Justice Kannan Krishnamoorthy

About Justice Kannan Krishnamoorthy

Elevated to the Bench of Madras High Court on July 31, 2008, he was transferred to the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh in November that year. Justice Kannan became the first Judge to voluntarily make public the list of his assets and properties. He also advocated the setting up of an in-house mechanism within the judiciary to regulate its conduct. He was one of the first judges who demanded scrapping the colonial practice of addressing judges as ‘my lord' besides being among the first to hold high court sittings on Saturdays and Sundays.

Towards Truth as the Only Goal (III of III)

By |2019-04-28T16:00:21+05:30April 28th, 2019|Access to Justice, Adjudication and Judicial Process, Article 20, Bar Council of India Rules, Evidence Law, Professional Ethics|

Editor’s Note: In the final part of his series on truth as the normative goal of the judiciary, Justice K. Kannan analyses three systemic hurdles in securing truth – the Fundamental Right against self-incrimination, privileged communications and professional ethics. He ends his three-part series with a noteworthy message to all members of the legal community, [...]

Towards Truth as the Only Goal (II of III)

By |2019-04-14T10:41:57+05:30April 13th, 2019|Adjudication and Judicial Process, Criminal Law, Evidence Law, Success in Litigation, Tricks of the Trade|

In the second part of his three-part series on truth as the normative goal of judicial process, Justice K. Kannan looks at two tools used in a trial to arrive at the truth – the casting of the burden of proof and cross-examination. He comments on the efficacy of raising certain presumptions in the trial [...]

Towards Truth as the Only Goal (I of III)

By |2018-09-26T01:14:02+05:30September 26th, 2018|Adjudication and Judicial Process, Criminal Law, Evidence Law, Judicial Ethics, Philosophising Litigation, Professional Ethics, Proving Cases, Tricks of the Trade|

This is the first part of Justice K. Kannan's three-part series 'Towards Truth as the Only Goal'. In a set of three articles, he shall analyse the function of the judicial process of arriving at the normative goal of truth. In this first article, he argues that while essentially all litigations are always exercises to [...]