Tag: habeas corpus. constitutional writ
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Writs but no Weapons? A Stocktake on Administrative Justice in Myanmar
—Melissa Crouch, National University of Singapore and University of New South Wales (from December 2014) The former Chief Justice Ba U of the Supreme Court of Burma once described the constitutional writs as ‘weapons’. The early years of independence in Burma were a time of significant judicial activism, when the Supreme Court did not hesitate…