The collegium will not wait for the government’s new procedural guidelines on transparent judicial appointments, to start the process of appointment of 400 new high court judges and five new Supreme Court judges, reported the Hindustan Times . High courts across India are facing 445 judicial vacanci...

115 new high court judges could be soon appointed, as per plans expressed by union law minister DV Sadananda Gowda, reported the Express . Gowda said that the 453 high court judge vacancies which are there in India at the moment, will increase to 472 by the end of June. He added that he recently met...

Madras high court is set to break its own judicial vacancy record by March 2016, functioning at 40 less judges than its sanctioned strength of 75 judges, reported Times of India . Madras, along side Delhi, is the fourth largest out of 24 Indian high courts, according to the Department of Justice . T...