Legal Provisions of Section 20 of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
Court of Justice:
The definition makes it amply clear that a Judge is a Court of Justice when the law has empowered him to act judicially and he is acting judicially. Similarly, when a body a Judges has been empowered by law to act judicially as a body and when such body of Judges is acting judicially, the body of Judges is a Court of Justice. Court of justice is not the place or building where justice is administered by a court.
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ADVERTISEMENTS:
A Judge acting in an administrative capacity is not a Court of Justice. Justice Krishna Iyer in his landmark judgment in the celebrated case of Baradakanta Mishra v. Registrar, Orissa High Court, relating to contempt of court has observed that when a Judge is acting in an administrative capacity and not in his judicial capacity, comment against him does not amount to contempt of court.