to fete advocates in politics attended among others by Palaniappan Chidambaram, Lal Krishna Advani, Mamata Banerjee, Sushma Swaraj, Pawan Kumar Bansal, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Rangasamy Velu, Kashiram Rana and E M Sudarsana Natchiappan.
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