{"id":11451,"date":"2023-05-25T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T03:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11451"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:40:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:10:51","slug":"forum-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/forum-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is practice of forum shopping?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>When litigants or lawyers <strong>attempt to deliberately move their case to a particular judge or Court where they think the judgment could be more favourable,<\/strong> they are said to be \u201cforum shopping.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Lawyers think about which is the right forum to approach as part of their litigation strategy.\n<ul>\n<li>For example, one could directly approach the Supreme Court via a public interest litigation case instead of the concerned High Court because the issue could get more eyeballs. However, an obvious effort to circumvent the process or avoid a particular judge is frowned upon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Supreme Court in its 1988<\/strong> ruling in \u2018<strong>Chetak Construction Ltd. vs. Om Prakash\u2019<\/strong> said, \u201cA litigant cannot be permitted choice of the forum,\u201d and that every attempt at forum shopping \u201cmust be crushed with a heavy hand.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Most common law countries use the \u201c<strong>forum non-conveniens\u201d principle<\/strong> to prevent forum shopping, which gives the <strong>court discretionary powers to refuse to exercise its jurisdiction over a matter where another court, or forum, may more conveniently hear a case. <\/strong>Using this power, the court can dismiss a case in the interests of justice and the parties while allocating it to the appropriate bench.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is high court also known as?<\/h3>\n<p>For countries with a civil law system, the term &#8216;high court&#8217; usually refers to appellate court dealing with first stage of appeal from a trial court, serving as an intermediate body before appeal to the constitutional court, court of cassation, supreme court, or other highest judicial body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-law\/cji-chandrachud-forum-shopping-sc-8624879\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>CJI Chandrachud condemns \u2018forum shopping\u2019: What is this practice?<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When litigants or lawyers attempt to deliberately move their case to a particular judge or Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11451","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}