Public accountability and judicial response

By I. P. Massey

UNFORTUNATELY, today, though there is too much talk about public accountability, too little coherent institutional response is available, and whatever response is available, that of the judiciary, it is also slow and variegated. Furthermore, when the system speaks in double tongue it further erodes its credibility.

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