A plea was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday challenging the validity of the law setting up the National Judicial Appointment Commission to replace the collegium system for appointments to the higher judiciary on grounds it was an assault on the constitution’s basic structure and the independence...

Ex-Supreme Court judge and Press Council of India chairman, Justice Markandey Katju, has posted a blog with the title “Defaming the Judiciary”, claiming that Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha had “made a complete U-turn” after being quoted at a converence as saying that “there is agrowing corrup...

The Supreme Court bench of justices Anil Dave, Chelameshwar and AK Sikri has declined to entertain the five writ petitions against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) bill. What they said Fali Nariman eloquently argued why it is not a premature matter. He said he is all for the NJAC...

Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju has apparently set his crosshairs on the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), HL Dattu, in a column published by the Times of India and re-published on his own blog. Katju argued in his post that the CJI post should not be awarded automatically on ...

Supreme Court advocate KV Dhananjay argues that the public interest litigations against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) bill must fail, at least at this point in time…

Senior counsel Fali Nariman has added another to the four public interest litigations (PILs) against the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), which will be heard on Monday. Together with advocate Subhash Sharma, he claimed that the constitutional amendment “severely affects and damages ...

On Monday a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha would hear four petitions challenging the government’s freshly passed National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Act and accompanying constitutional amendment as unconstitutional. Petitions have been filed by ex-ad...

The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) was either an example of a perfect campaign by politicians or of massive good luck, argued Kian Ganz in the Mumbai Mirror on Sunday.

The National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) Bill 2014 was passed by the Rajya Sabha today, including a Lok Sabha amendment from yesterday by senior Congress politician and former law minister Veerappa Moily to restrict the government’s effective veto over new appointments. The upper house c...

Update 15:12: The bill has been passed. @CourtWitness1 commented on Twitter: The INS JAC has left the dry docks. Without right armaments it’s woefully exposed to destruction by judicial torpedoes. If the RS doesn’t amend the veto power given to Law minister in the NJAC, it’s pretty much dead in the ...

The Law Commission chairman Justice AP Shah has recommended that the tenure of the Chief Justice of India (CJI) should be fixed to at least two years, and that the Judicial Appointments Commission (JAC) should consist of at least four judges, including the CJI as chairperson, reported The Hindu and ...

Yesterday’s high-powered law ministry meeting with a who’s who of the legal profession , reportedly resulted in a consensus from most present about the need to abolish the existing collegium system of judicial appointments, with the government now producing a draft. The three hour meeting, according...

The central government and its law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad are set to meet in Delhi with a number of advocates today, to discuss the shape of a constitutional amendment on judicial appointments, reported the Times of India . The panel to give feedback on a possible change to the collegium syste...

According to the Economic Times , citing an unnamed “senior law ministry official”, senior counsel and former solicitor general Gopal Subramanium’s nomination to the Supreme Court bench, which was announced by the collegium and then-new Chief Justice of India (CJI) RM Lodha last month , is currently...

The Parliamentary standing committee on the Judicial Appointments Bill 2013 asked for constitutional status to the JAC, speedy creation of the All India Judicial Services, a change in the composition of JAC as suggested currently in the bill, and tightening the noose around higher judiciary vacancie...

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SCBA threatens JAC strike: SCBA threatened to go on a day-long “token strike” if the Judicial Appointments Bill is not scrapped, since lawyers’ bodies were allegedly not consulted with when formulating the bill [ Outlook ] Maha NLS in Nagpur? National Law School Nagpur’s proposal will be discussed i...