Natitonal Judicial Academy

National Judicial Academy for Judicial education and training was a significant initiative of the Supreme Court of India conceived in early 1990s. The National Judicial Academy was formally dedicated to the Nation on 5 September 1992. The Academy, spread over a sprawling 63 acre campus,^[1] atop a hillock, overlooking the Upper Lake at Bhopal^[2] has an architectural ambience.

Registered as a Society in 1993 under the Societies Registration Act (1860), the Academy is managed by a Governing Council chaired by the Chief Justice of India; and comprising two senior most Judges of the Supreme Court, three Secretaries to the Government of India in the departments of Law and Justice, Finance, and Legal Affairs.^[3]

Under the Memorandum of the Society, the mandated objectives of the Academy include;

1. To establish a center of excellence in the study, research and training of court management and administration of justice and to suggest improvements to the judicial system;

2. To provide training and continuing legal education to judicial officers and ministerial officers of the courts;^[4] and

3. To disseminate information relating to judicial administration, publish research papers, books, monographs, journals etc. and collaborate with other institutions both within the country and abroad.