Advocate and patent lawyer Naren Thappeta, armed with rigorous data, argues that ‘Eminent People’ must consider metrics in judicial appointments.

The Supreme Court today refused to refer, for now, to a larger bench a batch of petitions challenging the validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission in the context of the judicial primacy in judges’ appointments as a preliminary issue. The court made it clear that it was not ruling ou...

The Central government Monday urged the Supreme Court to refer to a nine or 11-judge bench the reconsideration of 1993 judgment which took away from the government the power of appointing judges and vested it with an apex court collegium headed by the Chief Justice of India. As the government presse...

The Supreme Court Advocate on Record Association (SCAORA) Friday opposed the government’s plea for referring to a larger bench the challenge to the NJAC contending that the issue before the court was whether it was in conformity with the basic structure of the constitution or not. The SCAORA told th...

Attorney General of India Mukul Rohatgi attacked the collegium system during his arguments in the Supreme Court yesterday defending the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), using the example of allegations of bias and nepotism in 2013 judicial appointments, reported the Indian Express ....

The NDA government today questioned the primacy of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) and the judiciary in appointments to the higher courts’ judiciary but the Supreme Court said that having accepted the collegium system in 1998, the government couldn’t go back on it now. “If the primacy of CJI in jud...

The Supreme Court today asked how the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) mechanism would make judicial functioning “meaningful” and in what way would its members be “accountable” and to whom. A constitution bench of Justice JS Khehar, Justice J Chelameswar, Justice Madan B Lokur, Justi...

The challenge to the constitutional validity of the act setting up the National Judicial Appointment Commission and the supporting constitutional amendment must be heard by a larger bench of nine or 11 judges, Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told the Supreme Court today. Addressing the constitution b...

Chief Justice of India HL Dattu has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he would not take part in the NJAC while the court’s constitution bench was hearing the challenge to the validity of the NJAC Act and the supporting constitutional amendment act, the apex court was told today. Informing the c...

The central government today informed the Supreme Court that during the pendency of the appeal against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) and the constitutional amendment backing it, the commission would only deal with cases of additional judges whose terms would be coming to an en...

The Supreme Court will from April 27 start hearing a batch of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of the NJAC Act, 2014, and the constitution amendment backing it. The court on Wednesday rejected the plea that Justice JS Khehar should withdraw from hearing the matter as he is a member ...

The Supreme Court today did not hear a batch of petitions challenging the National Judicial Appointment Commission replacing the collegium system for appointing judges as it will first decide whether Justice JS Khehar, who is presiding over a five-judge constitution bench, can hear the challenge. Th...

Mint reported that Justice Anil R Dave, who’s heading the five-judge constitution bench that will hear challenges to the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act, today recused himself from the case: The move came after senior lawyer Fali S Nariman, who represents lawyers body and petiti...

The government has notified the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act 2014 and accompanying constitutional amendment, which will radically overhaul judicial appointments. According to a press release from the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB): The Government today notified t...

The proposed National Judicial Appointments Commission’s (NJAC) validity will now be examined by a Constitution bench in the Supreme Court after a three judge bench referred petitions challenging it to a five judge bench, reported// Mint . The Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association, the Bar A...

Both houses of parliament have now condemned former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju for his blog post calling Mahatma Gandhi and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose , British and Japanese agents, respectively. Rajya Sabha leader Arun Jaitley used the opportunity to call out Katju as evidence of the broke...

The central government told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the government could not be restrained from notifying the constitutional amendment and the law for replacing the existing collegium system by NJAC for the appointment of judges to the apex court and the High Courts. “I am rigorously conte...

Justice Amitava Roy was Friday sworn in as a judge of the Supreme Court. With the elevation of Roy, who was chief justice of the Orissa High Court, the strength of the apex court has gone up to 29 against a sanctioned strength of 31 judges. Justice Roy will have a tenure of three years. Coming from ...

Chief Justice of India (CJI) HL Dattu and the apex court’s most senior judges have decided to continue holding collegium meetings to recommend new judges, reported the Indian Express , despite law minister DV Sadananda Gowda late last month warning that there would be no new judges until the Nationa...

Law minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that there would not be any appointment of new judges to the apex or high courts, unless the Supreme Court disposes of the public interest litigations (PILs) challenging the National Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC), reported the Economic Times today. The N...