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Centre ignores Collegium recommendation, names another judge as acting chief justice of Madhya Pradesh...
Ignoring the May 10 recommendation by Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi for appointment of Justice AA Kureshi...
Four Justices sworn in as Delhi HC judges
Four new Justices took oath including a women Justice in Delhi High Court on May 27.
Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar, Justice Talwant Singh, Justice Asha Menon...
Breaking the Yardstick
Above: Advocates at the Patiala House Courts in New Delhi/Photo: Anil Shakya
In a move that could transform the judiciary, the Collegium has tweaked a...
Of Continuity and Change… And a Controversy in Between
Above: CJI Ranjan Gogoi/Photo: Anil Shakya
CJI Ranjan Gogoi opts for continuity in the working of the Collegium but is slowly changing how the Court’s...
Collegium Should Not Revisit Decisions Without Strong Reasons: SCBA
The Executive Committee of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), in its meeting last week expressed its concern over the decision of the Supreme Court...
Supreme Court Collegium: Setting the Clock Back?
Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence
The elevation of two judges to the Court by the Collegium after superseding many High Court judges raises questions of...
No More Historical Blunders Please, Justice Gambhir’s Plea to President Kovind
Former Delhi High Court judge Kailash Gambhir has taken strong exception to the recommendation for elevation by the Supreme Court Collegium of Justices Dinesh...
SC Collegium recommends four names for elevation as apex court judges
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the names of Justices M.R. Shah, Ajay Rastogi, Hemant Gupta and R. Subhash Reddy for elevation as apex...
Election Commission: Be Free, Be Fair
Above: The Election Commission’s role in ensuring free and fair polls has been challenged in recent times/Photo: Anil Shakya
A recent petition in the Court...
The Minority Report
Delivering the keynote address at the Indian Law Institute earlier this year, Justice DY Chandrachud of the Supreme Court took the view that India...
Even after clearing Justice Joseph’s name for the SC, the govt leaves its dirty...
Above: Justice K M Joseph (file pic)
Even if the government agreed to the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendation of elevating Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice...
Judges’ Appointments: Falling in Line
Above: Uttarakhand HC CJ KM Joseph’s long wait for elevation to the SC ended with the government’s formal announcement on Aug/Photo: rediff.com
After stonewalling the...
Complaints received; govt sends back names of 2 lawyers recommended for elevation as judges
The government has sent back to the Supreme Court Collegium names of two advocates of the Allahabad High Court that had been recommended by...
Govt agrees to elevation of Justice KM Joseph to SC, as Collegium-executive confrontation eases
The eight-month stand-off between the Supreme Court Collegium and the executive was eased a bit on Thursday (August 2) when the government agreed to...
SC Collegium sends back names of Justices Joseph, Bose for elevation
Above: (Left) Justice K M Joseph and Justice Anirudha Bose
The Supreme Court Collegium on Friday (July 20) took a strong stance and returned to the Centre...
Justice Chelameswar: Playing a Double Role?
Above: Former SC judge J Chelameswar/Photo: Anil Shakya
The question several judges and legal luminaries are now still pondering about is whether Justice Chelameswar should...
Some progress in judicial appointments, says CJI Misra
With regular hearing of matters beginning, on Monday (July 2), with the end of the Supreme Court’s summer vacation, the issue of delays in...
Justice Joseph elevation issue: Law ministry not a post office that we have to...
Above: Justice KM Joseph
Union law minister Ravishankar Prasad on Monday (June 11) defended his ministry’s act in sending back the Supreme Court recommendation of...
Collegium to repeat recommendation for Justice KM Joseph to SC along with other names
The Supreme Court Collegium meeting of Friday (May 11) threw up a solution of sorts, almost exactly as India Legal had predicted. The formula...
Justice Chelameswar writes letter to CJI on Justice KM Joseph elevation issue
In another letter to CJI Dipak Misra, Justice J Chelameswar this time has written about the appointment of the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand...
Executive-Judiciary tussle out in the open at Supreme Court
The judiciary-executive fight spilled out into open court on Friday. A court full of people was witness to the huge tension that has built up...
Collegium strategy to resolve impasse
Above: (L-R) Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice Deepak Gupta and Attorney General KK Venugopal
The standoff between the Judiciary and the Executive spilled out into the...
Govt arguments on K M Joseph have no teeth
CJI Dipak Misra (left) and Justice KM Joseph
~By Vinay Vats
The elevation of one name amongst two names recommended by the collegiums has invoked many...
Several suggestions come in on master of roster PIL
Above: Supreme Court
A plethora of suggestions were put forth by senior counsels in a PIL filed before the Supreme Court which has challenged...
Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra to take oath as SC judge on Friday
Above: Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra
After her name was cleared by Intelligence Bureau (India Legal said it first), Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra will take oath as...
Indu Malhotra’s appointment to SC bench virtually through
Above: Senior counsel Indu Malhotra
The appointment of senior counsel Indu Malhotra to the Supreme Court bench has been virtually cleared. The Intelligence Bureau (IB)...
Justice Kurian Joseph shoots off letter to CJI urging him to act upon the...
Days after Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, sent a letter to CJI Dipak Misra, asking for a full...
SC collegium of three judges recommends names for permament judges at Allahabad HC
The three seniormost judges’ collegium of the Supreme Court has recommended Justices Ashok Kumar, Vivek Chaudhary, Saumitra Dayal Singh, and Akhilesh Chandra Sharma (See the notification...
Justice AK Mittal Case: Cracks in the Collegium
The Punjab and Haryana High Court
Justice AK Mittal’s elevation as chief justice of the Delhi High Court was delayed twice due to dissension within...
Legal service must be extended to the poor, says President Kovind
Above: President Ram Nath Kovind, Chief Justice of India Dipak Mishra and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan at the inaugural function of the National...
Karnan judgment talks about revisiting judge selection process
The Union government seems to have come out with the upper hand in its tussle with the judiciary over appointment of judges, and the...
11 more judges for 3 high courts
Keeping to the fast pace of adding to the roster of high court judges across the country – an essential prerequisite for bringing down...
Caste, an Unsavoury Reality
This is an issue which often hits the headlines in India as seen in the Justice Karnan episode. Is there a better way to...
Women judges: Cracking the Glass Ceiling?
Can the elevation of women as chief justices of High Courts be a sign of gender equality in the judiciary or is this a...
“The Collegium is Here to Stay”
Senior advocate RUPINDER SINGH SURI was elected as the Supreme Court Bar Association president in December 2016. This alumnus of St Stephen’s College, Delhi,...
The Right Person for the Right Job
The MoP between the judiciary and the government should keep in mind various issues before there is speedy disposal of the huge backlog of...
SC Collegium-Govt tussle: India Legal exclusive gets huge traction
This is a story that refuses to go away. It is the long-standing story of the fight between the Executive and the Indian judiciary....
Judiciary-executive tussle resurfaces over judges’ appointments
The once fiercely burning embers of the judiciary-executive tussle seem to be glowing, still. The Supreme Court collegium has handed over the finalised Memorandum...
PIL to increase number of judges dismissed by Supreme Court
The CJI-headed bench says that let the existing vacancies be filled first
A PIL filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay to double the number of judges...
SC Collegium: Smoking the Peace Pipe
The apex court has overcome differences with the government over the appointment of judges. But it is hoped that the national security clause to...
Executive, judiciary bury the hatchet
With the induction of Justice JS Khehar as the chief justice of India (CJI), the judiciary-executive deadlock that existed and exacerbated during the tenure...
Judges’ appointment: CJI expresses worry
At a time when pendency of cases has become a cause of concern, media reports recently quoted the Chief Justice of India as having...
'Collegium' - 42 News Results
Centre ignores Collegium recommendation, names another judge as acting chief justice of Madhya Pradesh...
Ignoring the May 10 recommendation by Supreme Court Collegium headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi for appointment of Justice AA Kureshi...
Four Justices sworn in as Delhi HC judges
Four new Justices took oath including a women Justice in Delhi High Court on May 27.
Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar, Justice Talwant Singh, Justice Asha Menon...
Breaking the Yardstick
Above: Advocates at the Patiala House Courts in New Delhi/Photo: Anil Shakya
In a move that could transform the judiciary, the Collegium has tweaked a...
Of Continuity and Change… And a Controversy in Between
Above: CJI Ranjan Gogoi/Photo: Anil Shakya
CJI Ranjan Gogoi opts for continuity in the working of the Collegium but is slowly changing how the Court’s...
Collegium Should Not Revisit Decisions Without Strong Reasons: SCBA
The Executive Committee of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), in its meeting last week expressed its concern over the decision of the Supreme Court...
Supreme Court Collegium: Setting the Clock Back?
Above: Illustration by Anthony Lawrence
The elevation of two judges to the Court by the Collegium after superseding many High Court judges raises questions of...
No More Historical Blunders Please, Justice Gambhir’s Plea to President Kovind
Former Delhi High Court judge Kailash Gambhir has taken strong exception to the recommendation for elevation by the Supreme Court Collegium of Justices Dinesh...
SC Collegium recommends four names for elevation as apex court judges
The Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the names of Justices M.R. Shah, Ajay Rastogi, Hemant Gupta and R. Subhash Reddy for elevation as apex...
Election Commission: Be Free, Be Fair
Above: The Election Commission’s role in ensuring free and fair polls has been challenged in recent times/Photo: Anil Shakya
A recent petition in the Court...
The Minority Report
Delivering the keynote address at the Indian Law Institute earlier this year, Justice DY Chandrachud of the Supreme Court took the view that India...
Even after clearing Justice Joseph’s name for the SC, the govt leaves its dirty...
Above: Justice K M Joseph (file pic)
Even if the government agreed to the Supreme Court Collegium’s recommendation of elevating Uttarakhand High Court Chief Justice...
Judges’ Appointments: Falling in Line
Above: Uttarakhand HC CJ KM Joseph’s long wait for elevation to the SC ended with the government’s formal announcement on Aug/Photo: rediff.com
After stonewalling the...
Complaints received; govt sends back names of 2 lawyers recommended for elevation as judges
The government has sent back to the Supreme Court Collegium names of two advocates of the Allahabad High Court that had been recommended by...
Govt agrees to elevation of Justice KM Joseph to SC, as Collegium-executive confrontation eases
The eight-month stand-off between the Supreme Court Collegium and the executive was eased a bit on Thursday (August 2) when the government agreed to...
SC Collegium sends back names of Justices Joseph, Bose for elevation
Above: (Left) Justice K M Joseph and Justice Anirudha Bose
The Supreme Court Collegium on Friday (July 20) took a strong stance and returned to the Centre...
Justice Chelameswar: Playing a Double Role?
Above: Former SC judge J Chelameswar/Photo: Anil Shakya
The question several judges and legal luminaries are now still pondering about is whether Justice Chelameswar should...
Some progress in judicial appointments, says CJI Misra
With regular hearing of matters beginning, on Monday (July 2), with the end of the Supreme Court’s summer vacation, the issue of delays in...
Justice Joseph elevation issue: Law ministry not a post office that we have to...
Above: Justice KM Joseph
Union law minister Ravishankar Prasad on Monday (June 11) defended his ministry’s act in sending back the Supreme Court recommendation of...
Collegium to repeat recommendation for Justice KM Joseph to SC along with other names
The Supreme Court Collegium meeting of Friday (May 11) threw up a solution of sorts, almost exactly as India Legal had predicted. The formula...
Justice Chelameswar writes letter to CJI on Justice KM Joseph elevation issue
In another letter to CJI Dipak Misra, Justice J Chelameswar this time has written about the appointment of the Chief Justice of the Uttarakhand...
Executive-Judiciary tussle out in the open at Supreme Court
The judiciary-executive fight spilled out into open court on Friday. A court full of people was witness to the huge tension that has built up...
Collegium strategy to resolve impasse
Above: (L-R) Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice Deepak Gupta and Attorney General KK Venugopal
The standoff between the Judiciary and the Executive spilled out into the...
Govt arguments on K M Joseph have no teeth
CJI Dipak Misra (left) and Justice KM Joseph
~By Vinay Vats
The elevation of one name amongst two names recommended by the collegiums has invoked many...
Several suggestions come in on master of roster PIL
Above: Supreme Court
A plethora of suggestions were put forth by senior counsels in a PIL filed before the Supreme Court which has challenged...
Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra to take oath as SC judge on Friday
Above: Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra
After her name was cleared by Intelligence Bureau (India Legal said it first), Senior Advocate Indu Malhotra will take oath as...
Indu Malhotra’s appointment to SC bench virtually through
Above: Senior counsel Indu Malhotra
The appointment of senior counsel Indu Malhotra to the Supreme Court bench has been virtually cleared. The Intelligence Bureau (IB)...
Justice Kurian Joseph shoots off letter to CJI urging him to act upon the...
Days after Justice Jasti Chelameswar, the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court, sent a letter to CJI Dipak Misra, asking for a full...
SC collegium of three judges recommends names for permament judges at Allahabad HC
The three seniormost judges’ collegium of the Supreme Court has recommended Justices Ashok Kumar, Vivek Chaudhary, Saumitra Dayal Singh, and Akhilesh Chandra Sharma (See the notification...
Justice AK Mittal Case: Cracks in the Collegium
The Punjab and Haryana High Court
Justice AK Mittal’s elevation as chief justice of the Delhi High Court was delayed twice due to dissension within...
Legal service must be extended to the poor, says President Kovind
Above: President Ram Nath Kovind, Chief Justice of India Dipak Mishra and Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan at the inaugural function of the National...
Karnan judgment talks about revisiting judge selection process
The Union government seems to have come out with the upper hand in its tussle with the judiciary over appointment of judges, and the...
11 more judges for 3 high courts
Keeping to the fast pace of adding to the roster of high court judges across the country – an essential prerequisite for bringing down...
Caste, an Unsavoury Reality
This is an issue which often hits the headlines in India as seen in the Justice Karnan episode. Is there a better way to...
Women judges: Cracking the Glass Ceiling?
Can the elevation of women as chief justices of High Courts be a sign of gender equality in the judiciary or is this a...
“The Collegium is Here to Stay”
Senior advocate RUPINDER SINGH SURI was elected as the Supreme Court Bar Association president in December 2016. This alumnus of St Stephen’s College, Delhi,...
The Right Person for the Right Job
The MoP between the judiciary and the government should keep in mind various issues before there is speedy disposal of the huge backlog of...
SC Collegium-Govt tussle: India Legal exclusive gets huge traction
This is a story that refuses to go away. It is the long-standing story of the fight between the Executive and the Indian judiciary....
Judiciary-executive tussle resurfaces over judges’ appointments
The once fiercely burning embers of the judiciary-executive tussle seem to be glowing, still. The Supreme Court collegium has handed over the finalised Memorandum...
PIL to increase number of judges dismissed by Supreme Court
The CJI-headed bench says that let the existing vacancies be filled first
A PIL filed by Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay to double the number of judges...
SC Collegium: Smoking the Peace Pipe
The apex court has overcome differences with the government over the appointment of judges. But it is hoped that the national security clause to...
Executive, judiciary bury the hatchet
With the induction of Justice JS Khehar as the chief justice of India (CJI), the judiciary-executive deadlock that existed and exacerbated during the tenure...
Judges’ appointment: CJI expresses worry
At a time when pendency of cases has become a cause of concern, media reports recently quoted the Chief Justice of India as having...
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